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al_semenchenko

Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously. | vellumatlanta - 0 views

  • “Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?” “Yes,” she replied.
  • through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.
  • What Apple considers a “match” often isn’t. That rare, early version of Fountains of Wayne’s “I’ll Do The Driving,” labeled as such? Still had its same label, but was instead replaced by the later-released, more widely available version of the song. The piano demo of “Sister Jack” that I downloaded directly from Spoon’s website ten years ago? Replaced with the alternate, more common demo version of the song. What this means, then, is that Apple is engineering a future in which rare, or varying, mixes and versions of songs won’t exist unless Apple decides they do.
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  • I save WAV files of my own compositions rather than Mp3s. WAV files have about ten times the number of samples, so they just sound better. Since Apple Music does not support WAV files, as they stole my compositions and stored them in their servers, they also converted them to Mp3s or AACs. So not only do I need to keep paying Apple Music just to access my own files, but I have to hear an inferior version of each recording instead of the one I created.
  • iCloud Music Library is turned on automatically when you set up your Apple Music Subscription…When your Apple Music Subscription term ends, you will lose access to any songs stored in your iCloud Music Library.
anna_nelidova

Remidi glove lets you create music with gestures - Tech Insider - 1 views

  • A new glove will turn even the most deficient in musical talent into rockstars.
  • The glove works in tandem with a motion sensor bracelet, allowing you to create sounds by moving your fingertips or your entire hand. You can tap any surface and it will sound like you're playing on a keyboard.
  • You can then record songs in real-time, on-the-go, and trust that they'll all be saved onto the app. The glove can send recordings over WiFi or Bluetooth.
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  • ou simply put on the glove and bracelet and open the Remidi app. Through the app, you can program what sound you want to play when you make a specific movement.
  • You can also play music using Remidi over a background track or mix to make songs more engaging.
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    This glove allows even non-professionals to create music by making gestures with hands and fingers.
isoldatenkova

Spotify Shares Fall on Report Amazon in Talks to Launch Ad-Supported Music Offering - T... - 0 views

  • Amazon.com Inc was in talks to launch a free ad-supported music service, which is expected to intensify competition for the music streaming leader.
  • Amazon would market the free music service through its voice-activated Echo speakers, a Billboard report said on Friday, adding that it could become available as early as this week.
anna_nelidova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - Продажи музыки выросли впервые за 20 лет - 0 views

  • В 2015 г. продажи музыки выросли на 3,2% до $15 млрд, сообщила Международная федерация звукозаписывающей индустрии (IFPI)
  • Рост рынка обеспечен прежде всего тем, что продажа музыки в цифровом формате приносит теперь больше выручки, чем продажа треков на физических носителях – CD- и DVD-дисках.
  • На цифровые форматы теперь приходится 45% всех продаж, или $6,7 млрд. А в 19 странах мира они занимают уже больше половины рынка. За последние 10 лет онлайн-продажи музыки выросли в 6 раз, а в 2015 г. – на 10,2%.
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  • Быстрее всего среди цифровых форматов растут стриминговые сервисы – их общая выручка выросла на 45,2% до $2,9 млрд.
  • Более $2 млрд из этой суммы заплатили 68 млн подписчиков таких платных сервисов, как Spotify и Apple Music. При этом более 1 млрд пользователей YouTube и других музыкальных сервисов, работающих по рекламной модели, обеспечили лишь около $634 млн дохода.
Olga Bykova

A Map Of Your City's Invisible Neighborhoods, According To Foursquare | Co.Design: busi... - 0 views

  • Livehoods clusters this data into what becomes a collection distinctive neighborhoods--places filled with people who enjoy going to the same restaurants, coffee shops, and music venues
  • In other words, the digital map lined up with many residents’ own mental maps
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    Livehoods clusters this data into what becomes a collection distinctive neighborhoods--places filled with people who enjoy going to the same restaurants, coffee shops, and music venues
Anton Vorykhalov

Taylor Swift and other big names join the music industry's campaign against YouTube | T... - 0 views

  • DEAR CONGRESS: THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (DMCA) IS BROKEN AND NO LONGER WORKS FOR CREATORS
  • One of the biggest problems confronting songwriters and recording artists today is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This law was written and passed in an era that is technologically out-of-date compared to the era in which we live. It has allowed major tech companies to grow and generate huge profits by creating ease of use for consumers to carry almost every recorded song in history in their pocket via a smartphone, while songwriters’ and artists’ earnings continue to diminish. Music consumption has skyrocketed, but the monies earned by individual writers and artists for that consumption has plummeted.
  • The DMCA simply doesn’t work.
al_semenchenko

Visual Perceptive Media - BBC R&D - 1 views

  • Imagine a world where the narrative, background music, colour grading and general feel of a drama is shaped in real time to suit your personality.
  • Visual Perceptive Media is a film which changes based on the person who is watching the video. Rather than drawing on sensor data to profile the environment, it focuses on the user themselves. It uses profiled data from a phone application to build a profile of the user and their preferences via their music collection and some personality questions.
Maria Gurova

online piracy in Norway falls says report - 1 views

  • 210 million songs were illegally downloaded last year, compared to more than a billion four years ago.
  • Earlier this month, strict new laws aimed at tackling piracy were introduced which give rights holders the power to monitor suspected infringers and potentially order the government to shut down sites.
  • claims and has said on its website that income from online use of music, including legal streaming services, has risen.
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  • “As high-speed internet capacity has become normal and often included in mobile subscriptions, illegal download and use of music has decreased,”
  • “The new legislation is in my opinion not sufficiently technology neutral, as it is clearly designed to serve as a tool to prevent P2P file sharing and not, for example, illegal streaming services, which may become a problem in the years to come.”
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    Norway continue to tighten the copyright laws in the advantage of the IP owners. Though the approach is based on strong preventive measures rather then transparent, easy to use, relatively inexpensive access to content it seems to work
alexbelov

In-Ear Language Translators May Soon Be Here - 0 views

  • Waverly Labs says they will soon release the Pilot, a pair of in-ear translators designed to let people who speak different languages understand each other in real-time
  • The technology makes use of an embedded app that does the translating, which is delivered to the earpiece that is shared by two people. The Pilot is also supposed to come with an additional earpiece for wireless streaming music and an app that allows people toggles between languages.
  • The company intends to develop support for European and Germanic languages first, but the Slavic Semitic, Hindi, and East Asian languages are not too far behind.
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  • the Pilot will be available at $410 by next year
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    In-ear translator renders speech in real-time, so that people talking different languages can understand each other.
Maria Gurova

Is it curtains for the big screen? - FT.com - 1 views

  • According to the National Association of Theatre Owners, US movie attendance peaked in 2002 and has been steadily declining ever since. To compensate, theatres have rolled out new technologies such as 3D, Imax and premium large-format cinemas, raising their ticket prices and thus keeping the box office at record-breaking levels
  • The majority of us are increasingly staying home.
  • At Cannes this year, the studio with the most films in competition
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  • was not one of the big studios, but the streaming service Amazon.
  • But blockbusters have a design flaw: their marketing costs are enormous — opening a movie typically costs anywhere from $20m — and they spend less and less time in cinemas. To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend
  • “What you’re going to end up with is fewer theatres,” George Lucas said during a panel at the University of Southern California in 2013. “Bigger theatres, with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies is going to cost you 50 bucks, maybe 100.”
  • He argued that a film will come out in cinemas for 17 days — three weekends — which is where 98 per cent of films make 95 per cent of their revenues anyway. On the 18th day, the film will be available everywhere and you will pay for the size: a movie screen will be $15, a 75-inch TV will be $4, a smartphone will be $1.99.
  • “Fifty per cent of Americans did not step into a movie theatre last year, and of the 50 per cent that did go into a theatre, 95 per cent of them went to one or two films,”
  • Arguably, it’s more visual than television. It has our full attention: each frame must pull its weight in terms of narrative and spectacle. That is why it is a director’s medium: it envelops us. TV comes to us, into our homes, casual, familiar, favouring habit-forming episodic narratives. That is why it is a writer’s medium. The big screen glamorises — its stars are the stuff of myth; the small screen is more like a member of the family
  • And something like The Avengers, it’s too much fun laughing with the audience. These things are communal experiences.
  • But then many film-makers would argue that movies should be consumed differently from music: a song is a song wherever you play it, whereas films were built for the big screen.
  • “I don’t think that experience is going to die,” says Obst, “although I do worry that eventually we will all be inside on our huge computer screens, watching all of the different types of entertainment together
  • Nothing breaks the spell of the movie more instantly than the pause button.
Maria Gurova

James Cameron on the Future of Cinema | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian - 1 views

  • The technology has changed but the basics of the job haven’t. It is still about storytelling, about juxtaposing images, about creating a feeling with images and music. Only the technical details have changed
  • I think there will be movie thea­ters in 1,000 years. People want the group experience, the sense of going out and participating in a film together
  • I think it will be standard in 4 years, not 40. We will have a glasses-free technology in five years at home and three years for laptops. The limiting factor is going to be content. You can’t rely on a few films a year for this. It is going to have to be 3-D broadcast sports, scripted television, non-scripted television and reality television
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  • Hollywood is also the place for filmmakers who want to make movies for a global market. China and Russia make films for their own markets, but I don’t see the likelihood of those places replacing Hollywood
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    James Cameron believes that despite of exciting new technology - making movie is and will always be about the story. also he is certain that going to watch a movie together is a shared group experience that audience will still be looking for in the future, no mater how advance the in-home technology will be
Maria Gurova

Italian courts order ISPs to block isoHunt - 1 views

  • FIMI successfully lodged the complaint stating that isoHunt, which provides access to and sharing of illegal copies of copyright protected content, costs the Italian music industry millions of euros.
  • Earlier this year, the Rome court ordered to block domains of 27 torrent websites.
  • The growth of blocking orders seems to be a result of the struggle against online copyright infringements through torrent websites. Opponents of website-blocks argue that blocking access to torrent sharing websites is ineffective.
Vladimir Antonov

This amazing girl mastered dubstep dancing by just using YouTube - YouTube - 0 views

  • The 12 year old used the internet to stop, rewind, and watch videos of the best dubstep music dancers in the world like Marquese Scott (youtube.com/user/WHZGUD2), something she admits a traditional dance class wouldn't allow her to do.
  • Adilyn Malcolm mastered dubstep dancing by just using YouTube as her teacher.
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    12-Year-Old Teaches Herself How To Dance By Watching YouTube Videos For Almost A Year.  and it's not only about dancing, cooking, drawing, any instruments playing, singing, any sport exercises techniques etc. etc.... there are also the whole workshop and online education courses industry in place... with VR development in future there will not be any necessity to relocate somewhere to take classes in various fields of education 
alexbelov

Bkstg directly connects musicians with their fans | TechCrunch - 1 views

  • the connection between fan and celebrity is minimal
  • Bkstg is looking to change all that, not only for fans but for artists.
  • Bkstg is its own platform, created by Ran Harnevo, that lets artists own the entire experience of connecting with their fans, from posting videos and photos, selling tickets, and selling merchandise.
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  • Bkstg gives artists a full dashboard to show interaction on the consumer side. They can see who is buying tickets, who is engaging with content, and who is watching exclusive videos and listening to exclusive tracks.
  • But Bkstg isn’t just about targeting those top revenue fans, but for creating new ones. For example, an artists on tour can send a geo-fenced message out on Bkstg to offer discounted tickets that haven’t sold yet.
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    Bkstg offers artists a direct way to manage and grow their audiences, including interaction with fans, selling tickets, and making limited offers. This can potentially reduce the need for intermediaries and give creative people more independency.
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