Hard News: Friday Music: Criminal Life
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BTW, for those worried that New Zealand music isn't selling (or whatever), the No.2 album this week is the brilliantly titled Give Up Your Dreams by the Phoenix Foundation, only kept from No.1 by Dr Dre. And there are seven other albums by New Zealand artists in the top 40, which is brilliant.
It's less encouraging in the singles chart - only two songs by NZ artists, but it's been a surprisingly weak year for local chart hits. Hurry up with your new stuff, Lorde!
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Doug Hood, in reply to
me and chris, the brains that wouldn't die..well at least not just yet
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Russell Brown, in reply to
me and chris, the brains that wouldn’t die..well at least not just yet
Excellent :-)
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In other news, another iTunes update popped up, I installed it and Apple Music is kind of working as advertised – as in, I even turned iCloud Music Library back on on my iMac.
Part of it is actually learning to do do it Apple’s way, rather than the way I’ve been doing using iTunes for years, and there are still some confusing things (the relationship between iTunes Match and Apple Music, still). But I’m cautiously optimistic …
UPDATE: How the hell do you organise Apple Music albums? The obvious thing to do would be to put them in folders, but I can’t find any way of doing that. Thought: if Apple was determined to merge Apple Music and local files in iTunes, it would have helped a lot if you could handle them the same way.
UPDATE 2: It appears I'm not alone in wanting a playlist of "liked" songs and albums in Apple Music. But this is not possible. You can only add them to My Music where there's no way of organising them beyond manually making playlists and adding them to those. It's like they're trying to break the user experience.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
BTW, for those worried that New Zealand music isn’t selling (or whatever), the No.2 album this week is the brilliantly titled Give Up Your Dreams by the Phoenix Foundation, only kept from No.1 by Dr Dre. And there are seven other albums by New Zealand artists in the top 40, which is brilliant.
That is good! Still pretty small in absolute numbers, no doubt, but good.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
me and chris, the brains that wouldn't die..well at least not just yet
So glad to hear you are sounding well. Takes a wee while to feel normal but wes be survivors . Take care Doug. xx
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But it turns out we're still way further in the future than the United Kingdom, where the High Court has just ruled that copying music from your personal CD collection to iTunes violates British copyright law.
That's actually a (very) slight oversimplification. S28(B) still stands, but the associated regulations have been invalidated. Although, yes, effectively it's the same thing, and I am splitting hairs.
It also only applies to any format-shifting or other copying carried out after 17th July. Anything copied before then has the benefit of a 'fair use' defence (i.e. the law before that date said it wasn't illegal, so users can't be sued for actions carried out before that date).
There will also probably be a future referral to the European Court for a ruling on this, as the UK now seems to be stuck in a grey area.
For those who like reading detailed legal analysis, there's more
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It appears the Spotify rumours are true. There will be music that's only available to paying subscribers:
Hits Magazine: “What’s your sense of the streaming landscape right now?”
Lucian Grainge: “When you cut through all the noise, the potential is enormous, and obviously I remain incredibly optimistic. A lot of the press coverage and industry chatter has been dominated by the ‘freemium’ debate, which has degraded the conversation to the point where you’re cast as either ‘for’ or ‘against’ ad-supported on-demand music consumption. Clearly, it’s not that simplistic.
As I’ve said before, while ad-supported on-demand music definitely has a place, whether that’s as part of discovery or trials of new products and offerings, freemium alone is inadequate to support our critical ecosystem of artists, labels and the platforms themselves.
What that means is that we must seek the proper balance between ad-supported and paid subscription. It’s not one or the other.
With the two approaches in proper relationship, we can continue the level of investment we make in artists who then, in turn, can be fairly compensated for their work. If we get that right, everyone wins. That’s what we’re working towards.” -
Grant McDougall, in reply to
BTW, for those worried that New Zealand music isn’t selling (or whatever), the No.2 album this week is the brilliantly titled Give Up Your Dreams by the Phoenix Foundation, only kept from No.1 by Dr Dre. And there are seven other albums by New Zealand artists in the top 40, which is brilliant.
The chart display at JB Hi-Fi has Phoenix Foundation at #1 !
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Russell Brown, in reply to
The chart display at JB Hi-Fi has Phoenix Foundation at #1 !
At St Lukes they had the Phoenix Foundation album in a bin underneath the main racks. Pretty crap.
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Baboom has launched tonight.
It's the music service launched by Kim Dotcom but now with no connection to him.
And it's actually pretty good. FLAC streaming even for free users, a groundbreaking deal with APRA, some nice back-end stuff for artists ...
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
shuffle…
Baboom looks simple enough -the graphics say to me that after this much progress we are still in the ‘crystal set’
– everyone at some point in their life, should hand-wind their own mortal coil…ps: Russell, nice work on yesterday afternoon’s RNZ cavalcade of delights with Jesse Mulligan
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201766792/music-review-with-russell-brown -
'Radio Punks' was great viewing.
#notbiased
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Shaun Scott, in reply to
My Friday music last week was a trip to Chicks to see the excellent Strange Harvest and Astro Children supporting the magnificent Opposite Sex at their album release.
Cant find any streaming tracks as yet, but the really rather good new album "Hamlet" can be bought on CD from Relics in Dunedin and online.
Fantastic gig, and very cool backdrop as well.
The album is now up on the Opposite Sex ban camp page .
Excellent.(Not sure about baboon . . . Not finding that easy to explore on the iPad at least)
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Shaun Scott, in reply to
Bloody hell- Inattention and autocorrect on the iPad. I mean bandcamp and baboom!!!
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