Independent Artists Can Now Submit Their Songs Directly to Ohdio

Indonesian online radio Ohdio today has opened itself to independent Indonesian bands who wish to have their songs broadcast on its service. In a blog post, the company is calling for bands to submit their songs directly for consideration. While Ohdio already has a deal in place to feature many local artists and bands, the company wishes to feature as many acts as possible and provide the widest range of songs for its listeners.

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MavenSay Makers Release Music Based Messaging App Called Rithm

MavenSay, the Toronto-based company that launched a peer recommendation app of the same name several months ago has released a messaging app. Rithm is a free app for iOS that was built out of observing the behaviors of MavenSay users and focusing on using music as the foundation of a messaging platform using previews of songs from services such as iTunes, Spotify, and Rdio.

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[DS Notes] How Much Is Apple Paying Music Labels for iTunes Radio?

We discussed a bit about music licensing fees on Monday specifically when it comes to digital playback. As it happens, the Wall Street Journal revealed the licensing structure that Apple has to pay for songs played through iTunes Radio and to nobody’s surprise, it’s not entirely straightforward. Apple pays US$0.13 per song played plus 15% of net advertising revenue on year one and it goes up to $0.14 and 19% on year two, but there are other qualifiers that will alter the final figures such as not having to pay royalty fees when the played songs are already in the person’s library or when it’s a promoted track, or when the song gets skipped before it reaches 20 seconds. But then Apple is only allowed to skip royalties for two songs per person per hour. Got that? Don’t forget, iTunes Radio is also designed to get people to buy more songs from iTunes.

Ohdio’s New Approach Emphasizes on Radio-Like Experience

A few days ago Ohdio was relaunched with a brand new design and an entirely new approach to enjoying the service. I have been a fan of Ohdio from the beginning and still believe it has a good chance of becoming successful even though the service hadn’t really found its strength until recently. This new approach reinvigorates not just general interest in the service but also its possibility of success. Not only that, it helps introduce Indonesians to a modern way to enjoy music.

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[Manic Monday] Licensing Music For Digital Services

Running a business that licenses something for digital services is not easy. First of all, the legal basis of a licensing business depends on the protection of intellectual property rights, which in reality depends on how serious the local government enforces it, especially due to the differences in regulations between countries, despite efforts of bodies like WIPO. Licensing is essentially a permissions-based business, which depends on control and trust, two things that are seemingly difficult on the internet.
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Indonesian Music Streaming Service Ohdio Gets a Revamp and Mobile Access

Streaming music service Ohdio has gone through a significant makeover of its services. The changes include a move from ohd.io to ohdio.fm (which reminds us of last.fm) a simplified new logo, a new look which focuses on hundreds of pre-loaded playlists and a mobile web version that actually works. Despite the many changes, Yoga Nandiwardhana as CEO and co-founder Ohdio maintains that the service remains the easiest way to listen to Indonesian music on the Internet.

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Sony Music Indonesia: Pendapatan Dari iTunes Sudah Melampaui Pendapatan Dari Ringback Tone

Sebuah harapan baru untuk industri musik Indonesia yang kian carut marut akibat penurunan drastis penjualan fisik album, datang dari salah satu label rekaman besar di Indonesia, Sony Music Indonesia. Pasalnya, label yang telah lama malang melintang di industri musik Indonesia baru saja mengumumkan pendapatan musik yang didapatkan dari iTunes sudah melampaui pendapatan yang dihasilkan dari penjualan Ringback Tone (RBT), dimana kondisi pasar dari RBT dinyatakan sudah kian jenuh beberapa waktu belakangan ini.

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Music Sharing App Social Play Launches on BlackBerry 10 and iOS

About a week ago, Hore Network (read as ho-ray) released a music sharing app called Social Play which allows you to share on Twitter the songs you listen to and the playlists you created. You can’t listen to the songs, but you’ll likely to discover songs that you might like. The app comes with an accompanying website which shows what is currently playing across its entire user base.

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[Manic Monday] Music, Entrepreneurship And Technology Gathering

Last Saturday, April 20th, 2013, a few friends and I had the chance to create a small gathering to discuss about music, entrepreneurship and technology. This gathering started off from people who had joined a group with the same name on Google+, moderated by Robin Malau and Widi Asmoro. Looking at how active the discussions were in the group, and the variety of topics covered in a group what was literally weeks old, I offered to create the first gathering for this group at the offices of Think Web, which is also where Wooz.in is headquartered. Thanks to Ramya Prajna for providing the space and the audiovisual equipment.

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[Manic Monday] Does the Music Industry Really Need to be Healed?

Looking from one aspect, it really does seem like music is in such a mess. It is difficult to find CD or cassette stores because many have shut down. Ringback tones, once the cash cow of the music industry, has almost no more users. Online stores that sell digital music files (like MP3s) have run for several years but the market shows slowing signs of interest; it is said that music sales through iTunes Indonesia, although growing exponentially, still shows small impact on revenue. Meanwhile, the same songs can be obtained from various websites, free, without any payment to the owners of the sound recordings.

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