One of the major features making the jump from mobile to desktop is the integration of Spotify libraries within Djay Pro. As with the earlier Mac app, users can spin tracks from their iTunes libraries, but now they can also drag in songs directly from Spotify, giving them access to many millions more tracks. The…
Hortonworks is a company that specializes in Hadoop, an open-source technology that helps organize large amounts of data on low-cost hardware. It’s one of the biggest companies in the space and is used by all kinds of companies, including eBay, Spotify, and UC Irvine Health. Gee, you don’t think Spotify is selling user data, do…
I continue to believe that the Internet does not act as a marketing or promotional tool, but is more of a reverse device that allows further discovery after initial exposure. You hear a song on the radio, you Google the title, a few lyrics, or the band name, and then the Internet kicks in with…
This is how the commercial relationship works between the streaming service and the record labels, Rob Wells, the senior vice-president Digital for Universal Music Group International, declared Spotify a very sustainable financial model which was paying out well to the record labels which it has entered into licensing deals with. Mr Wells disclosed that Spotify…
The primary impediment to Spotify changing its treatment of artists is its insulation from competitive pressures, which ultimately stems from the major labels’ formidable bargaining position in digital sound recordings. The labels have assumed a gatekeeping function in streaming music, demanding corporate equity in exchange for access to their sound recordings, which every streaming service…
There are a lot of culpable parties in this streaming fiasco. First off, I don’t blame Daniel Ek for seeing a model that can be built, and building it. His premise of “at least we pay, so it’s better than pirating”, is a good position. He had already built and exited companies, so I am…
In an email from Sean Parker to Daniel Ek, in 2009, this sentence jumped out: 4. There are vast repositories of “grey” content on people’s computers across the world. This content is often forgotten by the labels and publishers. The fact that you have a client and P2P capability will allow you to someday unlock…
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