music
Can Apple Music save a middle-aged man from the music of his youth? Paid Members Public
Apple Music [http://www.apple.com/uk/music/] arrived last night, and with it Beats 1 [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/30/apple-musics-beats-1-zane-lowe] – a new, global music channel. And I’m not just quite hopeful that it’ll be god; I’ve been actively listening to it and
Naming that GoPro tune Paid Members Public
If you watch a number of GoPro-type extreme sports videos, you’re probably deeply familiar with this track: This tune is indelibly marked in my head as the “Le Web tune”, because as I sit in the main stage area, finishing liveblog posts, high-energy GoPro videos are often playing with
The UK iTunes Store is 10 years old Paid Members Public
It’s not often that you start your working week with 10 free songs, but apparently I was one of the earliest people to sign up for an iTunes account in the UK when the iTunes store launched here a decade ago [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/
Sounds: Supplied Paid Members Public
I’m a big fan of the new emerging funding models that the web is bringing. Yeah, there’s Kickstarter, obviously, but I also like the “bundle” promotions that are appearing for software – and now music. I’ve just bagged my third bunch of albums from SoundSupply [http://www.soundsupp.
Why Digital Inheritance Matters Paid Members Public
PandoDaily seems to be rapidly becoming the site I disagree with all the time [https://plus.google.com/101225171889950697044/posts/KFFWX2edA3L]. It happened again this morning, with a piece arguing that our children won’t want to inherit our digital music collections [http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/21/your-heirs-wont-care-about-your-crappy-mp3-collection/] : >
Le Web: partying with the Ting Tings Paid Members Public
A taste of last night’s Le Web party: