This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli, Darren Hemmings (@mr_trick), Eliot Van Buskirk (@listeningpost) and Eamonn Forde (@eamonn_forde) discuss the digital music news of the past week.

In the show - which also includes a segment on mobile music making apps by Ashley Eldson - we talk about Apple's radio rumours and implications, Bruce Willis and digital music inheritance, Spotify's latest rumours, the importance of Playlists and Lady Gaga's forthcoming album app - this and much more on this week's Digital Music Trends.

Here a few links to the stories that we mention/talk about:

Apple & Music Streaming / iRadio?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/technology/apple-plans-to-challenge-pandora-in-web-radio.html?_r=3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/09/08/links-08-sept-apple-eyes-up-internet-radio-and-pandora/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443589304577637861146885218.html

Bruce Willis and the lifespan of digital rights

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/shortcuts/2012/sep/03/bruce-willis-v-apple-owns-music-ipod?newsfeed=true

http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bruce-willis-and-the-when-owning-doesnt-actually-mean-owning-conundrum/

NY Times Blog on Spotify losing money to lure in paying subscribers

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/spotify-is-said-to-profit-from-its-subscribers-but-lose-more-luring-them/

http://evolver.fm/2012/09/06/music-is-still-too-expensive-to-be-free-too-free-to-be-expensive/

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/09/spotifys-da-wallach-explains-how-spotify-pays-artists.html

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120905streaming

http://musically.com/2012/09/10/spotify-tipped-for-web-client-and-mobile-apps-platform/

Gaga incites fans to ask for iPads for Christmas so they can experience her new album in full. Is the Bjork-like experience a fad or can artists use apps as a viable distribution method?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/07/lady-gag-artpop-interactive-app?newsfeed=true

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/digital-and-mobile/lady-gaga-says-new-album-artpop-will-also-1007936852.story

Will more artists follow in her and Bjork's footsteps or are dev costs still too high for most artists to see a return on something like this? http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/business-matters-why-more-artists-will-follow-1007941152.story

Have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

twitter.com/digimusictrends

Hello Everyone and welcome to Digital Music Trends - Episode 100!

Thanks for sticking with the show for so long through ups and downs (and fairly long breaks) if you’re a long-time listeners and welcome if you’re new to it!

This week an interview with Jason Herskowitz (@jherskowitz), one of the programmers leading the Tomahawk (@Tomahawk) project.

Tomahawk is an open source music player that finally enables cross-platform music consumption and has a very strong social and discovery backbone. Ever wanted to search for music and see results spanning from Soundcloud tolast.fmto your Spotify subscription and finally your own music? This is what Tomahawk enables you to do.

There are many cool features and rather than listing them all here I encourage you to listen to the episode and find out!

How to get Tomahawk: http://gettomahawk.com

Also check outhttp://www.toma.hkfor a web-based first dip into the world of cross-platform streaming!

Hope you enjoy the show,

Andrea Leonelli

www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://twitter.com/digimusictrends

Hello Everyone! Digital Music Trends is back this week after a long break with an interview with Jeremy Silver. Jeremy has had a long experience in digital music and the creative industries and so in this show we cover quite a few topics, from his experience as VP of New Media at EMI in the mid 90s to the evolution of music recommendations, from the importance of music data for independent artists to his take on the global repertoire database project and the need to centralize rights information.

To follow Jeremy’s work online visit: http://www.twitter.com/JeremyS1 http://www.mediaclarity.com

Hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and ’till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

http://twitter.com/digimusictrends http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

This week on the show an interview with Ed Averdieck CEO and Co-founder of CueSongs. CueSongs is a start-up that aims to make it easier to license commercial music for video (be it a documentary, a movie, a commercial or a school project).

http://www.cuesongs.com

On the show I also talk about the Music4.5 event on Mobile Music that I attended in London last Thursday (www.music4point5.com), some great speakers with subjects spanning from mobile gaming to making music on mobile devices.

This week on the show an interview with Taishi Fukuyama from All Access Today Japan. We talk about the evolution of the digital music landscape in Japan, AATJ’s work with US and European start-ups and how they can help artists enter the Japanese market.

All Access Today Japan:

http://www.aatj.jp

Taishi on Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/tshfkym

This week on the show an interview with Jay Frank, author of Futurehit.dna. Jay is back on the show two years after his first interview to talk about his new book Hack Your Hit and about his new record label Digsin.

We talk about how musicians can improve their odds of being noticed online, the elements that can play a part in creating a hit, real world presence versus social media presence, how to avoid being overwhelmed by the abundance of digital services, the value of free and much more!

Check out Jay’s site http://www.futurehitdna.com and his label’s site http://www.digsin.com. And of course you can find Jay’s books on Amazon too - here’s the link to the Kindle edition of Hack Your Hit http://www.amazon.com/Hack-Your-Hit-Marketing-ebook/dp/B0076QJS54/ref

Have a great week and ’till next time. And BTW if you’re going to be at SXSW 2012 give me a shout! Here’s a link to the panel I’ll be moderating on the 15th of March “The Evolution Of Music Discovery In The Cloud” http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MP10980

Andrea Leonelli

www.digitalmusictrends.com

www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

This week on the Digital Music Trends an interview with Rahul Powar, founder of Apsmart the company behind the app MPme.

MPme is an application created from the ground up for the iPad and it provides a curated online radio experience. The app actually monitors thousands of commercial radio stations and can serve up recommendations in real tim on stations that are playing tracks that are in line with your music tastes. MPme was recently named best startup in the Music Discovery, Recommendation and Creation category at Midem.

Check it out on the app store or visitwww.mpme.comfor more information!

Hope you enjoy the show and don’t forget to visitwww.digitalmusictrends.comandwww.twitter.com/digimusictrendsfor more info on DMT.

This week on the Digital Music Trendsan interview with David Nam, strategic consultant at Herd.fm, a mobile app that allows you to share and discover music on the go and track your recommendations geographically http://www.herd.fm

This week on Digital Music Trends an interview with the CEO of PlayMySong Rami Korhonen with an update on what they’ve been up to in the past year. Playmysong is a great social Jukebox controlled right from your mobile device - coming soon to a venue close to you!

Also an interview with Lutz Villalba the CEO of newly launched start-up Navegas that is creating an interesting in-browser integration of different audio sources.

Visit http://www.playmysong.com & http://www.twitter.com/playmysongapp http://www.naveg.as and http://www.twitter.com/navegasmedia

This week Digital Music Trends is all about Last.fm and features an interview with Matthew Hawn, the company’s VP of product. We talk about the evolution of Last.fm, its API policy, how the Spotify app development came about, their partnership with Microsoft on their new Discover platform at last.fm/discover and also about location-based charts and plenty of other stuff.

Don’t forget that you can follow me on twitter the handle is @digimusictrends, the show’s website is www.digitalmusictrends.com and you can also access it via the iTunes store (on your computer or on an iOS device), Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/digitalmusictrends and mixcloud at mixcloud.com/digitalmusictrends.

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Have a great week and ’til next time! Andrea Leonelli