New: #Spotify Codes—from the camera icon in Spotify search, scan codes from other phones, screens or your own photos, and share directly to song, album, artist or playlist
Posted by Mike Shupp on Sunday, May 7, 2017
(Spotify *may* need to be installed for music player to appear, see comments) It's taken a couple months, but seems…
Posted by Mike Shupp on Thursday, January 28, 2016
Some thoughts:
1) When you purchase a song or album (download, CD, vinyl) you're paying/licensing for all possible future listens #Spotify #AppleMusic
— Mike Shupp (@MikeShupp) June 11, 2015
2) When you stream a song, you're paying/licensing for one (1) listen #Spotify #AppleMusic
— Mike Shupp (@MikeShupp) June 11, 2015
In other words,
The purchase of a song or album (download, CD, vinyl) secures the licenses from the rights holders for you to listen to that song, or album, whenever you want, wherever you want, as many times as you want, for the rest of your life… and the royalties due those rights holders reflect those uses.
But a stream of a song needs only to secure licenses from the rights holders for one (1) listen by one listener… and the royalties due those rights holders for that stream reflect that use.
Stuart Dredge sits down with Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue for the Gaurdian, shortly after the Apple Music announcement during the WWDC keynote:
Apple Music interview: ‘Algorithms can’t do it alone – you need a human touch’
According to The Verge, Apple is pressuring the major record labels to disallow streaming services like Spotify to offer a free tier, ahead of its own Beats service relaunch:
Heating up… https://t.co/At0YOf13pp
— Mike Shupp (@MikeShupp) May 4, 2015
Apple’s acquisition of Beats music service last August signaled their possible interest in offering a streaming service of their own to compete with Spotify, Rdio and others… 9to5Mac is reporting some details on their progress:
The Next Episode: Apple’s plans for Beats-based music service revealed
The partnership with ArtistLink by Topspin, announced one year ago to enable the sale of retail merchandise has been discontinued; CDs and other merch can still be listed on Spotify through the BandPage platform: