This from the website of local independent act Friends of the Stars whose forthcoming album is really quite something: CALLING ALL INDEPENDENT ONLINE RETAILERS. Do you sell your niche product to a small but dedicated group of people? We’re talking about a customer base in the region of 100 people to 20 thousand people. Nice, [...]
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If you haven’t heard the news yet (reported in awed tones here by the BBC) you’ll soon be able to download music completely legally, absolutely free. Well, I guess you can toll the bells for online copyright infringement – and you can pretty much go ahead with that obituary for iTunes while you’re at it. [...]
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Most people who use software like iTunes will tend to choose a bunch of songs and call it a playlist. It’ll have their favourites on it, themed around a certain idea (Classics, Housework Music, Relaxing, etc). Every time they play that list of songs, the same songs appear. Even in Shuffle mode, there’s still no [...]
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Thankfully, the majority of my day-to-day activities can include background music, and I make the most of that at every opportunity. I use Last.FM quite a lot — but mostly I just listen to my own music from iTunes. I don’t spend a great deal of time making playlists. I prefer to be surprised. My [...]
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