Music Industry Archive

  • Truly Immersive Video Now Available on your iPhone 4 or iPad

    Posted on March 14, 2011 | No Comments
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  • JAKKS Pacific’s CDI Division Aligns With Mega-Platinum Grammy-Winning Artist T-Pain to Launch I Am T-Pain™ Mic Inspired by #1 Selling iPhone Music App of 2010

    Posted on February 24, 2011 | No Comments
    MALIBU, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mega-platinum Grammy winning artist, record producer and actor T-Pain has joined forces with leading U.S. toymaker JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAKK) to launch the innovative I Am T-Pain™ Mic....

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  • Daily Crunch: Anatomy Lesson Edition

    Daily Crunch: Anatomy Lesson Edition

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Excellent: Mac Classic converted to iPad stand Like human anatomy? There’s a really awesome iPad app for that Wikileaks not worried post-U.S. Army kerfuffle Street Artists Add A Little Porn To The iPad All Around San Francisco For WWDC Radiohead’s Thom Yorke predicts end of music industry

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  • Radiohead’s Thom Yorke predicts end of music industry

    Radiohead’s Thom Yorke predicts end of music industry

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    "It will be only a matter of time—months rather than years—before the music business establishment completely folds. [It will be] no great loss to the world." So says Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke, a man who knows a thing or two about how the music industry works.

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  • UMG to lower U.S. CD prices

    UMG to lower U.S. CD prices

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
    There’s been so much push for digital, downloadable content lately that we’ve almost forgotten about our old friend, the compact disc. Even though CD sales are plummeting each time our little planet makes another obit around that bright, flaming thing in the sky, the big boys don’t seem to be willing to throw in the [...]

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  • The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)

    The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Exciting news about Apple's iTunes LP: apparently it's a bit of a bust! The fine folks at GigaOM had the foresight to talk to people in the music industry to ask them, six months on, how's iTunes LP doing? Not so great, is the answer. What went wrong?

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  • What’s it going to take for PC game publishers to drop DRM altogether?

    What’s it going to take for PC game publishers to drop DRM altogether?

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    For all of its stupidity, the music industry should be commended for relaxing its DRM requirements. Every single song on iTunes is DRM-free, as are the songs on Amazon MP3 and electronic music specialist Beatport. The Zune Marketplace works a little differently, but many of the downloadable songs there are DRM-free, too. But PC game publishers? They're still bat-shit crazy, as evidenced by the DRM requirements of BioShock 2 and presumably every single one of Ubisoft's upcoming releases. What's it going to take for PC publishers to step back and realize that DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy? Not only that, but that it encourages piracy because the pirated version of the game ends up being superior to the legitimate copy?

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  • UFC’s Dana White throws down, vows to go after Internet pirates no matter the cost

    UFC’s Dana White throws down, vows to go after Internet pirates no matter the cost

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Do not expect UFC to look the other when it comes to online piracy of its various pay-per-view events. Dana White, the company's president, recently told the Vancouver Sun that he and the UFC will do whatever it takes to eliminate piracy. "It’s gonna cost us a lot of money, but guess what, it’s gonna cost them [pirates] a lot of money. It’s gonna get to the point where it’s like, fuck it, maybe we shouldn’t pirate MMA anymore." This is not a very forward-thinking way of looking at the problem, no.

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  • UK study finds that people who illegally download music are biggest paying music consumers

    UK study finds that people who illegally download music are biggest paying music consumers

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Well, well, well, look what we have here. A new study shows that people who download music illegally are more likely to buy music than their non-pirating counterparts. Why's that? It turns out that people who are into downloading music are actually into music, whereas people who don't download music aren't necessarily fans of music in general.

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  • Enhance your MP3s all you want with iDFX Audio Enhancer. They still suck.

    Enhance your MP3s all you want with iDFX Audio Enhancer. They still suck.

    Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments
    iDFX Audio Enhancer is an add-on to iTunes that serves to, "re-encode your current MP3 and AAC files using a patent-pending method that repairs the damage and lost harmonics that occurred during the original encoding process". Sounds like doublespeak to me for a $40 EQ and extrapolative guesswork. And the demo of iDFX sounds like just that. if you want good sounding audio, stop buying MP3s. And if you want smaller file sizes, start compressing with FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, or any number of lossless codecs.

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  • Happy Birthday, CDs

    Happy Birthday, CDs

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    The Compact Disc was quite a revolution when it came out. With a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and a 16 bit rate, CDs marked the shift to digital music. Unfortunately, it seems to have fallen from being the playback medium of choice. These days, people either buy vinyl records because "they sound better" (especially when played on your vintage hipster record player you bought from Urban Outfitters) or MP3s online for the convenience. And noone even thinks about cassette tapes anymore.

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  • I’m sorry, but we have to ban music. That’s just the way it is.

    I’m sorry, but we have to ban music. That’s just the way it is.

    Posted on September 17, 2009 | No Comments
    It has come to my attention that the music industry now wants royalties for those 30-second clips of music you hear in iTunes. That, I think you'll agree, is bullshit. Seeing as though we're a solution-oriented blog here at CrunchGear, I want to offer a completely fool-proof way to save the music industry and put an end to the years and years of nonsense we've seen since Napster first was first released: let's ban music. That's right, let's pass a law that says “the creation or performance of music, in any form, is hereby banned. Any violation of this law will be punishable by death.” Problem solved, let's all play Hungry Hungry Hippos.

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  • If it could, the MPAA would push you right off the swingset and into the mud

    If it could, the MPAA would push you right off the swingset and into the mud

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    You probably already hate, for whatever reason, the MPAA (and its music industry cousin, the RIAA), but here's another reason to do so. The group is asking, for like the zillionth time, for the FCC to approve something called selectable output control. In essence, this allows a video signal to be sent to your TV from, say, a video on-demand service, that prevents the use of certain, non-aproved audio/video outputs. In other words, if you want to watch Terrible Movie 2: Yes, It Has Contrived To Be Worse Than The First on Comcast On-Demand, you won't be able to record it using an old TiVo that connects via component cables.

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  • Updated Digital Britain report recommends, yes, to kick pirates off the Internet

    Updated Digital Britain report recommends, yes, to kick pirates off the Internet

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Potentially bad news for you UK readers. An amendment to the big Digital Britain report would kick off “hardcore copyright pirates” from the Internet. The amendment would require ISPs to tell repeat offenders to knock it off, or else. The cost for doing this—it's not exactly inexpensive to keep track of copyright infringement, mail out letters, etc.—will be burdened by both the ISPs and rights holders.

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