Swedish audio component makers Pause Ljud & Bild, reports Digital Trends, have created product called the CataCombo Sound System — that pumps your favorite Spotify playlist into your casket! The system is powered by a two-way speaker system and 2.5… Continue Reading
Yesterday major record companies Sony, Universal, and Warner, along with smaller group ABKCO, filed copyright suit against satellite radio operator SiriusXM, alleging unauthorized use of pre-1972 sound recordings. Late last month SoundExchange, the record industry administrator of digital sound recording… Continue Reading
Radio broadcasters aren’t legally obligated to pay for the on-air use of copyright sound recordings. The owners of those copyrights, by and large record labels, have long pressed to change that. Broadcasters and pureplay webcasters alike, however, are legally obligated… Continue Reading
Pandora late yesterday announced the appointment of former Madrona Venture Group and Microsoft exec Brian McAndrews as CEO, president, and chairman. He immediately succeeds Joe Kennedy, who in March announced his intention to step down. McAndrews was recognized as Advertising… Continue Reading
Yesterday we extensively covered (here) Apple’s iPhone event and the company’s announcement that iTunes Radio will become available in the U.S. on September 18 (one week from today). While CEO Tim Cook and other presenters focused more on the new… Continue Reading
Online social music service Turntable.fm announced in its blog that it is shutting down its Piki service soon. Piki is the “more laid-back” (as the founders describe it) version of the Turntable service; “a Pandora-like, human-powered radio app combined with… Continue Reading
Studio Orca is the Brooklyn-based five-employee team behind the music programming for Chipotle’s 1,400 stores, and Chris Golub its founder. Business Insider and the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate website has published a short profile of the company. While bits about… Continue Reading
Edison Research offers some insight into the habits of at-work Internet radio listeners today. Edison has posted some graphs of its findings from the “What’s Working at Work” study (sponsored by Radionomy). Edison found that among the most popular reasons… Continue Reading
Great wisdom and insight often comes from your readers (we’re reminded of that almost daily). Today, a Digital Music News commenter very nicely summarized and aggregated seven advantages pundits believe the new Apple iTunes Radio service has over what will… Continue Reading
Today during its iPhone press event, Apple announced its iTunes Radio webcasting service will go live to the public when the new mobile operating system, iOS 7, becomes available on September 18. As we’ve previously reported, iTunes Match customers (who… Continue Reading
from today’s early edition: Today’s the big day Apple is expected to launch (in the U.S. only) the long-awaited iTunes Radio webcasting service (at 1pm ET, 10am PT). We’ll be following live-blogs from sources like Mashable here and GigaOm here.… Continue Reading
A blog called Music Machinery has published charts of Google search trends for several major online music services, which indicate which are growing in popularity, and those whose best days appear to be behind them. The graphs represent trends in… Continue Reading