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more about #rhapsody more comments → Nick: i think the real lesson here is how Too Much Joy can quickly turn sour as time marches on. aka old people are grouches. i will now depart your lawn... more » whiteflea: Amazing article. I read it from start to finish, including footnotes. more » PotteryBarnClearanceSale: Here's my theory: It's a database and logic problem in the accounting code. The completely missing album royalties are because there is not a unique ... more » Kaiser-Machead: The title's a bit misleading. Isn't cooking the books illegal, due to the fact it involves deceiving people into believing that there are earnings tha... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Mr. Quirk, you've uncovered a maxim in the customer service world. The people who are the easiest to reach, and thus the easiest to curse out, aren't... more » Ryan_Long: For the past 6 years I've worked off and on for a San Francisco avant garde band that some no of, most do not, and the stories of the music industry a... more » dry-roasted-peanuts: "There's a theory that labels and publishers deliberately avoid creating the transparent accounting systems today's technology enables. Because accura... more » AmphetamineCrown: This doesn't seem to me like "cooking the books." Cooking the books implies a certain level of effort to mask the truth. As opposed to just not tell... more » LVP: I did not read this word for word, I'm at work but... "this doesn't mean Warner "lost" nearly $400,000" With all respect, they did lose nearly the a... more » OCEntertainment: Wow, this is a rare gem. You don't often see an article with this kind of detail given about how the industry works. Thanks, Tim. And furthermore, ac... more » NorwoodIsMyHero: In financial analysis and any investor's view of the company: "Just don't earn enough" = "lose". If they aren't making a decent return on their in... more » Alfisted: You're not being Petty, Tim. If you were, you'd release a whole album dedicated to ripping on the labels. more » Jeb_Hoge: The big music business is a hell of a thing. I've got one cousin who's been burned on at least two big-label record deals, and another who's been burn... more » Pessimippopotamus: People like having hard copies of things. Even medium-less media. more » Lizard_King: My local CD/Record store closed it's doors last week - over the course of the past 5 years I've been going there, I estimate I got about 250 CDs. I w... more » -
#digitaldownloads
My $62.47 Royalty Statement: How Major Labels Cook the Books with Digital Downloads
Tim Quirk was the singer of punk-pop outfit Too Much Joy, signed by Warner Bros. in 1990. Now he's an executive at an online music service, giving him insight on digital sales data and just how labels fudge their numbers. More » -
#data
It's Almost 2010 and CDs Are Not Dead Yet?
I've started to buy vinyl records again. It's not because of the sound. It's the touch and the pretty pictures. Obviously, vinyl is not why CDs are dying. Zoom-zoom in, digital boys and girls. More » -
#google
Google Music Search Turns Your Results Pages Into Personal Radios
As rumored, Google Music Search (aka Onebox) is a music search feature that appears inside Google search that will give you not a little 30-second clip, but a full song play. More » -
#music
Rhapsody Approved for iPhone and iPod Touch, Now Streaming 8 Million Tracks
Though it can't cache songs like the recently-approved Spotify, Rhapsody's app is available in the U.S., and lets $15-a-month Rhapsody To Go subscribers stream unlimited tracks over Wi-Fi, 3G or Edge. It's also free to try for a week. More » -
#music
Rhapsody Music Streaming Headed to iPhone and iPod Touch, But Will It Be Approved?
Good news Rhapsody fans; an app has finally been submitted to Apple. If approved, it will give iPhone/iPod Touch owners with a $15-a-month Rhapsody To Go account unlimited-streaming over Wi-Fi, 3G and Edge. Here's what it looks like in action: More » -
#listeningtest
Discovering Music in 2009: The New Tools
MTV doesn't play music videos. Magazines are dying. Radio is all about the $$$. It's no secret the old modes of music discovery have been thrown out the window. Thankfully, new music-finders are here: More » -
#dvrs
Moxi Steps To TiVo, Adding Rhapsody Music and PlayOn for Netflix, Hulu and More
Digeo today brings its Moxi HD DVR in range of TiVo with some capabilities it was sorely lacking in a big way, including DLNA 1.0 for home streaming, and PlayOn for grabbing major net video. More » -
#portablemedia
Haier America Rolls Out With New Rhapsody Ibiza MP3 Players
In what may seem like a late start to the iPod race, Haier America is updating their Rhapsody Ibiza line with 2 new MP3 players: the Mini and the Touch. Sound familiar? More » -
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#questionoftheday
Question of the Day: Do You Use an All-You-Can-Eat Subscription Music Service?
I've never really understood music subscription services. Despite the conveniences, to date I have never, ever felt the need to lease something that can get imprinted on your heart like only music really can. It needs to be mine. But this week rumors kicked up again regarding an iTunes all-you-can-eat subscription-based model coming as early as September—the same rumors we've heard time and time again. While this time around the whispers are shaky at best, this rumor just won't die, and it's not a complete impossibility that it someday may actually happen. A lifetime iTunes subscription may be the one thing that could change my subscription-hatin' ways (maybe). Is there anyone else with me? Who else doesn't really buy the whole subscription model, and if not, would an all-you-can-eat iTunes change your mind? More » -
#verizon
Verizon Gets Rhapsody Subscriptions, DRM-Free Downloads
Verizon customers with certain VCAST phones have some new options for buying music, thanks to Rhapsody. First off, the $15 per month, all-the-songs-you-can-guzzle subscription service is offered on LG's Decoy and Dare, Moto's W755 and Samsung's SCH-u550, Glyde, and Juke, and will be available for the Chocolate 3 when it's out. Also, $2 over-the-air download tracks now come with a DRM-free MP3 version that you can snag on your computer with VCAST/Rhapsody software. If you can hold your horses and wait till you're on a PC to download, DRM-free tracks are yours for a buck, which can be sideloaded onto the phone like usual. Press release after the jump. [Verizon] More » -
#portablemedia
Rhapsody and Haier Go PC-Free with Ibiza Wi-Fi Music Player
Today Rhapsody and Haier launched the Ibiza Wi-Fi music player, which lets you download Rhapsody tracks via Wi-Fi without connecting to a PC first. This is really good news for Rhapsody users, until now there was no true portable device for managing tracks, though Apple, Microsoft and SanDisk (with Yahoo) have launched similar products. The question is, how good will Chinese-electronics maker Haier be at entering a game both Apple and Microsoft have approached only gingerly? Here's a look at the ambitious initial hardware, Haier's first US-destined DAP: More »
