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Los Angeles – Shawn Fanning, once reviled by record labels as the creator of renegade song-swap service Napster, on Thursday launched a new service designed to turn the threat of still popular peer-to-peer services into an opportunity for music companies and artists. The original Napster was eventually shut down in 2001 by copyright litigation and then sold to Roxio Inc, which re-launched it as a paid online service. But despite the proliferation of commercial services like the new Napster, RealNetworks Inc’s Rhapsody and even Apple Computer Inc’s iTunes, Fanning said unauthorized file-sharing was as rampant as ever. In launching the… Read more »

Nelly had a fair amount of success earlier this fall when he suckered his fans into buying not one, but two new albums on the same day: the party-pumping Sweat and the slow-jammin’ Suit. You’ve got to have some moxy to pull off the two separate albums released on the same day trick (Guns N’ Roses and Tom Waits – who’ve both pulled it off – aren’t exactly your typical artists). If anything, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst has moxy. The indie rock heartthrob will not only release two albums on the same day (January 25), but he’s planning to launch… Read more »

San Diego – Entriq Technology Enabled NPG Music Club to Build Online Community and Promote New Prince Album, Resulting in Highly Successful Album Release Entriq(TM), Inc., an innovative company that provides pay media services to leading content providers, ISPs, and cable operators worldwide and a subsidiary of the multinational media group Naspers and (JSE:NPN), today announced that its technology helped enable the successful launch of NPG Music Club’s Prince Musicology album, resulting in the artist receiving the “Best Use of Technology by an Artist” award at the Billboard Digital Entertainment Conference. The award acknowledges the band or individual artist who… Read more »

Downtown Berlin’s main park was transformed Saturday into a sea of gyrating techno fans, blowing whistles and dancing ecstatically to booming beats as the German capital’s Love Parade hit the streets for its 14th year. Throngs of scantily clad revelers, many sporting garishly colored hair and outlandish outfits or clambering onto traffic signs and street lamps, crowded around 45 techno floats as they made their way from the edges of the Tiergarten park toward the Victory Column, the center point of the daylong event. Still, police estimated at only about 500,000 the number of people who turned out – a… Read more »

A series of upcoming Rolling Stones reissues from ABKCO Records in August will mark the first albums by a major act to feature the new dual-layer hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) technology. Hybrid SACDs are both forward and backward compatible and can be played on an SACD player-allowing delivery of the format’s high-resolution audio-or on any standard CD player. The Rolling Stones Remastered series is due August 20 and includes 22 classic albums from 1963 through 1970, including single-disc releases, the 1970 live set Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!, and several other compilations. The original SACD format was created by Sony… Read more »

XM Satellite Radio today unveiled its state-of-the-art digital sound technology, featuring customized CT-aacPlus audio encoding with Neural Audio optimization, which provides superior sound quality remarkably close to Compact Disc. “XM Satellite Radio, Fortune Magazine’s 2001 ‘Product of the Year,’ succeeds because of its superior digital sound technology, unparalleled signal coverage, proven chipset technology and outstanding programming,” said XM Executive Vice President Steve Gavenas at a news briefing today in New York. “The technologies that define XM Satellite Radio sound quality have been auditioned and endorsed by leading audio experts from around the world.” CT-aacPlus Audio Compression The superior XM sound… Read more »

Clear Channel Radio CEO Randy Michaels today promoted Jeff Littlejohn, Steve Davis, and Al Kenyon each to the position of SVP of Engineering. The three had formerly served as vice presidents. They will continue to report directly to Michaels. With the promotion, Jeff Littlejohn becomes senior vice president, engineering services for the radio division. Steve Davis adds the senior vice president title and continues to manage the engineering division’s capital budget, expense tracking and regulatory technical filings. Al Kenyon becomes senior vice president of projects and technology. Kenyon continues to be responsible for evaluating the technical facilities of proposed new… Read more »

Bertelsmann AG media group said on Tuesday it will use the new secure technology of Napster song-swap firm for its BeMusic operations as part of a licensing agreement between the two companies. BeMusic is part of the German-based Bertelsmann eCommerce Group and its holdings consist of Web-retailer CDNOW, record club business BMG Direct, and myplay Inc, a digital music locker company. The technology licensing deal culminates a long-running alliance between Napster and Bertelsmann, which broke ranks with other major music companies last year by entering into a strategic alliance with the song-swap service. Napster, which had allowed free swapping between… Read more »

MP3.com Inc., the online music company being acquired by Vivendi Universal, said on Thursday it would provide technology for Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment’s music subscription service Pressplay. Pressplay, the two record labels’ answer to the controversial Napster song-sharing service, plans to use MP3.com’s media delivery and subscription management technology for its service, which is slated to launch this summer. MP3.com, in turn, will use the Pressplay service in its music download Web site.

MP3.com’s (Nasdaq: MPPP – news) Developers Network (MP3DN) (developer.mp3.com) is a relatively new resource for developers building the next generation of online music products and services. The MP3.com (www.mp3.com) Developers Network provides an online community of forward-looking individuals, providing a host of tools to build new music-enabled products as well as marketing support for their products. To sign up for the MP3DN, visit developer.mp3.com. To view a list of tools, visit www.mp3.com/dev/tools_tech.html In April, MP3.com added the latest feature to the MP3DN: the MusicDB API, a high-tech tool for software developers. MusicDB, a CD-recognition service that is presently offered at… Read more »