Test Drive | Music for a song

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Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive

Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive 12/25/2003 04:27 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 25 2003 3:36AM ET

Dial-A-Song Beta Test

Dial-A-Song Beta Test 02/10/2004 07:31 AM
I know it seems like this project has been going on for years, and it very nearly has. Whenever I say "They Might Be Giants" to my wife she shudders. But the Dial-A-Song project is almost done. I finally have...

Song-swapping to face judicial test

Song-swapping to face judicial test 03/28/2005 10:31 AM
USA Today Mar 28 2005 1:46PM GMT

Music-ABC-Song-0.01

Music-ABC-Song-0.01 07/05/2004 05:31 PM

Music going for a song on the Internet

Music going for a song on the Internet 12/12/2003 03:17 AM
Washington Times Dec 12 2003 1:51AM ET

Michael Song on Chinese music industry

Michael Song on Chinese music industry 09/10/2004 12:01 AM

We just had a very interesting meeting with Michael Song, managing director of Taihe Rye Music. He is Chinese, but spent six years at Texas A&M and returned to China in 1996 to work in the budding music scene in China. He is in the agency business and represents the #1 male musician in China.

He explained that the legal music CD business in China is about 5%. In other words, 95% of the CDs on the market are pirate copies. He said that it was the teenagers who were passionate about the artists and liked to hang out in the record shops that tended to buy the legal CDs. Even in the top artists, CD sales only represented 30% or so of their income, while less known musicians actually lost money on CDs. The CDs are important, however, as a marketing and promotion vehicle.

Because the mass media is state owned, it is difficult to use the mass media for promoting artists. For this reason, it appears that the successful artists in China tend to be more talented, singer songwriters who tend to be popular longer compared to artists in markets such as Hong Kong and Taiwan where pop idol style artists are highly promoted and often lack talent or long term potential.

He told us that his artists got revenue share deals with percentages a bit worse than their counterparts in the US, but much better than in Japan. Most of the revenue comes from advertising/endorsements and concerts, but he is aggressively working on new business models involving alternative media such as the Internet and mobile devices.

My "take-away" was that in a market where the record industry basically doesn't function, artists and agents are going to be pushing the cutting edge of music business models and might in fact discover the post DRM/RIAA business model before Hollywood does. Obviously, it helps to have a huge growing market such as China, but I think it would make sense for artists and music industry people to keep an eye on China for breakthroughs in the music business.

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Survey: 1,000-song music players the
right size

Survey: 1,000-song music players the
right size 04/22/2004 04:04 PM
According to a survey by Jupiter Research, 1,000 songs (about the capacity of Apple's iPod mini) is the right size for a portable digital music player...

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Too cheap

Music industry suing 532 song swappers

Music industry suing 532 song swappers 01/26/2004 01:52 PM
CNN Jan 26 2004 5:33PM GMT

On rock music, eurovision song contest
and weddings

On rock music, eurovision song contest
and weddings 05/15/2004 05:37 PM
You know, there's a serious credibility problem with a beautiful, scantily dressed woman, who sings happily "It hurts, how it hurts" (Sweden). I much prefer Finnish rock music, which mostly consists of serious men singing in a very laconic voice about they have been hurt and left in a thousand different ways. At least they mostly look and sound the part.

Which brings me to the general music selection of Finnish weddings. It is supposed to be a happy occasion, but yet somehow most of the music is always extremely depressing. It just makes you want to scream: the three required waltzes, and then a selection of other classics, and then moving towards traditional Finnish rock music, in which a lone, drunken man sings his lament after killing his family, right before blowing his own brains out.

Hel-lo? Happy, anyone? Remember? The state where you don't really want to kill yourself (or anyone else for that matter)?

*sigh*

I guess you would need to listen to a lot of Finnish rock music to understand this entry. Hell, even writing about the music depresses me to another dimension. Then again, being alone in a small hotel room, watching the Eurovision Song Contest (which is complete crap, as usual), feeling the blissful state of inebriation ebb away into tiredness and depression ("laskuhumala" in Finnish, a highly descriptive word, I might add) after having left the party prematurely because of the compound effect of alcohol, little sleep, the afore mentioned music, relatives ("Now when are you going to get married, mmh?"), and the general happiness of everyone else (happily married or at least engaged)... What do you expect? ;-)

Anyway. Lots of luck and love to the happy couple.

Russian MP3 site sells music for about
five cents a song

Russian MP3 site sells music for about
five cents a song 04/29/2004 05:40 PM
The Sydney Morning Herald spoke to a lawyer about allofmp3.com, the Russian company that sells tons of online music by the gigabyte, and he said it is not likely that anyone who buys music from the site could get in trouble.

We sought some advice from a Melbourne barrister and contributor to these pages, Simon Minahan, who practises in the area of intellectual property. His opinion: "There's probably nothing to stop the individual from downloading this material for private use. For end users, the issue is a basic question relevant to acquiring a reproduction of any copyright work: has the rights owner consented?" Even if allofmp3.com's asserted licence is bogus, says Minahan, "the end user would seem to have a good basis to argue that he is an innocent infringer, which would mean he isn't liable to damages, although he would still be liable to an order requiring him to destroy or deliver up any copies and an order requiring him to refrain from doing it again."

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Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register

Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register 04/12/2004 11:33 AM
Labels seek end to 99c music per song download The Register .. current online price

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" Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register"

" Labels seek end to 99c music per song
download | The Register" 04/13/2004 09:53 AM

iPod mini: Smallest 1,000 Song Music
Player

iPod mini: Smallest 1,000 Song Music
Player 01/07/2004 02:05 PM
iPod mini, the smallest portable music player ever to hold up to 1,000 CD-quality songs, is encased in an ultra-portable, lightweight anodized aluminum body available in five stylish colors. [Jan 6]

Music industry files 482 more
song-swapping suits

Music industry files 482 more
song-swapping suits 06/22/2004 05:09 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 22 2004 9:41PM GMT

Test-Drive That New Car

Test-Drive That New Car 07/16/2004 08:30 AM
The test-drive is an important part of the car-buying process.

iTunes Music Store tops 25 million song
downloads

iTunes Music Store tops 25 million song
downloads 12/15/2003 09:21 AM
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 25 million songs from its iTunes Music Store since it launched in April 2003...

iTunes Music Store Sells 100 Millionth
Song (12-Jul-2004; 1.2K)

iTunes Music Store Sells 100 Millionth
Song (12-Jul-2004; 1.2K) 07/12/2004 08:47 PM

iTunes Music Store tops 20 million song
downloads

iTunes Music Store tops 20 million song
downloads 12/08/2003 09:54 PM
Peter Lowe, Apple's director of marketing for applications and services, said Monday that more than 20 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Music Store since it launched in April...

Wal-Mart tests Internet music downloads,
for 88 cents a song

Wal-Mart tests Internet music downloads,
for 88 cents a song 12/19/2003 05:08 PM
AFP via Yahoo! Dec 19 2003 4:01PM ET

iTunes Music Store hits 100 million song
milestone

iTunes Music Store hits 100 million song
milestone 07/12/2004 02:37 AM
Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold 100 million songs, according to a graphic that greets visitors to Apple's Web site home page. "100 million songs have been legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. A major milestone for online music," reads the image.

Prius test drive

Prius test drive 07/21/2004 04:48 PM
Matt test drove a Prius. He liked it, but says the gas mileage isn't nearly as good as advertised: "After 150+ miles I averaged nearly 54 mpg."

The key device, which is about the size of a small box of wooden matches, slides into a slot in the dashboard. The next step in starting the car, according to the quickstart guide, is to press the POWER button. I had to laugh — this car boots up. I really enjoyed pressing that button.

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Test Drive A Mac Today

Test Drive A Mac Today 06/22/2005 02:20 AM

Tech Test Drive

Tech Test Drive 04/09/2005 12:57 AM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 9 2005 4:57AM GMT

Minolta Test Drive

Minolta Test Drive 04/11/2005 06:04 PM

K ONICA MINOLTA Test Drive Form: The problem with buying printers online is that you can never see what they print before you buy. Minolta is trying to change this.

Send us your file and we will print it on the printer of your choice and send you the sample! It's SIMPLE! Just fill out the form below and send us your file on CD-ROM or zip disk.

Battlefront Test Drive

Battlefront Test Drive 09/20/2004 07:29 PM
One of the perks to come out of the recent Trilogy DVD press event was an early copy of LucasArts new Star Wars thriller, Battlefront. After having spent the last several days test-driving the game, I have to say my initial opinion is very positive.

European iTunes Music Stores surpass 50
million song sales

European iTunes Music Stores surpass 50
million song sales 06/24/2005 07:37 PM
Apple on Thursday announced that it has sold over 50 million songs in the first year from its European iTunes Music Store. iTunes Music Stores were launched in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in June of 2004, and are now open in a total of 17 European countries including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. “We’re thrilled to have sold and delivered over 50 million songs in our first year,” Apple’s vice president of Applications Eddy Cue said. “We’d like to thank European music fans for making iTunes such a success”.

US music behemoth WMG teams up with
mobile phone group for song downloads
(AFP)

US music behemoth WMG teams up with
mobile phone group for song downloads
(AFP) 07/09/2004 06:21 PM
AFP - US recording giant Warner Music Group (WMG) announced it was teaming up with a wireless company to exploit the lucrative musical mobile phone ringtone market.

Canada's Music Industry Seeks Song-Swap
Crackdown (Reuters)

Canada's Music Industry Seeks Song-Swap
Crackdown (Reuters) 02/16/2004 05:13 PM
Reuters - Canada's biggest music producers asked the courts on Monday to order Internet service providers to identify customers who swap songs illegally on the Internet as the Canadian firms try to match a U.S. crackdown on music piracy.

IBM-Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 3.60

IBM-Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 3.60 01/27/2004 05:15 PM

Test Drive | Take these files and
Stuffit

Test Drive | Take these files and
Stuffit 07/01/2004 03:23 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 1 2004 8:15AM GMT

Microsoft Office Test Drive v.X

Microsoft Office Test Drive v.X 01/07/2004 06:06 PM
Test drive Microsoft’s premier productivity suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage.

Office 2004 for the Mac: Test Drive

Office 2004 for the Mac: Test Drive 05/19/2004 08:59 AM
Get acquainted with Microsoft® Office 2004 for Mac by downloading the free 30-day test drive. Experiment with the all-new Project Center in Entourage. Try recording audio notes with Word. Create a colorful 3-D graph in Excel. Get creative with the new animations in PowerPoint, and more! Office 2004 helps you get your work done so you can get on with the fun.

Test Drive | Exercise more wisely

Test Drive | Exercise more wisely 04/03/2005 03:44 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 3 2005 7:34AM GMT

Police Say Test Drive Used for Robbery
(AP)

Police Say Test Drive Used for Robbery
(AP) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
AP - Zachary Hayden liked the car so much, he only needed to stop at the bank to get some money. The problem is, police said, he didn't have an account there.

A Quick My Jeeves Test Drive

A Quick My Jeeves Test Drive 09/21/2004 02:46 AM
With all the chatter around My Jeeves, I figured I'd give it a quick test drive. The first thing I did was go thru the short on-line tour to learn that the model is simple: Search and Save Organize and Edit Share and Print I don't know about the "print" part, really. I think they just like to pair action words together. Anyway, I signed up for an account, which means I supplied my e-mail address and waited for the...

Music industry sues 482 more computer
users for swapping song files online

Music industry sues 482 more computer
users for swapping song files online 06/22/2004 07:12 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jun 22 2004 11:06PM GMT

WebSE - System 7.0 - Test Drive a
Macintosh...

WebSE - System 7.0 - Test Drive a
Macintosh... 05/22/2004 06:56 AM
Mac System 7.0 simulation on the web [done in Flash and incredibly awesome] .. Kokeile miltä Macin System 7 tuntui vuonna 1991 .. WebSE

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Test Drive | Two on-the-go gadgets that
fall a little short

Test Drive | Two on-the-go gadgets that
fall a little short 04/10/2005 03:29 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 10 2005 8:10AM GMT
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