Posts Tagged ‘MP3’

All Eyes Should be on Trent Reznor

By jambrose | Digital Music, Media Technology

Nine Inch Nails just release their new album The Slip as a %100 free download. I might go so far as to say it is a %110 free download, given the extremely open set of formats it which it is available: High-quality MP3s (87 mb) – encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged. FLAC lossless

Digital Music Intermediation Part 6

By jambrose | Digital Music, Interactive Strategy, Media Technology, Social Media

In describing the “Virtual Value Chain”, the authors of “The Move to Artist-Led Online Music Distribution: Explaining Structural Changes in the Digital Music Market”(2005) claim that “the emerging digital music market supports dramatically reduced production and distribution costs”. Since the same recording is used for both physical and digital distribution, recording costs stay the same.