Hey, as long as this keeps him from making any more crappy solo albums or subpar late-period Rolling Stones albums, I’m all for it: turns out that Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones frontman and all around rock ‘n roll badass (and excellent chicken dancer), is a Facebook junkie.
According to Forbes, RootMusic will be announcing today that it has raised $16 million in funding. Where is that hefty wad of cash going? To make Facebook the go-to place of music, allegedly.
As part of Pandora’s goal to incorporate the more social aspects of music into their streaming music service, the music discovery generator has partnered with social networking behemoth Facebook; by connecting a Pandora account to a Facebook account, the new update makes it easy to share Pandora stations and music discoveries between friends.
In a digital age where album sales no longer accurately represent a band’s success, it has become increasingly important for bands and labels to be able to measure popularity on the Internet, on sites like Myspace, Last.fm, YouTube, SoundCloud and Facebook. Music data site Band Metrics is looking to offer such a service, and opened up the private beta today for several thousand artists to test its system, reports Hypebot.
Band Metrics not only gauges song plays, profile views and comments across various platforms, but also tracks airplay on over 3,500 radio stations, and scores your music 8 different ways. For example, your band has a “fandom” rating and “brand strength”. The company is also launching a standard format for sending and receiving data from the site, so it’s easy for users to share band data between each other. Check out some of the more interesting forthcoming features in development:
At the 2009 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Taiwan, UC San Diego electrical engineering Ph.D. student Luke Barrington presented a new model for music analysis (pdf) that can capture both the sound of a song and how it changes over time. The system is being used for a new search engine, dubbed Google for Music, and users would search for descriptive words, like “mellow jazz”, instead of song titles, album names or artist names.
The algorithm labels tracks differently; it cuts them into segments such as verse, chorus and bridge. It’s more accurate because it gives labels to smaller sections of a song, rather than attempting to broadly label the entire thing. But the computer must be taught, so Barrington’s team has made a game for Facebook, called Herd It, which asks you to identify instruments, genres, artist names and emotions triggered by a song.
Searchme is the new search engine that lets you share information instantly on Twitter and Facebook. It organizes your search into an animation that bring up each page and present s text associated with the page. You then have the option to share the page, zoom in to read it and click through to the original URL address.
Randy Adams, Founder and CEO of Searchme thinks that the service can streamline communication online. He says “whether it’s breaking news stories, videos that makes them laugh or songs from their favorite artist, people love to share what they find on the web with friends and family.”
But does the service help us do those things? I decided to find out.
If you’re like us (see: hopelessly addicted to Twitter, Facebook, et. al.), you’re always on to the next big thing as it happens. Hey, that’s why you read the YouCrave magazines to begin with– to stay up to date on the latest in lifestyle, gadgets, design, movies and music. So if you’re the Twitter-minded, an avid FaceBooker or prefer to stick with email or RSS, we’ve got an update for ya. Earlier today, we launched a combined twitter account for all the YouCrave websites. So if you want the latest news from us as it breaks, follow YouCrave on twitter for all the best, breaking news in one place. How else can you stay up-to-date? Here are the dirty details…
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It’s been possible for some time share photos from Myspace to many other networking sites like Facebook, Reedit, Google Bookmarks, StumbleUpon, Netvibes, Twitter, Newsvine, myAOL, Slashdot, Digg and Yahoo Bookmarks, as pictured above. Now, Myspace has finally given the same functionality to Myspace Music Playlists, allowing you to share music across the long list of sites. MySpace executive Tracy Akselrud told Digital Music News that:
“This feature encourages the sharing and promoting of playlists and album pages on and off site. It makes the music experience more social, more open and offers even greater exposure for artists.”
The Pirate Bay has extended its file sharing system to social networking site Facebook. With a single click, Facebook users can add torrents to their profile from the Pirate Bay to share with friends, a development that could put Facebook in the middle of the copyright battle between copyright holders and the torrent site.
Torrentfreak reports that a linked button labeled ‘Share on Facebook’ now appears on Pirate Bay search results. By clicking the link, users can share torrent trackers, which are widely used to download music and movie files via the bit torrent protocol. The trackers are then added to the users’ Facebook profile, where others can simply click to download.
