There is no evidence that mushrooms or any other form of life exists on Mars. The Mars rover did not take a picture of fungi growing on the planet. And so-called ‘scientists’ did not explain the existence of fungi on Mars in a research paper. If there are mushrooms on Mars, the people on our planet have yet to uncover any evidence of their existence. But what about the headlines?...
For every song you know there are thousands of great ones waiting in the wings. That’s why we lovemusicdiscoveryapps so much. Music Hunter for iPad is easily one of the slickest ones we’ve seen and should appeal to any music lover. Music Hunter [App Store, $0.99] is a product of a collaboration between the popular indie music discovery siteWe Are Huntedand music app developerThe Echo Nest, whose intelligent music platform we’ve written aboutbefore....
There’s healthy competition brewing between services offering developers the ability to addShazam-style music identification to their apps. We recentlyreportedon the launch ofEchoprint, and now Germany’sBACH Technologyis launching its MusicDNA ID service. Following in the footsteps of BACH’s audio file format of the same name, MusicDNA ID is set to offer an audio identification service that is cheaper fro developers than Shazam, and with more features than Echoprint. MusicDNA ID is launching with a database of over 8 million songs, substantially less than Echoprint’s 13 million although BACH says that its library is growing daily and that it will have matched that figure by the end of this year....
The Internet is impacting every industry, not least the music industry where the route to fame and fortune is no longer studio > agent > record contract; it’s more about recording a video in your bedroom and selling your music directly to your fans. The music industry doesn’t know what to do with itself, whilst artists are basking in the free tools available for them to promote their music directly to their fans....
Music recommendation algorithms are unfair to women artists — but we can fix that Better representation of women and gender minorities isn’t impossible Our study While previous studies have repeatedly asked consumers for their opinion, the music artists, those providing the content, arerarely in the loop. We wanted to put the spotlight on artists. We asked musicians to give us their views on what would make online music platforms more fair....
