With daily activity around the music industry, more than a few of us out there think the industry is facing a era of change. Digital media exchange is on the rise. While many of us work on ways to change the landscape, others keenly watch the trends that will shape our future.
Our friends at the Institute for the Future think about the future of media and how new technology is forcing the hands of the currently entrenched players in the market. They have recently noted Songbird as part of trends toward a more open media landscape. Read their thoughts on Songbird.
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Oh jkoshi the link is broken !
GeekShadow, it seems to be working for me. http://iftf.org/node/915
can Marxian economic thinking/theory be applied to the turbulent market for digital media – especially re-distribution of wealth created by music? do Future Thinkers ruminate on Karl’s cogitations – or “das ist verboten”?
gadzooks. that’s a diagram of a modified De Lorean DMC-12, the sports car made in Belfast – same city as apt-X, the lossless audio compression algorithm. both ahead of their time.
Wow. So I used songbird when it rolled out 0.3, and i found it mainly because i was looking for something like iTunes to use for ubuntu so i could manage my huge library and sync my iPod, and not for music shopping on the internet…all of that can be done in web browsers and i’m am most certainly not a fan of DRM (because its unconstitutional). But anywho, I’m back at the Ubuntu grind again felt like checking out the PROGRESS at Songbird.
With version 0.5 I am amazed. I haven’t tried hooking up my iPod, but thats not anything that I’m too concerned with right now. What really is amazing about Songbird is how I see it as a new revolution in how we audiophiles cruise on the web. I see Songbird as the ultimate audio web browser. You can read and read and listen to what other people are listening to and read what they have to say and then reply. Its a great new window to communication and the art of unsigned and even some (don’t tell the RIAA) signed music groups. I love it and I’m telling everyone to check it out. Songbird is the next step for those who love audio, a beautiful interface, the speed of Mozillla Firefox, and intellectual interaction. What Songbird, even as a half-release version 0.5, has going for it is brilliance. Please don’t lose the direction of what I see as the goal of the program – to bring listeners together and to bring new exciting music to those with real ears for talent and keep the big industry from screwing things up and throwing the music biz into Wal-Mart economics. Brilliant.
@ ulster, open-source software is certainly an interesting experiment into the world of socio-capitalism. We’ll see how it goes, there is change afoot and it’s definitely time to try something new.
@ paul, I’d like to welcome you to our community of “it-getters.” We are committed to choice in the marketplace and Songbird is our opportunity to not only change the way we interact with music, but provide new ways for artists and consumers to interact with each other. Thanks for you continued support.
Future is amazing