Digital Music

Radionomy Lets You Create Free Web Radio Station

May 8th, 2008 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Services

Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content libraries made available by Radionomy. You can also integrate your own musical creations […]



Zune Spring Update 2008

May 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

On May 6, the Zune Spring 2008 update will be made available to all Zune owners. Here’s what’s in store: Television On The Zune More than 800 episodes of television series to download and watch (on the desktop and to sync to the Zune) including “South Park,” “Afro Samurai,” “Witchblade,” “The Hills,” “The Office,” “Heroes,” […]



First Review Of Nine Inch Nails’s The Slip

May 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, Podcast-Legal Music

Synthopia has the first review we’ve seen of Nine Inch Nails‘ new free album, The Slip: Overall, NIN’s new release The Slip is an excellent release. It delivers all the things you expect from NIN, it builds on their last release, Ghosts I-IV, and it even has some a couple of tracks that are likely […]



Nine Inch Nails Goes Creative Commons With The Slip

May 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Podcast-Legal Music

Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free: as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com. the music is available in a variety of formats including […]



New Free NIN Track

May 3rd, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music

Nine Inch Nails has released a new free mp3 single, Echoplex, via the music site iLike. You can check it out below. NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music: The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or […]



Royalty Free Music Generation Software

Apr 28th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, Podcast-Legal Music, Podcasting Software

Scott at Bitnotic sent us word about their new generative ambient music application, chill. The concept of generative music – popularized by Brian Eno – is that complex music can be created by setting relatively simple processes into motion. You can think of chill as a royalty-free music generator. It uses generative music processes to […]



Metallica Still Fiercely Independent, But Learning From Radiohead, NIN

Apr 27th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

Rolling Stone has an interesting interview with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich that touches on the state of Metal, the band’s fight against Napster, how they are using digital music and trying to learn from Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails: You were one of the first artists to sue over copyright infringement and voice concerns over aspects […]



The Zunetanic Revisited

Apr 21st, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

Molly Wood has a great take on the state of the Zune over at Crave, offering 5 reasons she’s leaving the Zune behind and a scary tale about how her Zune erased thousands of her songs: About two weeks ago, I was going on a trip. My Zune’s battery had run out, so I plugged […]



ADM Announces Proposed Advertising Standards

Apr 17th, 2008 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, General, How to Podcast, Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, New Media Organizations, Video, Video Podcasts

The Association for Downloadable Media, an industry group focusing on podcasting and new media, today unveiled proposed advertising standards for use with downloadable media. The proposed ad units are offered with an eye toward making negotiations smoother between content creators and advertisers. The proposed standards were presented Wednesday morning in an ADM forum at the […]



eMusic Sales Pass 200 Million Tracks

Apr 15th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcasting Statistics

eMusic, the world’s second-largest digital music service after iTunes, today announced that it has sold more than 200 million downloads since establishing its current subscription model in November 2003. The total comprises music downloads sold in the U.S. and the E.U., where eMusic has been available in all 27 E.U. nations since September 2006. The […]