Random Music News for Tuesday, December 12, 2017
I had some terrible Vietnamese vodka here in Hoi An yesterday that resulted in a headache after just two shots. I bought two bottles to serve people I don’t like. And now, music
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The Music Industry is Finally Going to Fix Metadata So Everyone Can Get Paid
In the old days of vinyl and compact discs, liner notes featured everything anyone ever needed to know about who was involved in the making of a record. In the digital age, though,
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Why the “Royalty Black Box” is a Music Industry Nightmare
When you stream music, you don’t care if the songs you’re listening to come with complete and correct metadata. But if you’re an artist, a composer or music publisher, you’d better that the
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If You’ve Ever Ripped a CD to a Computer, You’ll Find This Interesting (And a Plea to Record Labels)
When you put a CD in the disc drive of your computer, the ripping software magically populates the fields with all the information contained on the disc: artist, album title, song title, track
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Introducing JAAK and MΞTA : A “Blockchain pilot for the Media & Entertainment Industry”
Today (Saturday, Feb. 18) at the European Ethereum Development Conference (EDCON) in Paris, Vaughn McKenzie and his partners Freddie Tibbles and Viktor Tron, introduced JAAK, a London-based technology company that has worked with
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Digitizing the Music Industry’s Data
There’s never been more data available within the music industry for collecting, analyzing and reporting. Album sales and downloads, streaming data, YouTube views; all of these clicks feed into a breathtakingly massive mountain
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Music’s Ongoing Metadata Problem. Please Fix It.
If you’ve ever worked with music tags in a program like iTunes, you’re familiar with metadata. It’s all the information about a song beyond the title and the artist: album title, year of
Read MoreThe Coming Spotify Royalty Sh*tstorm. This is Going to Get Weird. REALLY Weird.
On Boxing Day, my wife and I went to see The Big Short, a brilliant movie about how Wall Street created the 2008 banking crisis. What the film made abundantly clear was that
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A Plea to Record Labels and Artists: PLEASE Get Your Metadata Sh*t Together
Back in the day, reps from all the record labels would descend on the radio station every Tuesday for meetings with the program director and the music direction. Along with pleas to add
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Random Music News for Wednesday, September 2, 2015
In London for a few days to visit the Vintage.tv people. They’re coming to Canada, you know. In other music news… If you’ve been to any of the shows on U2’s current tour,
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A Plea for Metadata for Music. What’s Wrong with You Label People?
Music people? We need to have a talk. A serious one. A come-to-Jesus sort of discussion. Consider this a stern warning as part of your performance review. Most of your work falls in
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