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Monday, June 19, 2006
10:36:00 AM EDT
Hearing Go-Go Gadget Gospel -- Gnarls Barkley
This is interesting -- after a couple of years of suing people who shared the music their artists made, music label Sony/BMG has now created a special site to allow bloggers to share that very same music. The difference -- the music is now streamed via a Flash player (not unlike AOL's Uncut Video or YouTube), so you don't have it permanently. You're just borrowing it.
I went and checked out the site; it's not bad, except for the minor problem that it seems to crash every single browser I have on the PC; seems to work on Safari on the Mac fine, however. At the moment, you can link to the video; later they'll be adding embeddable players. The site plays a little ad before going to the video; that's how the money gets made. I'm watching Pink's "Stupid Girls" video and the visual quality is blocky and chunky, probably for streaming purposes; by contrast, the AOL music video version, while smaller, looks better and doesn't seem to have the same buffering issues. Here's the MusicBox version and the AOL Music version for you to check out side by side. As I mentioned before, the MusicBox version crashed my PC browsers, so I make no promises it won't do it to you. I'm sure they'll get the kinks worked out.
Regardless of current tech glitches, it's always nice when music companies get a clue and figure out that actually letting people watch and listen to their music online -- and share it with each other -- is not a bad thing.
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10:36:00 AM EDT
Hearing Go-Go Gadget Gospel -- Gnarls Barkley
Loving Bloggers, Not Suing Them
This is interesting -- after a couple of years of suing people who shared the music their artists made, music label Sony/BMG has now created a special site to allow bloggers to share that very same music. The difference -- the music is now streamed via a Flash player (not unlike AOL's Uncut Video or YouTube), so you don't have it permanently. You're just borrowing it.
I went and checked out the site; it's not bad, except for the minor problem that it seems to crash every single browser I have on the PC; seems to work on Safari on the Mac fine, however. At the moment, you can link to the video; later they'll be adding embeddable players. The site plays a little ad before going to the video; that's how the money gets made. I'm watching Pink's "Stupid Girls" video and the visual quality is blocky and chunky, probably for streaming purposes; by contrast, the AOL music video version, while smaller, looks better and doesn't seem to have the same buffering issues. Here's the MusicBox version and the AOL Music version for you to check out side by side. As I mentioned before, the MusicBox version crashed my PC browsers, so I make no promises it won't do it to you. I'm sure they'll get the kinks worked out.
Regardless of current tech glitches, it's always nice when music companies get a clue and figure out that actually letting people watch and listen to their music online -- and share it with each other -- is not a bad thing.
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cool John! thanks!
natalie -
actually on mine, the aol version was choppier and froze up more often...
but either way, it's nice to think that there might be a place to watch videos even in these days of reality tv on every channel...
not that i mind reality tv!
6/20/06 8:15 PM
natalie