All Your Music are Belong To Us - The Digital Music Overlords

Let’s get something straight. Just because someone writes a music track, shouldn’t mean that some faceless organisation in another part of the world can decide what I do with the rights on this track. And if the law allows this then something is seriously screwed up (hint: follow the money, because it is). This has [...]

TPN Rock Live #1: After Action Report (and the Podcast)

So TPN Rock Live (or at least, the first TPN Rock Live is over), and it’s time to look at the results, and maybde have a bit of discussion around the issues. First of all, the primary goal was ‘to test the internet streaming system for Leith FM before the station starts simulcasting.’ Managed that [...]

The “Podcast Live” Stream Is Now Open!

(Update: Not Surprisingly, it’s now closed…)
The Live stream is now running, so download and open this M3U file in your Media Player.

Mark Hunter is hosting the first hour, with a live Tartan Podcast, with TPN Rock to follow at 2300 UK time. Catch up with me on Skype (Ewanspence) or on Freenode (irc.freenode.net) at #joiito.

Top Ten Warm Up Tracks I Use Before Podcasting or Broadcasting

Something a touch more gentle today. With all the audio work I’ve done this week at The Podcast Network, Leith FM and All About Symbian, I’ve been very aware of the process that I’ve been using. partly because the last few weeks I’ve tended to be noting what works and doesn’t work in audio programming [...]

Less Than 50 Years Music Copyright makes Sense

Copyright, and specifically the length or extension of copyright, has recently been under discussion in the UK, and (in all probability) is due to come up in the European Parliament at some point this year. It was therefore a surprise to read something common-sense from the man behind the recent UK Report on copyright, Andrew [...]

Radio Killing the Internet Radio

I talked previously about the effect that internet music distribution sites was having on the large music conglomerates. Today has also seen the issue of ‘Internet Radio’ reach a potentially devasting fork in the USA with an almost tripling of the copyright fees that each station has to pay, and the removal of the ‘percentage [...]

Times Change - Can’t The Music Industry Just Get Over It?

Arstechnica is carrying a report (not the first, and not the last) on the overall decline of music sales in the world, and the panic the major industry incumbents have because the business model from last decade isn’t quite working in this decade.
This is what happens when you allow people the ability to choose either [...]

Happy 2nd Birthday to TPN Rock!

And thus, two years after I switched from doing The Mobiles Show, to TPN Rock, I’m still here. Still waving the flag for the unsigned, the unknown and the under-appreciated rock bands around the world. Last year’s first anniversary show cast an eye back over the music of that year, plus a live set from [...]

Lemy and Kirsty

At this time of year, another small group of people discover Kirsty MacColl and her music thanks to the slow elevation of The Fairytale of New York to classical status. And that small group might have a look for more of her music. So you can choose your poision, Titanic Days on iTunes, various Kirsty [...]

One Point Six Five Trillion Dollars

Or in long hand $1,650,000,000,000 dollars. I’m assuming that the RIAA band that are suing the Russian Based, Russian Licenced AllOfMP3 because (on my reading) they don’t like the fact they’re not giving them enough money… or something.
But get this. They’ve used the standard multiplier of $150,000 per infringing track on the site. Which means [...]

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