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Why the Recording Industry <i>Really</i> Stopped Suing Its Customers - David Silverman
"The Stupidity Express was brought to its final stop for one powerful reason: money. They ran out of it. Lawsuits are expensive, and with the financial crisis combined with the fall in recorded music sales, the record companies (Warner, EMI, Sony, etc.) who fund the RIAA have been cutting back on their contributions and threatening to erase the organization completely."
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The Stupidity Express was brought to its final stop for one powerful reason: money. They ran out of it. Lawsuits are expensive, and with the financial crisis combined with the fall in recorded music sales, the record companies (Warner, EMI, Sony, etc.) who fund the RIAA have been cutting back on their contributions and threatening to erase the organization completely.
mingus - Google Code
"mingus is an advanced music theory and notation package for python. It can be used to play around with music theory, to build editors, educational tools and other applications that need to process and/or play music. It can also be used to create sheet music with LilyPond and do automated musicological analysis."
The Music Industry - Youtube Food for thought « Music Producers Forum
The battle for digital control has been lost. For those digital natives, access to music is already replacing ownership. Radio - as we knew it - is now playing second fiddle to Online Social Networks, and the kids are tuning out of MTV & VH1 and into free, web-based, shortform TV like YouTube. Flat rate music proposals are being discussed around the globe, and gathering steam.
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The battle for digital control has been lost. For those digital natives, access to music is already replacing ownership. Radio - as we knew it - is now playing second fiddle to Online Social Networks, and the kids are tuning out of MTV & VH1 and into free, web-based, shortform TV like YouTube. Flat rate music proposals are being discussed around the globe, and gathering steam.
The Geometry of Music
"the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Möbius strips ... the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Möbius strip."
Audiobaba Music Search
"Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity.... Audiobaba lets you tell it what kind of music you like and returns results that sound like it but are in fact different."
From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally
"Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks. [...] The gamble is that fans will put up with a limited amount of advertising"
Beat This > Beat Detection Algorithm
"the algorithm [...] basically amounts to emphasizing the sudden impulses of sound in the song and then finding the fundamental period at which these impulses appear. [...] Our algorithm does not account for the possibility of a varying tempo"
Ruby Midi Generator
Rule-based composition system written in Ruby and Inspired by John Cage's 4'33"
Mictronics - MP3stick - MP3 Player
"The MP3stick is a simple and small portable MP3 player. A microcontroller Atmel AVR ATmega128 is the heart of the circuit. MP3 decoding is done by an VLSI VS1011b decoder IC. A MMC/SD card works as memory medium for MP3 files"
two things to know before deciding what to pay for the new Radiohead album
"if you give Radiohead three bucks, you can probably safely sleep pretty easy at night that you’re not helping them starve. And if you give more, well, you’ve supported some economically innovative artists."
Whats the Future of the Music Industry? A Freakonomics Quorum
"So what really happened to the music industry, and what will it look like in five or ten years?" - 5 perspectives
Amazon’s MP3 Store Wisely Forgoes Watermarks
"In addition to being DRM-free, Amazon’s songs are not individually watermarked. This is an important step forward for the music industry."
A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss
"two very different sorts of memory could exist: a conscious memory of events (episodic memory) and an unconscious memory for procedures—and that such procedural memory is unimpaired in amnesia."
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