Google offers streaming (via the Web, for free, for some of your collection) but no marketplace. Amazon offers streaming (via the Web, for a cost per GB) and a marketplace. Apple offers storage (cheaper than Amazon’s) and one helluva marketplace - but no streaming. In other words, music in the cloud is still very much up for grabs.
— A comprehensive breakdown of cloud music storage, purchasing, and streaming options from Google, Amazon, and Apple, respectively, compliments of Audrey Watters from
ReadWriteWeb.
The following is my comment on this article.
The Huffington Posts’s post-comment-to-Tumblr function is pretty dumb — no link back to the original article.
Ben Folds and Haines, in addition to being among my favorite artists, are incredibly savvy entrepreneurs in the constantly shifting digital media economy. As a young recording artist and performer, I always learn from them when they’re quoted in articles like this.
Great read.
My birthday was last week. Among other gifts, my parents gave me a long-term disability insurance policy. Sure, it doesn’t pack the punch of a new drum kit, but it’s probably one of the most important and valuable things they could ever provide for me after a safe home and an education.
Today, as Dad was filling out the application with me, he ran through that awful list of questions you always have to answer for insurance stuff:
In the last ten years, have you been treated for or diagnosed with…
…disease of the lungs?
…heart?
…liver?
…diabetes?
…addiction to narcotics?
…cancer?
…leukemia?
…plague?
…crusades?
…inquisition?
At one point, he said what goes without saying: Answering “No” almost all the way down the page makes you feel so lucky to lead just a normal life, and mine is so much better even than that.
Unrelated: Tonight, Ben and I finished recording guitar for two of the five (six?) songs on the EP. It was a breakthrough session, one of the best in a while. With his touch, this project is breathing life into my music like no one’s ever heard.
