This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome Emily White (Whitesmith Entertainment) and Seth Jackson (Strange Thoughts): we discuss YouTube's reported offline mode and its potential impact, the issue of streaming services feeding all your listening data to Facebook, Microsoft's Surface 2 DJ experiment: crazy or crazy cool?, iTunes Radio's staggering week-one numbers, the brand new version of Discovr, BitTorrent Bundles expanding the alpha test phase with seven media partners and much more!

And you can find this week's shownotes with links to the stories we talked about here: http://bit.ly/DMT151notes.

I hope you enjoy the show and don't forget to send your feedback/questions/points to [email protected], have a great week and 'till next time!

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This week's show is sponsored by media law firm Sheridans, at http://www.sheridans.co.uk, we thank them for their support of Digital Music Trends.

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Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Show Timeline:

00:15 Introduction and guests intro

02:15 YouTube reportedly introducing an offline mode, how will the music industry react?

05:15 Is there a concern here that YouTube's offline mode would end up competing with the premium mobile offering of services like Spotify and Rdio?

07:15 Ian Rogers brought up a good point in relation to music services that send all your play information to Facebook. Is there a reason to have that turned on and should users think about switching that link off?

11:20 Microsoft launches a DJ Tool with the new Surface 2 although it's not on sale yet. Crazy move or a way for them to appeal to a new market?

14:50 App Edjing raises 2.5 million dollars towards a new DJ application

21:46 iTunes Radio racks up 11 million users in the first week, will they stick around and what about iTunes' potential international reach?

28:10 Twitter hires Bob Moczydlowsky from Topspin to head the company's music division, after putting Nathan Hubbard on the Head of Commerce seat how is Twitter positioning itself in the music space?

32:00 Discovr has overhauled its application introducing a strong social element

36:45 BitTorrent launches a wider alpha program for it Bundles with 7 media partners, how will this play in the future of direct to fan and distribution?

41:35 The Streaming Task Force looked at 3,000 users' habits in the USA when it comes to music consumption online, we look at the results and what they could mean...

This week Digital Music Trends is all about new partnerships and new lawsuits as we record live from the Future Music Forum in Barcelona with guests Virginie Berger (Don't Believe the Hype), Giampiero Di Carlo (Rockol.com) and Niall Doorley (Future Music Forum).

This week Rdio partners with Cumulus and opens up to ad-funded free access, Clear Channel partners with Warner, Pandora wins in court against ASCAP closing the direct licensing option until 2015, the majors join the lawsuit against SiriusXM in regards to pre-1972 recordings and Rhapsody investors enact a major restructuring.

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

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

On Digital Music Trends 149 Andrea Leonelli, Lucy Blair (Anjunabeats), Jessie Scoullar (Wicksteed Works) and Eamonn Forde (Music Ally) discuss Ministry of Sound taking Spotify to court over playlists, iTunes Radio's launch, Songza's new round, HQ Audio service Pono, Xbox Music on iOS and Android and much more. You can find this week's shownotes with links to the stories we talked about here: http://bit.ly/DMT149notes.

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

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This week’s show is sponsored by media law firm Sheridans, at http://www.sheridans.co.uk, we thank them for their support of Digital Music Trends.

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Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

DMT 149 Timeline

00:50 Guest introduction

1:40 Updates from guests

3:30 Ministry of Sound takes Spotify to court

12:00 A lot of money is being invested in curated playlists, will Spotify's case also affect that department?

16:00 Article by playlists.net, about their experience as a service devoted to playlists.

17:34 How will the implementation with such a lawsuit work out? What happens if users still upload the same playlists with different names?

19:38 Apple announces 2 new phones the iphone 5s and iphone 5c and iTunes radio will launch on the 18th of September in the US, will it deliver as a stand alone service? Will it really boost download sales?

22:30 As iTunes radio will be a free service, will it drive more customers?

28:17 An information piece from our sponsors at Sheridans

30:36 Songza raise $4.7 million funding round to develop advertising, can the improved customer advertising experience help them expand in the UK?

38:40 Is it possible that the integration between Topspin and Daisy could actually hinder Topspin's adoption as a common source within the industry?

40:25 Neil Young about to release a high quality digital music service called PONO, will users be sold on the idea of carrying around another piece of hardware with them to listen to music?

42:35 Getting the original masters of all the tracks on service will be quite an expensive process, how will that affect the catalog?

51:15 Microsoft finally launches its Xbox music service in iOS and Android, plus as a web browser, could this mean more subscriptions for them in light of the upcoming Xbox One launch?

55:20 Did the lack of 3rd party support until now hinder the success of Xbox music?

57:56 Sony enters the living room market with the PS Vita TV, is it only to compete with Microsoft? Is there any innovation going on?

59:52 Outro

This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli, Kevin Breuner (CD Baby Marketing Director) and Mike McCready (MusicXray CEO) discuss the introduction of Spotify Connect, the hypothetical scenario of a musicians strike from streaming, Twitter's new commerce focus with the appointment of Nathan Hubbard, artists' demands on live audiences (for example the no mobiles/photos policy), Jay-Z premiering the "Holy Grail" video on Facebook, Trent Reznor's Spin interview (he wants $10), Shazam's new Twitter preview, the VMA sales lift for the artists performing (who got the most?) and what happened with Miley Cyrus, Vevo's deal with GEMA, Yahoo Music's redesign and Echo Nest back-end help and finally a cool project to get local U.S. libraries to help promote local music.

And you can find this week's show notes with links to all the stories on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...

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

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This week's show is sponsored by media law firm Sheridans, at http://www.sheridans.co.uk, we thank them for their support of Digital Music Trends.

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Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digitalmusictrends

Show timeline:

00:24 Introduction

01:55 Mike talks about how he went about building his relationship with Future Music Forum it Barcelona, we chat about the conference

04:13 Kevin updates us on the latest news about CD Baby

05:50 Spotify unveils Spotify Connect. Many speaker manufacturers have jumped on board. Will the general public pay attention?

09:50 What could Spotify do to raise customer awareness about this function? Will people even realize that the option exists?

11:50 Looking at a Billboard piece on a hypothetical Spotify strike, is it a feasible possibility?

17:00 Where will streaming position itself in US over the next few years, and will it cause another wave of the abandonment of CD?

24:10 Will Twitter's new commerce strategy help the music industry increase record/merchandising/ticket sales?

29:52 A few artists lately have been banning mobile phones from gigs, is it ok for artists to make such demands of fans? Is it even reasonable to think fans will stop carrying phones/cameras to gigs?

34:40 Jay-Z released his new video "Holy Grail" featuring Justin Timberlake exclusively on Facebook for the first 24 hours, was using Facebook as a video hosting platform a good move and what is Facebook's play here?

37:53 Short break featuring our sponsors Sheridans

40:50 Sales projections for the acts that performed during the VMA's. Does a boost on social media always lead to an increase in sales?

44:47 We chat a bit more about Nine Inch Nails after Trent Reznor's new interview with Spin.

53:40 Vevo manages to strike a deal with GEMA and is set to launch in Germany

56:10 Yahoo relaunched music.yahoo.com, also went through with a deal with the Echo Nest, a music intelligence service, hoping to improve their music database system. Given Yahoo!'s huge traffic how relevant is it for music and should artists pay attention as to their positioning on the platform?

59:42 Hypebot picks up on local NPR coverage about local libraries building streamable and downloadable collections or digital music from local artists, will this drive music communities in small to medium sized towns?

1:02:45 Outro

On Episode 147 of Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli, Karim Fanous (Music Ally) and Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown) chat about Pandora's Q2 earnings as the company decides to drop mobile listening caps, the VMA's ratings and controversies, VEVO on the Apple TV, how to keep track of new albums released on Spotify and Rdio, Nigel Godrich's follow-up on streaming, PRS for Music's deal with YouTube and PledgeMusic's catalogue initiative and lots more. You can find this week's shownotes with links to the stories here.

We also chat about a few upcoming events including Resonancia Colombia (from Karim) and Hard Working Class Heroes (from Darren). Make sure you check out Music Ally and the Daily Digest.

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This week's show is sponsored by media law firm Sheridans, at http://www.sheridans.co.uk, we thank them for their support of Digital Music Trends.

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Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Show timeline: 

00:50 Guest introduction

01:39 Pandora's Q2 earnings, is company's business model sustainable?

04:45 Pandora under pressure due to iTunes Radio. Will lifting the monthly cap of 40 hours for mobile listeners in the US put them in a better position?

09:10 Rise in viewers this year for the VMA's up by 66% compared to last year. Is the public getting more excited about award ceremonies? What could be the cause?

16:30 Does winning or performing have more of an impact on sales in the VMA's/Grammy Awards?

19:12 Radiohead's producer Nigel Godrich follows-up on his streaming comments, but does this add anything new to the conversation?

26:19 PRS for Music signs a licensing deal with YouTube. What does this deal mean for YouTube, have they won over the societies with their current model?

30:40 Short break with Digital Music Trends' sponsor Sheridans

33:30 Nince Inch Nails went down a very traditional route as far as their releases are concerned, does this mean that the "majors are dying" mantra can be put to bed?

39:00 Pledge music hiring Julian Huntley as head of the Catalog division - is this approach going to attract a new audience?

47:37 Due to Spotify's new homepage interface there isn't a specific place on the client to check out new releases, how do people discover new music? We look at a number of apps and Darren talks us through Rdio's interface too.

53:10 Apple TV adds Vevo function, will 3rd party music streaming companies benefit Apple?

55:10 As of yet there are no advertisements, is this deal just a promotional one, or is money being exchanged, if so how?

01:00:34 Plenty of questions yet to be answered by Apple TV on how money will be made through this deal

01:02:19 Rounding up the interview with some of the events today's guests will be heading off to, in the near future.

01:07:46 Outro

This week on Digital Music Trends Andrea Leonelli, Adam Webb, and Andy Malt chat about Germany's 1.5% rise in recorded revenues in the first half of 2013, iTunes Radio's advertising partners, Beats Electronics looking for alternatives to HTC, Daisy's curation, Bandpage's deal with Xbox Music and Vevo, Soundcloud's Google+ integration, Rdio introducing Stations, Virgin Atlantic's gigs in the air and Google Play Music All Access debuting in Europe!

For links to the stories check out the shownotes. I really hope you enjoy the show, have a great week and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

DMT 146 Timeline:

00:45 Introduction of guests

01:10 Discussion around the 1.5% rise in Germany's recorded music sales

03:22 Streaming revenues in Germany doubled compared to last year

06:10 Rapidshare blamed for music piracy and will have to start monitoring external links to files stored within the server. Is this ruling by the German federal court practical?

09:45 Apple releasing iTunes radio. Major blue-chip corporations have joined the campaign. Will this Pandora-like model succeed compared to Apple's previous attempts?

11:50 Will the pattern of ads that will be shown on iTunes radio help or hinder them. We compare it to traditional radio and Spotify.

13:30 Will it hinder Apple by having such big corporations as sponsors, could advertising have been more targeted if they had been open to more advertisers?

15:00 Rumours of Beats Electronics ditching HTC, their biggest stakeholders. Is it a good idea for Beats to find a better deal with another company for e.g. Samsung?

17:00 Would HTC dig itself a bigger hole if it was to let Beats go?

18:30 Gigaom uncovered some details on the process of playlist curation spear headed by Daisy, will it differentiate them from other streaming services?

23:00 Short ad break from Digital Music Trends' sponsor Sheridans.

25:50 Bandpage's transformation into being the "Swiss knife of band's widgets". Partnership with Vevo and Xbox Music. How will this help artists and can this be a good strategy for Bandcamp as a company?

30:00 Lady Gaga's new single got leaked, Universal and Gaga appealed their fans to post links of all pirate links, yet the single did not sell as well 'Roar' by Katy Perry.

33:20 In terms of timing, Lady Gaga's single was released quicker than intended, do you think it resulted in a loss in sales or is the song to blame?

39:20 Soundcloud announces Google+ integration. How important is direct access such as this?

44:50 Rdio steps up internet radio presence. Will the Stations tab alter your listening habit?

50:41 Virgin Atlantic Red Flights to provide live entertainment to unsuspecting customers. Is it really a good idea?

53:00 Google Play Music All Access launching in UK and other parts of Europe. It seems like a great idea but they do not have an IOS app yet, can it still be successful? Or is it only good for Android users?

56:20 Outro

This week on Digital Music Trends a massive Best Of show spanning January to July 2013. I picked extracts covering the biggest stories of the year so far and created a rumors-to-announcement-to-release summary of the discussions on the likes of Google Play Music All Access, Twitter Music and iTunes Radio. Other stories covered include the upcoming Daisy streaming service, the re-launch of MySpace, Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail release and the latest on Spotify.

Appearing on the show are David Emery (Beggars Group), Duncan Geere, Will Mills (Shazam), Syd Lawrence (Wemakeawesomesh.it), Karim Fanous (Music Ally), Steve Knopper (Rolling Stone), Sitar Teli (Connect Ventures), Nikke Osterback (Saari Music), Stuart Dredge (Music Ally), Darren Hemmings (Motive Unknown), Jeff Price (Audiam), J Herskowitz (Tomahawk), Marcus Taylor (Venture Harbor), Dave Allen (North.com), Eliot Van Buskirk (Evolver.fm), Ben Sisario (New York Times), Matthew Hawn, Stephen O'Reilly (Topspin, Mobile Roadie), Virginie Berger (Don't Believe the Hype), Adam Webb, Richard Kirstein (Resilient Music), Eric Eitel (all2gethernow) , Andrea Groetzke (all2gethernow), Martyn Davies (SendGrid), Glenn Peoples (Billboard), Clyde Smith (Hypebot), Jim Carrol (Irish Times), Alejandro Mairin (MusicPimpBlog), Tom Satchwell (Beatsontoast). See below for a detailed timeline.

I hope you enjoy the show, if you did please pass it on to a colleague, friend or like minded digital music geek! Have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Below a timeline of the show:

00:10 Intro

01:39 Music streaming service Daisy, from the announcement in January to the latest news...

18:50 the MySpace relaunch backed by Justin Timberlake was a hot item in the first few months of 2013...

30:00 The announcement of Twitter Music was highly anticipated, but how did it go down?

41:00 Google Play Music All Access was still just a rumor back in February when we first talked about it, watch the story unfold all the way up to launch...

01:02:30 Spotify acquired Tunigo...

01:06:38 Spotify came under scrutiny after Nigel Godrich's remarks on streaming (echoed by Thom Yorke), here's the big streaming debate!

01:18:23 Spotify's 2012 financial results...

01:22:06 iTunes Radio, from the days when we were still calling it iRadio to the announcement...

01:45:00 Jay-Z's Samsung partnership and the release of Magna Carta Holy Grail, from announcement to week 1 sales.

This week on Digital Music Trends I'm joined by Olivier de Simone (Urturn) and Ivvet Modinou (Richseam). On the show we chat about the NMPA's suit against FullScreen and its significance, Spotify's Browse feature and curation in discovery, Google's Chromecast and the role of TVs in music consumption, artists setting up gated fan-driven communities and finally the optimistic report on streaming by ABI research.

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

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

01:55. The NMPA filed a suit against multi channel network FullScreen, is this the start of a wider issue for network aggregators?

13:40 Spotify launches a Browse tab based on human-curated mood and activity-based playlists, an important step and potentially a way to respond to Daisy's upcoming launch?

24:10 Google launched the Chromecast in the US, BSKyB launched a £9.99 streaming box here in the UK with a Spotify integration. These are becoming mainstream offerings but will people end up driving their music consumption through them?

29:55 Artists setting up gated fan communities, Stagebloc launched two new sites for Justin Timberlake and Kid Rock, Gaga has her own platform via Backplane, is this a trend that will continue and is it applicable to smaller artists as well?

39:02 ABI Research released a very optimistic report on the future of streaming up to 2018, how do you feel about these predictions?

This week on Digital Music Trends it was a pleasure to welcome on the show Glenn Peoples, Editorial Analyst at Billboard and Dave Allen, Director of Insights and Digital Media at North.com as well as bass player in British post-punk band Gang of Four.

We chat about Softbank's bid for Universal Music, the inaccurate headlines made by the press on streaming and the music market, Spotify's earnings for 2012, sustainability of streaming, Rdio's partnership with Live Nation, Pandora facing FCC approval for radio acquisition and the importance of bringing music technology to young people for a creative outlet. You can find the shownotes with links to the stories here.

If you enjoy the show please make sure you subscribe on iTunes, any podcatcher or YouTube , and please send feedback or comments on what we talked about to [email protected]. Have a great week and 'till next time.

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

Show timeline:

00:13 Welcome and guest introduction

02:00 Japanese mobile carrier Softbank placed an $8.5 billion bid on Universal Music but Vivendi declined the offer. Is UMG really an appealing purchase for a corporate giant like Softbank? Does Universal hold a value as a brand in its own rights? 

10:00 Glenn you wrote a great piece which highlights some of the inaccurate statements and headlines that have been made in the press of late in regards to the digital music market and music streaming. How could generalizations be avoided and is it a case of being more specific with headlines as well?

17:50 And Spotify literally in the past hour filed its earnings for 2012, the company is still losing money but at a slower rate than its income increase so that has to be a positive sign right?

21:24 There was a great Op-Ed by David Macias from Thirty Tigers on Billboard on the hard numbers of streaming and looks at how if the US got anywhere near the penetration of streaming in Norway that would become a really sustainable income. This paints a rosier picture of streaming, but what are your thoughts?

25:28 In the US streaming companies are working hard to increase their customer base. Last week it was announced that Rdio would sponsor the Livenation.com page and become the default service on the site as well as a couple of Live Nation's country music festivals. What's your take on the deal will we see more of these in the next few months?

30:20 Glenn do you feel it's strange to see a company that is relatively small like Rdio sponsor the site of a giant like Live Nation?

31:32 And we can see here Rdio is targeting Country Music fans and the differences in purchasing habits between genres are indeed staggering. Dave and Glenn look at the evolution of Soundscan and how its advent affected charts and niches.

38:45 Pandora is now facing some issues with the FCC for its purchase of KXMZ-FM in South Dakota since ASCAP filed a complaint that could delay approval. Did Pandora shoot itself in the foot by being so open about its intentions with the terrestrial radio?

42:00 And finally a positive story coming out of Washington DC on the Martin Luther King JR Public Library working with Beat Club DC, a one-man digital music workshop working with elementary and high-school students to educate them about making music.

This week on Digital Music Trends I had the pleasure to welcome Kristelia Garcia (Washington Law School), Zack Greenburg (Forbes) and Zach Carter (Huffington Post). We chat about the new private initiative lead by the White House that saw web giants like Google, Yahoo! and AOL commit to cut advertising payouts to websites that contain primarily pirated content. We also discuss the Center for Copyright Information with its the six-step warning system to illegal downloaders that has been agreed in the US by a few ISPs, a new music gaming startup called Gig-It, the upcoming hearings for the Copyright Review, Pandora and the potential of new Internet Radio-related bills reaching Congress this year, Aimee Mann's lawsuit against MediaNet and the issues around orphan works.

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

Andrea Leonelli

http://www.digitalmusictrends.com

http://www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

00:15 Guests introduction

01:30 The White House Intellectual Property coordinator Victoria Espinel announced a new privately-led initiative to reduce the amount of ad money flowing to piracy-based websites.

How do you feel about this new development, is it a victory for the music industry and will it have any effect?

04:20 How do you feel the labels are going to perceive this move?

06:09 In light of the PRISM revelations over the past month one has to wonder if it's a good time to talk about a joint initiative between the government and the biggest internet service providers in the world, is that a fair comment to make?

09:25 In February a six-strikes system started seeing the light in the US as part of the Center for Copyright Information which includes RIAA, MPAA and 5 of the largest ISPs. What do you know about the Center and what it its mandate?

Maybe we should start thinking about a rewards system, the stick hasn't really worked so far.

13:00 Talking about Time Warner (which from what I've heard in New York does not have shining reviews anyway) how will consumers react when they start receiving these notices?

14:40 Is this just an appeasement proposition and does it exist for any reason other than making the RIAA and MPAA happy?

16:26 Kristelia talking about the Copyright Review you mentioned there are going to be some hearings tomorrow from artist that you'll be going to, can you tell us a bit more about what's going to happen?

19:05 Is there a place where you can keep track of what's happening on that front and at the hearings?

20:06 Zack you recently published a story on Forbes on the company Gig-it which is a Rockband meets Farmville concept as you describe it, can you tell us a little bit about it?

28:35 Pandora, is the company going to push for a rehash of the Internet Radio Fairness Act this year?

32:00 How do you see Pandora moving to improve its PR over the next few months?

36:20 On the other side of the spectrum there are people within the industry pushing to get terrestrial radio to start paying for use of music, is this a feasible outlook?

41:30 Aimee Mann has filed a lawsuit against MediaNet for distributing her works without a license. Are we going to see more of these lawsuits in the next few years as more artists start looking granularly at where their music has ended up and track payments from individual services?

45:09 Orphan works is an issue that could be addressed early on in the copyright review, as part of that a database holding data on copyright would be an important step towards working out who owns what, is this a feasible project or is it too big of an undertaking for a government agency to take on?

50:25 From what you hear on the ground are companies still finding it hard to seek out rights holders?

51:40 Guest projects, outdo