It’s been commented on by several people I’ve spoken to. Everyone feels the quality is going down. The site has become noticeably slower in recent weeks and I’m wondering if they compress the video more to save bandwidth costs and speed up the site.
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Xtaster has been updated with a fresh, clean design to appeal more to their core audience. We thought the previous version was far too cluttered. Artist projects are now easier to pick out and each is provided with a clear description and a link to a MySpace for music & videos. They’re working with some [...]
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We have been adding Facebook profiles recently (the one for Hannah can be seen here) and these are our favourite music applications.
1. ILike
The Grandaddy of Facebook’s music apps, it allows you to tap in to the iLike database and feature songs, create playlists and dedicate tracks to friends. It’s very similar to Last.fm, who must [...]
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Anywhere.FM, a beta company based in San Francisco, have launched a digital-locker style site which allows its users to upload their entire music collection, then access it from any computer. It sounds very similar to MyMp3.com, which offered virtually the same thing only to find out they required a license from the record companies to [...]
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Elbo.ws, one of our favourite music blog aggregators (is that the right category?) has undergone a dramatic re-skin. It now features more Top Tens for artists, tracks and blogs, making it more serious competition for Hype Machine, the grandaddy of “MBA’s”. The display is far cleaner and it provides some great analyse tools to see [...]
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I came across Buzznet recently, a hybrid magazine/blog/trend/social network site. At it’s core, there is a team of writers who look out for new ‘Buzzes’, like fashions, upcoming artistes, video, film etc and provide entertaining content. But the site also incorporates a powerful social network which allows all the usual things then adds a lot [...]
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I was recently asked to be a judge for the Best Music Store at the BT Digital Music Awards. I had to assess over a dozen online stores, and of course, through my work with The Orchard I get to talk to stores all over Europe. That said, here are some thoughts (without giving away [...]
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