Wednesday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: EMI & Qtrax, Yahoo Sued, Vinyl Surge & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
- FanDoodle pays fans to sell indie music
- Barak Obama’s victory soundtrack
- Hypebot is now posting news throughout the day
- Wal-Mart supplier Handleman is exiting the music business
- China’s music sector is calling for an ad boycott of Baidu
- IODA Spain opens
> EMI joins Universal in offering its catalog of recordings free via ad supported Qtrax. (press release) EMI also signed a deal with ad supported SpiralFrog. (FMQB)
> Yahoo is being sued by an Indian music company for copyright infringement. (PC World)
> Boston’s Newbury Comics chain is selling $100,000 a month in vinyl records. (Boston Globe)
> Wolfgang’s Vault has added download sales from its rare concert archives. (Reuters)
> Radiohead’s catalog is up on iTunes both as albums and single tracks, something the band said it would never do. (MacWorld)
> Peter Gabriel launches personalized media reccomendation service The Filter. (AP)
> A look at a variety of products designed to offer improve music sound quality online and off. (USA Today)
