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| 331 | Young people want their music, TV and movies now -- even if it means they get these things illegally.
A recent Columbia University survey found, in fact, that 70 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said they had bought, copied or downloaded unauthorized music, TV shows or movies, compared with 46 percent of all adults who'd done the same.
With such an entrenched attitude, what can be done about widespread online piracy?
Certainly law enforcement has gone after scofflaws like these, hitting them with fines and, in some cases, even jail time. Congress is considering controversial anti-piracy bills that would, among other things, forbid search engines from linking to foreign Web sites accused of copyright infringement. And there are lawsuits pitting media heavyweights against Internet firms -- notably Viacom's billion-dollar litigation against YouTube.
But here's a radical notion to consider: What if young people who steal content weren't viewed as the problem?
What if they and advocates for maximum online access could persuade the entertainment industry to loosen its tight grip on its coveted, copyrighted material -- quite the opposite of what the industry is trying to do right now?
"The real problem is not pirates downloading illegally, but a failure to innovate on the part of the content providers," says Steven Budd, a law student at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Like it or not, that's how a lot of people of his generation view the situation. And some experts think they're gaining clout, as they insist on easy access to music and other content while the Internet world loudly protests anti-piracy legislation that it says unfairly puts the responsibility of policing piracy sites on search engines and other sites.
"We've seen the emergence of a real social movement around these issues," says Joe Karaganis, vice president of The American Assembly, a public policy institute at Columbia University, which... newsfactor.com » | | 332 | If you work at a music school or academy, you certainly must introduce the ones in charge to this new company. Citizen Groove is its name, and its flagship product is a software named Decision Desk. This software makes it incredibly simple to review music auditions. Read more Learn more about CitizenGroove.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much CitizenGroove.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 333 |  Чтобы в смартфоне можно было быстро найти интересующую вас композицию, необходимо упорядочить свою аудиоколлекцию. Это можно сделать при помощи программы Music Launcher. Данное приложение сортирует музыкальные композиции по папкам в автоматическом режиме. Music Launcher поддерживает вложенные папки, а также позволяет оперировать файлами - удалять, перемещать и создавать для них новые директории. Утилита может использоваться для воспроизведения файлов, причем, могут обрабатываться все форматы, поддерживаемые встроенным в систему проигрывателем. Music Launcher показывает оформление альбома, а на некоторых устройствах может использовать эффект затухания между треками.
Последняя версия добавляет поддержку форматов FLAC и ogg, а также поддержку обложек для дисков.
Скачать приложение для устройств, работающих под управлением Symbian, начиная с 3rd edition, можно отсюда . Программа бесплатная. #vk ixbt.com » | | 334 | Ever since Google Plus hangouts became popular, online services that let you do things with your friends have attracted everybody's attention. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure out that's the way the Internet is headed. And the release of services like Let's Listen does nothing but underline that fact. Read more Learn more about LetsListen.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much LetsListen.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 335 |  BARCELONA/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's HTC Corp has turned to advanced cameras and music functions for a new range of phones at the centre of its bid to recover from a rapid fall from grace in the tough and fickle smartphone market.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 336 | If you are not a fan of electronic music, then this site is clearly not for you. But if you were born to rave, then Vibin.fm is all you need to rock your body till the morning comes. Read more Learn more about Vibin.fm in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Vibin.fm is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 337 | Do you remember when MTV actually used to show music videos instead of reality shows with pseudo celebrities all around the clock? If you do, then this new site will let you relive such days. And show your younger friends what things were like in the golden days of music television. Basically, AtticTV. Read more Learn more about AtticTV.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much AtticTV.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 338 |  Компания Sennheiser пополнила серию Mobile Music (MM) двумя моделями гарнитур с интерфейсом Bluetooth: MM 450-X и MM 550-X. В них используется технология apt-X, за счет применения более высокой скорости потока сжатых данных обеспечивающая улучшенное качество звука.
Другим общим достоинством MM 450-X и 550-X является использование технологии активного шумоподавления NoiseGard 2.0. По оценке производителя, она отрезает до 90% фонового шума, делая звучание боле чистым. Кроме того, в новых гарнитурах реализована функция TalkThrough, позволяющая активировать микрофон одним нажатием кнопки.
Обе модели соответствуют спецификациям Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (профили A2DP, AVRCP, HSP, HFP; кодеки SBC и apt-X). Время автономной работы с включенной функцией NoiseGard равно 8 ч, с отключенной - 10 ч. Аккумуляторы гарнитур заряжаются за 3 ч. Масса MM 450-X равна 105 г, MM 550-X - 179 г.
Наушники способны воспроизводить частоты в диапазоне 15-22000 Гц. Уровень звукового давления равен 107 дБ (при 1 мВт на частоте 1 кГц), суммарные гармонические искажения и шум не превышают 0,1%. Частотный диапазон равнонаправленных микрофонов - 100-10000 Гц. Различие заключается в акустической конструкции: младшая модель накладывается на ухо, старшая - окружает его.
Поставки обеих моделей начинаются по всему миру в текущем месяце.
Источник: Sennheiser
#vk ixbt.com » | | 339 | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates' privately held Corbis, which provides photos and film video for advertisers, is expanding further into entertainment by launching an online music service with songs from the four largest publishers.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 340 | Android is getting a superstore, and may be getting a peace treaty. On Tuesday, Android Market, Google Music, and the Google eBookstore were combined into a new Google Play superstore. And a new report indicates that Apple may be willing to settle for license fees in its worldwide patent war against Android.
With all its Android-based apps, video, e-books and music now under one virtual roof, Google is also updating the apps to play them. The apps for playing movies, books and music will be upgraded into Google Play apps. Google Music app, for example, will become the Play Music app.
'Seven Days of Play'
For the next week, the company is offering a different album, book, video rental, and Android app at a special price, in a "Seven Days of Play" sale. This week's sales include the e-book version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the game Where's My Water, the movie Puncture, and the top-40 hit collection Now That's What I Call Music 41, each for 25 cents.
The store will be available through a Google Play app, or through a browser, and the unification of the brand will help position the technology giant in its ongoing battle with the two largest purveyors of digital content, Apple and Amazon.
Only some categories of content will initially be available in Canada, the U.K., Australia, and Japan, but Google has said that its goal is for all content to be available everywhere.
The unification of an outlet for Android content is one of two items being revealed this week that could propel the platform even further than its current success.
The other is a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal that Apple may be ready to settle its war with Android. For months, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been embroiled in a... newsfactor.com » | | 341 | Increasingly, the media zoo that is SXSW looks more like today's overlapping media world. The annual South by Southwest Conference and Festival, which begins Friday, gathers thousands of creators, performers, media and industry members for 10 days onto the boozy downtown streets of Austin, Texas. It's really three festivals -- Interactive, Film and Music -- in one, but each bleeds into the other.
The annual buzz word at SXSW is always convergence. Just as the tech and entertainment worlds physically descend onto Austin, media forms, too, are diverging. Many of those technologies and companies that might be found at SXSW Interactive have greatly altered those at SXSW Film (video-on-demand, Netflix, Hulu) and at SXSW Music (Apple, Spotify, Pandora).
It's a place where the question is always "what's next" and one has the impression of meandering hordes traipsing the streets of Austin searching for answers to a confusing and ever-evolving media landscape. There will be hundreds of panel discussions, countless predictions and even man vs. machine competitions that pit algorithms against curators.
"It's like stepping into a temporary world for one week where you're maybe two or three or five years in the future," says Amber Case, who'll be making her fourth trip to SXSW as a keynote speaker for Interactive. She's a "cyborg anthropologist" who studies the relationship between humans and machines, and founded the location-sharing platform Geoloqi.com.
Each realm of SXSW will have its own superstars. None will be bigger than Bruce Springsteen, this year's music keynote speaker. (NPR Music and SXSW.com will live stream the event.) Interactive, though, will have its own rock stars, including Napster co-founder Sean Parker (famously portrayed by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network").
Many others will be there, too, often promoting new projects, including Jay-Z, Willem Dafoe ("The Hunter"), Richard Linklater and Jack Black ("Bernie"), Jack White, Joss... newsfactor.com » | | 342 | I know lots of people who use YouTube to listen to songs while they're doing something else. Sure, there's sites like killerstartups.com » | | 343 | Хабы: Чулан Понятно, что «жертвой» сегодняшнего эксперимента будет z-music.org. На этом сайте есть возможность найти песню, послушать и скачать её.
Цель — написать bash скрипт для поиска музыки, используя «джентльменский набор» sed, awk и grep. Ну и плюс немного curl или wget по вкусу.
Пишем bash script habrahabr.ru » | | 344 | 
Music PlayerPro - это мультимедийный проигрыватель с большим набором функций. C помощью плеера можно сортировать музыкальные треки по альбомам, жанру, названию композиций и пр.
Приложение позволяет редактировать теги файлов и использует систему рейтинга песен. Кроме этого, Music PlayerPro имеет много всевозможных фильтров для обработки звука - многополосный эквалайзер, фильтр для расширения стереобазы, эффекты реверберации и усиления низких частот и др. В программу интегрирована поддержка онлайновых сервисов, в числе которых популярный веб-сервис Last.fm. Утилита поддерживает скины и автоматически загружает из Интернета обложки альбомов и фотографии исполнителя.
Последняя версия отличается наличием умного редактора плейлистов, дополнительными презетами эквалайзера, неограниченным кэшем для обложек.
Программа работает на устройствах с Android 2.0 и выше. Скачать можно отсюда . Стоимость лицензии - 3,30.
#vk ixbt.com » | | 345 |  Сегодня сайтом дня объявляется отечественный сервис 10tracks. Это гибрид облачного файлового хранилища и онлайнового музыкального плеера. Проще говоря, это некое подобие Google Music.
Лого 10tracks
Сервис 10tracks вполне логично рассматривать, как убийцу Google Music местного масштаба. Хотя бы потому, что Google Music у нас в стране якобы не подде it.siteua.org » | | 346 | In 2002, a few months after the launch of the first iPod, John MacFarlane made his push to get digital music out of the computer, headphones and earbuds -- and into the living room.
He started Sonos, a wireless music company that in June will celebrate its 10 anniversary. In its first decade, Sonos has sold nearly 1.5 million units of its wireless music system to 550,000 customers. Revenue for the privately held company has nearly doubled during the past three years to more than $200 million in 2011, says MacFarlane, who was interviewed at Sonos' corporate headquarters here. "We're just getting warmed up."
Sonos high-fidelity systems -- which connect to an Internet router to stream music around the house -- used to be sold mainly at specialty stores but are now also sold at Target and Best Buy. The price of a basic package has dropped from about $1,000 to $350. And fans of the product gush with enthusiasm on Facebook and Twitter. "Love it," wrote Andrew Matuszak on Facebook this week, after he bought a Play: 3, the entry-level $299 speaker, and a $50 Bridge, the device that connects to the Internet router.
Matuszak, who lives near Reading, Pa., says he first heard of Sonos while shopping with his girlfriend last week at a local audio shop. They decided on the Sonos, brought it home, and use apps on their smartphones -- he's Android, she's iPhone -- to select music to play through the speaker. "We put it in the master bedroom, but we can move it throughout the house," he says. "We've put it in the bathroom and living room with no problems whatsoever. You just unplug it, and plug it back in, and music starts playing."
Musicians love it, too. Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, former Spice Girl Mel B... newsfactor.com » | | 347 | NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - It took decades for music delivery to evolve from vinyl records to CDs and years to go from CDs to MP3 players.
Reuters: Internet News » | | 348 | (Reuters) - Online music storage firm MP3tunes Inc filed for bankruptcy in a U.S. court, following its prolonged run-in with music publishing giant EMI Group over copyright issues, court filings showed.
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