A lively discussion on Slashdot about whether it's fair or not to copy and remix music. Maybe the world is getting ready for an open rights repository after all.
>>Tell me about it. And just last week I noticed that one Slashdotter >>supported the Democrats but another Slashdotter supported the >>Republicans. And the week before that I saw two Slashdotters >>who disagreed over climate change. It's as if Slashdotters have >>started having differences of opinion all of a sudden. I'm sure >>that's never happened before. About a year ago we all said and >>thought exactly the same things.
From the mouths of babes... {;-)
The Hype Machine is an audio blog aggregator that lets users sample the latest from "the finest mp3 music blogs".
The site features audio players for various formats including a Flash player using a new XML format for sharing playlists - XSPF.
stimTVmusic is a video-based online music service which cycles through short clips and allows the viewer to bookmark favourites. It's marketed as "a revolutionary way to discover music" but so far the interface looks decidely non-scalable and functionally nothing more than a cut-down Bookmarks tool.
Pause for reflection. An interview with Chuck D & Hank Shocklee of Public Enemy talks about how hip-hop artists re-wrote the rules of the music industry and made the most of a very small window of opportunity from the mid-to-late 1980s to run wild with sampling.
The music industry is not making enough money out of mobile phone tunes and ringtones says Qpass, a mobile phone software specialist. The ability for potential customsers to right-click and download a track sample from a web site (and use as a ring-tone) is under the spotlight with a claim that this is "potentially harmful". To businesses that can't cope with change maybe... but I don't personally see free sampling of 30 second clips as a threat to artists. Where they go, the labels will follow.
NIN sets the stage for re-mixable industrial with their latest single release in GarageBand format. This is the first time a major-label recording artist has so directly supported remixes. The cat is out of the bag...