Category: Music
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iCloud: what’s all the hype about?
This week saw Apple launching its iCloud music streaming and online data storage service. It will enable users to instantly access any song purchased on iTunes on any device. Anything downloaded from the iTunes Store will be made available on all your Apple devices for free. In addition, for $25 a year, iTunes Match will take […]
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7digital improves its Android app and takes on mighty iTunes
7digital is stepping up to compete with iTunes by updating its Android app to include an in-app music download store along with acting as the default Android phone music player. The past couple of weeks I’ve been learning a lot about innovative music businesses venturing into new partnerships and trying to make the most of […]
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Rdio partners with Echo Nest and shows it’s serious about things
Last March I learned about Rdio opening up its API and launching an affiliate programme. In a move to strengthen its proposition, Rdio has now announced a partnership with music analytics and recommendation service Echo Nest. The partnership will allow developers to add music recommendations from Echo Nest to their apps and then actually play the […]
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Rdio creates API and launches affiliate program
It all seems to be happening in the world of online music services; in January I blogged about the linkup between music stream service Spotify and mobile music discovery service Shazam and last week I learned about on-demand social music service Rdio opening its API to developers and starting an affiliate program. Rdio is the […]
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