Under The Wire: Music

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Do you want videos from MTV?

Go to www.mtvmusic.com and enjoy the best videos transmitted by MTV.

Sorry for this flash post, but I’m watching videos :-D

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Artists are giving away their music. Is that rock 2.0 or just business?

First there was Radiohead, with their last CD sold online at a fee decided by the listener. Everybody was happy about this operation: fans had the chance to choose how much the album worth, nearly every media talked about this new way to sell music and that was an incredible spot to that CD and the better adv to the tour.

After that success in the last month other artist choose to leave a preview of their work on the web. Nine Inch Nails decided to let surfers download a full 320kbps mp3 version of their last album while Coldplay decided to promote Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends giving away the first singles Violet Hill and A Spell A Rebel Yell.

Another - and perhaps the most significant - positive opinion to this business model comes form Metallica (Up the Irons!). This is particularly important since that band with a legal battle killed Napster as a popular file sharing software.

Since nobody buys anymore a CD and on line shop aren't as remunerative as hoped the only thing to do is to change the way listeners can get songs. In such a new business model the common listener gets the music he likes for free and in a legal way. He would have picked some songs form p2p networks, so artists and majors aren't losing nothing. On the other hands the CD are sold only to true fanatics of the band. That means a full quality disk, deluxe package and, of course, crazy priced product. Who isn't a true fan listening to songs available (and to every media talking about the band) would probably want to go to to live events, the other main source of revenue for musicians.

Everyone seems to win in this business model: listeners get free songs, fanatics get a full-optional products and artists (with majors) could have the same revenue. It sounds too good to be true, where is the problem? I can't find out nothing strange nor a disadvantage, so I will wait with the hope that something would change.

Here you can pick the songs I talked about on the article. If you know other artists that let you download free music write a comment and I will update this list.

Radiohead

Nine Inch Nails

Coldplay

Friday, April 25, 2008

Download mp3 with Google, faster than with eMule!

I found this video that describes how to get mp3 from web directory containing them. I'd never thought that such as web directory existed, but that is.

If you want to find a song search it on JimmyMir page.

To know how does it work look at this video.

Remember that piracy is illegal, don't use this trick to download music you haven't bought.

Friday, March 14, 2008

In-ear earphones

Technorati Tags: Music

Tired of hearing noise instead of the song you're listening with your player while you're walking in the streets or while you're in the subway?

The solution is quite easy and doesn't require to change anything but your earphones, buying a new in-ear pair. Doing this you will experience only your favorite songs, no more noise only music, and the quality of the sounds you listen would be even better. Another advantage of in-ear is that you can listen music at a lower volume, a more safe practice for your ears.

Since we can't find any disadvantage what are you waiting for? Just buy an in-ear and experience a new way of listening music outdoor.

p.s.

Don't forget to mind the traffic light and look at your left and right sides when you cross the street... if you don't take care to this you a big truck would probably run over you:-(