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(Dutch) Simuze stopt

Voortrekkers kunnen ook niet altijd voortrekkers blijven.

Vanaf vandaag (25 oktober 2010) is het niet meer mogelijk om nieuwe bestanden te uploaden. Dit betekent dat je als artiest op Simuze tot 28 november 23:59 de tijd hebt om je muziek en profielgegevens op te slaan. Tevens zullen we van alle artiesten op Simuze tezamen 1 Bittorrent bestand aanbieden met alle beschikbare muziek. Hierdoor willen we voorkomen dat 5 jaar muziek en ruim 2000 nummers verdwijnen.

We willen middels dit bericht nogmaals alle mensen bedanken zonder wie Simuze nooit had bestaan: De artiesten en bands die ons hun muziek toevertrouwden, XS4ALL voor ruim vijf jaar onafgebroken sponsoring, Digitale Pioniers voor de onmisbare hulp bij het opbouwen van Simuze, Creative Commons voor het ontwikkelen van de Creative Commons licenties en tal van anderen. Enorm bedankt!Read more at www.simuze.nl

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70/30: Apple’s Magic Moneymaking Machine

My prediction: users will love this, developers will happily trade 30% for better distribution. It is the end of Direct to Fan for app developers.

Amplify’d from techcrunch.com

Back in the old days, if you wanted to sell an Apple app you had to make a really good app, make a really good website, and have John Gruber or Merlin Mann link to it. You waited, hoped people bought the app, and iterated the apps over and over, giving updates out for free. It was a hit-or-miss affair. This is how software sales had always worked, even under Windows and even under most phone OSes – until the iPhone App Store.

Suddenly you had a quasi-curated, easy-to-use, one-click system for downloading apps. It worked really well. This was great for phones. So why not add it to OS X?

Read more at techcrunch.com

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Japanese Robots Hope To Destroy The Music Industry As We Know It

This does not bode well for the gossip-channels… What could you gossip about in the case of robots?

Amplify’d from www.hypebot.com

Japanese engineers have now developed a fembot that can sing J-pop, calling into stark question the future of human pop singers. According to technology blog Popsci, the robot, an HRP-4, was developed using breath-analysis software and mouth movement observation based on human models. The divabot blinks and opens her mouth appropriately as she sings, mimicking the patterns of a human singer.

The singing is not a track recording, but instead actual singing using a technique called ‘robotic shaped note singing,’ managed by Vocaloid software developed my Yamaha.

“We hope the entertainment industry will be able to make widespread use of robots,” said Masataka Goto, who leads the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology’s media interaction group. (via Ian Courtney at CelebrityAccess)

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