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The Unofficial Apple Weblog [via Steve Mitchell]: "Distorted Loop is reporting that Apple has signed a deal with Pure Play Music to add their artists to the iTunes Store, accounting for more that 1 million tracks. eMusic, Amazon and Napster are also a part of the deal." - You all had your chance, now, now you get to play second fiddle.
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8Tracks Blog: "Please kick the tires and let us know what you think. Hit the Feedback link at right if you come across any bugs or you’ve suggestions on ways to make the service better." - Hey, congratulations guys!
A local boy, Richard Caetano, was involved with this effort, so congratulations RC, or Arsy, as he's known on the net.
Anywho, here's what 8Tracks is all about.
Labels: Applications, Music
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Apple Gazette: "Disney is doing pretty well when it comes to movie sales in iTunes. During a conference call for the company’s Q3 results, Disney president Bob Iger announced that since agreeing to sell movies through iTunes, the company has sold over five million titles." - Apparently this whole selling music and movies online isn't such a bad idea after all. I thought the internet was full of pirates hell bent on giving everything away, for free.
Yeah, the other movie studios, and record companies, will eventually get a clue.
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TechCrunch [via James Robertson]: "By cutting out the middlemen (labels, SoundExchange), Last.fm claims that artists that sign up for the program will receive more than twice the royalty rate they would see if the same song played on commercial radio. That’s because the money goes directly to the artist. (The total royalty, though, is less than what it pays SoundExchange). The royalty that Last.fm is paying unsigned artists is equivalent to 10 percent of the advertising revenues associated with their songs (update: in certain cases, see below). Musicians get a quarterly check, and can withdraw the money once it reaches $10." - There is a storm brewing, the new era of music is here, Apple could become the biggest player of all by signing new artists and passing royalties directly to them.
Labels: Music
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MacWorld: "That’s right: Apple is now officially the labels’ number one enemy—with a bullet. As the largest purveyor of music in the U.S., Apple holds tremendous sway over the music-buying population. And that understandably worries the record companies. The labels are used to being the ones controlling the distribution of their product, raking in the profit on every song sold, but more and more, that power is being consolidated into Apple’s hands, thanks to the overwhelming market share of the iPod and iTunes." - That's right, just target someone else, don't change with the times, try to kill them. Good luck with that.
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MacWorld: "What this means is that after 31 August, music fans who want to shift their sounds from one computer to another will be blocked from doing so. It also means that once all five Windows PCs a user can have authorised for music playback have failed, they will lose their music." - So, you have the Vista debacle, iPod rules the roost, the Yahoo! acquisition is going well, and now you're going to shut down people who legally purchased music from you? Wow.
On the bright side, there's always Mesh? 
This company seems to have things figured out.
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Ars Technica: "NBC says it wants to be able to put its TV content back on the iTunes Store, but still has a few reservations—one of which could hold the network back from joining iTunes forever." - NBC, good riddance, don't let the door hit you on the backside on the way out, your loss, make something better, and good luck with that. Look, if you don't want to distribute your content on iTunes, it's no big deal, just move along.
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Gizmodo: "Looks like there might another major announcement at MacWorld. BGR says they've 'confirmed' that Apple is launching a record label with Jay-Z, who's set to step down from Def Jam." - This could get very interesting.
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TechCrunch [via James Robertson]: "If the Judge rules that the RIAA is right, any person in United States who has ever ripped a legally purchased CD will become a copyright thief and a potential target of the RIAA, and that means just about every iPod owner in the country." - If I were a musician I'd ditch my record contract as soon as possible, contact Apple, and negotiate a deal for distribution via iTunes DIRECTLY. Forget the middle man, you don't need a big corporation that presses CD's. Hire a small dedicated team and put more in your own pocket. If the big players disappear it'll be their own darned fault.
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