The open source bussard fusion reactor project [which you should, of course, back because it’s utterly astonishing] gets the attention of an investor who found the project through Kickstarter.
I’ll hit you with the spoiler by saying the story doesn’t end with angel funding, but it’s a fascinating read, and once again: it’s a strange and beautiful world we’re building here.
The UK release process is one of the most front-loaded in the world, with pre-release promotion starting up to three months ahead of release. The problem is that, with everything riding on building pre-awareness, we’ve produced a system that creates demand for a product that is by definition not legally available – which doesn’t work when it takes just one promo CD to be uploaded to a p2p network for a release to spread around the world.
Industry bodies including ERA and the MMF are calling for abolition of pre-release windows in their entirety. With speakers including the BBC’s Head of Music for Radio 1 George Ergatoudis, this event will see leading lights from across the business attempt to build a consensus on the way forward.
Problem: when people start hearing music that has been officially pre-released, they get excited about it and want to hear more as soon as possible, but our current system doesn’t provide them with any way to do so.
Solution: stop pre-releasing music, so that people don’t have the opportunity to get excited about what we have to offer them.
Interesting. That isn’t the approach I would have taken, but I guess that’s why I’m not a “leading light” in the record biz.
residuetrail asked: Do you have any invites to Extension.FM? You've peaked my interest.
Oops — I hope this was a recent request, just noticed it. Yep, I have at least one invite code, drop me a note (whitney@absono.us) and I’ll pass it along to you.
It’s hard to overstate how awesome this is. Many of you reading this are now DJs on my own personal radio station. Keep up the good work, kids.
Nitpick: deleting Balkan Beat Box, Dan? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
The latest release (3.2) introduces auto-updating sites. This means that songs will automatically be added to your library, from the sites you have already visited, as those sites post them. You do not have to re-visit sites to get new songs. This all happens in the background.
The All Songs List view has been tweaked a little with timestamps to better reflect this new ‘Music Activity Stream’:
All sites have auto-updating turned on by default. You can turn this off on a site-by-site basis by right-clicking on a site in the All Songs Pane View:
You can now also remove an entire site and all of its songs by right-clicking and choosing delete:
If you would like to remove individual songs, you can still right-click on any song in All Songs Pane view and choose delete. If you remove all the songs from a site, the site will still remain and continue to auto-update if you have not chosen to turn that off
Holi
Sunday
Sunday, crepes and coffee
Saturday
Angry Samoans - Lights Out
It’s Angry Samoans: unnecessary words deleted.
(most recently via pas-d, originally posted by inthefade — and to be clear: yes, her post on the song is actually very good, the “unnecessary words deleted” is an attempt at an in-joke, playing on the anti-intellectual stance of the band, for those of us who enjoy their music. A joke that didn’t work, it appears.)
