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New: Spotify Codes

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

 

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Spotify, Apple Music Previews in Facebook News Feed

(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

 

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Royalty Check: Streaming vs. Downloads

Some thoughts: 
 

 
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.

 

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Guardian Interview with Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue after Apple Music Announcement

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’

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Daniel Ek Interview | Music Ally

Daniel Ek: “Freemium will make the music industry much larger than it’s ever been before”

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Heating up…

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:

 

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Details Emerge on Apple’s Beats Streaming Service

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

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Spotify Merch Integration Through BandPage Only; ArtistLink Discontinued

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:

Changes to Merch on Spotify