Give a mouse a cookie* My little bit on myspace music
*May require a service download, a lot of commercials, and the same shit you can hear on the radio free.
Myspace music will launch for the first time in about an hour or less, so it will launch before I finish this. So I will write about what I know of the leaked version. Basically its a new music service where everything is on myspace, and you can hold up to 100 of your favorite songs (good idea) on your page. Share your music, and through what I do not know, they will pay the artist (label/ manager/ distributer/ their mama/ their rent/ and even pay for a new cookie) a sum of less than a penny for a hit. That takes a step back from the millionaire artists to thousandair artists through this method. Now being a thousandair is no joke. That can buy you chipotle and maybe a year or 2 of rent. Information on this is scattered, but this is one of the screen shots I got from Tech crunch
Now the first shows the music player looking different, can’t tell but it seems you can buy the DRM free (meaning you can transfer it anywhere) from amazon.com, and it has a add function that if added, hopefully that can pay the artist per play as well. Imagine a top hit song, added by a million people, played 20 million times… that can get the artist maybe a few thousand dollars. Which is good considering CD’s probably will not get you anything anymore, and after free… most people don’t want to pay anymore (the majority does not pay, and if you do thats good. But by majority I mean people around the teen to older teen (24 and below)). We’ll see how this goes on launch, and I call it Give a mouse a cookie* because after being able to download music for free, why would you want to listen to it with restrictions and all these rules after pretty much being able to do anything. They should start calling them Record Labels* because do they even want records as their main income anymore?
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After midnight, and a few drinks… I do not see a major difference yet? Now myspace wasa site full of music before, and now I am becoming skeptical on how much of a difference maker this will be. Will it be a competitor to iTunes? Or will it fall like every other plan for music that has come out sine iTunes launch that is still not successful compared to P2P sites in sharing music, but is the best one when compared to money to the record labels as well as the artist and mouse’s.
Will launch a part 2 with a lot more information and a lot less intoxication. Till than…
What has come of a new plan will either thrive or fail but what has come is a new plan. Until we give up, new idea’s are needed, so even though the cookie as an asterik*… and until I find more, this cookie comes with a question mark?. So before we accept this plan as the 3rd coming of jesus, we have it remember that it is something that has been thought of but never put into action. So with Myspace’s power, this has a chance at an impact and it has me excited. I will check it out more tomorrow with coffee and advil, and until more information has been found, this is…
From the mind of
Keveeno Reeverts
*edites
From Hypebot
“At launch new MySpace Music includes:
- The new, ‘MyMusic,’ personal music management toolset
- Free and unlimited ad-supported, full-length audio streaming
- Free and unlimited playlist functionality
- Free discography and content catalogues for SONY BMG, UMG and WMG artists
- DRM-free MP3 music e-commerce downloads powered by Amazon MP3
- Ringtone e-commerce powered by Jamster”
All of this is great… but one thing I will wonder is if this will all be available for easy use from Indie artists? Or is this the time where myspace goes completely comercial and only allows the larger players to make money, making the major label deal soooo much more apealing?
Keveeno
