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With CD profits continuing to free fall, new ways to identify, accumulate and play music are rising out of the woodwork. While Myspace can be said to have spearheaded a social networking /music playlist integration, few people would openly consider Myspace their destination for music. Of course, few people would openly consider Myspace their destination for anything. With the possible exception of web cam divas.
Though nothing has yet surfaced that can claim to have replaced music sales’ lost revenue, recent years have seen the emergence of a number of innovative services, players, and websites. The competition over music distribution is not dead, it’s just changed venues, and the players seem to be focused on posturing themselves for a new kind of music industry, in which media partnerships and subscription services dictated by Internet conglomerates are the lay of the land.
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Pandora and Last.fm Picking Up the Slack
With CD profits continuing to free fall, new ways to identify, accumulate and play music are rising out of the woodwork. While Myspace can be said to have spearheaded a social networking /music playlist integration, few people would openly consider Myspace their destination for music. Of course, few people would openly consider Myspace their destination for anything. With the possible exception of web cam divas.
Though nothing has yet surfaced that can claim to have replaced music sales’ lost revenue, recent years have seen the emergence of a number of innovative services, players, and websites. The competition over music distribution is not dead, it’s just changed venues, and the players seem to be focused on posturing themselves for a new kind of music industry, in which media partnerships and subscription services dictated by Internet conglomerates are the lay of the land.
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