Comments on: Socializing the Music Industry: Online Tools

By: Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:16:32 +0000

The panel (7:30 – 8:30 Pacfic Time) will be livecast by Techzulu. Questions will also be taken from those in the livestream chat room.

By: st stephen

st stephen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:21:09 +0000

really nice list, thanks! Im particularly interested in the APIs for live music.

Will the panel tonight be live-cast somehow, for those of us not in LA?

By: Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:00:16 +0000

I agree. Most studies and analytics on the topic seem to be kept private — the benefit of crowdsourcing/socializing such data could be huge. It is a two way street, perhaps the majors would be more apt to open things up if we lay it all out there. Everybody deserves the chance to succeed in the Arts and, alas, if nobody makes money for making music, we'll eventually notice less and less great music.

By: Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:54:41 +0000

Excellent. Looking forward to the tunesBag API. Will check out discogs.com. Thanks!

By: whitneymcn

whitneymcn — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:45:59 +0000

Still a private beta (that I haven't seen yet), but you might add http://www.bandmetrics.com to the list. What interests me about bandmetrics is the potential: oddly, there seem to be few people working on the kind of thing that bandmetrics is trying to do: not provide a new online distribution or management tool, but rather provide overarching analytics to track and measure how effective an artist's online presence is over time.

It almost seems like online music is where online companies were in 1998: we've figured out that the Internet is an absurdly huge opportunity, and that there are a million ways you can use it, but people are focusing on *doing* everything they can come up with, without *tracking* all of it in a systematic way. There's no "business intelligence for bands."

By: Hansjoerg Posch

Hansjoerg Posch — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:41:23 +0000

Nice to see tunesBag.com listed … our social platform will be enhanced with a full featured API soon (http://code.google.com/p/tunesbag-api/wiki/ApiD...) so other applications can profit from the data & possibilities we offer.

Maybe http://www.discogs.com/ should be added to the list (API)

By: steaner

steaner — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:50:45 +0000

Cool – thanks. Let me kow if you want an invite.

By: Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:48:35 +0000

Thanks, David. I'll take a look at Soundcloud. Looking forward to the live recording tool!

By: steaner

steaner — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:41:16 +0000

Hey Andy: Thanks a lot for adding Hobnox to the list, really appreciate. Please make sure to have a look at the Audiotool (within the Noxtools) - a browsedbased production suite for electronic music. We will update the tool in two weeks from now which will enable live recording.

Also, I'd like to point out to Soundcloud.com, a sharing and distribution site for professional audio producers. they're good friends here in Berlin and worth to check out, it's a great product. Let me know if you need an invite, they're in private beta until October.

Cheers, David