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Streaming music gets one thing right. Services like Pandora, Rdio and Spotify are amazing for the consumer, and in that singular way, the music industry hasn’t been better in … probably ever. At long last, we have the celestial jukebox...

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Last month I was invited up to Ringo Starr’s home in Beverly Hills. He asked me to write a song with him for his next “virtual” album. I went up and did so. In two days’ devotion, we conjured a piece called “Bamboula”.  We also recorded it in those two...

In 2000, a Stanford Ph.D. named Avery Wang co-founded, with a couple of business-school graduates, a tech start-up called Shazam. Their idea was to develop a service that could identify any song within a few seconds, using only a cellphone, even in a...

Recording Devaluation Problems. 1. The value of the music recording is plunging, and has been for more than a decade.  Across the board, artists are experiencing serious problems monetizing their audio releases. 2. A decade-long decline in recording...