Web/Tech

Can Spotify Satisfy American Copyright Laws?

Editorial

Lots of friends and colleagues from abroad have hyped up Spotify to me, and I don’t doubt that it’s an awesome service. As we hear more about Spotify, especially involving mobile apps and in-car services, I fear we might be getting ahead of ourselves. Specifically, I worry that users’ fervor for the system overlooks the [...]

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LazyWeb: Gig To-Do Macros + Gig Matcher

Growing Your Audience

Scott Andrew and Bill Wilson are riffing on some tools that we could use in the independent music community to get more meaningful artist promotion work done. I like Scott’s idea of automating gig swaps — the kinds of things that used to be organized by booking agents and by clever managers could easily be [...]

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Make Make a Pancake

Fun

Are you having this much fun making videos? If not, you should: I think I’m gonna have some pancakes for breakfast today. Also, make sure you watch past the credits. [ via Natalie Dee ] Technorati Tags: music+business, make+make+a+pancake, music+video

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Just press play? (How the marketplace is forcing the music business to consider on-demand music.)

Web/Tech

Mark Cuban notes in an e-mail to Nancy Baym that if YouTube had sprouted up two or three years earlier, the RIAA would have toasted them for s’mores in a heartbeat. (Those are my words, not his, because it’s getting close to dinner time on the east coast.) If YouTube is considered Web 2.0, let [...]

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How to use unconventional musical instruments to make a classic sound, or vice versa.

News

While technology lets you do some amazing things on stage, the power of your songs can sometimes be muted when your audience focuses too much on the gimmick. It doesn’t sound like this is the case for Pamela Z and other attendees at the Edgetone Music Summit, profiled on Wired News this morning. What little [...]

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How to Change Your MySpace URL

Web/Tech

Basically, once you pick that username, it’s yours to keep. If you want a different one, you’ll have to sign up again However, you don’t have to be stuck with giving out a MySpace URL you don’t like. Get your own domain for eight bucks a year through our friends at KRDomains.com (we don’t get [...]

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Stay safe on the Web!

Off-Topic

Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that, for a lot of musicians, the Web is a brand-new place. And with more and more indie musicians trying out services like eBay and Paypal to sell CDs and merch, a lot of them don’t know when to be cautious with their personal information. So this [...]

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Preparing your Flash website for IE7

Tips

(This post contains more web-geekery; if you’re unfamiliar with things like HTML and JavaScript, you’ll want to get your webmaster or a web-savvy friend to help you out.) I was messing around with my website a few days ago when I noticed something strange about the Flash audio player I was using. Specifically I had [...]

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More on Flash players and visitors without Flash

Tips

(Warning: this post gets a bit geeky, so make sure you involve your webmaster if you’re unclear or uncomfortable making changes to your music website.) Yesterday I mentioned that if you’re using a Flash music player on your music website, you should always offer your visitors a way to download the free Flash plug-in. This [...]

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Free Flash music players

Tools

For embedding streaming audio into webpages, I prefer to use a Flash music player. The main reason for this is compatibility; I don’t have to worry that the listener doesn’t have a particular audio player installed, and the Flash plug-in is installed in approximately 98% of browsers out there. I’m not a Flash programming guru, [...]

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