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Mystery Gift: an Original Pokémon Tribute by Benjamin Briggs

More great music from what has to be one of my favorite artists out there right now. Go grab it now!

This is huge in light of Amazon’s and Apple’s Patents to resell ebooks

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Key graph from Wired’s story:

“The novel question presented in this action is whether a digital music file, lawfully made and purchased, may be resold by its owner through ReDigi under the first sale doctrine. The court determines that it cannot,” the judge ruled.

Well then, this should keep things in turmoil for a while longer. It looks more and more like this can only be solved by an overhaul of current law by the Legislative branch, not trying to worm ourselves around via the Judiciary.

Break The Silence | she

I don’t plug music that much, but I do love she music greatly. He (I know, right?) just put out a new single and it’s rather great. A bunch of the back catalog is available for free if you’d like to dip your toe in. Very much worth a listen.

ReMix: Chrono Trigger 'Incorrigible' - OverClocked ReMix

I love Chrono Trigger, and the Trial music is some of the best of its music (second to Zeal and Tyranno Lair, and… well there’s a lot of good music here). But I was caught be the opening bars of this hard.

How You Turn Music Into Money in 2012 (Spoiler: Mostly iTunes) - Technology - The Atlantic

And people say that streaming is the future. Buy your music. But I guess that if you’re not going to do that, pay to stream. (Admittedly, this is for non-mainstream artists)

3D PRINTED RECORD

Printing your new music onto vinyl. Sound quality isn’t that great yet (give it time), but still, getting that OCRemix song onto vinyl might be worth it if you have a 3D printer… and a turntable.

“Interesting idea for a new Mac OS X audio player, currently in open beta. Nasturtium (which, by the way, is a plant that produces great-looking flowers) is based on playlists that you can save and re-open at any time; playlists can be made of music from iTunes or videos from YouTube.”

If you do a lot of Youtube music listening, this app might (It’s in beta right now, so it’s not done yet, but you can still try it) help you out. It’s not for me, but it’s still a cool idea.

Nasturtium Player Beta

“This is not just about our present; it is about our future, our ability to make it in the digital age,” said Cary Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America. “Artists and labels and the entire music community need to earn a fair return on the creative works that are the reason companies like Pandora exist.” Tim Westergren, the founder and public face of Pandora, has denounced the current system’s “discrimination” and urged the service’s 175 million users to contact their representatives in Washington. Music industry groups and labor unions have also gone public, casting it as a fair-pay issue.”

As potentially useful to the artists as this is, just examine which companies and organizations are behind this effort.

Fight Growing Over Online Royalties - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)

Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered. | The Trichordist

A very nice read about the costs and relative balances in the music industry.

Behind the Music of Pop Culture Smash 'My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic' | Music News | Rolling Stone

“Bronies” and music. I will say that I do like a bunch of the remixes and the source songs from MLP:FiM. If you haven’t seen at least the first couple episodes of the reboot, take a look. I think you’ll be surprised and pleased.

See! They’re legitimate, as the brony movement is now in Rolling Stones!