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Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy

31 Monday Mar 2008

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Various press organisations (including Wired.com here) that Sony BMG have been found to have a substantial level of pirated software within the organisation.  If this is the case then they seriously need to get their house into order before they continue to support the RIAA’s pursuit of downloaders.  What is almost as bad is the article indicates that Sony/BMG asked the press to keep quiet as well.

It is kind of ironic that the record company’s parent Sony invest so much in trying to prevent the very thing that appears to have happened here.

 

del.icio.us tags: Software, piracy, RIAA, Sony BMG, Sony, Wired

Lot of ‘chatter’ from Led Zeppelin

28 Friday Mar 2008

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There seems to be a lot of news coming from the remaining original members of Led Zeppelin at the moment with Jimmy Page suggesting that last years O2 gig performed to commemorate Ahmet Ertghun could see a DVD release. John Paul Jones has reportedly suggested that the band may even return to the studio to record a new album. Robert Plant has su8ggested that they may perform live again, although there has been a lot of speculation and rumour about this for some months now.  If we’re lucky then perhaps all three suggestions may come to occur in 2008.

 

del.icio.us tags: Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, live, DVD, recording, album, rumours

Why Buy Digitally Recorded Albums On Vinyl?

28 Friday Mar 2008

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The never ending debate over whether vinyl is better than CD or digital encoding is covered bi Idolator in their article Format Wars: Why Buy Digitally Recorded Albums On Vinyl?.  To be honest I think this is a debate that will never end.  But in the arguments that rage I’ve never heard any consideration that when listening to vinyl it requires a lot more effort and commitment from the listener (got to care for vinyl and handle it with care compared to CD, then you have to swap sides after twenty or so minutes) and as result it is less likely to be just slapped on in the background which is so easy with CD and mp3 etc.  When you invest more effort to playing the music you’re probably going to listen more carefully and therefore pick up the nuances more easily.

The other consideration in the debate is the fact that vinyl has gone through faces of production quality changes. Back in the time when CD started coming in the vinyl was lighter (therefore more susceptible to warping and distortion) had more grooves crammed onto a surface.  Now with the re-emergence of vinyl the discs are a lot better quality – to the point you’ll see the vinyl weight included in the advertising.  With it is also the willingness to split albums across more surfaces meaning that the grooves aren’t jammed together tightly.

Regardless of what is done to settle the argument scientific analysis, blind tests the entire subject will continue to be seen in a incredibly subjective light and never be settled one way or another.

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Music Maps

27 Thursday Mar 2008

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A while back I read an article on Guardian Unlimited which used Google Maps used to pick out places that had been referenced in song lyrics (go here for the Guardian Map).  I had thought it would be interesting to see a global one – even the most anglophile groups reference all over world (Return of the Los Palmas Seven, New Delhi, Night Boat to Cairo – just examples from Madness).  Well in my search of an example I did come across England Rocks which uses Google Maps to highlight significant locations in British musical history (where Jimi Hendrix used to live) but no map like the Guardian one.  Admittedly the search is difficult because it gets clouded by lots of lyric sites.

 

So I started to tinker with Google Map’s maplets to produce something.  I found two things:

  • firstly the maplet lists all your points which is no good when you’ve accumulated a lot of entries – you can see my attempt here.
  • I found that working with Google Maps through Firefox 2 to be a bit flaky with Firefox crashing regularly when trying to edit the annotations.

Having looked at the Google Maps proper API so we could underpin the map with a database of entries so we can slice and dice the data points more effectively it doesn’t look too challenging to build something, so hopefully I’ll find time to try it out.  The real effort looks to be around the protection of the data from being filled with spam, whether to put in an authentication mechanism or the common random image/text combination.  Once I’ve got a solution running and primed with some initial entries then I’ll blog again and popup things for people to try.

del.icio.us tags: Google, Maps, maplet, Guardian Unlimited, England Rocks, music, Firefox, places, lyrics, songs

Quirks of Internet Radio and the Music Genome Project

26 Wednesday Mar 2008

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Crawdaddy! has managed to release another interesting article about the quirks of internet radio and the application of the Music Genome Project – check out the article here.  The article does close with a statement I’d like to quote:

 

I’ll take one David Gilmour note over 38 Malmsteem notes played over the same number of beats.

del.icio.us tags: Radio, Internet Radio, Music Genome Project, Crawdaddy, article

Dolly Parton – going it alone

25 Tuesday Mar 2008

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Dolly Parton isn’t the sort of artists I’d usually blog about.  However, one of country’s legends has gone it alone with her latest record rather than working through a record company. In part this has been because she had been dropped by her record label (as recorded here).  

If Dolly has been dropped by her label, you’d think that her record sales are pretty trivial, far from it this latest album has clocked up over 50,000 sales (details here) in the first couple of weeks of release and a top twenty sales ranking. 

This isn’t the first time such a decision has been made – just look at what happened to Wilco around the time of the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album. This begs the questions how do record companies determine which artists to drop and are record labels so burdened with costs or inability that they deem a 50,000 sales as not being sufficiently profitable enough?

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New Elvis Costello Album released on Vinyl and Digitally but No CD?

25 Tuesday Mar 2008

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  A story(here) that has been showing up on the web over the last couple of days is the surprising indication that the next Elvis Costello album to be released through Lost Highway wont be available on CD.  Given that I’ve yet to see a correction to this story, can only suggest that there is some truth in it, although the decision is certainly surprising.  I would have put Elvis Costello’s fanbase demographic (horrid music-business expression, but no other easy to express) in the area of those people who would still rather have something tangible in their hands and fall into the vinyl or CD generations.

 

It leaves me in a puzzling situation of how to get the album as someone who likes to have something tangible in my hands.  My local music shops have abandoned vinyl, and ordering vinyl over the ‘net has not been the best experience for me with a number of occasions of the sleeve being damaged and in one case they vinyl actually having been warped.

del.icio.us tags: Elvis Costello, Vinyl, CD, downloads, releaseCD, Lost highway, Billboard, story, news, music, Lost Highway

Matthew Ryan – The Allmusic Blog Artist Spotlight

25 Tuesday Mar 2008

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A change from All Music’s seemingly frequent blogging of American Idol they’ve actually written a brief artist spot light blog on Matthew Ryan here.  With Matthew’s new album coming out this can only help.

 

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Seewhy for JBoss jBPM

22 Saturday Mar 2008

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With the big push at SeeWhy to get Version 3.4 out of the door coming to an end, I’m expecting to get time to finalise SeeWhy for JBoss jBPM – a BAM solution for JBoss jBPM (JBoss’ Business Process Management tool which is also used to provide orchestration of the JBoss SOA platform) using the SeeWhy realtime BI product. The core of this has been largely finished for some time, as we demo’d it in Orlando for JBoss World but the production quality finishing and the final piece of functionality – providing the closed loop capabilities such that SeeWhy can start new jBPM processes or get existing processes to resume had been held up.  Unfortunately trying to get a good grip on this and the threading implications hasn’t been so straight forward giving the limited amount and quality of documentation (for example javadoc for jBPM is very sparse) and example code available. Although I am very pleased with the quality of documentation that the next generation of jBPM is likely to have having seen the PVM (Process Virtual Machine) source code for its first release.

 

del.icio.us tags: jBPM, SeeWhy, JBoss World, PVM, BAM, realtime, BI

Sir Arthur C Clarke – Rest In Peace

19 Wednesday Mar 2008

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In addition the the sad passing of respected writer and film director Anthony Minghella, it is sad news that the visionary author Arthur C Clarke has also died today. Although best known for writing the film 2001 which was filmed by Stanley Kubrick he was a well established as visionary and respected author long before this.  Clarke had published papers describing things such as geo-stationary orbit years before it was achieved – something that is central to our everyday lives and take for granted.  The BBC has full Obituary here.

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