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This week on Digital Music Trends a feature-film length show featuring both the week's news with the help of Chandler Coyle (Musicgeekservices.com) and eight short interviews recorded AIM's Digital Music conference Music Connected with the likes of Moshi Moshi, Music Glue, Million Media, Play MPE, Synkio, Absolute Marketing and the Secretly Label Group.

In the news we chat about Bloom.fm's uncertain future as a key investor pulls funding, Rdio aiming for higher quality audio, Pandora's Q1, Deezer losing its CEO, Facebook's music-related news from F8, the numbers of Spotify's deal with Sprint, Imogen Heap's Kickstarter and much more. Find show notes & links here.

Below a list of the speakers I interviewed at Music Connected.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Stephen Bass, Co-founder of Moshi Moshi

Mark Meharry, CEO at Music Glue

Neil Cartwright, Million Media

Iain Catling, AudioSalad

Alen Vitasovic, PlayMPE

Adam Cardew, Head of Digital at Absolute Marketing & distribution

Ben Perreau, Founder of Synkio

Hannah Overton, Secretly Label Group

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends two great guests: Stephen O'Reilly (CMO at Shuffler.fm) and Stuart Dredge (Journalist at Music Ally, The Guardian) as well as an appearance by Spencer Hickman (Death Waltz Records, UK Coordinator of Record Store Day).

This week on the show we talk about Beat Music's introduction of in-app payments on its iOS app and the recent articles suggesting the service hasn't had a flying start, the reports of Shazam being integrated into iOS 8 and what that would mean for both the company and Apple, the reports on Record Store Day 2014 which was very successful but raised a few criticisms from the independent label community, the new lawsuit against Pandora from majors and the RIAA as they seek to get compensated for pre-1972 recordings, Samsung announcing 380k Milk app downloads but considering a premium tier, Rock in Rio's plans for the first Las Vegas edition and much, much more. This weeks' show notes with links to all the stories are here.

I really hope you enjoy the show, if you did subscribe to the channel or to the newsletter on bit.ly/dmtlist, have a fantastic week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on Digital Music Trends a packed show featuring Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone), Andy Malt (CMU) as well as a contribution from Deborah Newman (MusicStrat) on the US rate court proceedings.

We discuss the new Gramofon hardware project that debuted on Kickstarter this week and that is closely tied to Fon, news from Deezer as the company announces new features and a tie-up with Samsung in Europe, Smule's new $16.6m round, Universal Music's acquisition of Eagle Rock Entertainment, the Pono closing its Kickstarter at $6.2m, Kim Dotcom's assets and fresh legal trouble for Megaupload, P2P legal in Spain and finally as mentioned earlier we delve deep into the rate court cases to understand what's happening in the US with Deborah Newman from MusicStrat.

I really hope you enjoy this packed show, I'd love to hear from you so make sure you get in touch with @digimusictrends on twitter or email [email protected]

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

This week on Digital Music Trends a massive show spanning several continents and featuring Jasper Donat (Music Matters) from Hong Kong and Nick O'Byrne (AIR, Big Sound) from Melbourne as well as appearances from Ty Roberts (co-founder & CTO at Gracenote) from San Francisco and Paul Springer (SVP of Americas and Chief Product Officer at Rhapsody) from Seattle.

We chat about YouTube Music's reported delays, Vivendi's sale of SFR, Gracenote Rhythm's integration of Deezer track data, the latest from Music Matters which takes place next month, the decline of the Australian music market, the Beggars Group announcing a re-evaluation of the 50/50 split for streaming royalties, the Big Sound conference and Rhapsody's latest numbers.

In the "best from the rest" at the end of the show AIM's new startup loan initiative, Prince opens a music publishing company and Bacardi makes music with Austin's bats.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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A dense show this week on Digital Music Trends featuring J Herskowitz and Brian Felsen as well as - for the first few minutes - J Sider CEO at BandPage talking about their latest funding round.

This week we also discuss Spotify's redesign for its desktop and iOS apps, Rdio on the Chromecast, the launch of the Amazon Fire TV box, Last.fm axing its radio product and re-focusing on recommendations, Topspin Platform finding a home with BandMerch and Cinder Block via Transorm Capital, Ultra Music Festival's troubles in Miami, MusicQBed's latest numbers and the quest for a lower price point for streaming, The Filter returning to the music data space with its Responsive Radio product and much more!

You can find the show notes here.

I really hope you enjoy the show, if you do make sure you subscribe via any of the available channels and also subscribe to the weekly newsletter - have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Matthew Ogle (This Is My Jam) and Sitar Teli (Connect Ventures). We discuss Rhapsody deciding against using the Echo Nest moving forward, Shazam's partnership with Juno Records, music piracy on mobile, UK taxes and the closure of a loophole, the Pono's success, Beats Music's first (unofficial numbers), Spotify stopping submissions for new desktop client apps, Linkin Park's new music game via Microsoft's Projects Spark and much, much more.

You can find all the links to the stories discussed here.

I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

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This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Darren Hemmings, Ashley Elsdon and Oisin Lunny about Sonos' app update with universal search, Pandora's rates win and price increase, MusikMesse, the IFPI's latest report on 2013 recorded music sales, Lady Gaga at SXSW and the festival's brand presence. You can find the show notes here.

The show ends with two of my SXSW interviews one with Eric Bieschke, Chief Scientist and VP of Playlists at Pandora and one with Rich Bengloff, President of A2IM.

I really hope you enjoy this week's episode, if you did please make sure you share it online or forward it to friends and colleagues, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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A live show! Digital Music Trends 174 was recorded live at SXSW 2014 with Brian Zisk (SFMusicTech), Jim Carroll (Irish Times) and Kevin Breuner (CD Baby). We chat about Spotify's acquisition of the Echo Nest, Neil Young launching the Pono as a Kickstarter, Samsung launching MILK and Balcony.tv’s acquisition by The Orchard. At the end of the show I added two interviews recorded here at SXSW, one with Sachin Doshi, Spotify’s head of development and analysis, and one with Kevin Arnold, founder of OpenAura.

DMT's March coverage is brought to you by Omnifone and MusicGraph, we thank them for their support of the show, it would not be happening without them so go and check them out.

I really hope you enjoy this week’s show and check out all the coverage of SXSW on sxsw.digitalmusictrends.com. Have a great week and ‘till next time!

Andrea

This week on Digital Music Trends I chat with Eric Eitel, Steffen Holly and Taishi Fukuyama.

Find out the show notes here http://bit.ly/DMT173

Andrea Leonelli

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http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Joining me on Digital Music Trends this week Eliot Van Buskirk from Evolver.fm and Jay Coyle from MusicGeekServices.com, we chat about Warner's deal with Shazam, 19 Recordings' suit against Sony Music on American Idol royalties, YouTube's new playlist features, SongCoin (what is it?), SoundFocus raising capital to save our ears, the Brits ratings drop, the World Mobile Congress and what's next in the wearable space when it comes to dealing with content.

You can find all the links to the stories we talked about (and links to the stories we didn't have time to cover) in the show notes here. 

If you enjoyed the show please do leave us a comment on SoundCloud or YouTube, tweet @digimusictrends or share it within your network. The show mostly grows thanks to word of mouth so any help on that front is greatly appreciated.

Have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

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