If you’re net savvy in any sense of the word you probably know what a mash-up is. It’s when someone takes multiple works of art and mixes them together to create a new work. Mash-ups are a great example of how technology is enabling average people to easily create digital content. It’s all good creative commons style action. Read more…
You may or may not be aware, but there is a genre of music known as eurobeat. It’s not music that’s meant for everybody. You either love it or hate it. If you have seen the anime Initial D, then you have heard Eurobeat music before. If not, then I can only describe it as very high energy techno/dance music. Empasis on the very high energy.
There have been lots of developments lately in the music industry. More accurately, there are developments in the lack of a music industry. The old ways of charging for albums and having a controlled radio are going away. Mp3 download services and podcasts are out in full force. Despite this important and beneficial shift in models there is still a major problem that needs to be rectified. Music is still a one way street.
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With the advent of sites like The Hype Machine, del.icio.us tags like for:joshua and RSS feeds on torrent sites I think it is time to get rid of the M3U and other playlist formats in favor of RSS. It would take so little effort to take existing media players and add RSS playlist support to them. I’m imagining a world where everyone stores their playlists in RSS and shares them so people end up listening to music by aggregating the playlists of others and listening to cool music as people discover it. This looks like the direction we’re headed, let’s move there faster.
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