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By: rich media and the standards wars « Netcultures

rich media and the standards wars « Netcultures — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:03:05 +0000

[...] What does it mean for traditional means of disseminating media – how abou the much-heralded death of the CD? (On the other hand, how about the 88 million cassette tapes sold each year in Turkey alone? or the [...]

By: Want to get signed? Don’t send a demo - A Song A Day

Want to get signed? Don’t send a demo - A Song A Day — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:27:44 +0000

[...] Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: “I Don’t Care.” (techcrunch.com) Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: Real Pop Wars: Episodes 1 and 2 — The Fans Strike Back

Real Pop Wars: Episodes 1 and 2 — The Fans Strike Back — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:48:30 +0000

[...] more serious story I came across was a talk by Ian Rogers (CEO of Topspin and former head of Yahoo music) about how the CD business is dying and that [...]

By: BenJammin

BenJammin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:59:25 +0000

It all boils down to one thing….Making good music whether it’s Indie or a Major Record Label. Get it out there and people will buy it. And with myspace and music chatrooms it is possible.

By: lynstly

lynstly — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:36:47 +0000

The record companies, just like GM, are going to need to go through some major organizational change and restructuring. It’s necessary for most types of businesses to do this to stay on top of the world market and advancing technology. Either the record company execs are too stupid to imagine selling a product that isn’t on a tape or cd or their pockets are too tight (change/restructuring costs money). If they don’t change they’ll die, simple as that. I haven’t bought a CD at a store in years and I don’t ever plan to again, it’s a hassle, and I don’t think I’m in the minority there. Either record companies change or they lose all of their customers, simple as that. I personally don’t care if they all go bankrupt, it will be a lesson learned and open up a whole new frontier in the music business.

By: What Was The Best Of The Web in 2008? A Voter’s Guide For The Crunchies. | Fidicaro.net

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:44:15 +0000

[...] of course), despite some internal turmoil. Topspin Media, founded by former Yahoo Music chief Ian Rogers, is trying to help bring the music industry into the 21st Century by embracing the Internet as a [...]

By: What Was The Best Of The Web in 2008? A Voter’s Guide For The Crunchies.

What Was The Best Of The Web in 2008? A Voter’s Guide For The Crunchies. — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:58:03 +0000

By: a new model for music | saudiobamania

a new model for music | saudiobamania — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:42:59 +0000

[...] I’d never heard of Ian Rogersbefore writing this post, but he and I obviously share a similar view on the disruptions the [...]

By: The Recording Industry Decides To Stop Suing Its Customers | code.ernewein.org

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:51:21 +0000

[...] for the recording industry’s bigger underlying problem (the death of the CD business) ,turning the ISPs into a music police does nothing to address it. Let’s just hope they don’t [...]

By: The Recording Industry Decides To Stop Suing Its Customers

The Recording Industry Decides To Stop Suing Its Customers — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:34:52 +0000

[...] for the recording industry’s bigger underlying problem (the death of the CD business) ,turning the ISPs into a music police does nothing to address it. Let’s just hope they [...]

By: Topspin » Topspin Searching for VP Engineering

Topspin » Topspin Searching for VP Engineering — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:22:43 +0000

[...] company on our blog, in this Billboard article, and get a bit of a sense of what we stand for in this TechCrunch article. Our chairman and co-founder is ProTools-founder Peter Gotcher and we are backed financially by [...]

By: Kurtis

Kurtis — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:19:21 +0000

Indie labels are taking over slowly in these times of fallen store bought CD sales. Times are also harder than ever now because of the recent recession that we have entered this year and it has caused a lot of people to watch their spending. Seeing that most haven’t been buying music much shown from the 20 billion illegal downloading and file share stats last year. Makes it harder for those who want to establish themselves in a fallen industry. Selling music online is the better choice because consumers most would rather by music online just as Joe Purdy has shown the music industry that he can sell more than 1/2 million (650,000 isn’t a small number for sales even for a major record label artist) threw his indie label in these times. Some would also admit in stating that it is not that fans don’t want to buy music, but they want to make sure that it’s their favorite artist receive the financial benefits from the bought online purchase.

By: turkey weekend stimuli « Born Under Punches

turkey weekend stimuli « Born Under Punches — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:12:21 +0000

[...] A nice summary, albeit surface, on the state of the music industry…and its path to relevance: Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: “I Don’t Care.” Gerhard Richter continues to fascinate me, and this article is a great overview of his work through [...]

By: Distracted Reflections » Blog Archive » Some Great Blog Posts

Distracted Reflections » Blog Archive » Some Great Blog Posts — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:15:54 +0000

[...] are some recent blog posts that I’ve really enjoyed: * The Death of the Music Industry * A Great Vision for the Future of the Auto Industry – [...]

By: Em defesa de uma nova classe média musical - Ponto Livre

Em defesa de uma nova classe média musical - Ponto Livre — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:55:45 +0000

[...] e esta semana ele disponibilizou no blog da TopSpin o texto e os slides. A coisa foi divulgada pelo TechCrunch, o que gerou um rol de comentários tanto a favor como contra a visão optimista e utópica de [...]

By: Will

Will — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:26:19 +0000

I have always rejected the ’starvist artist’ mentality, so I like the idea of a middle-class of musicians. However, for me that doesn’t include playing for change or playing in bars for free beer. However, if you look at those activities as lead generators towards other income-producing methods now you’re getting closer.
The trend is away from selling physical/digital products and towards selling access. Access to your band, behind the scenes vids, photos, songwriting sessions, demo tracks, discussion forums, etc. However you don’t need to pay anyone to provide this service. You can build your own ‘Backstage VIP Access Club’ and charge people to join on a monthly basis. This can be done with a membership site where you protect access to the members of your band. To add value you can release brand new material to your VIP club, then eventually release it to the general public.

By: “A morte do CD e do DVD”, ou “A ficha ainda vai cair para a indústria do entretenimento” « Blog Rápido e Rasteiro

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:32:25 +0000

[...] in Artes, Tecnologia. Tags: CD, dvd, música, Tecnologia trackback Ao ler um artigo do TechCrunch, sobre uma palestra de Ian Rogers sobre a “morte do negócio dos CDs de música”, [...]

By: GRAMMY MusicTech Summit 08 on the web!

GRAMMY MusicTech Summit 08 on the web! — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:53:55 +0000

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By: Catching up - What I’ve been missing « Höf’s Mixtape

Catching up - What I’ve been missing « Höf’s Mixtape — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:22:48 +0000

[...] of where the business is at currently, and some nice hands-on examples of how to deal with it. Some others blogged about that it, [...]

By: Joe from GigPay

Joe from GigPay — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:49:04 +0000

Many other companies like ourselves saw this early on, and setup to provide ‘empowerment’ to artists. The change of the music business has provided opportunities to artists, companies and fans alike. Money will still be made regardless of CD sales and hopefully whoever produces the value (i.e. artists or companies) should get an equitable return.

Within that we certainly don’t want to repeat the mistakes of old, by taking advantage of and thus eroding the trust of your customers/users/stakeholders.

By: Week In The Knees at FISTFULAYEN

Week In The Knees at FISTFULAYEN — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:48:41 +0000

[...] it received, but I appreciate everyone caring, taking notice, taking the time to comment (even the haters), etc. Some of the comments were off-base IMHO but many of them were dead on, particularly the ones [...]

By: links for 2008-11-21 | Nerdcore

links for 2008-11-21 | Nerdcore — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:30:24 +0000

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By: Mayuko Chigasaki

Mayuko Chigasaki — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:03:29 +0000

Middle class just means mediocre life.

DO-NOT-WANT.

By: Mayuko Chigasaki

Mayuko Chigasaki — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:55:55 +0000

Music industry… still remains an industry : merchandise, consumers, business, power, money are the keywords of the propaganda.

By: Doron

Doron — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:57:18 +0000

As you may have guessed I know Pandora and the like very well. However those are not good enough (yet), and it will be sometime till they, or other like them will be.

Those kind of search-by-example, or search-by-”genome” are providing you ‘more of the same’ music results to bands/artists you already know. It is far from being able to do a query to find new music you didn’t know existed (but would love when you found it).

Let me exaplify it this way: try to think of how one would state such a query, and you’ll see that we cannot even define that question (same problem as in image search which is not based on other images or text).