From MP3 To The Contract With The Music Industry!
NEW YORK (https://webplaza.pt.lu/merlo/) - The new CD by Vittorio Merlo "Ho sognato Bruno Vespa" is on line. It
has been recorded in Italy with professional musicians and with the
production of Maestro Vince Tempera (producer and arranger of Zucchero,
Angelo Branduardi, and many others). Vittorio ...
| Apple Honors Grammy Award Winning Artists
CUPERTINO, CA. (Apple/ www.apple.com) - In recognition of the tremendous achievements of this year's GRAMMY award winning artists, Apple is offering special pricing on all albums that include a GRAMMY award winning track on the iTunes Music Store in the US. The iTunes Music Store has been an integral ...
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Artists Embrace MP3 Blogs
NEW
YORK (www.dilvie.com) - Independent musicians are looking to the
Internet as a powerful avenue for music promotion, and new technologies
make the job a lot easier. Blogs exploded in popularity in 2004, and
musicians are taking notice. Many musicians are releasing free MP3s as
promotional ...
| MP3tunes Online Music Service Opens Today with 300,000 Songs
SAN DIEGO (MP3tunes/ www.mp3tunes.com) - MP3tunes, a new digital music store started by Michael Robertson, founder and former CEO of MP3.com, opened for business on the Internet today at https://www.mp3tunes.com. Robertson, CEO of MP3tunes, unveiled his new venture at the Desktop Summit in San Diego ...
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MSN Music Offers Free Grammy-Nominated Songs
REDMOND, WA. (Microsoft Corp./ www.microsoft.com) - For the first time ever, top GRAMMY-nominated songs are being given away free, as MSN Music (https://grammys.msn.com) celebrates the GRAMMY Awards with free downloads of top Best Song nominees. Every day from Feb. 8 through Feb. 12, in the United States ...
| Michael Robertson To Launch New Digital Music Venture, MP3tunes
NEW
YORK (MP3 Tunes) - Michael Robertson, the founder and former CEO of
MP3.com, will announce next week that he is starting a new digital
music company called MP3tunes. The company will focus on music products
and services with an emphasis on the MP3 format to maximize
interoperability and consumer ...
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New Round Of Lawsuits Against 717 Illegal File Sharers Includes Continued Focus On University Network Users Who Illegally Download Music
LOS
ANGELES (RIAA) - More than seven hundred illegal file sharers were sued
today by the music industry for copyright infringement as part of its
ongoing effort to protect the work of record labels, musicians,
writers, producers and others from theft through illegal downloading on
the Internet. ...
| Gracenote Incorporates MPEG-4 AacPlus V2 Format Into Mobile Media Management Applications
NEW
YORK (Gracenote) Gracenote, the global leader in digital entertainment
technology, today announced that it is supporting encoding and playback
of the aacPlus v2 format, also known as High-Efficiency AAC v2, in the
Gracenote Media Manager. By offering this standard codec in its mobile
music ...
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Norwegian ruling finds Napster 'link site' guilty
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - The recording industry has welcomed a court ruling in Norway that will help protect the newly-emerging online music business and boosts the global fight against internet music piracy. Norway's Supreme Court has upheld a conviction that ordered a Norwegian student to compensate the ...
| 'Download Only' Releases Offered By JetSpeed Records
LOS ANGELES (JetSpeed Records) On February 10th 2005 JetSpeed Records
will become the first "Mid-Size" Independent Label to offer some of
their catalog as Downloadable Only Releases!JetSpeed Records
President, Courtland Tyler states, "Given the advantage to the consumer
and to our artists that this ...
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New Software, iHoopla Label Edition, Allows Record Labels To Control Digital Multimedia File-Sharing
NEW
YORK (HSM/iHM) - Two aggressive young digital-music companies, Hip
Solve Media and iHoopla Music, today announced iHoopla Label Edition
software, which encourages consumers to share digital downloads and
unlocks a new, no-middleman business model for record labels and other
digital content ...
| Tunetrader Launches Promotional Service for Independent Artists Online
NEW
YORK (Tunetrader) Independent artists looking to promote their music
will now have the opportunity to gain unique exposure and earn money by
registering their tracks with Tunetrader at www.tunetrader.com.
The UK-based company in Portsmouth is open to receiving demo
submissions online or by ...
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Ecma Standardizes Holographic Information Storage
GENEVA,
Switzerland (Ecma) Ecma has created Technical Committee 44 (TC44) to
develop a standardization strategy for Holographic Information Storage
(HIS) systems, initially based upon the Collinear Technologies of
Optware Corporation, a leading developer of Holographic Versatile Disc
(HVD) storage ...
| iTunes Music Store downloads top 250 million songs
SAETTLE, WA. (Apple INC PR) - Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 200 million songs from the iTunes Music Store. The 200 millionth song was part of "The Complete U2" and was purchased by Ryan Alekman from Belchertown, MA. iTunes has made it easy to give the ...
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Coveted tracks by Bjork, Frank Zappa, The Hives, Beck, Soul Asylum, Fleetwood Mac and more available now on eMusic
NEW YORK (eMusic/ www.emusic.com) - eMusic, the world's No. 2 digital download service selling nearly two million tracks monthly, today announced the addition of hundreds of leading indie labels and artists to its rapidly expanding catalog. The addition of these sought-after tracks reinforces eMusic's ...
| First iPod under $100: Apple introduces iPod shuffle!
MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO (Apple PR) - Apple today introduced iPod shuffle, a breakthrough digital music player based on iPod's legendary shuffle feature which lets users experience their music in a million different ways. Smaller and lighter than a pack of gum, iPod shuffle comes with its own lanyard ...
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MSN Music adds historic songs: archive includes nearly 35,000 Songs from Legends such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, Ella Jenkins and more
REDMOND, WA. (Microsoft Corp./ www.microsoft.com) - An alliance announced today between MSN Music and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will make tens of thousand of historic songs from legendary performers of folk, blues, jazz and world music available online for the first time, allowing music fans to ...
| Download two free cover songs by Stereotype Records artist Rick Stone - cover versions of Echo & the Bunnymen's Never Stop and Roxy Music's In Every Dream Home a Heartache - and enter to win CDs of entire Stereotype Records Catalog
NEW YORK (Stereotype Records/ www.stereotyperecords.com) - Stereotype Records announced today a promotional campaign to entice anyone in its demographic - basically, music fans looking for a little substance in their adult post punk - to submit email addresses and enter a contest. This is pretty standard ...
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Nero's new update, Version 6.6 hits shelves with new applications, new features and a 14 Day Trial MusicNow subscription
LAS VEGAS, NV. (Giles Communications LLC/ www.giles.com/ www.nero.com) - Nero Inc., leaders in digital media technology, announced today the release of Nero 6 Ultra Edition Version 6.6 to retail customers. The award winning Nero 6 Ultra Edition introduces several new applications and new features with ...
| Gracenote reaches 1 Million Unit Milestone as Market for 'Intelligent' Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Automobile Devices Explodes
LAS VEGAS, NV. (Gracenote, Inc/ www.gracenote.com) - International Consumer Electronics Show -- Gracenote®, the global leader in digital entertainment technology, today announced that the Gracenote Music Management System, winner of a CES Innovations Award for embedded technologies, has been shipped ...
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