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Wednesday, 05 August 2015 09:38

Exto increases stake in Tuned Global

Melbourne-based digital music provider Tuned Global has secured a $5.1 million in investment from Sydney based venture capital firm Exto Partners.

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Monday, 17 August 2009 19:40

New Oz music scheme: unlimited music no longer pipe dream

The way you listen to music is about to change… for a monthly fee. A new service from Bandit.fm provides unlimited music from the four major labels, but will the oddly titled company swindle your money, or provide hours of listening goodness for a measly 10 bucks?

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Monday, 16 March 2009 15:48

PlayStation backed Perisher 'Launch Your Band' comp opens

What does a game console, garage bands and a ski resort television commercial have in common? The chance for budding musicians to get noticed and not simply waste their SingStar skills on the folks at home.

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Friday, 26 September 2008 11:05

MySpace Music brings unlimited online listening

A breakthrough new advertising-supported service from MySpace allows unlimited listening to a catalogue of millions of tracks. But as always seems to be the case with online media, there is a catch with MySpace Music.

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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 05:34

Big four labels adopt slotMusic memory cards for music sales

Is a new format for physical music sales sufficient to stem the online tide, or will the iTunes Store and other download services continue to rule the roost?

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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:28

Qtrax launches at last, with one catch - no trax.

Qtrax, the supposedly ‘legal’ p2p music download service, is still enjoying its 15 minutes of fame as the first beta version becomes available for download at last, but while it’s easy to download, once you’re in, you quickly discover that despite promises of 25 million free tracks, Qtrax is still NoTrax for now.

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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 05:47

Free music from Qtrax: just a misleading trick?

When Qtrax announced at Cannes 2008 that it had secured the backing of the world’s major music labels, allowing users to ‘legally’ download virtually any song from a catalogue of 25 million sourced from p2p networks, there was a big problem: it doesn’t appear to be true, and the software still can’t be downloaded.

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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 05:46

Free music from Qtrax: just a misleading trick?

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Monday, 28 January 2008 16:22

Universal and Sony BMG bosses still want to sell CD buggy whips

From all accounts, the Midem music industry event in the ultra-chic seaside French resort of Cannes last weekend must have been a love-fest of balding heads wearing earphones bopping along to music from the 60s and 70s and reliving past glories when teenagers used to line up outside record stores waiting to get their copy of the latest Beatles single. Those days are long gone but you wouldn't have known judging by the denialist rhetoric that sprang forth from the mouths of two of the leading recording industry executives.

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