Last week, Sean Adams from Drowned in Sound and DiS readers shared with my editor a bunch of methods they use to deal with the problem of digital-age music collection. The list includes some great ideas, but the hunt for the most efficient way to collect music is still on. Later.fm (free; web) stands as a pretty good contender,…
The Google I/O conference takes place today, and the most exciting part of it for music fans will be Google’s new music subscription — or rather subscriptions, plural, because as reported by my former CNET colleague Greg Sandoval, Google has been readying two separate music subscriptions — one aligned with Google Play and Android, and…
Note: This tutorial for Windows was adapted from this tutorial for Mac, which is why some of this text appears cribbed from there. Sometimes, you love a song and it’s not on the web. That’s just not right, because the three or so generations alive today are largely responsible for making sure that all the…
Flattr, a decentralized tip jar that lets you put any amount of money into an account in order to compensate writers, musicians, video producers, hilarious tweeters, and the like, recently announced direct integration with Twitter, so that you can send a little money to people (i.e. the artists who make the music you listen to…
Flattr has traditionally been an online tip jar with a twist: You pay into an account first, and then decide who gets the money later. On Monday, Flattr announced a big change to this approach that intertwines it across internet where it belongs. You can now connect a Flattr account to a growing number of…
Google and YouTube are working on at least one subscription music service to complement YouTube (free music videos) and Google Music (free music locker and download store). Our theory is that this is because some label(s) are pressuring Google into the music subscription space by threatening to withhold their music from YouTube. We think we’re…
A Bloomberg report that Google would launch a “Spotify killer” gained credence on Tuesday with Fortune’s report that YouTube — a division of Google — is in fact working on a subscription service, according to unnamed sources at Google and in the music industry. Notably, this latest report refers to YouTube as the one to launch…
SoundTracking, Apple’s favorite music app of 2011, celebrates the moments of your life with music on iOS, and last fall, became a Spotify app. Its vision expands again with Tuesday’s integration of full-length tracks that play within the app, from Rdio, Spotify, or YouTube. You can add these features in the latest update. The company…
According to the latest numbers from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), global music revenue rose 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion in 2013, reversing 12 straight years of declines (.pdf). Apparently, where music is concerned, 13 is a lucky number. “At the beginning of the digital revolution it was common to say that…
On Wednesday night, I ran into Billboard senior branding correspondent Andrew Hampp at the Digital Media Wire Music awards dinner (I was on a panel there), who dropped some interesting news: Billboard was announcing that night that it had begun integrating YouTube into its charts, which instantly put the “Harlem Shake” song atop the charts….
Oh, internets. Just when we get so excited about how amazing you are, you let us down by being wrong — and then reinforcing that wrongness. Let’s start at the beginning. Bloomberg followed up on an AllThingsD report that Google/YouTube is looking to invest in Vevo. The reported $50 million investment would value the venture, owned…
If someone had told us in 2011 that in 2012 a portly South Korean rapper would take the world by storm, delighting clubgoers and desk potatoes alike while capturing the crown for the most popular YouTube video of all time, we might have believed it. Stranger things have happened. So, what does it mean, money-wise,…
With the end of the year approaching, “Best of” lists are everywhere. To help you cope without ignoring them, we’ve aggregated a lot of those into a “streamable” article: the ultimate collection of the best music of 2012, so you can check out all the most critically-acclaimed music of the past year, all in one…
At first blush, Moment.me struck us as one of those startups we’re not supposed to cry for. People already spend seemingly every waking minute updating their stati and taking sepia-toned pictures of their feet. Do we really need another social network — especially one that doesn’t add anything new, but simply piggybacks on top of all…
Another week, another thing for collecting music on the internet that people might or might not want to use. The latest: Whyd, a social music service that lets you find music from free music sources across the web and start a collection of songs on your Whyd profile page — kind of like an expanded, not-as-alluring…
