3.4.3 Canais de streaming
As audiencias nos canais de streaming
Jango (www.jango.com), the fast-growing new social music site, today announced that more than 1 million listeners have created over 3 million custom Internet radio stations – within just two months of its public launch. This rapid growth separates Jango from the crowded field of emerging social music companies – putting it on a clear path towards the first tier market leaders. According to Compete.com, Jango already had 423,000 unique US visitors in December, compared to 990,000 for Last.fm and 1,596,000 for Pandora. (fonte: Jango Reaches 1 Million Listeners within 2 Months of Launch , 15/01/08)
Pandora chega aos receptores de rádio on line
Cada vez mais o Pandora - e outros serviços semelhantes - se constituem como alternativa à rádio (convencional) musical. Esta noticia de que o Pandora vai passar a ser recebido em receptores on line é prova disso.
Sobre o Pandora
A melhor prenda do Natal... (como voltar a ouvir o Pandora, mas...)
Não sei quanto tempo vai durar, mas aqui fica o endereço:
https://www.pandora.com/radio/tuner_8_2_0_1_pandora.swf
Devo dizer que o serviço é fraco: lento, com paragens
OUTRA HIPOTESE:
«The usual method to access Pandora is to use a proxy that is located in the United States so that Pandora believes that you are from there to. A far better solution was posted in the comments of this blog yesterday. Global Pandora offers the Pandora interface on a independent website that requires no registration. Just enter a song or artist and a radio station will be build and you can listen to it. All without using a proxy, hiding your real IP or registration.»
(http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/12/access-pandora-without-a-proxy/)
AINDA MAIS: «How to: access Pandora from outside the US»
OU «Well, here’s the good alternative to all non-US residents. The box is open! You can now listen to your favorite songs through GlobalPandora.»
REACÇÃO: «Westergren also noted that Pandora “must abide by the many copyright laws around the world – that includes making commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized use of Pandora.” He said that Pandora would not be able to support applications like globalPandora, and in fact “must periodically actively break them when we can.” “I sure hope the record labels wise up soon,” Westergren closed. “[T]heir strategy (if there actually is one) is disastrous for artists.” Being in the U.S., we aren’t able to test the effectiveness of this work-around ourselves. However it does appear that, at least for the time being, international listeners have their Pandora back.»
OU: «Since Pandora started blocking users outside US some solutions where proposed, but only one made to the top - Tor.
Tor can help you anonymize web browsing, by bouncing communication around a distributed network of servers called onion routers.
This is nice, but how this helps?
If the communication is bounced over network of servers and the last server that forwards communication located in US, Pandora will think that the user himself is located in US and will not block him.» (aqui)
LastFM, Slacker ou Jango - os mais utilizados
LastFM lidera com grande destaque, mas o braço de ferro entre Jango e Slacker promete continuar!
| Date: 11/2007 | People | Month Δ  | Year Δ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 jango.com | 244,522 | 79.0% | 48129.2% | |
| slacker.com | 329,310 | 19.7% | 10644.2% | |
| last.fm | 1,372,691 | 36.4% | 34.1% |
, in the month of November Jango had 244,522 users compared to FineTune who had 149,106. Slacker garnered 329, 310 while last.fm and Pandora raked in roughly 1.4 million each. They obviously have a ways to go to catch up with the big dogs, but that’s not too shabby considering they’ve been out of Beta for just over a monthSobre a Rhapsody (só disponível EUA): ouvir e pagar ou ouvir e descarregar (e pagar mais)
«Listen to millions of songs without paying per track. Play all the music you want for one low monthly price. Rhapsody memberships start at just $12.99/month» . Rhapsody is a digital music service that lets you listen to whatever you want, whenever you want it. With online music stores, you pay for every track or album, but Rhapsody lets you listen to everything we've got for one low monthly price» «How is Rhapsody different? Unlike other music services that charge you every time you download a song, Rhapsody allows you to listen to as much music as you want for one low monthly fee (starting at $12.99/month, less than the cost of a CD). Our all-you-can-eat plans allow you to explore all the music you want without having to pay for every single track or album»
«There are two types of membership:
- Rhapsody to Go ($14.99/month) (available on Windows PCs only) allows you to listen to all the music you like, and to transfer all the music you want to supported MP3 players, such as the Sansa e200R Rhapsody.
- Rhapsody Unlimited membership ($12.99/month) (available on Windows, Mac and Linux computers) allows you to listen to unlimited music on your computer.
If you're not ready for membership, you can try Rhapsody for free. (Free Account:Play 25 tracks for free each month, no credit card required). Sorry, we are only able to offer Rhapsody® to US customers at this time.
»Rhapsody® Unlimited Offer Terms 
Access begins at sign-up. You will be charged US$12.99 each month hereafter. For subscription information, including how to cancel your subscription, visit the My Account area. For technical support, please visit customer support. Also please note: U.S. residents only.
A Rhapsody tambem trabalha com receptores/aparelhos dedicados.
Rhapsody alia-se ao Facebook
«Rhapsody, the music service, just introduced its Facebook application. It’s easy to skip past this, because everybody has a Facebook app these days. But it’s worth a look because the experience shows that an application on Facebook can have much more usefulness than Zombies and SuperPoke. Rhapsody isn’t changing its economic model for Facebook. It lets users stream up to 25 songs a month on their computers free. People who want to listen to more music or download tracks to portable devices have to pay $10 to $15 a month. (I think the 25-free-song limit is silly, but that’s not what I’m writing about today.) What’s important is how integrating with Facebook makes some key aspects of using Rhapsody and connecting to friends easier. Once you log onto Facebook, you don’t have to log on separately to Rhapsody or load any other software.» (fonte: Beyond Sheep-Throwing: Rhapsody on Facebook, By Saul Hansell, 17/12/07, NYT)
A web social reúne cada vez mais norte-americanos
«Social networking is an activity that 37% of US adult Internet users and 70% of online teens engage in every month, and the numbers continue to grow. eMarketer projects that by 2011, one-half of online adults and 84% of online teens in the US will use social networking. The Social Network Marketing report analyzes the evolution of this growing Internet activity and its advertising revenues. Marketers are continuing to experiment with social network advertising, with $920 million being spent on social networking sites in the US this year and a projected $1.6 billion in 2008. Worldwide, online social network ad spending is expected to grow by 81%, to $2.2 billion in 2008 from $1.2 billion this year. If social network marketing delivers on the promise of peer recommendations, however, this flow of advertising dollars will become a flood»
O site de musica das varias majors (Imeem.com)
«In a major increase in the availability of legal free music, the world's largest record label has agreed to let users of a fast-growing website listen to its entire catalog of digitized music files.
Universal Music Group struck the deal with Imeem.com, a music-oriented social networking site, in exchange for a cut of the revenue from advertising viewed while its songs are playing.
The deal by the label for artists including U2, Amy Winehouse and Black Eyed Peas brings the last of the four major record companies to Imeem, which lets users listen while on the site but not download their own copies.
Each play of a song will net Universal a guaranteed minimum of a fraction of a cent, even if no ads are viewed, a person familiar with the arrangement said Sunday. That clause is believed to be the first of its kind for any ad-driven deal with a label.
"We're embracing the ad-supported business model. These are our crown jewels: on-demand, full-length tracks," said Universal Executive Vice President Rio D. Caraeff. "Imeem is the largest deal we have struck to date."» fonte : «Universal Music Group, Imeem strike deal», By Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, December 10, 2007
Universal Music Group struck the deal with Imeem.com, a music-oriented social networking site, in exchange for a cut of the revenue from advertising viewed while its songs are playing.
The deal by the label for artists including U2, Amy Winehouse and Black Eyed Peas brings the last of the four major record companies to Imeem, which lets users listen while on the site but not download their own copies.
Each play of a song will net Universal a guaranteed minimum of a fraction of a cent, even if no ads are viewed, a person familiar with the arrangement said Sunday. That clause is believed to be the first of its kind for any ad-driven deal with a label.
"We're embracing the ad-supported business model. These are our crown jewels: on-demand, full-length tracks," said Universal Executive Vice President Rio D. Caraeff. "Imeem is the largest deal we have struck to date."» fonte : «Universal Music Group, Imeem strike deal», By Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, December 10, 2007
Para quê ter/comprar a música, se a posso ouvir?
«(...) changing consumer behavior is giving subscription advocates new hope. Members of the Facebook Generation are bombarded with music recommendations every day, and don't necessarily want to pay a buck to check each one out. And since people are used to getting e-mail, appointments, and news feeds streamed to smartphones and other devices, many industry watchers assume they'll want the same for music. "If I can access whatever I want whenever I want," says Ted Cohen, who led EMI's digital music efforts and now runs an entertainment consultancy called TAG Strategic, "why do I need to own it?"»
fonte: «Stars Are Aligning for Subscription Music», Business Week, 6/12/07 by Peter Burrows
O entusiasmo pelo Pandora continua...
«I’ve “discovered” the new Internet radio: specifically Pandora. I love this! Nothing to download, it’s intuitive to use, I choose the tracks I want, I choose the artists, I choose the order, I can make a mix. It’s wonderful! 'But now Internet radio is back in a different form; some don’t call it radio but rather “music discovery” or “social radio.” For me it has taken the place of the staticky old box. Traditional radio was always hit-or-miss for hearing music that I liked, but these services have made it so much easier, as they allow you to filter out what you don’t want to hear and discover new things you might not ever hear on the radio.'» (I Just Discovered the “New” Internet Radio)
A internet pode ser muito boa a divulgar nova música se...
«not only is online radio inexpensive to target (in some cases as easy as downloading a submission form, as is the case with Pandora), but it brings excitement, variety, and most importantly, NEW MUSIC into a medium that has exposed the public to less and less new music for years (I am speaking primarily of commercial radio). Online radio is a medium that is continuing to gain momentum and listeners, which means, of course, that the labels are looking for their cut of the profits. In March, the United States Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for webcasts, effective to 2010. The CRB endorsed the proposal of the RIAA-associated Sound Exchange royalty organization, which represents the major and some indie labels. The new rates would force webcasters to pay for each song streamed to each user, and increase over the next few years as follows: (details from Wired magazine)
2007: $.0011 to stream one song to one listener
2008: $.0014
2009: $.0018
2010: $.0019
These rates would put the smaller Webcasters that do not have significant advertising revenue out of business. And last week, Bloomberg announced that Yahoo and AOL may abandon Web radio as well with the raise in rates (“We’re not going to stay in the business if cost is more than we make long term,” Ian Rogers, general manager at Yahoo’s music unit, said in an interview). The rate increase is not a done deal, however. Webcasters have launched an appeal of the rates, which begins in February.
I’m all for musicians being paid fairly and taking advantage of all revenue streams, but from a marketing standpoint, does it really make sense to impose rates on a developing outlet like this that will essentially kill all but the largest players? Check out more opinions here. »
fonte: KING, Michael, The Trouble with the Future of Radio, 3/12/07
Sobre o Jango (the next big thing... in social music)
«(...)I recently found a service that satisfies what was lacking for me in LastFM: Jango. Less feature-rich than Last.FM (I didn’t need all those features anyway), Jango is instant gratification from the moment you visit the site. You can start listening to songs in their entirety immediately, without even signing up. Not having to sign up hooked me into trying it out, and I’ve been using it daily ever since. You simply type in an artist, and a song starts playing. 
A huge advantage of Jango is that you don’t have to own any music to get a great experience. If you don’t have iTunes, it doesn’t matter – the music is just there for the listening and with nothing to download. And since it’s all web-based, you can use it on any computer, not just your own.
Jango's personalized stations
The music matching system on Jango is okay, but it could use some work. For instance, it seems to think because I like Steely Dan and James Taylor, I’ll also like the Beach Boys. No. And while I am a frequent listener of Mary J. Blige, I want R. Kelly out of the mix. Unfortunately, even though I click on the sad face to tell Jango never to play the offending song again, “Trapped in the Closet” continues to haunt me.» (fonte: «Last.FM, Jango, Pandora Trounce Music Discovery via Radio», 29/12/07
Lista de sites com música online
«iLike», recomendação e personalização de música
Aceder ao Pandora fora dos EUA
Sobre a Secure Tunnel solution
Outro serviço de 'música social' (só EUA)
Tem origem em Israel, está em versão beta e chama-se Meemix. É apenas destinado a utilizadores dos EUA.
Um novo serviço de música social (Jango)
«Does the "social radio" market -- which features well-established players like Pandora and Last.fm -- need another entrant? The gang behind Jango seem to think so. The site, which has been in beta for the past few months, opened up for full access Monday, and says it has 70,000 users already. Co-founder and CEO Dan Kaufman is the former CEO of Dash, a mobile-shopping startup that flamed out in 2001 (not that we should hold that against him, of course). I have to say one thing about Jango.com: it's pretty simple to use. When you hit the site you get a search box and a list of "stations." You can choose a station, which is a pre-mixed selection of artists, or you can type in an artist's name -- at which point you are taken to a user page, without even having to sign up (you can create an account from the user page by just typing in your email and a password). My page is here. By choosing an artist's name, you effectively create a "station" based around them, which can be made up solely of that artist, or artists that are similar. Jango suggests musicians and bands that it thinks you might like based on your choice, and then you get to choose from Jango's list and add that artist to your station -- or you can type in your own choice and add that. And that's about it. You can click to buy a track through Amazon, and you can see who else is listening to a particular artist or station. The site doesn't have some things that Last.fm and Pandora do. It doesn't have a widget, for example (like the one I have in my sidebar), although the company said that's coming. But it is far easier to figure out and use than Last.fm, I think, which I find confusing and non-intuitive. And when it gets right down to it, one of the keys to such a site is the music recommendation part: in other words, how does it do in terms of suggesting related songs or artists you might want to listen to? (...) And when it comes to competing with Pandora at least, Jango has one killer feature: it's available to Canadians, whereas Pandora is not -- it cut off access to Canuck users earlier this year because it hadn't acquired the appropriate licenses.»
fonte: «Jango joins the "social radio" scene», Globe and mail, Mathew Ingram, November 13, 2007
Pandora, a rádio que te ouve...
Curiosa definição: já não somos nós que ouvimos a rádio, é a rádio que nos ouve (Pandora...):
«Pandora: Web Radio That Listens to You»: «The magic of Pandora derives from a simple principle: a song listeners enjoy should lead to other songs they'll enjoy. Pandora is an Internet music service with an unusual twist: you merely select a song or artist you like and the system builds a playlist of additional songs based on those musical characteristics.»