Music Tech

Spotify Now Available On Android Wear

Spotify has added an Android Wear app. Features include: browse and play without having to pick up the phone, navigation through Your Music and a browse function to discover new. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/28/2015 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Age of Empires (video game), Audio engineering, Barista, Disc jockey, Sony, Sony Music Entertainment, Spotify, Starbucks, Streaming media, The Verge

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Guy Gets $120 Ticket For Playing Music On Apple Watch While Driving [VIDEO]

New technology brings new problems and rules to solve them; and the Apple Watch is no exception. Particularly since its a new category – is it a phone? a watch?. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/28/2015 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Apple Inc., Bluetooth, CTV News, Instagram, Mobile device, music industry, Pincourt, Point system (driving), Quebec, Vaudreuil (electoral district)

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Shazam Adds Visual Recognition – QR Codes Just Got Cool Again

Audio recognition app Shazam has found a place on every music lover's smartphone. Increasingly labels and publishers are using data from the app to spot trends, find new artists and. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/28/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: " copyright infringement, Geeks, iTunes, Marvel Comics, RSS, Star Wars, The Walt Disney Company, Title 17 of the United States Code, United States, United States Code

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Pandora, Spotify Top Music App Charts. Where Did TIDAL Rank?

Pandora and Spotify topped both the App Annie Top 10 music app "By Downloads" and "By Revenue" charts. Beats Music landed an impressive 3rd place finish on the revenue ranking. Even Rhapsody. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/27/2015 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Apple Inc., Google, IPhone, Pandora, Pandora Radio, Sony Music Entertainment, Spotify, Streaming media, The Verge, The Wall Street Journal

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Why YouTube Rules Music Videos

In this episode of Music Biz Podcast, Cortney Harding and Kyle Bylin discuss YouTube and music videos. YouTube is widely known as the most popular music service. It's where most. Continue reading

admin on 05/26/2015 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: 1 For 3, iTunes, Los Angeles Times, music video, Popular music, Soundcloud, Soundhound, Streaming media, Youth culture, YouTube

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This One Chart Shows Why Spotify Added Video

Last week, Spotify added audio and video content from a wide variety of major media companies including NPR, MTV, Vice and The Nerdist. While seen as a preemptive move prior. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/26/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: BBC, Comedy Central, ESPN, Maker Studios, MTV, NBC, RunKeeper, Spotify, Streaming media, The Nerdist Podcast

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

Spotify topped the news this week with a leaked Sony contract and the news that it was adding video, podcasts and more. But others made news, as well: Pandora bought. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/23/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Grooveshark, IDG, Josh Greenberg, Recording Industry Association of America, Sam Tarantino, Sony Music Entertainment, Spotify, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group

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YouTube Music Key To Stay In Beta Through Sept. 15

As YouTube battles growing criticism that it is effectively just a free music service that pays artists and labels too little, Music Key is… key. But the goal of reconfiguring. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/22/2015 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: 4Music, Advertising, Android (operating system), Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, Google Play, Software release life cycle, YouTube

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Former Rhapsody Exec Jon Maples Joins 8tracks

Former Rhapsody exec Jon Maples has written a number of smart pieces for Hypebot and been interviewed on our Upward Spiral podcast. So we were quite pleased to hear that he's. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 05/21/2015 in Music Tech | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: 8tracks Radio, CD Baby, Disc jockey, independent music, INgrooves, James Vincent McMorrow, playlist, Soundcloud, Spotify, Steve Aoki

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