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Berkleemusic’s online classes start next week. Learn about music, the future and your part in it. Study with Berklee faculty from anywhere in the world. Improve your skills and become part of an online community of like-minded musicians. Learn to navigate the emerging digital music business, and gain effective techniques in publishing, marketing, management, touring, music supervision, […]
Here are two visions for the future, one from Corning and one from me. The Corning video is from earlier this year and shows their vision for a visually connected communications environment. This is not unlike the future that Gerd Leonhard and I described in the Future of Music in 2005. Can you imagine organizing […]
Well, we finally have it. Music like water raining down from the sky. iCloud. For slightly more than $2/mo everybody will soon have access to all the music they can find, steal, share, rip, produce, morph or buy using iTunes Match. Is this amnesty for all the music pirates? I hope so. As we predicted […]
If you’ve ever felt grateful for the list of titles and track lengths that appear when you pop a CD into your player, David Hyman’s Gracenote is the company to thank. It enters all that data so you don’t have to. After Hyman helped expand Gracenote from a tiny metadata venture into the world’s largest […]
People should pay for their music the way they pay for gas or electricity. I originally published this article in Forbes Magazine nearly 4 years ago. “More people are consuming music today than ever before, yet very few of them are paying for it. The music recording industry blames file sharing for a downturn in […]
I ran into Jim Griffin this weekend and as usual, he got me thinking about music and it’s future. We talked a little bit about Chorus, the new controversial Warner Music backed company trying to create a music utility service for colleges. I’ll tell you the guy is like a bolt of lightning and his […]
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