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Internet Radio Day of Silence: 6/26/07
(via RAIN) On Tuesday, June 26, thousands of U.S.-based webcasters plan to turn off the music and go silent in a unified effort to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of this country’s Internet radio industry.
Internet-only webcasters and broadcasters that simulcast online will alert their listeners that “silence” is what Internet radio may be reduced to after July 15th, the day on which 17 months’ worth of retroactive royalty payments — at new, exceedingly high rates — are due to the SoundExchange collection organization, following a recent Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision.
Major webcasters like Yahoo! Launch, Rhapsody, and Pandora.com will silence their streams along with other Day of Silence participants like KCRW.org, Live365, MTV Online, Radioio, RadioParadise, and AccuRadio (for participant list, see RAIN’s site).
Jadam Kahn
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Music 2.0 Social Networks
Over the last few days, the Music 2.0 community has been establishing social networks all over the Internet. Jason Herskowitz (MuSick in the Head) re-implemented the Mediaor site using the Ning social network platform. Additionally Jason and Toby Padilla (Musicmobs) created a Music 2.0 group on Facebook. I also decided to start a Music 2.0 group on Last.fm to help promote the community. Anyone interested in participating should check them out.
YouTube on Apple TV
Apple announced today that they will be offering YouTube access via Apple TV. A few weeks ago I posted a note about an Apple TV hack called A Series of Tubes. I guess it was only a matter of time before Apple decided to do their own integration. You can check out a video of the new Apple TV functionality at Apple’s web site.
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Spiralfrog Now Live in Canada
Spiralfrog recently launched their Canada-only beta site. Spiralfrog is an ad-supported legal download service that contains audio content licensed from the catalogs of the world’s major and independent record labels. You can access the service from the US, but Download Squad has a review and some screenshots of the service.
Rhapsody.com Now Has Lyrics
While building a playlist on Rhapsody earlier, I was pleasantly surprised to see that many songs now have a “Lyrics” link. I never noticed this before. I share Jason Herskowitz’s feelings about Rhapsody’s iterative development practices. It’s great that they are continually working to improve their product, but as a user, it would be nice to be notified when cool new stuff like this happens. I found this snippet on Futuremusic from last week:
“RealNetworks has inked a deal with LyricFind, a Toronto-based concern, to incorporate Lyrics into the web-based version of Rhapsody. The announcement follows a recent announcement by Yahoo Music, who teamed with Gracenote to offer a similar feature. Rhapsody will offer authorized lyrics and other meta data such as albums covers, release dates, and additional credits. When lyrics are available for a particular song, Rhapsody will showcase the content with a Powered by LyricFind tag helping to brand the company for broader recognition.”
I assume it will be some time before most songs have lyrics associated with them. Now Rhapsody should begin improving the web player so that i can toggle between the song lyrics and metadata during playback.
Webjay Closing June 2007
Webjay, the playlist sharing community purhased by Yahoo in January, 2006, will be closing its doors in June 2007. The announcement on WebJay’s web site encourages users to backup their playlists before going offline. While personally I was never a big fan of the service, I give them lots of credit for pushing XSPF as a playlist standard. The service has always raised some thorny legal issues but no reason was given for its closure. Perhaps Yahoo is looking to integrate better playlist functionality into their own Y! Music products.
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