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

By: Ad-Supported Music Downloads?

Ad-Supported Music Downloads? — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:48 +0000

[...] you decide to buy your favorite song somewhere else? Or maybe that’s the point. Update: News reports are saying the way the business model will work is users will have to watch ads at SpiralFrog once [...]

By: مركز التحميل

مركز التحميل — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:04:29 +0000

Great info, we DO expect (though) that the ad-supported model WILL work. //keeping our noses down and pushing ahead…
Sincerely,
The Songnumbers Team
PS, we just pushed out BETA 2 of our site!

By: Spiral Frog = baby steps « Studio UES

Spiral Frog = baby steps « Studio UES — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:20:32 +0000

[...] There has been a LOAD of discussion today about Universal’s backing of SpiralFrog, and, over the course of the day as more details have emerged, the reviews have become increasingly contemptuous. Why? In particular because of details such as this (thanks to TechCrunch): [...]

By: The Songnumbers Team

The Songnumbers Team — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:48:39 +0000

Great info, we DO expect (though) that the ad-supported model WILL work. //keeping our noses down and pushing ahead…
Sincerely,
The Songnumbers Team
PS, we just pushed out BETA 2 of our site!

By: Spiralfrog’s final demise — NevilleHobson.com

Spiralfrog’s final demise — NevilleHobson.com — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:29:37 +0000

[...] since it first emerged on the scene in August 2006 with an exclusive in the Financial Times and in TechCrunch. (I know a bit about that as I was the lead external PR for Spiralfrog as part of what I was doing [...]

By: SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up « shankarsoma; Change the View

SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up « shankarsoma; Change the View — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:16:49 +0000

[...] the company made a splash in August 2006 (after 2 years in operations) when Universal Music made their entire music catalog available for free download through SpiralFrog, joined by EMI a month after. About a year after, SpiralFrog started handing out [...]

By: SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up | CHARGED's Digital Lifestyle at Work or Play

SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up | CHARGED's Digital Lifestyle at Work or Play — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:01:01 +0000

By: SpiralFrog: Free Music Alive And Hopping

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

[...] SpiralFrog that free music download service that announced itself nearly a year ago? Well, after slowly releasing invites to Canadians, we got private beta [...]

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:18:18 +0000

Try Zaziggy.com. It’s independent artists, but the ads are not movies, they’re banners paying the artists. The file formats are MP3 and they’re not regulated. The artists are screened to make sure there’s some level of quality on the site. The artist lineup is small for now but growing steadily.

By: Stu

Stu — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:31:27 +0000

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What will I offer?

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By: Paud

Paud — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:52:01 +0000

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By: Music website ideas | DropShipArea.com

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.

By: Music Styling » In �Get By�, Talib Kweli blames this sexual obsession on what we view on television:

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. [...]