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Streaming for Pieces of Percentages of Pennies
News, Streaming Services
Michael Lavorgna • Nov 21, 2012 • 1 comments
In an article for Pitchfork, musician and songwriter Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi talks about the business model behind streaming services including Pandora and Spotify. And its not a pretty picture.
To put this into perspective: Since we own our own recordings, by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one-- one-- LP sale. (On Spotify, one LP is equivalent to 47,680 plays.)
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OraStream Digital Long-Play (DLP) App
News, Streaming Services
Michael Lavorgna • Jun 08, 2012 • 11 comments
It’s an app, its an album, its a playlist, its music, and its free (until December 2012). If you own an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad (requires iOS 4.2 or later) run don't walk to the iTunes Store and download the free OraStream DLP app. Once you do you'll be streaming from a very cool selection of tunes courtesy of Concord Music Group from artists including Miles Davis, Derrick Morgan, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band Featuring Bnois King, Bill Evans and more. Better yet, you'll be streaming in near-CD-quality (I'm streaming at 510 kbps right now ymmv).
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Streaming 24/96 over the Internet. Interested?
Streaming Services
Michael Lavorgna • Nov 15, 2011 • 4 comments
Singapore, 10th November 2011 – MP4SLS, a Singapore-based company dedicated to reshaping the delivery of digital audio entertainment, today announced the launch of a new digital audio format that allows listeners to experience high-resolution streaming audio via smartphones and tablets, without concern for delays due to buffering and other anomalies associated with limited bandwidth.

ORASTREAM is a network adaptive streaming audio platform that provides real-time high quality audio to end users. It is based on the MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless System (SLS) audio codec. By utilizing fine granular scalable audio in SLS and bandwidth estimation algorithms, ORASTREAM provides end users with the opportunity to consume high quality audio in real time over the Internet and mobile networks. ORASTREAM comprises two components: an adaptive streaming server and adaptive streaming client player.

I am consuming some streaming Sinatra at 24 bit/96 kHz (@ >2000 kbps according to the OraStream player) right now and he/it sounds great. Streaming music at 24/96 to the desktop over HTTP. Pinch me.
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Thaddeus Cahill’s Streaming Electronic Music Service c.1895
Streaming Services
Michael Lavorgna • Oct 01, 2011 • 3 comments
Thaddeus Cahill was born in 1867 in Oberlin, Ohio and by the age of 14 he’d built his first telephone receiver to play with and read Helmholtz’s On the Sensation of Tone, which set his fertile imagination on fire. He became an attorney and moved to Washington, D.C. where in 1895 he filed for a patent on his “musical machine” the Telharmonium – a “perfect instrument” whose electronic music would be distributed on the existing cable network (via leased phone lines).
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