Published on Fri Jun 17 15:00:29 BST 2011
IT’S been described as the Glastonbury’s alternative younger brother. Renowned for it’s attention to detail and unique boutique atmosphere, Latitude has become a highlight of the festival circuit. Reporter Andrew Trendell talks to organiser Melvin Benn about what makes it so special.
Sony Network Entertainment has launched a cloud-based digital music app for Android users, rivaling similar services like Rhapsody, Slacker, and the newly listed Pandora.
Facebook and Spotify are collaborating on a streaming music service at the world’s largest online social network, according to a report Wednesday by business magazine Forbes.
Facebook and Spotify are collaborating on a streaming music service at the world’s largest online social network, according to a report Wednesday by business magazine Forbes.
Robertson has been here before. in the late 1990s, he launched the online music service MP3.com, which offered a then-radical listening service. If you owned a CD of, say, the Beatles’ White Album, you would insert it into your computer. MP3.com would verify that you had the disk and would then authorize you to listen to the same album, streamed over the Internet from a copy on the company’s own servers. no need to buy a new digital copy of the song; just start listening.
MSpot, a service that has until provided a storage locker for a user’s music files, is entering the music discovery business by providing access to streaming music stations, curated by both in-house DJs and algorithms.
Facebook and Spotify are collaborating on a streaming music service at the world’s largest online social network, according to a report by business magazine Forbes.
A Facebook spokesman said that it had no news to announce on that front, but pointed out co-founder Mark Zuckerberg commenting at a G8 summit that the California company is interested in making the music and film industries more social.
