Every Spotify Session Should Be a ‘Private Session’; Blockchain and Music Data’s Byzantine Problem

May 24, 2017

The music streaming service tattles on your listening choices unless you manually tell it not to. This is madness.

The Major Labels Make $9000 Every Minute From Streaming — music3point0.com
The major labels are making $9000 every minute, or more than $12.5 million per day just from streaming music. Will the growth continue?

Apple Music’s Free Trial Is Now 99 Cents In These Countries — www.billboard.com
As reported in the Apple blogosphere, Apple Music has begun flexing its “prices vary” prerogative by charging 99 cents for a three-month trial in Australia, Spain and Switzerland.

How Streaming Music Online Can Change What’s Popular on the Radio — www.wideopencountry.com
Don’t like what you hear on the radio? Streaming music services, while not perfect, are giving fans a way to change what tops the charts.

Blockchain and Music Data’s Byzantine Problem — musically.com
A major selling point of blockchain technology has been its promise of information systems that can remain operational, even despite missing links.

Don’t Worry, Your MP3s Are Safe: A Frank Discussion On The Future Of A Format — www.npr.org
The survival of the MP3 is more complicated than the lapse of a patent and its marketplace by its inventors.

VOISE, Decentralized Music Platform, Announces Radio DAO — Platform & Stream — platformandstream.com
Music platform VOISE has included a new feature to its upcoming music streaming and downloading platform. The new Radio DAO service will allow users to access a constantly streaming music service with a never-ending playlist.

BBC Radio 1 has posted its worst quarterly Rajar result in history.

Radio continues to play a key role in music discovery, a panel of music industry experts at The Great Escape has said.

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