This is cool. I was working on a similar thing years ago, but without much funding, or well, much more than a good URL ;)
]]>Audio engineers are shrinking sound systems, improving sound quality both on portable devices and in the living room.
]]>Terry Heaton writes: "I've developed a new habit over the past few months that I want to share. It's called Pandora, and I think it may be the most significant new concept to come down the pike in years. You may have heard of it -- you may even be an experienced user -- but Pandora is much more than it seems, and that's what I want to share with you. ¶ For the unenlightened, Pandora is a music application connected to what the founder calls the 'Music Genome Project.' In a nutshell, the creators have listened to thousands of songs and coded each with 'genes' -- common attributes that enable users to find music they like. ..." Link: The POMO Blog
Updated 3/18/2006: Tim Eby in a comment below reminds us to also check out Last.fm. Steve Krause writes about both in
Updated 3/19/2006: Check out Mahashunyam's comments on this at Bubblegeneration. --Dennis
"... A growing number of radio listeners are encountering similar interference -- hisses, whistles or static -- on their favorite AM stations. The problem for WTRI began about a year ago, when Bonneville International Corp.'s WTOP, the AM station at 1500, began using a digital signal that interfered with WTRI's analog signal in some broadcast areas. It's one of the unexpected consequences of the radio industry's transition to digital broadcasts. ...¶... The AM stations most affected are those whose neighboring stations -- nearby on the dial -- add a digital signal. In most cases, including Mr. Rizer's, the interference doesn't stretch into a station's core coverage area, as defined in its Federal Communications Commission license. But in fringe areas, signals can be fuzzy, or lost entirely. ..."
]]>DRM news / p2pnet: "The battles over copyright policy in
Washington D.C. are nothing new, but the digitizing of copyrighted
works and the ability to quickly and widely distribute protected works
has raised the stakes on this debate," says the US Public Policy
Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery web site, going on:
Ken "Caesar" Fisher writes: "The radio broadcast flag is gaining momentum. House Representative Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.) is introducing legislation that would establish a broadcast flag for audio and also change the way in which the music industry licenses radio itself. The Audio Broadcast Flag Licensing Act of 2006, H.R. 4861, is quite a shocker. Or maybe not, depending on what brand of cynicism you like with your afternoon tea. ..." Link: Ars Technica.
Google announced Friday that it is teaming with independent federal agency the National Archives to launch a pilot program that will make holdings of the National Archives, including digitized video of historic films, available for free online.
]]>Gerd Leonhard has republished his disertation for another round of discussion, hoping to gain more attention for a theory and solution which the industry will never accept...until it's too late?
]]>A company called the Orchard is seeking to make money by purchasing music from small independent and foreign labels, and then distributing it to digital music services.
]]>Exploiting online message boards, music blogs and social networks,independent music companies are making big advances at the expense of
the four global music conglomerates.
Play Tagger allows you to easily play mp3 files directly on your
website or blog. Simply include a tiny javascript, and your mp3 links
will automatically become playable right on the page. In addition, your
visitors will have the opportunity to easily tag and post the mp3 link
to del.icio.us. This script is extremely lightweight, as is the flash
movie that plays on demand.
Vodstock is a new video podcast directory site. The site currently has about 350 vodcasts and vlogs.
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