Posts tagged hype machine
I want to Spotify
Jun 12th
Spotify, a music service currently only available outside of the US, is a social streaming site that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums.
Users can easily share their library with friends and collaborate on playlists.
Although ownership of music is important to users in general a more pressing issue is accessibility. Sites like Hype Machine and Imeem allow us to share songs with friends, but we can only share the content that those sites have available to us.
By employing the peer-to-peer model like Spotify does, I can upload those special gems and curated playlists I spend weeks agonizing over. My friends can then stream the music and click-through to purchase for legitimate ownership of the song.
Spotify takes advantage of the “cloud“- data living over the internet as opposed to locally on your computer. We can peruse music quickly this way without downloading it first. Then, if a user wants ownership of the song, it can be purchased – supporting the artist rather than jacking it from a blog.
Makes sense to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify
Opportunity and Innovation: The Future of Digital Music
Oct 4th
The most significant thing that struck me at Digital Music Forum West over the past two days is that despite the dismal state of the music industry – and the economy as a whole – there’s tremendous opportunity for growth right now in digital music. The opportunity is large and out there for creators, investors, and artists who are willing to take risks through experimentation and outside-of-the-proverbial-box thinking. I found the panels to be inspiring because something exciting is percolating under the surface this time around. Discussions were less about policy – and more about the encouragement of creating and discovering something new. Many of the new tools invoke change and are on the cusp of something great all while taking the needs of the listener/user in mind.
Buzzwords: pandora, imeem, recommendation, discovery, user generated content, tags, API, ad supported, niche.
As listeners increasingly participate in the process of music selection, recommendation and playback, I wonder if editorial heavy sites like Pitchfork and Stereogum will eventually be edged out by sites like Hype Machine (blogs aggregator), playlist.com and The Filter (discovery), all of which empower the user to find and share new music on their own.
What do you think?
