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Warner Music Group: revenue from streaming services on the rise
Warner Music Group reported some great news for digital growth in the company’s October-to-December third quarter. The giant music publishing company’s digital revenue grew 15 percent in recorded music and 36 percent in music publishing, as these numbers were helped by iTunes expansion along with consumer adoption of Spotify. What’s even more impressive about WMG’s third quarter is the company hit a milestone, as U.S. digital music unit sales surpassed those from physical for the first time. Also, revenue from digital music is far and away ahead of music streaming, … Read more
Charles West
Rdio updates its Android app
Popular music service provider, Rdio, today announced an update to its Android app. The new app brings some interesting additions like collections, playlists, new releases, top charts, recommendations, and support for Android 4.0′s new remote control client. Keep in mind that a Rdio membership is required to take full advantage of its music service, you can get the full mobile offering for $9.99 a month. New features in this upgrade includes: Streamlined Top-level Navigation – All-new home screen design gives one-click access to key features in the app Convenient Control – Take advantage of Android … Read more
Charles West
Sony to release its Music Unlimited streaming service on iOS
Sony announced that its Music Unlimited streaming music service will finally make its way to iOS at some point this quarter. This streaming music app has been available for Android and PCs for a while now. The iOS version of the app will bring offline caching for subscribers to Sony’s service, allowing them to save playlists for listening when away from a network connection. Tim Schaaff, head of Sony Entertainment Network and Sony’s Michael Aragon assured folks over at CES its Music Unlimited app would differ from its competitors. Their … Read more
Charles West
Shazam launches Shazam Player music player app for iOS
Shazam today announced its rolling out its first new app called Shazam Player which is a free replacement for the iOS music player. The new app provides a respectable set of features which include synced lyrics, social sharing, smart playlists, bios and more. The mobile music company packed its new player with some prominent additions such as “LyricPlay.” The LyricPlay feature allow access to lyrics while tagging a song, which gives users the ability to pull up lyrics for many popular songs in their own library. Shazam Player also serves as … Read more
Charles West
CES 2012: Sony intros Android-based Walkman Z1000 to battle iPod
Sony unveiled an interesting gem tonight at CES 2012, as it introduced the Android 2.3-powered Walkman Z1000 series Mobile Entertainment Player to go against the iPod touch and the Galaxy Player. For what is primarily a music player, Sony wanted to make sure this thing has a great music experience. In terms of audio quality, the Walkman Z1000 boasts a “S-Master MX” digital amplifier to reduce unwanted noise and distortion. In terms of usability, there’s a dedicated W button on board. Tapping it instantly launches the music app from wherever … Read more
George Tinari
The iShower brings music to your shower, joy to your life
Gather around friends and I’ll let you in on a secret which could enrich your lives: have some sort of music-playing device in or near your shower. Having music or podcasts while you bathe is one of life’s little pleasures and the makers of the iGrill are trying capitalize on this with a water-proof, Bluetooth speaker called the iShower. I’ve been using cheap iPod docks for my shower tunes needs but the moisture will eventually kill those – which is why I wouldn’t dare to put a Sonos in there. … Read more
Marin Perez
Spotify for BlackBerry exits beta with limited device compatibility
After a short beta period, Spotify is finally ready for BlackBerry handsets. Be warned though, compatibility is currently limited to the Bold 9780, Bold 9700, Curve 9300, Bold 900, and Curve 8520. No love for CDMA phones nor the Torch 9800 yet. Those are all relatively older devices… Where’s the OS 7 compatibility? Spotify faces some well-entrenched competition, particularly with Slacker Radio, which has been enjoying a preload on many RIM devices. For $10, Spotify offers you access to millions of tracks streaming to your phone, and plugged into your … Read more
Simon Sage
BBM Music 1.1 Beta offers Canadians subscription gifting
The open beta for BBM Music is being extended a bit past January for Americans, but up in Canada, we now have the option to check out a beta for the next version with a smattering of new features. The gifting mechanism recently launched in BlackBerry App World is now available for BBM Music, so you can beg for BBM Music subscriptions from BlackBerry Messenger contacts. BBM Music will also shoot out a notification for when your free trial is about to expire, so you can cancel before being charged. … Read more
Simon Sage
RIM offers four free months of BBM Music – any takers?
BBM Music went live a few weeks ago, and though it had a 60 trial attached, RIM is bumping up the trial period to four months. Anyone who isn’t already giving it a try and downloads from now until January 4 will be able to get the extended trial period. Unfortunately the offer is limited to those in the United States, so those of us elsewhere in the world are a little screwed, but that’s okay – I was ready to say goodbye in January anyway. BBM Music is a … Read more
Simon Sage
Entire song covered using instruments from iPad apps
Most people who have heard of apps such as Apple’s GarageBand or Alchemy Synth praise them for bringing detailed musical instruments to a mobile platform. However, those same people would probably doubt just how useful they can actually be. Well some very clever and talented music enthusiasts put that concept to the test, and proved that there’s a lot of untapped potential worth noticing. The guys behind the EastMidWestMusic YouTube channel produced a full cover of Jason Derulo’s “It Girl” song using nothing but instruments from iPad apps. While the … Read more
George Tinari
Spotify becomes a music platform, ignores mobile for now
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took to the stage today and laid out the future path for the streaming music service. Starting today, Spotify is not just a place to listen to music, it’s a place to find apps that’ll help you listen to music. Spotify is opening its platform to developers who can create apps that’ll pull music from Spotify and use it in a novel way. It’s not what you think, though. These apps won’t run on the web or a mobile device; they run within the Spotify app itself. It’s a way for Spotify to improve its app using outside … Read more
