RSSSpiralFrog Signs EMI for Music Service
by BetaNews Staff
Following an agreement with Universal late last month, advertising-supported music store SpiralFrog said Wednesday that it had reached a deal with EMI, further expanding its free download catalog. The combined song library would include artists such as Sting, Nelly Furtado, Jay Z and Kanye West, the company said.
EMI's deal would also extend to lyrics, which would be included with downloads from the service. "We are very pleased to help launch SpiralFrog," said Roger Faxon, Co-CEO of EMI Music Publishing. "It is a very exciting concept which fuses advertising with music downloads and other services to recapture consumer demand which has been hijacked by online piracy." SpiralFrog expects to launch later this year.
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Why does every music service alive make you feel like you're just renting the song? I don't want my music to run out at any given time just because I quit using a service. So what? I gave them money for nothing? Pure profit. The only model that's good is eMusic's true mp3 status.
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This looks to be another hamfisted record industry attempt to degrade the music business down to a level hitherto unseen. As if American Idol wasn't bad enough, now we have to put up with commercials between the latest crud from Sting, or some other no-talent record company stooge. I thought that was called "commercial radio". "SpiralFrog" is probably supposed to be cool name I guess, to get the kids interested. Spinal Tap anyone?
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Would be nice if you, and the other media outlets that are hyping this, would also include the fact that the "free" music expires after 6 months, AND you have to watch an ad once a month for that specific track to keep it active.
http://blog.wired.com/music/#1548042
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...and start a precedent of real substantial complete reporting?!?!
:-O
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Sounds like the OLD radio model? (pre-XM)
It's interesting watching the music world go back to giving away there "soft" music. People will still buy the CD's. Since they sometimes office really good artwork and can be collected.
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