Digital music nirvana isn't impossible, it just takes longer
An early look at on-demand streaming of your own music. The cloud buzzword hadn’t caught on back then… The idea of being able to play your music anywhere, on any device, has become a cliche without...
View ArticleOrb turns MySpace into a personal radio station
Just as you thought the MySpace phenomenon was running out of steam, tomorrow will see the biggest innovation to the site since it launched. This one doesn’t come from MySpace itself, however, but Orb...
View ArticleDAB: A very British failure
Emergency talks to save digital radio are taking place in Manchester today, the FT reports. Unloved, unviable, and often unlistenable, DAB is a technology the public clearly doesn’t want; so it comes...
View ArticleRadio whinge(r)s
Ed Richards cocked a sympathetic ear to the troubles of the commercial radio business yesterday – but the Ofcom chief could offer little in the way of instant pain relief. With an end-of-life...
View ArticleBBC pulling back from the DAByss?
Simply because Tim Davie, the BBC’s new radio chief, has a background in advertising and marketing, that isn’t a reason to assume everything he says is a lie. It’s more charitable to say he’s well...
View ArticleHome streaming is ‘killing music’
Two weeks ago a US market research company caused a panic in the music business when it reported sales of MP3s had declined. DRM has all but disappeared from digital music, while music catalogs and...
View ArticleLords: Analogue radio must die
Digital radio isn’t great and the public doesn’t want it, but you’re going to get it anyway. So recommends the House of Lords Communications Committee today. 90 per cent of the UK listens to radio, and...
View ArticleRadio amnesty fails to lift DAB
The radio audience ratings service RAJAR has published the first full quarter of figures since the launch of a DAB trade-in scheme called ‘Radio Amnesty’, fronted by ubiquitous luvvie Stephen Fry. The...
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