RouteNote Blog » download music http://routenote.com/blog The World of Music Licensing and Distribution Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:52:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Death of the CD? http://routenote.com/blog/death-of-the-cd/ http://routenote.com/blog/death-of-the-cd/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:03:29 +0000 Dashiel http://routenote.com/blog/?p=1563 Flogging a dead horse?Paul Resnikoff of  Digital Music News today posted this article on his blog, making the radical suggestion that the majors should seriously consider ditching CD’s as a major sales format, and concentrating on digital, thereby divesting themselves of the whole distribution network necessary to sell them. If they just stopped pressing CD’s all the shops, warehouses, trucks, box packers and smiling counter staff would suddenly become obsolete, bad for the truck drivers, and bad for the record companies in the short term, as they’d lose that income stream – but would such a ruthless move be good for the majors in the long run?

Looking at the storage formats that have waxed and waned over the history of recorded music, the eventual demise of compact discs seems inevitable; from wax cylinders to minidiscs, everything is replaced by a more convenient alternative. Even though this shift from physical to digital is a big one for the human mind to wrap itself around “But where is my actual music? My computer looks just the same as before” This will hold true of the CD just as it did of the horse-drawn carriage; people will stand around scratching their heads for a while and bemoaning the loss of work for farriers and the fall in the price of oats, but eventually we’ll all get used to having our music stored in a cufflink, or beamed into our brains from our mobile phone or whatever else is in store for us, and the CD will become what vinyl is now – a charming reminder of a less convenient, more physical age. Those companies that accept the decline of physical media and look towards maximising the advantages of digital music distribution (minescule distribution costs, instant worldwide availability, no cumbersome physical infrastructure etc. etc.) will be the ones that dominate the new era, and those that keep clinging to the old technology, will lose out in the future, no matter how strongly entrenched the current hardware seems.

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]]> http://routenote.com/blog/death-of-the-cd/feed/ 1 Spotify Squeeze Out New Purchasing Feature http://routenote.com/blog/spotify-squeeze-out-new-purchasing-feature/ http://routenote.com/blog/spotify-squeeze-out-new-purchasing-feature/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:55:30 +0000 Simoninja http://routenote.com/blog/?p=1441 Spotify’s Co-founder, Daniel Ek, recently has admitted, that “Spotify has not made it easy for its users to buy music, that is where we need to improve.”

Their first step to making these improvements comes in the form of easier access to buying certain albums. From today you will be able to click on any song that appears on Spotify that’s also in 7digital catalogue, which should exclusively feature a “BUY NOW” button below the accompanying artwork.

Before you had to click on the track to first right click and check if it was available to buy, then carry on with the dirty gumpf that is your web browser and try to be as patient as possible while you buy it. As well as making it easier to identify the albums that are available to buy, you no longer are sent to an outside website any more, a tidy looking window appears within the app, your shown the quality of the music, (kbps) and then given a gentle prompt into where your details go. Once you’ve clicked the right boxes your music starts downloading.

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You can also find everything you have ever bought through the service, which sits in the upper corner next to your Radio/Play Que tabs. From here you can move them around your computer as you wish, they’re MP3′s so you can import them around as you wish, stick em in your iTunes or just put them in another playlist.

Spotify has also just released a video of its new features:

Disclosure: RoueNote is a partner of Spotify.

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  1. Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails
  2. Viva La Vida by Coldplay
  3. Narrow Stairs by Death Cab For Cutie
  4. Juno – Music From The… by Various Artists
  5. 3 Doors Down by 3 Doors Down
  6. Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
  7. Sleep Through The Static by Jack Johnson
  8. A Hundred Million Suns by Snow Patrol
  9. Modern Guilt by Beck
  10. Perfect Symmetry by Keane

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