Celebrating 20 Years of the Live Music Archive - Internet Archive Blogs
This week, the Live Music Archive collection at the Internet Archive reaches a milestone – 20 years since the collection was started. The roots of the Live Music Archive collection are visible right in the URL – etree. Did you ever wonder what the “etree” in the URL references? In 1998, the etree music community […]
Apple Music Sessions Kicks Off with Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes
Today, Apple introduced new exclusive live sessions on Apple Music. The music streaming service kicked off Apple Music Sessions with performances by country music stars Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes. The sessions with Underwood and Townes, which include both audio-only and video components, were recorded in Spatial Audio at Apple’s Nashville, Tennessee studio. Apple has
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Streaming Enters the DJ Booth and With It, Big Data · Feature ⟋ RA
Cloud DJing will soon be the industry standard. But is this new technological development leading artists towards a paradise of convenience—or a data-hungry dystopia?
Being good at traditional social media can feel like a prerequisite for artistic success today, but it needn’t be. Stationhead, a social radio and music streaming app, is offering another way for artists to get music out there and find new fans without having to vie for Instagram likes that may or may not even translate into actual listeners. Stationhead CEO Ryan Star says he wants his company to be “the Twitch of music,” creating both new revenue streams and a means of deep connection in these transient times.
“My experience came from this model of radio that was very broken and controlled,” he says. “In no sense am I saying, ‘I want to kill your radio,’ but I truly believe there’s an opportunity to create the new model that will make the old model obsolete.”
“Like playlists did on Spotify, Stationhead has the potential to launch the next great tastemakers in music.” – Ryan Star, CEO of Stationhead
Stationhead has already picked up significant steam, with supporters like Atlantic Records COO Julie Greenwald and 300 Entertainment CEO/Founder Kevin Liles, as well as artists like Francis and the Lights, Raekwon, and DIPLO. On the app, users play music through Apple Music and Spotify while also having the ability to speak to their audience and include live callers.
The app is free to use and open to artists and music enthusiasts at any level. Perhaps best of all, unlike other social media platforms, success on Stationhead directly translates into money in the artist’s pocket.
“You can talk with your music just like the radio, but five million listeners equals five million streams for every song played,” Star explains. “Like playlists did on Spotify, Stationhead has the potential to launch the next great tastemakers in music.”
Electronic Music Is in a Social Rut. TikTok Might Just Save It. · Feature ⟋ RA
Artists are struggling to engage with their audiences online, but the virality of the short-form video platform is coming at an opportune time for the genre—challenging how music is packaged, shared and listened to.
Sounds from the Fediverse: an introduction to Funkwhale, a decentralised, community audio platform | Insert
pWritten by Jake Colvin (NKC) New platforms for community and music Since the pandemic began, I’ve joined about 20 Discord servers. That’s probably small-scale c
Queueing makes it easy to listen to multiple albums and tracks in your collection without interruption. Tap shuffle if you want some variety, and tap loop if you don’t want the music to end. You ca…
MacStories Starter Pack: Taking Apple Music Discovery into Your Own Hands
Editor’s Note: Taking Apple Music Discovery into Your Own Hands is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we’ve created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Apple Music’s tools for discovering new music could be better.
The music industry is shifting up a gear and is now taking action against a German hosting provider. Three big labels are suing the provider Uberspace for hosting the website of the open source project youtube-dl. With the software, which is available on the code sharing platform Github, YouTube videos and music files can be… Continue reading Music industry is...
In late December, for a few years now, I have tweeted out a big list of albums I enjoyed. On Thursday, I posted my picks for 2021, some of which were likely not a surprise for anyone who follows me on Last.fm. This spring, I reactivated my account there and began scrobbling again after years […]
As Club MacStories members know, I use my Mac’s menu bar sparingly. With Bartender, our MacStories Selects Mac app of the year, I limit my menu bar to a handful of frequently-used apps and system controls that take up as little space as possible. That cuts down on clutter and means everything will fit when
Today we’d like to highlight one of our newest features, tipping! You may have already started using it, but if not here’s a run-down on why we built it and how you can get started.
