I wrote about Amie Street back in 2006 and have always been a fan. It’s a music service where the fans determine the price of each song. The more times each song is downloaded, the more expensive they get. Prices are capped at $0.99.
The beauty of it is that bands keep 70% of the […]

Okay, so this is really limited to the top 5 products available in my house. I talk quite a bit about the albums and bands I’m listening to, but I rarely write anything about the products I buy to enhance the listening experience.
Full disclosure: My wife is an employee at Plantronics, which owns Altec Lansing, […]

One of our readers (appears to be an independent developer, hence the title of this post) created a nice multimedia search tool that I tested out and love. I’m always scouring different websites for mp3’s and images to post on our little indie music blog and it can get pretty time consuming. Anything […]

I know I’m a little late on this, but a friend just sent this letter to me. It was an email sent from Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren. I saw him speak at Stanford a few months ago and his passion for music is admirable. Although I’m not a huge fan of Internet radio, […]

Since HearYa is all about the discovery and recommendation of great music, we often discuss new music technology that enables our quest to find music to match our unique tastes and share with our friends.
One of my favorite blogs, TechCrunch, just posted an overview of startups (and quasi-startups) in the social music scene. You […]

Finally there is something that is indeed better than sliced bread. Introducing iConcertCal - a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city based on your tune-age. You simply toggle between your normal library view and the iConcertCal view which looks a lot like […]

Have you ever passed by a website or music blog and thought it’d be great if you could easily download all the MP3’s? How about if you could visit HearYa, have a program search the site for MP3’s, and then display them for you to drag and drop into your media player as a […]

I recently came across a website that we should all come to love and appreciate in time. AudioMap, is a fairly simple concept: take one band and find out what bands are similar to it. Without much shine or flashes, TuneGlue does this very well. Simply type one band into the list […]

Continued from my last post about the Pandora Town Hall Meeting at Stanford University…

So Pandora’s purpose in life is to answer the question, “Can you help me find more music I will like?” After using Pandora off and on for over a year, I’ve found that the answer is “Yes…sort of.”
Let’s first consider a few […]

     
That’s a question that can only be asked in a discussion about music at Stanford University.  Well, Stanford or anywhere else Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren, travels to hold one of his Town Hall Meetings.  Last night I visited Stanford to listen to his story, his product and his thoughts on the music industry.
You really have to respect the […]