Any Universal license holder -- a music site that has been given permission to post song samples, for example -- can go to Loudeye and get the music delivered in any digital format, including Windows Media or QuickTime.
As the Entrepreneurs Challenge progresses in coming weeks, the YellTimbre group plans to perform some consumer research to see what other music lovers are looking for in a social music site, including talking to people waiting in line for concerts around the city, Stock said.
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As a campus rep for Musicblitz, a music Web site, schmoozing Eddie is just one part of Cutler's job that has no clear description.
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How about a .dj music site (Djibouti) or a .md Web doctor (Moldova)--and shouldn't Nike hop onto just.do.it (Dominican Republic and Italy)?
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The company has been looking to redesign the site as part of a transformation from a social networking focused site to a network for promoting music and video content.
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On Tuesday, MySpace Music said it will launch a site this month that will help music companies manage their catalogs online.
Take for instance the New Myspace, which was revealed a few months ago as a streamlined social media site with a focus on music.
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An employee had used that machine to download music lyrics from a Web site that Scob had infected.
Similar to its applications and games, Facebook does not intend to become a hosting site for digital music.
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The company is currently in advanced talks with investors regarding establishing a Spanish-language music download site which could appear within three months, White said.
As on Houston InterWeb Design's AMP3.com MP3 Web site (see link below) the musicians will receive a fixed royalty for every download of their music as well as a split of the advertising revenue on the site.
Then in 2009, plans for a 15, 000-seater music and sport venue were proposed with a second site at Ashton Vale close to where Bristol City Football Club wants to build a new stadium.
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The music-selling site AllofMP3.com uses a simpler business model: Base your company in Russia, steal music from American labels and sell it cheaply.
His current plans include a new file-sharing site that encrypts all its files, and a streaming music service called Megabox.
There is a possibility the site could eventually make a profit by putting up advertising from music stores such as Guitar Center at some point down the line, Vachon said.
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The site now has a healthy music component and is among the ten most-visited Latin Web sites.
It was a fitting site for the late country music legend, who had been a member of the show since 1956.
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No doubt, the growth from communities can be staggering, as seen with the success with MySpace.com, a social networking site catering to young music fans.
The service overall brings to mind the start-up Turntable.fm, a site for people to deejay music for their friends in a virtual club, though Shaker has more ways to interact with people.
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The move comes as Google itself is attempting to become a major seller and distributor of professional video and music content through a variety of services, from its YouTube video site to the Google Play online-media store to its pay-TV service in Kansas City, which required deals with cable-channel networks.
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Culprits include its bottled Frappuccino, which isn't selling well, and spending on a planned Internet site that would also hawk music and home furnishings.
Music became a huge success story for the site, as it launched the careers of Sean Kingston, Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, and many other then-unknown artists.
This site acts as a great introduction to music and bands to watch out for.
Someone sent me a link to a music video, and I followed it to the site.
"I got a crush on Obama" sings a young woman on a music video that was an instant hit on the site.
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Maybelline invited customers to create polls about fashion or music and share them with friends on a Web site devoted to the Pure products.
Still, as Firefly is showing with its BigNote site built around a thriving community of music fans, good online music stores have the potential to outdo their physical competitors just as Amazon bests its book-trade rivals.
And indeed, several online music stores that have the makings of a site as useful as Amazon's have had trouble getting record companies' permission to offer album samples, and their prices are typically little lower than those of physical music stores.
Ultimately, a user will be able to sell their music on the site as well.
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