Digital Music Trends

This week the show is all about Last.fm and features an interview with Matthew Hawn, the company’s VP of product. We talk about the evolution of Last.fm, its API policy, how the Spotify app development came about, their partnership with Microsoft on their new Discover platform at last.fm/discover and also about location-based charts and plenty of other stuff.

Don’t forget that you can follow me on twitter the handle is @digimusictrends, the show’s website is www.digitalmusictrends.com and you can also access it via the iTunes store (on your computer or on an iOS device), Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/digitalmusictrends and mixcloud at mixcloud.com/digitalmusictrends.

There are also some great applications to keep up to date with podcasts on the go such as Downcast for iOS and Doggcatcher for Android.

Have a great week and 'til next time! Andrea Leonelli

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Digital Music Trends - Episode 90 - 25/11/2011

This week on the show an interview with Justin Kalifowitz, co-founder of the start-up Songtrust. The company offers a digital rights management solution that allows songwriters to manage their publishing online. Amongst the services offered by Songtrust is the payment of royalties from international collection societies and the company also offers different membership tiers according to the songwriter's requirements as well as an account aimed at bands.

Check out: http://www.songtrust.com http://www.twitter.com/songtrust

Have a great week and 'tll next time.

Andrea Leonelli Digital Music Trends http://www.digitalmusictrends.com http://www.soundcloud.com/digitalmusictrends http://www.mixcloud.com/digitalmusictrends http://www.twitter.com/digitalmusictrends

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This week on the show Martin Roth, CTO of Rjdj a company that specializes in reactive music apps. After the huge success of their "Inception" project Rjdj is about to unveil a new app called Dimensions so tune in to learn all about it a month before release!

http://dimensions.rjdj.me http://rjdj.me

Twitter #dimensionsapp https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23dimensionsapp

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This week on the show an interview with Shamal Ranasinghe, co-founder of Topspin, the direct-to-fan marketing and retail software platform. We talk about the company's evolution in the past couple of years, new features, integrations and much more!

Links to Topspin:

Topspin Homepage http://www.topspinmedia.com/

Education http://www.topspinmedia.com/education

How To Videos: http://www.topspinmedia.com/help/artistsupport/videos

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/topspinmedia (@topspinmedia)

Topspin and Youtube articles: Financial Times: http://on.ft.com/semFLJ Music Week: http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1047061&c=1

Examples: http://beastieboys.com/ http://theboxerrebellion.com/store/ http://www.guillemots.com/?c=1#store/

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It’s been a horrendously long time since the last show and I must apologize for the gap. Hoping to get things back on track in this episode an interview with David Courtier-Dutton, the CEO of SoundOut (http://www.soundout.com) a super-interesting company that provides labels, musicians and radio stations with an insight into how a track might perform commercially. SoundOut was recently nominated in the Best Innovation or Gadget category at the BT Digital Music Awards 2011.

SoundOut has created a community of Scouts that built up via word of mouth - they are encouraged to evaluate each track based on how well they think it will do commercially rather than on whether they personally like it or not. The Scouts are paid a small fee (2 to 20 cents depending on how good they are) for each review they post and the review themselves are evaluated by the company’s semantic technology to check on how good they are.

Based on these reviews SoundOut is able to generate reports at different levels of complexity - starting at just $30 for the Standard report which contains 80 reviews delivered within 5 days all the way to $149 for the Pro report which contains a whole host of additional information as well as 200 review, demographic analysis, possibility to isolate UK or US reviewers etc. If you’d like to download a sample report check out http://www.soundout.com/Gallery/126.pdf.

It seems like a very interesting way to go about looking at the commercial viability of a track and with large radio stations and labels regularly commissioning SoundOut reports it looks like they’ve tapped into the right market, let me know what you think!

Well that’s all for this week, I really hope you enjoyed the show. Please remember to visit www.digitalmusictrends.com for previous shows or you can follow me on twitter, the handle is digimusictrends. Have a great week and ‘till next time!

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Digital Music Trends - Episode 85 - 26th of July 2011. Looking at the Featured Artists.

This week on the show an interview with Mark Kelly, the CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) - also well known as the keyboard player in the band Marillion.

In the interview we talk about the FAC and its main objectives, the challenges that are facing featured artists in navigating the digital domain both in terms of managing new revenue streams and managing their own presence online as a brand, pan-european licensing and the shift in mindset from rights-holders as the perceived value of music slips.

This week's show is not all about digital music technology but I hope that it will be appreciated by the many artists who listen to the podcast!

www.thefac.org

www.featuredartistcoalition.com

www.twitter.com/featuredartists

Have a great week and 'till next time

Andrea Leonelli

www.digitalmusictrends.com

www.twitter.com/digimusictrends

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This week on the show an interview with Oscar Celma who is CTO at BMAT, a Barcelona-based music technology company. BMAT has developed three products: Ella = Music Recommendation service, Skore = Automatic Performance Rating and Vericast= Media Broadcast Monitoring using audio fingerprinting. In the interview we talk about the evolution of the company since it started in 2006 as a commercial spin-off of the Music Technology Group. You can check out the company's services at www.bmat.com.

I hope you enjoy this week's episode and 'till next time!

Andrea Leonelli

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This week on the show a special from Future Music Camp - held at the Popakademie in Mannheim at the end of May. The event was a great way to get to know some of the most interesting start-ups working in digital music in Germany and it was also interesting to see quite a few labels, both major and independent, taking part to see what is bubbling under the surface! The episode includes interviews with Steffen Holly from Aupeo, Frederik van den Berg from Vodafone, Andrea Goetzke and Eric Eitel from All2Gethernow (www.a-2-n.de), Songpier’s CEO Matthias Glatschke and Ryan Rauscher, one of the organizers of the camp. Hope you enjoy the show!

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