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Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make according 43 Folders:
1. Too much Flash
2. Crappy or non existent mp3 metadata
3. Too artsy, too fartsy
4. No search
5. One-way communication (served one way)

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From December 2004 to February 2005, CCmixter ran The Fine Art of Sampling Contests, based on tracks from The WIRED CD — Rip. Mix. Sample. Mash. Share.

You can hear the stream of the winners here. The winners will appear on a Creative Commons produced CD called The Wired CD — Ripped. Mixed. Sampled. Mashed. Shared.

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If your company needs creativity to stay ahead, then a new tried and tested method to help companies manage their creative process might be what you need.
Developed under the IST project CREATE, “We started our work analysing more than 100 creative techniques and methodologies, proposed by several experts and researchers,” explains Prof De Toni of […]

Sony launches competitive line of new network Walkman.
Gregory Kukolj, General Manager for Personal Audio Europe says it’s “The most affordable and high performance Network Walkman ever “

“700 songs, or up to 45 CDs worth of songs can be stored on these tiny but very innovative players, (…) up to 70 hours battery life (…) […]

Magnatune - we are not evil - and Hana Micron launch TunePlug portable USB drive with pre-loaded MP3 music from leading independent artists.
“The TunePlug reusable USB Flash Drive will feature 10 complete albums from 10 leading Magnatune artists as MP3 files. The newest way to distribute music, TunePlug offers consumers a simple way to experience […]

Various sources have reported on the EU Council decision to approve the “Software Patent Initiative”. The Motion now goes to second vote by European Parliament expected in June this year.
According vnunet, “the directive has been opposed by many in the open source community and smaller software developers, but welcomed by big business and UK politicians. […]

Don’t miss the audio speech from David Goldberg, VP & General Manager of music at Yahoo at the Digital Music Forum last week.
Besides his killer quote: “The playlist is the killer app in music…”, you can hear some interesting stats on Yahoo music too:
“– It is serving about 350 million videos a month. It had […]

Read on Loic Le Meur’s Blog: “We have just annnounced the launch of Friendster’s blog service on TypePad. In 24 hours, tens of thousands of Friendster members have already created their blogs.”

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Melodeo has announced a mobile peer-to-peer music sharing functionality with its Melodeo Mobile Music Solution.
Mobile phone users will be able to send full tracks that they have purchased, from one mobile phone to another mobile phone via Bluetooth wireless technology.

© 2004 Melodeo, Inc.
To use the peer-to-peer feature, users select a song from the playlist of […]

Very good article on The Feature from Carlo Longino on the Mobile Music hype of the last weeks.

Analysis, mobile music

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