Category: Audio
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Following the Tour de France
And by that, I mean “following it from afar” not being at the race itself. The Tour de France takes place over three weeks, including four weekends. That equates to 21 stages and two rest days. If you’re not on a roadside somewhere watching the race, then you’re going to be following the race remotely.…
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Electric Storm
I love a good electric storm, and we had one in London last night (indeed most of the country). I pounced into action with photo, audio and video. That said, I’m not altogether happy with my results. The above represents the best photo I took. There are a couple of video frame grabs below, but…
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Apple, Spotify and a Binary Way of Selling Music
Apple Music is now up and running. If you have an iPhone, you’ll be pestered to update your device, and a new Music app will appear that on first open is desperate to give you a 90 day free trial of Apple’s Spotify-like experience. So I dusted off an iPod Touch (mainly bought to use…
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Music Tourists
There’s been a new report published by UK Music, the consortium that supports the UK music industry’s political needs. Wish You Were Here 2015 highlights the importance of the music industry to tourism and that audience’s spending power. It was released on Monday and has generated a decent amount of press coverage. It’s a chunky…
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Apple Music
So now we finally know the details of Apple Music. I won’t go through all the details because every site on the planet has already done so, breathlessly live-blogging the full announcement. So go elsewhere for those. To be honest, as The Verge reports there are probably some sighs of relief around the rest of…
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Ofcom on Audience Attitudes to Broadcast Media
Ofcom, the UK broadcast regulator, carries out an awful lot of research, most of which it publishes on its website. But people are lazy, and they mostly just look at executive summaries and press releases. But there’s a lot more to it than that. There are often copious appendices with much more detail, and beyond…
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RAJAR Q1 2015
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 8 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I’m delighted to be able to bring you this analysis. For more details on RALF, contact Deryck Pritchard via this link or phone 07545…
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Top Tips for Podcasters
An upfront disclaimer: I’ve never made or distributed a podcast. However, I have been listening to them for many years – from a variety of providers. Since podcasting is suddenly the hot new thing, some ten years after the name was first coined (and yes, I’m aware that they’re older than that), I thought I’d…
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Thoughts on Tidal and Streaming Music Services
I’m still not really clear about Tidal – the music streaming service. There was some kind of hideous press conference with lots of very successful – i.e. rich – artists talking banalities earlier this week in New York. But at this stage, a streaming music service really needs to have a point of difference compared…
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Why Doesn’t The Chart Show Adopt An Opening Weekend Model?
This week came news that with the change in release dates of music – shifting from Mondays to Fridays on a global basis – the Radio 1 Official Chart Show will likewise shift. So that instead of going out at the end of the previous week (i.e. the previous Sunday to Saturday) it will air…
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US Podcasting Developments
Like many people since last weekend I’ve been bingeing a series since last weekend. No not the new season of House of Cards, although I will be catching up with that very soon, but Alex Blumberg’s Startup podcast about how to build a startup podcasting company. Very meta. It’s been sitting there on my phone…
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The Unthanks at The Roundhouse
I went to see The Unthanks yesterday at The Roundhouse in Camden. For no obvious reason, and having been to see an exhibition at Tate Modern first (Conflict, Time – I only found it so-so to be honest), I decided to walk to Camden for the concert, taking photos as I went. Here are a…
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A New Radio Academy
Yesterday, the now outgoing chair of the Radio Academy, Ben Cooper, presented a new vision of what the Academy should be. You will perhaps recall that it has been through some fairly tumultuous times recently. The packed AGM last December saw the airing of some serious differences of opinion at a time when both the…