http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog Musical Musings from the mind of Randall Foster, Music Industry insider and realist Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:35:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Anyone with any interest in digital media, music, new technology, or ears and a brain need to check this out. This is the thesis of a MIT grad student mapping music using it's metadata. All the info is there… it amazes me that just now we are ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/12/15/musicbox-phenomenal%e2%80%a6-just-awesome/ Yes I said it! I said it and I mean it. I buy CDs. I love CDs in fact. To my knowledge, I have nearly 1000 of the beautiful discs. I generally keep the cases for a while, but always end up placing the CDs in ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/12/07/i-buy-cds/ That's right, folks... Now you can access the greatest collection of Classical Music available for Licensing through the World's Leading Classical Label, Naxos! It is my pleasure to introduce you to www.NaxosLicensing.com . A one-stop licensing resource featuring not only Naxos, but music from more than a dozen ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/11/20/new-naxos-licensing-site-now-available-in-beta/ After a quite typical morning at work today, I had a fascinating skype call with our CEO. He after spending yesterday at a high-level music exec meeting in NYC asked me a peculiar question. "Have you heard of "Elbows"? As our resident blog geek, I was embarrassed ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/10/21/gimme-some-elbo-room/ Music Licensing 101 By Randall Foster, Licensing Manager, Naxos of America, Inc. Music licensing for film can be a daunting task and is an often overlooked final item that gives most filmmakers and producers fits. The truth of the matter is music licensing is a relatively easy task if you go ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/10/20/licensing-101-a-step-by-step-guide-to-music-licensing-for-film/ Nintendo has just announced the launch of Wii Music in October of this year. They are hoping that "blue Ocean" lightning strikes thrice after the successful Wii Sports and Wii Fit llaunches. According to the press release this game hopes to bring music to the "not good at ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/09/19/wii-music/ The news has finally broken. MTV is canceling TRL for good. This news comes as bitter sweet to me since after all, 10 years ago when it launched, I actually watched TRL. Albeit between classes while I was attending University... This also strikes home with me ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/09/17/rip-trl-why-mtvs-trl-was-doomed-anyways/ Sorry. Hello World. I owe an apology it seems. In the past two whirl-wind months, I have been an absentee landlord with "Is This Binding?". Work has been killing me it seems and when I haven't been at work, I have been out at the lake enjoying what ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/09/12/how-the-music-business-spent-the-summer-killing-itself-recap/ OK, so I know you were expecting something better... but this is the best I can come up with. A Month or so ago, I spoke on a panel at the "Major Orchestra Librarians Association" convention. The Panel was really a "who's who" of folks from around the ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/07/04/happy-birthday-america-your-present-is-youtube-videos-from-my-latest-panel/ Totally wrong! I think this statement is not correct and I think the Pew research study that came up with this statement is skewed. According to my favorite daily reader, Digital Music News, the Pew Internet and American Life Project just released this study. The official statement from Pew ... http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2008/06/05/internet-does-not-influence-music-buying/