2. The Music Industry of today
• Over the past 10 years,
their has been a decline
in the music industry
because people either
get their music through
online stores such as
Itunes or they use
music websites such as
Limewire to download
music illegally.
3. Music Industry in the past 10 years
• One reason for people not
supporting artist are that
some feel that free is better.
• 48% of people believed that
they would buy their favorite
artist music if royalties were
implemented and that artist
were to get paid per sale.
• Many people think that if the
artist is not even being
supported while many record
labels always say “buy the
albums, support the artist.”
4. Why people don’t buy CD’s anymore
• 29% said that they were
too expensive and if the
prices were lower they
would purchase them
still.
• 20% said that they are
buying the CDs to
support the artist/label
and the industry
5. How people get their music today
• There are many
websites out there that
offer free downloading
of music and the
purchasing of music.
Internet radio and
satellite radio has
become widely popular
as well over the past
years.
6. Itunes
• Itunes you are able to
purchase and download
music, music videos,
television shows,
games, audio books,
eBooks, podcasts, rent
movies and get apps for
your Iphone, Ipod Touch
and Ipad.
7. History
• Soundjam MP was
developed by Jeff
Robbin and Bill Kincaid
then was later released
by Casady & Greene in
1999.
• Became for basis for
Itunes when Apple
purchased it in 2000
8. Itunes History
• Apple introduced Itunes
on January 9, 2001
• It was originally a Mac Os
9 application
• In April 2003, the 4.0
version was introduced
along with the Itunes
store.
• October 2003 the 4.1
version added support for
Microsoft Windows 2000
and Windows XP
9. Itunes
• Apple has changed the
way we listen to our
music forever. They
have changed how we
buy our music, and how
we download it. You
never have to leave
your home again to
purchase a CD from
your favorite artist.
10. Advertisement
• Back in 2008, Coldplay
had one of the biggest
albums of the year and
has been Itunes best
selling album ever.
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11. Rhapsody
• Rhapsody is an online
music server that is only
available in the United
States.
12. History
• In 1999, Tim Bratton
and JP Lester along with
some others began
working on a new
engine where you could
stream audio through.
• The engine was
developed by the
TuneTo.com that was a
customized radio
service
13. Rhapsody History
• Rhapsody was officially
launched on December
2, 2001
• It was the first
streaming on-demand
music subscription that
offered unlimited
access to a large library
of digital music for a
monthly fee
14. Rhapsody
• In 2002 they secured
licenses from record
labels: EMI, BMG,
Warner Bros Records
and Sony
• In January 2010,
Rhapsody has a catalog
of 9 million songs.
15. Advertisements
• Rhapsody shows their
advertisements for how
their services work for
their unlimited music
downloading.
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16. Pandora Internet Radio
• Pandora is an automated
music recommendation
service and custodian of
the Music Genome
Project.
• Listeners enter a song or
artist that they enjoy
listening to and the
service responds by
playing selections similar
to it.
17. Pandora
• There are 400 musical
attributes that are
considered when
selecting the next song.
18. Pandora, Pandora, Pandora!
• Pandora can be accessed
through many stand
alone players.
• The service has 2
subscription plans. One is
a free subscription that is
supported by
advertisements and a fee-
based one that has no
ads. With the free
subscription Pandora
allows you up to 40 hours
of listen time a month
19. Pandora
• You are able to listen to
Pandora on your Iphone
and Ipod touch and it is
available for Android
phones as well.
• As of March 2010
Pandora had 700,000
tracks in its library and 48
million subscribers who
listened to the radio 11.6
hours a month
