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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: What You Need to Know About Music Libraries

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

So long, Soundwave
Owner Tim Schafer, left, and manager Richard Jackson announced that they’ll close Soundwave CDs in May. The store has been open on Moana Lane since 1989, and is the last of the area’s mainstream independent music stores.

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Advance DevMarkFd – Half Yearly Report
Advance DevMarkFd – Half Yearly Report

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A camera, a card, a connection
According to my Twitter followers, certain laws govern the consumer electronics industry. There’s @Slbrink’s Law: “The cheaper the printer, the more expensive the ink cartridge.” And @MichaeLVosburg’s law: “Any gadget’s ease of use is inversely proportional to the number of engineers who worked on it.”

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6% CDs: Look Cautiously Overseas
Before investing in foreign-currency CDs, find out if the currency has a volatile history.

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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: What You Need to Know About Music Libraries
[The following post is the first in a series about music libraries written by veteran composer, studio musician, consultant and writer Eric Jensen. For a brief, eloquent history of music libraries and how producers have used them, click here.] You have probably noticed a number of articles about licensing your music for film and television. But you are not competing directly with other artists …

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News : Q&A: Holly Conlan?s Woes Of The Industry, Desire For Right Angles & A Free MP3 (FILTER Exclusive)

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

German boffins win prize for ‘MP3 for phones’
iPhone, iPad FaceTime tech now obsolete Remorseless German boffins are patting themselves on the back after winning a prize for their efforts developing “MP3 for phone calls”.…

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NAM Radio: Zero Tolerance, University Medalist, Arab-American Women, I Heart Hamas
  New America Now’s Complete Show: MP3 From Schoolhouse to Jailhouse: The Zero Tolerance Policy Schools across the nation are increasingly adopting punitive measures against students as a way to control and deter violence and other disruptive behaviors at school….

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MP3 Cutter Makes Audio Files Fun to Split and a Joy to Convert
New freeware utility splits audio files into pieces, creates ringtones, extracts audio from video and converts to MP3

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Media : MP3: Tokyo Police Club’s Graham Wright Goes ‘Soviet’ On New Album (FILTER Exclusive)
Graham Wright is currently best known as keyboardist and current member of Canada’s Tokyo Police Club but now Wright is set out to make a name of himself with his solo music and forthcoming new album. Shirts Vs. Skins is Graham’s first full-length and it follows his 2008 EP, The Lakes of Alberta . Following an intense breakup, Wright had an influx of creativity and out came over sixty new songs …

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News : Q&A: Holly Conlan’s Woes Of The Industry, Desire For Right Angles & A Free MP3 (FILTER Exclusive)
Somewhere between twinkling indie-pop and singer-songwriter ballads, you will find Los Angeles’ Holly Conlan . Holly is currently on a US tour and we got to throw a few questions her way before her Hotel Cafe show in Los Angeles on May 26th. We explored Holly’s experience with the music industry, inspirations, and got a glimpse of her at-home hobbies. You can also download Holly’s tune, ” You …

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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Are You One of 7462 Rootmusic Artists Owed $5. 3 Million from Soundexchange?

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Music gets real for Club O kids
On a cloudy Tuesday evening, just before dinner time, the members of Club O trickled into the practice room in the basement of the Boys Girls Club on Fairfield Avenue.

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Music Dayz starts off with a bang
MONMOUTH — Music on the Square in the form of Market Alley Music Dayz is back in Monmouth.

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Music Teacher Association awards announced
OWOSSO — The Owosso Area Music Teachers Association held its annual Memorial Awards auditions recently at the Amos Gould Home in Owosso. The adjudicator was Caroline Sanderson of Flushing. Seen in the first photo are Lindsey Skidmore and Jackson Pratt. In the second photo are Kieren Becker and Nicholas Frederick. Lindsey was the winner of the Junior Division (seventh to ninth grades). She is the …

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Band blends metal, classical for unique music
With a mix of metal and classical music styles, often classified as symphonic metal, the band Nightwish creates its own sound, one of their identifying factors since 1996.

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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Are You One of 7462 Rootmusic Artists Owed $5.3 Million from Soundexchange?
RootMusic, the company behind Facebook’s music app BandPage has partnered with performance rights nonprofit SoundExchange in an effort to connect 7,462 artists to $5.3 Million in unclaimed royalties. RootMusic provided a list of artists who’ve created BandPages and SoundExchange matched that list against its log of artists who have royalties waiting to be claimed. Armed with that list, RootMusic …

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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: A Record Label Opens for Working Musicians

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Musicians Play For Tucson Shooting Victims
Alice Cooper said all they can do is sing some songs and make shooting victims and the community feel better.

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Oregon Chamber Players invite young musicians to rehearse alongside pros
Young musicians have a chance to receive coaching and perform a “mock audition.”

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Musicians React to Japan Earthquake, Tsunami on Twitter
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CSO members support striking Detroit musicians
Chicago Symphony Orchestra members and other orchestras will wear bracelets during performances this weekend to show support for musicians in Michigan.

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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: A Record Label Opens for Working Musicians
In the UK, a record label for musicians with day jobs has opened. It is primary seeking artists who have already funded their own professional recordings and are looking for an extra boost. Day Job Records is run by a cache of music industry, public relations, marketing and legal experts who are looking to sign, develop, package, distribute and market “undiscovered gems” who can “maximize return …

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Music industry takes to the digital cloud

Monday, January 31st, 2011

UK insurers urged to ‘change tune’ on downloads
Music lovers in the UK risk losing out financially if they are victims of crime because many insurance companies do not cover digital downloads, according to Which? magazine.

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4Media iPad Max Platinum Just Released — iPad Video Converter, iPad Transfer, Download YouTube to iPad, All in One …
There is no denying that the iPad has revolutionized the digital entertainment industry. So to transfer any files from your iPod, iPhone, Mac, or other devices to your iPad and vice versa will require using specialized software. In order to meet customers’ needs, a new product called 4Media iPad Max Platinum unveiled at WWW.MP4CONVERTER.NET on Jan. 26th. (PRWEB …

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PRINCETON: In tough economic times, Princeton Library shines
As economic times have tightened, people have been forced to look elsewhere for resources such as books, music and movies. This means a boon for the local library, which has seen dramatic increases in usage over the past year.

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Is Europe Losing the Fight Against Internet Pirates?
Six months after France introduced Europe’s toughest Internet anti-piracy law, little has changed. Will Europe ever win the war against illegal downloaders?

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Music industry takes to the digital cloud
Music is taking to the clouds after Sony said it is expanding its cloud-based digital Music Unlimited service around Europe to enable fans to access music on their digital devices.

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Is MP3 the Death of the Music Industry?

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

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what job in the music industry works the most with musicians besides a band manager?

Monday, January 17th, 2011

I would love to work with musicians and help promote them. I am planning on becoming a music publicist because I figure they work the most with musicians but if there is another area of the industry that works more closely with them please let me know.

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ZMGD.PK, ERTS, TTWO, Software Industry Updates from Stock-PR.com

Monday, January 17th, 2011

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The Nielsen Company & Billboard?s 2010 Music Industry Report

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

During phone interview with Louisville.com, Girl Talk discusses new album, breaking the Internet and much more [Music]
Follow me on Twitter: joshuadmoss During a 30-minute phone interview, I talked with the DJ Gregg Gillis (code name: Girl Talk), who was at home in Pittsburgh two days before his current tour kicked off in Cleveland this past Wednesday (Jan. 5.). He told me about how he needed to go out and buy another copy of the new Kanye West CD because he had lost his copy after only one listen. (Another …

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Best bets in Marin County, Jan. 6 through 13, 2011
Shore leaveThree American sailors on a short visit to New York in 1944 become enchanted by the city around them — and by one particular woman — in the musical “On the Town,” featuring timeless songs such as “New York, New York” and “Some Other Time” along with lots of tap dancing.

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Motorhead’s Lemmy To Attend His Documentary Premiere
Lemmy will attend the Los Angeles premiere for the new documentary about the legendary Motorhead singer and bassist

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Ariston Anderson: Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
Over the course of 45 years in the film business, Francis Ford Coppola has refined a singular code of ethics that govern his filmmaking. There…

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The Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2010 Music Industry Report
Nielsen SoundScan, the entertainment industry’s data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product and Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service- which power many of the Billboard charts- have announced the 2010 calendar year sales and airplay monitoring data for the 52-week period January 4, 2010 through January 2, 2011.

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Simon LeBon says Duran Duran was part of industry demise

Saturday, December 25th, 2010

Digital download sales slowed to a trickle in 2010
In 2010, the growth in sales of digital downloads, which only last year had been marked and promising, slowed significantly, as more consumers plugged into Internet radio and video streaming sites.

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Playing digital music through a hi-fi
Robert Harding wants to convert his music collection – CDs, vinyl and cassettes – to digital and play the files through his hi-fi, but isn’t sure which route to take I have embarked on a project to get all my CDs, vinyl and cassettes onto digital storage such that I can play them through my existing hi-fi. The transfer of vinyl and cassettes to digital can be handled by a turntable/cassette …

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Muve service includes unlimited music downloads
By DANA WOLLMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Recording companies fed up with people illegally downloading music have a possible solution: Add the cost of music to monthly phone bills. Mobile phone operator Cricket Communications Inc. will introduce a new unlimited plan entitling people to talk, surf the Web, send text messages, stream video — and download music — to their hearts’ content. The …

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PS3, PSP get Music Unlimited service in UK, Ireland
Sony’s cloud-based, digital music service, “Music Unlimited” (“powered by Qriocity”), is now available in the UK and Ireland. Similar to Microsoft’s Zune Pass , the service is also coming to the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand at some point in 2011. Two available plans are charged monthly, with the “Basic” service being £3.99 in the UK and €3.99 in Ireland …

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Simon LeBon says Duran Duran was part of industry demise
Thirteen could be Duran Duran’s lucky number. The music video pioneers and pop icons, who are one of the few bands to transition from ’80s pinups to legitimate, chart-topping artists, have seen success in every decade since their monumental 1981 album was released. Their latest, and 13th, album “All You Need Is Now” (released on iTunes December 21), looks poised to do the same.

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