We’ve been writing a lot recently about Boxee, who develop a powerful media centre application for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV.
For Apple TV users, of course, the big news is that after an extensive push by the hard-working developers behind the project, the new version of the software that’s compatible with the recently-software-updated Apple TV 2.3 is available now.
“For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It’s time for us to take matters into our own hands,” the Python crew said, as they launch an all-new dedicated and legal Monty Python channel on YouTube. Catch a hand-picked selection of the team’s best clips, with a polite request to buy some stuff now and then.
A new music video site that offers back-to-back playback of YouTube clips of the top 100 songs in pop, r&b, rock, hip-hop and dance engaged in a soft launch this month.
Playcharts.com aggregates data from multiple sources to develop its charts, and then races across the internet to source relevant videos. The service also offers back-to-back playback of new music across the genres it tracks.
While legal beagles flood the ‘net with searches for the New York Bar Exam today, the rest of us are really, really passionate about music, new research explains – and it looks like good news for Apple and others in the sector this Holiday Season, read on…
A pair of reports emanating from Bauer Media and the Consumer Electronics Association show a growing appetite for music among consumers (that’s you and I), and increasing demand for music among US teens.
YouTube will soon sell spaces on its search results pages to advertisers, yet another in its series of attempts to monetize its hugely popular service. This will enable anyone with a video available on the service to promote it on search results pages. More after the clip…
Apple’s “hobby” the Apple TV has a chance at becoming a ubiquitous household item, though the company may need to add support for non-Apple media services and implement many new features if it seriously intends making an iPod-level impact on this important growing market.
The reason Apple has the chance is visible in the growing momentum behind development of solutions to bring online video to the front room – a sector becoming quickly more intense.
Online video on-demand services such as iTunes or Hulu are hot properties, meaning many more devices – including TVs offering features similar to the Apple TV – should begin to reach market en masse starting next year. And even if Apple does not develop such solutions there will still be winners and losers in the race to offer the ‘iPod’ equivalent of the multimedia for the front room box.
Right behind the introduction of its online suite of iTunes playlist sharing services, SonicSwap (www.sonicswap.com) has introduced a new line of Flex-built playlist widgets that automatically connect iTunes playlists with YouTube music videos.
By converting iTunes playlists into YouTube video playlists of original and live music performances, SonicSwap adds new entertainment dimensions to a music collection. This “mash-up” delivers music video entertainment similar to VH1 or MTV, and is directly tied to iTunes listening habits.
SonicSwap has introduced its innovative new platform for sharing and streaming music collections and playlists held in iTunes.
It’s a big deal. Most such online playlist sharing systems lack integration with iTunes, but the SonicSwap website lets members upload and store their entire iTunes playlist collection on the site in under a minute – no need to rebuild them by hand.
Analysis software automatically builds a music profile of favorite genres and artists based on what members listen to on iTunes and their iPod. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re not sure as to the background for this one, but it seems the video for Red Light Company’s forthcoming single ‘Scheme Eugene’ has been a viral video success, becoming “the most viewed music video on YouTube in the UK on both Monday and Tuesday this week,” the band’s “people” told us today. Here’s the video – more after the jump.
We’ve been writing a lot recently about Boxee, who develop a powerful media centre application for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV.
