Rick Aristotle Munarriz (whose name should win an award) writes in Motley Fool about the future of music distribution, with a good sense of reality. Munarriz forecasts that local fame will be far more important to most musicians than global fame ("Instead of hundreds of musical artists selling millions of CDs, you will have millions of bands selling hundreds of CDs."), powered by the emerging local search tools developed by the three search giants.
Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft: Music Companies of the Future?
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(Page 1)3. New music search databases are destined to compliment the exisitng movie and image databases now available at Yahoo, MSN, and Google. In the very near future users will reference one all-inclusive search engine entertainment catalog and for a nominal fee be allowed to download custom selections of stored music captions. The search engines will also provide historical data per account and many other ease of use tools. One editorial concern is that the stored versions of audio media available might be altered from their original version for system compliance purposes. Do the search engines have the right to alter someone else's creation?
Posted at 5:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jack Roberts
4. Well....Since nobody wants to buy a $16 CD with one good song on it anymore, cherry picking songs is obviously the future. allofmp3.com is the quasi-legal state of the art right now, but if Google can categorize the music into an easily searchable database they might be on to something.
Posted at 5:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tom W
6. New music search databases are destined to compliment the exisitng movie and image databases now available at Yahoo, MSN, and Google. In the very near future users will reference one all-inclusive search engine entertainment catalog and for a nominal fee be allowed to download custom selections of stored music captions. The search engines will also provide historical data per account and many other ease of use tools. One editorial concern is that the stored versions of audio media available might be altered from their original version for system compliance purposes. Do the search engines have the right to alter someone else's creation?
Posted at 5:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jack Roberts
1. Well....Since nobody wants to buy a $16 CD with one good song on it anymore, cherry picking songs is obviously the future. allofmp3.com is the quasi-legal state of the art right now, but if Google can categorize the music into an easily searchable database they might be on to something.
Posted at 5:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tom W