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October 26, 2005
$1.67 a song from itunes music store australia
Well, it took a while, but here in Australia, we now have an iTunes music store. Which means we can purchase content legally for our music players. It's a bloody sad inditement on the industry when it's taken this long to get services such as this up and running. I know the bigpond music service was met with a fairly lukewarm reception in the real world. I cannot help but wonder how well ITMS will do in Australia. Probably fairly well as the penetration of iTunes users is pretty happening thanks to the eponymous white headphone cult and the fact that iTunes as music software, no longer sucks poop.
Still. We have $1.67 as the price for a song from ITMS AU. Which I'm pretty surpised by. I know that to import goods it costs more, but in the digital domain price increases on music are down to the deals cut with copyright holders. So we're paying the equivalent of ~$1.28USD per track, that should you reside in the US, would cost you 99cents (USD). This looks pretty stupid to me. Full albums are $16.99 AUD which is also not cheaper than say for example, free, or legally speaking, JB Hi-Fi.
Still. It's here now, and another slow step forward in the domain of making actual legal content available to purchase. For me though, purchasing a CD through iTunes seems more like a triumph of consumerism over common bloody sense.
Posted by funnelbc at 02:24 PM | Comments (0)
October 20, 2005
itunes music store for australia on the 25th?
Coming direct from the folks over on the excellent appletalk.au forums, have a squizz at this.
"Apple Australia has organised a major briefing on Tuesday at which the worldwide head of iTunes Music Store and worldwide head of iPod Marketing will appear. It's highly unusual for Apple to hold a press briefing unless a product announcement is being made, and it's hard to imagine the head of iTMS flying from the US to Australia for any other reason than the announcement of iTMS Australia.
Other corroborating evidence is that Australian music video producers have recently shot some videos specifically for playback on small screens - likely to be iTMS exclusives for the launch. Take this as you will: there's been no end of iTMS rumors to date that haven't panned out, but then, there has never been a media event with the iTMS chief in attendance before.
Sounds like we're going to be getting it soon. Hopefully. Maybe.
Thanks ooda!
Posted by funnelbc at 08:08 AM | Comments (0)
October 14, 2005
jager uprising offering $5,000 grant to aussie bands
Details are after the jump, but basically: Jager Uprising, which does an awesome job of supporting local music is offering a grant of $5,000 to help an band attend South By SouthWest music festival in Austin Texas in the states. Nice.
Comp details:
THE JAGER UPRISING IS OFFERING A $5000 GRANT TO HELP AN AUSTRALIAN BAND ATTEND THE 2006 SOUTH BY SOUTH WEST MUSIC CONFERENCE IN TEXAS U.S.A
Jagermeister is offering to help Australian bands attend the 2006 South By South West (SXSW) Music Conference, Festival and Tradeshow in Austin Texas, U.S.A (15th – 19th March 2006).
As part of it's ongoing program of identifying and supporting promising new and emerging musical talent, the Jager Uprising is pleased to announce the latest initiative:
- A grant scheme to assist those bands that have both participated in the Jager Uprising (before 7th Feb 2006) AND applied for and been accepted into the SXSW Music Conference. The grants of up to $5,000 (total pool of monies for SXSW support is $10,000) will be used to assist bands to cover expenses in attending and performing at the conference.
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Jager Uprising runs weekly in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and serves as a leg up in the local music scene through the provision of a supportive and professional environment in which to perform while providing direction, promotion and publicity.
The website – www.jageruprising.com also serves as a resource tool for musicians, managers and the public.
The teaming of Jagermeister, a brand that is identified with a great night out and is a big supporter of music in the US and the local program is the perfect mix of a grass roots development program and an organization that provides promotion and publicity infrastructure, along with opportunity for future development.
International applications to SXSW must be received by 24th October 2005 – get your application in NOW!
Jager Uprising SxSW Grant Application Forms will be online on Friday October 14
Posted by funnelbc at 02:25 PM | Comments (0)
October 03, 2005
audio engineering: the gospel according to jp22
This is too funny not to pass on. If you have an even rudimentary understanding of audio engineering there's big music nerd laughs to be had over on recording.org. The protagonist is a guy called jp22. He's damn sure he knows what he's talking about. Everyone else is a bit dubious...
Here's a sample:
JP22: I could easily give back any minimal dynamics lost compressing with a bit more eq on my mixer
BrianAltenhofel: That says it all. That was the first sign you didn't know what you were talking about.
JP22: Oh yeah? Meaning, I can easily bring up the highs (HF's or MF's) on my mixer's eq and once again bring back or hear what I lost dynamically, its simple, if I take a little out at the beginning of the chain with compression I can cerntainly just as easily put it back towards the end of the chain. Shows how much you know!
Indeed. Head on over to recording.org and Roffle yourself some mayo.
Posted by funnelbc at 11:11 PM | Comments (0)