Unlimited. Currently RouteNote doesn’t have a limit for how many tracks you are able to upload. However, with relation to tracks artists upload they must have full authority or ownership to designate copyright.
iTunes is heading for it’s 10 billionth track sold, and has launched a promotion to encourage people to get their credit cards out. If you’re the purchaser of the 10,000,000,000th track, then that nice Mr. Jobs will post you a gift card worth $10,000 to spend in the iTunes store. Interestingly, you don’t actually need to buy any music to be eligible to win the ten thousand dollar prize; you can get a free sweepstake entry by filling out a form here, which should count the same as a song purchase if your entry gets processed immediately after the 99,999,999,999th track is sold. You can keep an eye on the track sales ticker on the iTunes homepage, and put in up to 25 free entries a day, or just log in and buy a huge pile of songs near the time. I’ll be entering, but unfortunately they don’t sell hardware on the iTunes store, so my iPad will have to wait until Christmas. Oh, and if you happened to buy from one of the artists that RouteNote has distributed music to iTunes for, then we’d be really pleased.
The world has just about bypassed the era of being on the cusp of everything going digital. The resulting climate now is one of fierce competition of companies and developers trying to out do each other and re-invent themselves.
The vision of Grooveshark.com is to bring people and music closer together by making the whole process of finding the song you want that much easier. Whilst doing their bit to change the way the music industry is run to ways they seem so unwilling to consider. Grooveshark.com offers ways for listening to the old classics or the most up-todate numbers without having to worry about those ugly file sharing sites that seem to be nipping at everyone’s feet.
Grooveshark over the last few months have been successfully talking to a confident amount of copyright holders about licensing agreements and to distribute their content in a way that will be mutually beneficial to both parties.
In a nutshell, Grooveshark seems to be the sort of
website that hundreds, probably thousands, of music fans have dreamed of. Easy, Legal and free way of just quickly sticking on that song that that girl told you about last night, or an awesome song you want your mates to hear. Grooveshark.com is a music site made for music fans by music fans. Sam Tarantino (founder anc CEO) and Douglas Bell (Network and systems administrator) themselves are both musician and are obviously the kind of people that now what people want, and as genuine music fans know what music fans want. But the difference is they have gone and made it happen.
We love you Grooveshark.com keep up the good work.
Disclosure: Grooveshark is a partner of RouteNote
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you got the top 25 USA pop songs of 2008 and mash them all up? No, I havent either, but here it is.
BBC Worldwide is working on an ad-supported music service that would offer free streaming or paid downloads of songs and videos from the BBC archives, including live performances from its “Top of the Pops” and “Live Lounge” on Radio 1, New Media Age reported.
The service is expected to launch next year with at least 1,000 tracks, and the BBC is reportedly negotiating rights with record labels including EMI.
Ads on the streaming content would comprise pre-roll and display ads sold by the BBC and served by DoubleClick.
