Mobile App Creator with Soundcloud Integration

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Great new Music Site with DJ Sets and Live Recordings

play.fm is a great new music portal to listen to original recordings of music played at music clubs. The site lists dj sets, radio shows and live recordings at clubs. There are about 12000 dj sets with electronic music and techno, jazz and reggae available. The music can be listened by a website player. The player has some outstanding features. It is able to mark particular tracks within the sets to discuss the music at a wiki of the website. By its upload facilities at the same time play.fm is a promotion platform for dj's, labels and clubs.

Social Media Music Charts

A great source for music at the social web has been launched. We are Hunted is a music chart service, which is based on the popularity of music at the social web. The service measures the popularity at blogs, forums and media sharing sites.

The service has a great design and enables to listen to the chart music directly from within the site by an integrated music player. There are daily and monthly charts as well as charts for the whole year. By a menu tab called 'Artists' one may access artist profiles by images. The profile pages offer further information about artists, links and have a player, too, to listen to choosen music of particular musicians.

Internet Music TV with Personal Channels

MUZU is an internet music tv site and a vertical video sharing portal for music related content. It is a site for music lovers, artists and labels. The service enables everyone to start an internet music tv channel. Topics may range from artist features and interviews to gigs and music videos. Videos may become shared and embedded at third party sites.

There are even more features for artists and business networking. A recording studio is available to unsigned artists and a video tool to convert existing videos. Artists and labels may connect to the music industry for contacts and promotion.

YouTube Live Event

YouTube will host a live event on 22th November. There is a big announcement at YouTube Live. It will be a major global event with all kind of artists, big stars and independents, comedians and scientists. The event celebrates all participants of the site and will be streamed from San Francisco. Find further information at the YouTube Live site.

Music Business Service for Project Financing and Investments

Bandstocks is another music business service introducing an alternative to the ad supported free music business. Bandstocks is about financing music projects.

As the music industry is on the move the term project might become an interesting subject. Creativity today is not only required by the artists themselves to create something that is desired, but too by creators of concepts and marketers in the entertainment business to establish a successful business. As one may state that the time of the million billion dollar business is over for the music industry today new concepts might be needed to establish a business model based on art. Art might be the right term beside music as there indeed exists a broad playing field consisting of music, video opportunities and further ways of expression. Maybe a more comprehensive and integrated approach might be the new success model in the entertainment business. This is a chance to a broader range of market participants, the established entertainment business, independents and new artists as well as for other players like programers and even event organizers.

Become part of the Music Business

The music industry is really on the move and changing. Today there are hundreds of music sites enabling independents and unknown musicians to upload their songs and showcast them and on the other hand there is the discussion about copyrights and other issues. Now here are some alternative business models and chances to participate in the music business.

At SongVest rights to songs are auctioned off. By buying a share one gets some rights to a song. And if so one participates in the revenue streams and gets royalties everytime a song is played or performed. Actually there are only a few songs listed, but some have been created by well known artists. Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and, wow, now I read Ringo Star are listed. This might be worth a try. I have not visited all pages, but for now there are no bids at the visited pages and the auctions do start with just 1 Dollar. The fees are $ 150 for legal transfer and $ 30 for shipping.

Popcuts is doing something else. People may earn by recommending. It is a social network offering premium downloads for just 99 cents. If someone has bought a song and someone else buys it later, the one who bought the song earlier will earn some money. This may work well at music sites and by actively recommending songs.

Favtape.com for instant Music Playlists

Favtape.com is a service to easily create music playlists. Playlists are edited like microblogs as it happens at Tumbltape for music sharing. But the Favtape.com has other focal points. There is a music search engine and there are integrated interfaces to Last.fm and Pandora, another music sharing site and a music search engine, to create playlists of bookmarked songs and tracks. Another great feature are lists of top songs from the year 1901 until today. Here is a playlist of the roaring twenties: favtape.com/top/1925

Favtape.com has also been featured at the up to date music and video news at traexs.com, which you may follow by feed or at twitter.com/traexs.

Music Sharing Trends

Cool music sharing sites have come up. At some one can be the dj and create own channels and playlists to share music with friends and even at the internet. Here are some sites and a brief review about the history of music at the internet and some hints.

One of my favorites is Blip.fm, which is a new and modern music sharing site. Members get own homepages and can create playlists from a pool or upload own music. By the latter it is a service for independents to promote their music. There are tools available to vote for dj's, to share music at the internet and to promote songs at other social media sites.

Another one is Tumbltape. This services automaticly picks up music files, which are posted at the Tumblr microblogging service. Too, the playlists do look like microblogs like e.g. the tuneage's Tumbltape. Nice and easy.

Both are for social networking, too, and if one uses Blip.fm one can send tracks automaticly to Tumblr and get a Tumbltape playlist.

What is strange about music sharing is that it has started lately and there are much more video sharing than music sharing sites. Controversially to the discussion about copyrights first music pages at the internet either have been informative or made for independents to promote music. Early movers have been ArtistServer, beatmaka and SoundClick. Other pages like ccMixter do enable musicians to cooperate at the internet by exchanging sounds or by offering online music tools.

Music sharing I guess at first started with podcasting. Because of this competition by the new possibilities for independents to promote their music the discussion about copyrights rather seemed a business issue to me and annoying. Opposite to this copyrights of course remain an issue. What is difficult in the todays music business is to distinguish between promotions and unauthorized uploads. For legal sharing one may join a service that offers songs, upload own music or look for musicians that offer Creative Commons or License Art Libre licensed tracks. These are licensing initiatives to enable musicians to cooperate and fans to download and share music.

If you like to obtain more frequent information about music downloads, sharing and opportunities for music promotion, I may recommend the following just started newsfeed: TRAEXS Music and Video News by TRAEXS.COM

Free Live Music is here

Have you already experienced live internet music? There are a couple of services offering free and premium live internet music shows, live casts and recorded shows. WoozyFly.com is a free service, where musicians can broadcast themselves for free and live or upload music videos. There are a lot of features there, recorded shows and a lot of music videos, features to meet the bands or chat with other fans. There is also an offer for podcasters to get the code and to podcast particular music videos. The following is a music video taken for sharing.