Digital Music

Jacobs library brings a history of music to IU (Indiana Daily Student)

Fri, 03/12/2010 - 04:50
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Each day, hundreds of music students wander through the stacks of scores and browse the digital collections of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, which houses more than 600,000 items for them to choose from. Philip Ponella, head librarian, said it is trumped only by the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library in terms of collection size.

Zimbalam's Digital Music Distribution Service Launches in North America (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Fri, 03/12/2010 - 00:22
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PARIS----Zimbalam, the largest digital music distribution and marketing network, today announced the launch of the US version of its distribution network. Zimbalam, owned by independent music distributor and service provider Believe Digital, provides artists with access to 25 of the most popular music stores such as iTunes and Spotify and unprecedented global reach through several hundred ...

BBC plans spin-offs to push digital radio (Guardian Unlimited)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:43
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Digital spin-offs and extensions to shows on other BBC radio networks will follow closure of 6 Music and the Asian Network The BBC is to reinvent its digital radio offering around brand extensions of its main five radio networks following the proposed closure of BBC 6 Music and the Asian Network . It is understood that the BBC plans to spend some of the money saved by closing the two stations on ...

Controversial digital economy bill amendment follows lobbyists' draft (Guardian Unlimited)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:01
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Text added to digital economy bill that could block sites such as YouTube echoes almost word for word a suggestion from the BPI A controversial amendment to the digital economy bill that could block sites such as YouTube is copied almost word-for-word from a draft written by the BPI, which lobbies on behalf of the British music industry. The BPI confirmed on Thursday that it drafted a letter ...

Record Labels: Change or Die [Music] (Gizmodo)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 19:21
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# music It's a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry— OK Go just ditched EMI —and YouTube and BitTorrent changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age. More »

MediaNet Powers Premium Digital Content Delivery for Innovative New Customers (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 19:00
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MediaNet announces all new customers that are utilizing the MN Open API and Web Components to deliver digital music and media to their end users. These customers span a wide array of industries including ecard providers, virutal game developers, and social media direct payment companies proving that adding premium content to a website or application is spreading beyond the traditional realm of ...

Government panders to music industry in copyright debate (vnunet.com)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 18:10
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Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk , Thursday 11 March 2010 at 18:00:00 Leaked documents show BPI drafted controversial Digital Economy Bill amendment Controversial copyright proposals put forward by the House of Lords that will see certain web sites restricted are exactly the same terms that music industry lobbyists were campaigning for, leaked documents revealed today. Last week the House of Lords ...

VEVO is Top 10 Video Property, #1 Entertainment-Music Web Network in U.S. (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 15:57
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VEVO ranked among the web's top 10 video content networks in January and, for the third consecutive month, was the most-visited U.S. web network in the coveted Entertainment-Music category with 35.4 million unique visitors in February, according to new data released by comScore Media Metrix, a recognized leader in measuring the digital world.

Western Digital debuts My Passport AV portable media drive; starts at $109.99 (ZDNet)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 10:44
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Western Digital has introduced the My Passport AV, a new 320GB portable media drive dedicated to storing video content and compatibility with multiple types of media players.

Cuyamaca music teacher awarded top state prize (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 08:06
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When Pat Setzer walks the aisles in his guitar class, he leads with his ear. “Good” he says, upon hearing a piece of music that is in tune and has the correct meter. “Good.” But every so often a note rings flat and the professor’s ear perks. “That’s off,” he says.

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