A news report from Australian media outlet mUmBRELLA indicates that about 200 commercial radio stations in Australia will shut off their Internet webcasts to avoid paying additional licensing fees levied a year ago. The stations have been streaming their broadcast signals on the Internet during an i...
It used to be standard, in the ancient pre-iPod era of early MP3 players. Apple omitted FM reception from all versions of the iPod and iPhone, a fact we’ve complained about repeatedly. Because those products established a specification template for other handhelds, terrestrial radio has falle...
Now accepting submission for crowdfunding campaigns, PodFund, is a new platform for Internet audio and video content creators, The company was founded in December 2013. Funding is scheduled to begin on March 3rd, 2014.PodFund founder Robert Becker has a radio and freelance voiceover background, and ...
StreamGuys announces that Whisperings Solo Piano Radio is its first customer to deploy the company’s new interactive HTML5 player. The player gives mobile listeners without a Flash player a simple way to access the free Whisperings stream, while also delivering a much richer broadcast experience t...
For those focused on music and online audio, it’s easy to forget that Apple is not a music company, but a hardware vendor. Because mobile consumer hardware is necessarily about media delivery, Apple and Google and Microsoft are media companies also, but secondarily.Apple did brag about iTunes sale...
Radionomy announced their new Windows Phone app earlier in the week that features the best of Radionomy's services in a native client application.The app features all of Radionomy's streaming stations alongside some extra features...Real People/Real Stations: stations are made by real people (amateu...
Centova Cast v3.0.6 is now available, with several minor new features, improvements, and bug fixes.The following is a complete list of changes included in Centova Cast v3.0.6:Minor new featuresAdded support for reseller backup/restoreAdd completed Greek language supportAdded "raw metadata" value to ...
Returning from the brink of death, music services Winamp and Shoutcast are now officially with a new owner: Digital audio business Radionomy has acquired the both media player and radio platform from AOL. We understand from a reliable source that it is a cash and share deal, worth between $5 million...
It’s press release week – err, I mean CES week – in our industry this week, a time when lots of folks gather in Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, and announce innovative products and projects. I don’t mean to belittle the announcements, some of which sound very promising. But it’s k...
The Copyright Royalty Board today published in the Federal Register its notice announcing the commencement of the next proceeding to set webcasting royalty rates for 2016-2020. The Notices (here for webcasting and here for “new subscription services” – subscription webcasting and other similar...
