| As music sales fall, digital is bright ray | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:05:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Recorded music sales in the U.S. fell 6.1 percent in the first half of the year, as gains in digital and mobile-phone revenue could not compensate for a drop in CD sales. The estimated retail value of music sales fell to $4.9 billion in the first six months of 2006 from a year ago, the industry's trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, said Thursday in an e-mailed statement. .... | |
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| | | Golden oldies, the digital music comeback kids | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 5:05:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | SACRAMENTO, Calif. - If you go to Apple's iTunes music store and download "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies, you get a classic slice of bubblegum pop. Digital Music Group Inc. gets about 50 cents. That's the approximate cut that Sacramento-based DMG nets for thousands of "vintage" songs sold for 99 cents on major online music sites such as iTunes, Yahoo Music, Rhapsody and Napster. Making money a few dimes at a time may seem like a tough way to turn a profit, but DMG executives think their niche in the digital download business - oldies - can generate plenty of revenue for the year-old firm. "That type of music is recognizable to many people," said Mitchell Koulouris, DMG's co-founder and chief executive. "People want to buy things they are familiar with, like what was popular in high school." Since it was launched last year, DMG has been acquiring the digital rights to oldies such as "Sugar, Sugar," Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" and the musical oeuvre of '50s teen idol Frankie Avalon.... | |
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| | | Cortex Shipping HDC-1000 Dual Digital Music Controller | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:08:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | After announcing its inception at this year's Winter NAMM tradeshow in Anaheim, California, Cortex (now a part of GCI Technologies) will begin shipping its patent-pending USB host-controller based digital music manipulation platform to musical instrument retailers on September 15th. "With the rise of portable media players and mass storage devices being a source for storing and playing music Cortex developed the HDC-1000 to utilize this technology and bring it to the DJ realm," explains CEO Artie Cabasso. "The HDC-1000 will be the first unit in the world to manipulate music files from an external USB device and will make the DJ think differently about how they will transport their music collection." Using USB compatibility to give DJs the power to cue up, play, pitch, manipulate, scratch and search digital music files like never before, HDC-1000 users can access their music collections utilizing a wide array of storage devices including the iPod®, external USB hard-drives and flash drives, CD-ROM, and even DVD-ROM drives.... | |
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| | | Digital Music and Virgin | | Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:11:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Virgin Digital is targeting newbies to digital music in the UK with its new Virgin Digital Music Download Starter Pack. Includes inexpensive player. The starter pack includes a low end player, five "free" downloads and "easy-to-understand" instructions. The player isn't exactly state of the art, but it does offer 256MB of space, a USB interface and ample amounts of Virgin branding, just in case you forgot where you got it from. It's not a bad deal at £29.99, but I wonder just how many people that wouldn't be mp3 player owners will be enticed by the offering. Enticing or not for the technophobic, the Virgin starter kit is available now at Virgin stores in the UK. source link Posted by keefner at July 19, 2006 07:47 AM .... | |
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