Comments on: Buy your music online

By: nic

nic — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:57:51 +0000

good looks brodsky
welcome back, i hope chinas treating you well

By: calico

calico — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:09:09 +0000

Thanks Durutti, I’ve been quiet a while, exploring the best way of getting the blog back up and running and I’m feeling pretty happy with Wordpress setup: all you blogspotters should move!

Seb, that’s pretty crazy news about the BBC. I read the SMH’s piece, which only really touches on downloads of TV and radio programs. ABC’s been moving in that direction for a while and doing it across the board really throws down the gauntlet. But music too, seems a little out of their mandate, very interesting.

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:01:44 +0000

And now this . . . .http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1447649.htm

BBC rumoured to offer music downloads . . . .

By: DJ Durutti

DJ Durutti — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 04:32:04 +0000

Hey Calico — welcome back! The new WordPress site looks great, btw. Great post on Big Champaigne (i had missed the Pitchfork article) & the possible Playlouder developments. Good to see you up and posting again.

p.s. i updated yr link

By: calico

calico — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:39:53 +0000

Lots of commentary on the move at Technorati. My Sydney informer, Seb from Cyclic Defrost, tells me: “The Playlouder thing is big… Playlouder is an offshoot of Beggars Banquet which is how they’ve been able to tie everything up. There is a lot of speculation that the Sony/BMG content will use heavy DRM - which will be pushed to the subscriber - for example if i have an MP3 of Missy Elliott then it will be converted to WMA etc as it transfers . . . .BUT that the indies will use MP3.”

Pretty fascinating stuff, I’m keen to find out more… I met one of Playlouder’s lovely editors over in Oslo the other week, so I might email them to try and find out some more.