Archive for May, 2008

EMI and Suretone Provide RSS Feeds

Posted by Daniel on May 15th, 2008 in Internet, Music | No Comments »

I’m a big fan of RSS and of giving people the ability to build web services around your data. One of the things I’ve been hoping for was for the record labels to start offering RSS feeds of their tour data.

EMI has gotten all their labels to do it (see Capitol’s artists page), and it appears that Suretone has as done it, too. Suretone is a subsidiary of UMG, and as far as I can tell, unlike EMI, Universal has not implemented this across any of their other labels. If there are others out there that I’m missing, let me know.

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eMusic: Excellent… If You Like Their Catalog.

Posted by Daniel on May 14th, 2008 in Distribution, Internet, Music | 1 Comment »

So eMusic has been around for quite some time, but has it changed over the years? How does it fare against iTunes and Amazon? I hadn’t used it for some time, so I went over and grabbed myself a subscription.

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Coldplay is Spamming Me

Posted by Daniel on May 13th, 2008 in Internet, Music | No Comments »

So, we all know that Coldplay released their single Violet Hill as a free MP3 download. What I did not know was that when you gave them your email address, they automatically subscribed you to their newsletter without a disclaimer and without giving you the option to not do this.

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The Offspring’s Free Single

Posted by Daniel on May 12th, 2008 in Distribution, Music | No Comments »

I can’t really think about The Offspring without being reminded of my seventh-grade self blasting Americana at inopportune moments, but let’s put that aside for a second.

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