Critical Metrics is by far my favourite source for new music - I never fail to find at least one amazing track, and it’s usually many more. The reason is that in a world where millions of tracks compete for your attention, filters are a vital component in the discovery process. Playlists are just OK, [...]
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PhoneZoo are a ringtone retailer. But wait, before you click off. It’s a retailer with a difference, since they have built a social network around ringtones. Amazed? So was I. But take a look at the download numbers… the top ringtones are selling in tens of thousands - numbers that full track sites would be [...]
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Sony Connect has closed, Virgin has just closed, Pandora can’t launch in Europe, Rhapsody has never launched in EU, Yahoo is under review and the Telecom operators have all scaled back their music ambitions.
Anyone get the feeling we’re being cheated?
The suicidal pricing policies imposed by the majority of labels is making it impossible for anyone [...]
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Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com, MyMp3.com and AnywhereCD is a true entrepreneur. His latest venture, AnywhereCD, sold physical CD’s, but when you bought one you also got access to a full set of MP3’s at 192. Sounds logical, right? After all, as soon as you get the album, you can rip it yourself - all [...]
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Today’s best music no longer appears in the charts or gets played on the radio, so if you want to know what’s hot you have to check the blogs, online radio stations and music search engines to inform us what is currently popular or getting a buzz. These are the Top Ten places to get [...]
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Deezer.com are the reincarnation of BlogMuzik, who were recently shut down by the French copyright society (where they’re based). They’re now claiming to be the first licensed free on-demand music service with no restrictions and unlimited. I won’t pass comment since it may be true and who am I to cast doubt? But I’m suprised [...]
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We were intrigued by what we saw on The Filter. It’s a UK site who have created a nifty software application that analyses your music collection, then passes the information back to the ‘Filter Brain’ which subsequently presents you with a Playlist of tracks based on your music library. So far, so Last.fm you might [...]
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