by Jake on September 6, 2012
in Backups, Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Google Cloud, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Tools, Trends, Video
iTunes vs. The Cloud I have spent over a decade building a collection of digital music. During that time, through many obsessive late nights, I made sure that my music remained in impeccable order. Each artist filled in, each album complete, and each year carefully researched. The library was organized by artist first, and then by album chronologically for each artist. Before the days of iTunes, I had to assign each file an ID3 tag individually, a process that took an unhealthily long time. However, with the advent and quick rise of iTunes, inputting and maintaining music became immeasurably simpler. I would spend hours poring over
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The Paradox Of The Cloud As I see it, the purpose of the cloud is to increase and ease our ability to access and store music. The cloud is an invisible external hard drive for us, and a perpetual playlist of music that isn’t ours but to which we can have virtually unlimited access. The theoretical convenience of such a system is undeniable. Most of us carry phones that have high speed connectivity to the internet, so it makes sense that we would store our music there rather than on the memory cards and hard drives that previously housed our
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by Jake on August 24, 2012
in Amazon, Apps, Audio, Cloud Computing, Computing, iCloud, Images, IT, Movies, Music, Security, Social networks, Storage, Technology, Trends
Cloud B-Sides: The End Of The Album For most of the history of music, composers wrote long pieces of art, which were then consumed by discerning listeners in the manner in which they were intended…as one long stream of music consciousness. This is a concept that reaches back to Gregorian Chants, through Wagner’s Der Ring das Nibelungen, and as far forward as modern classics such as Radiohead’s OK Computer or Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. The work of art is the sum of its parts, as a painting is the result of hundreds and thousands of brush strokes or a book is simply a compilation
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by Jake on August 23, 2012
in Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Mobile, Music, Podcast, SaaS, Social networks, Startups, Storage, Technology
The Cloud Eclipse Of MySpace I remember a time, not three years ago, when a band was measured and judged primarily by the number of views and – more importantly – plays that they had managed to amass on MySpace. This was after the time, of course, when bands were measured solely on the merits of their musical ability, but that’s neither here nor there. Way back in 2009, if a band had 1 million plays on MySpace, you could bet that that band would soon be scooped up by an indie label trying to find the industry’s next social-media-driven
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by Jake on August 17, 2012
in Apps, Audio, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Mobile, Music, Technology, Tools, Trends
Indaba Music: A Cloud Based Music Network In my last article, I discussed the remarkable benefits of using Dropbox to produce, record, and share musical ideas. As if that all wasn’t revolutionary enough, Indaba Music has developed a platform, much like that advanced by SoundCloud, that allows for real-time partnership between musicians from anywhere in the world. Uploading, comments, and collaboration all occur within a shared window and are viewable to the public (only if made public, of course). Most commonly used for remixes and interactive direct-to-consumer projects and competitions by major artists and production companies (Linkin Park, Snoop Dogg, Disney, and Universal, to name a
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by Jake on August 15, 2012
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Google Drive, IT, Movies, Music, Security, Storage, storage-filesharing, Technology
Making Music In The Cloud There was a time – and not all that long ago – when the only options for musicians to create together involved enclosed spaces, physical isolation from the world and, above all else, physical proximity to each other. This physical proximity is the subject of many a dramatic “Behind the Music” meltdown anecdote, and has led to innumerable arguments, physical confrontations, and band break-ups over the past sixty years. I can attest to the strain that such intense and constant contact between creative individuals places on an artist’s ability to create calmly and productively. Making
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