I’ve found it interesting to see the changes that are happening to the popular music industry these days as downloads, the Internet and the the competition of computer games and fashion compete for a slice of the youth market dollar.
No more albums?
Rock groups deciding to discontinue making albums and just offering singles and EP’s (something [...]
A slightly hissy recording from 1982 circa the Long After Dark album in which Tom Petty recounts taking on the record industry and their accountants and wrestling for control of his own career.An interesting insight in how the industry can work against an artist.
Tom Petty 1982 (1Mb AAC+)
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EMI invited Apple’s Steve Jobs to their announcement today in London of the availability of DRM free EMI music tracks via iTunes (& presumably elsewhere too). Quality is also doubled to 256k, up from 128k (this is still AAC remember- my grizzled hearing often finds it hard to hear the difference between 128k variable bitrate [...]
The music store HMV is to review all of its stores as they admit that they have not kept pace with the newer ways that people are consuming music and media.This is kind of inevitable as we’re likely to find that many stores in the physical music market will probably diminish in size and number [...]
Warner Music says no to Steve Jobs attempts to remove DRM from music tracks. This response is a little predictable as the music industry these days are really not able to think outside the box. It’s been hard enough to get them to acquiesce to making legal downloads available so removing their security blanket is [...]
