Next Generation iTunes music format?

psylichon · 02-13-2009, 06:14 PM

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/...ble-album.html

The most innovative iPhone app for distributing music I've seen this week is a 10-track iPhone app from the

Grammy-nominated

electronic artist Deadmau5, developed by an Irish company called Future Audio Workshop. It lets anyone with an iPhone, regardless of their level of experience, mix and remix every song in the album. This is only the first step: The company plans to apply the same approach to several other electronica albums as well.

Thoughts? I find this very intriguing. The iPhone could lead the way for albums being distributed in multitrack, perhaps yielding a new standard in audio delivery formats?

psylichon · 02-13-2009, 06:17 PM

Here's a picture of the artist mentioned in the above article:

Ok, I definitely like this guy.

glsda · 02-13-2009, 06:54 PM

Dave this is really exciting when you think of the potential In addition the music industry has really been slow to adept to the distribution of their product resulting in significant loss of revenue due to piracy. Instead of being innovative they sought to be restrictive and shot themselves in the foot or higher. If they can adept faster and make it easier, less expensive and more innovative for the consumer to buy their product then to 'pirate' it they may be able to stem their revenue loss.

monkeysrock0622 · 02-13-2009, 07:37 PM

Wow that is really cool. Plus I really liked that song!

Napoleon_PhoneApart · 02-13-2009, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by psylichon

Here's a picture of the artist mentioned in the above article:

Ok, I definitely like this guy.

I think I gigged with him once.

psylichon · 02-13-2009, 08:24 PM

Any value-added service like this will help sales to some degree. Obviously, it's not uncrackable (like any digital medium), but significantly more annoying to crack and distribute than standard audio, which should make it attractive to the labels.

The merging of the iTunes music and apps divisions. I love it.

styfle · 02-13-2009, 09:38 PM

I'm kinda confused...is this about an app? Whats the video supposed to be?

psylichon · 02-13-2009, 11:22 PM

Disregard the video... that's just showing the artist that's doing it first.

It's an app that contains multitrack music from the artist (basically the whole album all split up into seperate tracks), that the user can remix.

acosmichippo · 02-14-2009, 12:18 AM

the lips did something like that with Zaireeka.

Youngbinks · 02-14-2009, 11:32 AM

Deadmau5 has sick tracks and mixes.