[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back in September 2019, I was invited to London to hear the new 50th-anniversary edition of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album. The listening session took place
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Pleeeeasee eexcusee any typos in today’s missivee. The eeeee key on my MacBook Pro is screeweed, so eeach keeeystrokeee reeesults in multipleee eeee’s. Appleee wants moree than $600 to reeepair theeir stupid butteeerfly
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It’s a bit of an oversimplification, but new copyright policy in Canada wants to make sure streaming platforms are adequately representing – and paying for – Canadian content. Earlier this month, members of
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I’ve partnered with The London Economic Development Corporation and FM96 to bring you a London edition of my Music Technology event series. The event will take place on Saturday, September 24. And in case you’re
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Legal streaming services–Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play Music, Deezer and so on–have accomplished a lot when it comes to crushing peer-to-peer music piracy. Why go through all the hassle of searching for and
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On my radio show today (Tuesday, March 22) on 102.1 the Edge/Toronto, I posed a question: If you’re going to pay for a subscription to a streaming music service, which one would you
Read MoreOver the last couple of months, I’ve had a number of conversations with industry people who are very concerned about the data that’s at the heart of streaming music services. All of them–Spotify,
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Here’s a question: if you hand to choose been (a) a great and vast selection of music and: (b) a somewhat smaller selection of music but with superior sonic quality, which would you
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Executive summary: the Beatles are screwing over younger generations of music fans by not allowing their music to be streamed. This comes from The Next Web: For musicians, there’s a lot wrong with
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Wait. Something doesn’t smell right here. The Recording Industry Association of America–the lobby group that represents the interests of record labels in the US–claims that the labels have nothing to do with the
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How much is a single listen of a song worth on a streaming music service? Billboard (via RAIN) breaks things down this way in a handy infographic. (These figures are for the US
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