Monthly Archives: February 2010

Fun Music Quotes Part 2

“If you wanted to torture me, you’d tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.” -John Bon Jovi “I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation.  Jim Morrison would have … Continue reading

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Fun Music Quotes Part 1

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” – Mark Twain “I don’t know anything about music.  In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” – Voltaire “Do I … Continue reading

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Apple, Music, and the Cloud

Apple recently acquired Lala.  Early predictions were that they would place iTunes in the cloud and jump head first into on-demand streams. According to Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com, Apple is more likely to enhance it’s existing download collections with … Continue reading

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The Year of the App

Three years ago none of us had ever heard of a Mobile App.  Now, according to the research firm Gartner, mobile application stores are expected to generate revenues of nearly seven billion dollars during 2010.  Yes, that was a B. … Continue reading

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Justice Department Upholds File Sharing Penalty

The Obama Justice Department has submitted a filing defending a large damages award for copyright infringement on a file sharing case.  Joel Tenenbaum was found guilty of sharing a large number of songs on Kazaa and ordered to pay the … Continue reading

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Should Pants on the Ground Guy be Paid?

By now we have all seen it and most of us are probably already sick of it.  I’m talking about Pants On the Ground, the song made famous on American Idol by “General” Larry Platt.  The song has been parodied, … Continue reading

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Is the Customer Always Right?

Two years ago Inc. Magazine polled CEOs across the country and asked them to comment on the old customer service mantra “the customer is always right”.  At the time, a slight majority agreed with the rule.  The rest believed there … Continue reading

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A Case Study in Quality and Consistency Part 3

In the final chapter of A Case Study in Quality and Consistency, I’d like to touch on the subject of mastering.  Those not familiar with the process of music production may be unfamiliar with the subject, but many of you … Continue reading

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A Case Study in Quality and Consistency Part 2

In part one of this series, I discussed problem #1 with licensing music from an online website that opens the doors to anybody to upload music content. In short, if anyone can supply music, the customer gets stuck sorting through … Continue reading

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A Case Study in Quality and Consistency Part 1

As a production music library publisher, we always like to encourage dialogue with our clients.  We like to know what they might like and dislike about our company so that we can continue to work toward creating the best user … Continue reading

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