Comments on: Universal to try ad driven music downloads through SpiralFrog - still with DRM

By: SpiralFrog: Free Music Alive And Hopping

SpiralFrog: Free Music Alive And Hopping — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:09:27 +0000

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By: Andrew

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Music website ideas | DropShipArea.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:07:26 +0000

[...] Universal to try ad driven music downloads through SpiralFrog [...]

By: Holiday Songs » Интернет, новые технлогии, деньги и музыка

Holiday Songs » Интернет, новые технлогии, деньги и музыка — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:37:34 +0000

[...] Но Universal же не дураки, чтобы отрицать всю мощь интернет-дистрибуции. Просто осенью они запускают-таки свой ущербный сервис — SpiralFrog: загрузка файлов для проигрывания в Windows Media Player (никаких iPod-ов!), прослушивание разрешено на одном компьютере и на двух портативных устройствах, и по крайней мере раз в месяц нужно логиниться на SpiralFrog и просматривать рекламу — иначе файлы перестанут играть. Вот такая модель. Зато все по-честному. Кстати, EMI тоже хочет присоединиться к SpiralFrog. [...]

By: Holiday Songs » Интернет, новые технлогии, деньги и музыка

Holiday Songs » Интернет, новые технлогии, деньги и музыка — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:37:34 +0000

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:47:45 +0000

the concept or thought rather is not too bad add support downloads, honestly the DRM is a big pain in the ass, to be frank its qutie nisulting actually, what the hell, it just stops working whilst your up and away and then what.
Also, reffering to a previous post, charging 1.99 for a 320kbps file is just plain waste too. Especially when you charge 1 dollar less for a lower bitrate file, a bit silly really.

In terms of a business model, I think http://www.magantune.com have got it somewhat right, a host of supported formats from WAV to Mp3 (yes, people WAV) without any form of DRM, the funny part is, they “allow” for sharing the files (even they don’t ahve DRM), which is totally unnesessary but a nice touch anyways. Magnatune provides artists with 50% of all cashflow. Not bad. Only downside to it is, they do not have a great number of artists signed up.

Coming back to spiral frog, add support , fine, DRM that requires users to forcefully watch the adds…not so fine. Risky endeavour.

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Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:49:15 +0000

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By: SonnyMotives » Blog Archive » iPod mới, iTunes mới và chiến lược của Apple

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:42:19 +0000

[...] Chú ếch xanh SpiralFrog cũng đang gây xôn xao dư luận với chiêu “Nhạc hợp pháp miễn phí” của mình. [...]

By: archy

archy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:57:02 +0000

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By: newsBreaks.net » SpiralFrog, Uni launch “free iTunes alternative.” DRM, other restrictions apply.

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:44:55 +0000

[...] WMA format would seem to preclude burning to CD and transferring the files to iPods (without sneaky and potentially illegal workarounds). If so: that blows. Snip from a related item on TechCrunch summarizing comments by a SpiralFrog spokesperson: Spiral Frog will offer a desktop downloader for Windows Media Files (no iPods!) that can be listened to on one PC and two portable devices. Here’s the kicker - you must log in to the Spiral Frog service at least once per month, and see their ads, or your files will stop playing! [...]

By: newsBreaks.net » SpiralFrog, Uni launch “free iTunes alternative.” DRM, many restrictions apply.

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:44:24 +0000

[...] The service as described would seem to preclude burning to CD and transferring the files to iPods (without sneaky and potentially illegal workarounds). If so: that blows. Snip from a related item on TechCrunch summarizing comments by a SpiralFrog spokesperson: Spiral Frog will offer a desktop downloader for Windows Media Files (no iPods!) that can be listened to on one PC and two portable devices. Here’s the kicker - you must log in to the Spiral Frog service at least once per month, and see their ads, or your files will stop playing! [...]

By: More (mostly) free music: EMI to partner with SpiralFrog » JenIT

More (mostly) free music: EMI to partner with SpiralFrog » JenIT — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:38:58 +0000

[...] EMI Music Publishing is announcing tonight that they are partnering with New York startup SpiralFrog to distribute music for free download. SpiralFrog hit the news late last month with their groundbreaking partnership with Universal to distribute music for free (see our coverage for more details). Universal appears set to buy BMG (the non Sony half of Sony-BMG) for roughly $2 billion in the next few days, so offerings through SpiralFrog could really explode. Major label music could be available to download for free, with ad support, as a general phenomenon before we know it. [...]

By: Myspace Music is Official at TEKPAD

Myspace Music is Official at TEKPAD — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:50:35 +0000

[...] The music will be sold in MP3 format without copy protection of any kind (see eMusic and Amie Street for similar models, as well as others). This comes as major labels are starting to experiment with free music downloads, albeit with copy protection. [...]

By: My Blog » Blog Archive » Free Music

My Blog » Blog Archive » Free Music — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:10:57 +0000

By: Spiralfrog; gratis muziekdownloaden « “Library on the run”

Spiralfrog; gratis muziekdownloaden « “Library on the run” — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:52:16 +0000

[...] Zie ook het artikel bij Techcrunch Explore posts in the same categories: Content downloaden [...]

By: *gonzolog » Spiral Frog: ¿el principio del cambio de actitud?

*gonzolog » Spiral Frog: ¿el principio del cambio de actitud? — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:22:35 +0000

[...] En fin, por el momento no se sabe mucho más respecto al proyecto. Habrá que esperar a probarlo, pero es bien cierto que más vale eso que nada, al menos las majors parecen comenzar a entender que su actual modelo de negocio es más bien fallido. Y eso es un progreso. Más detalles en TechCrunch. [...]

By: Profile - SpiralFrog « TechAddress

Profile - SpiralFrog « TechAddress — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:11:11 +0000

[...] Quoted on weblog TechCrunch: “Some people say it’s still a big step because it’s free music, I (and others) question the technical coercion and wish there was some better way to do it.” In an earlier weblog post TechCrunch also stated that, “Music lovers have been demanding a different business model for some time, and it looks like at least some industry heavy hitters are going to give it a go via SpiralFrog. We’ve profiled several independent sites experimenting with new business models for music lately (Amie Street, Sellaband and Magnatune) but you had to expect the big guys to try something more traditional. See also eMusic, low cost and DRM free. See also eMusic, low cost and DRM free.” [...]

By: accelzone - techie weblog » More (mostly) free music: EMI to partner with SpiralFrog

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:55:49 +0000

[...] EMI Music Publishing is announcing tonight that they are partnering with New York startup SpiralFrog to distribute music for free download. SpiralFrog hit the news late last month with their groundbreaking partnership with Universal to distribute music for free (see our coverage for more details). Universal appears set to buy BMG (half of Sony-BMG) for roughly $2 billion in the next few days, so offerings through SpiralFrog could really explode. Major label music could be available to download for free, with ad support, as a general phenomenon before we know it. [...]

By: Free Music Download From SpiralFrog « Ray-Deo

Free Music Download From SpiralFrog « Ray-Deo — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:48:30 +0000

[...] EMI Music Publishing is announcing tonight that they are partnering with New York startup SpiralFrog to distribute music online for free. SpiralFrog hit the news late last month with their groundbreaking partnership with Universal to distribute music for free (see our coverage for more details). Universal appears set to buy BMG (half of Sony-BMG) for roughly $2 billion in the next few days, so offerings through SpiralFrog could really explode. Major label music could be available to download for free, with ad support, as a general phenomenon before we know it. [...]

By: accelzone - techie weblog » EMI to add free music to SpiralFrog

accelzone - techie weblog » EMI to add free music to SpiralFrog — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:10:06 +0000