Spotify Users Love Their Apps, Are Happy & Love Karaoke [Stats]
How much has the roll-out of custom apps changed how Spotify is used? Spotify's Director of Platform, Sten Garmark shared some light-hearted yet interesting stats at a recent Music Ally. Continue reading
Audiogalaxy Takes On Pandora, iTunes Match & Major Label Lawyers
Seattle based Audiogalaxy has launched a free online music streaming and locker service that combines the best of both with iTune's Match and Pandora. Audiogalaxy also seems certain to feel. Continue reading
Beyond Oblivion: How A Once Promising Music Startup Lost $33.3 Million
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Beyond Oblivion was supposed to save the music industry. Instead, it lived up to its name, collapsing in dramatic fashion at the. Continue reading
Amazon Backed Songza Launches ‘Music Concierge’ Songs For Every Mood
Amazon funded streaming music service Songza today launched Music Concierge. The free ad-supported service matches a user’s day, time, device and context to create a-curated playlist designed to cure "stale. Continue reading
MOG & The Coming Consolidation In Music Tech
Is MOG for sale? Despite conflicting reports, the answer is probably yes with the most likely suitor Rhapsody, who recently purchased Napster. But what matters much more is that we're. Continue reading
The Fallacy Of Music Like Water
(UPDATED) Guest post by Portland songwriter and producer Gavin Castleton. He blogs at The Great Abstraction. In 2002 David Bowie said, “Music itself is going to become like running water. Continue reading
MOG Is (Kind Of) For Sale As Subscription Music Consolidation Looms
(UPDATED) Spotify, Deezer, Rhapsody, Rdio, MOG, We7, Slacker, Pandora, Grooveshark and more. Each is a little different, but it's not likely that so many streaming music services can survive. And. Continue reading
Spotify, Rhapsody Execs Attack “Wrongheaded” Staggered Releases By Coldplay, Others
The practice of staggered releases or "windowing" new releases on streaming music services has been a hot topic ever since Coldplay, The Black Keys, Adele and a small but select. Continue reading
Why Slacker Had Offline Playback, Pandora Does Not
(UPDATED) Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Our article about the "unsexy" issue of offline playback — a feature that allows streaming apps to store music and video. Continue reading
Offline Playback Crucial To Future Of Music & Media
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. It's true, what they say: Our digital lives are moving to the cloud. Whenever we fire up Facebook instead of a local. Continue reading
