eMusic mashes up its tunes with internet radio broadcasters
eMusic (my hated frenemy) is hooking up its music library with 10 internet radio services. The offerings will sync streams of internet radio stations with the eMusic catalog, and let fans download as they listen.
Who gets a piece of the eMusic pie? KEXP, Pandora, WOXY, and Bootliquor, among others. Here’s the Pandora/eMusic mashup.
eMusic is also donating money to KEXP, SomaFM and others. [via]
UPDATE: Rusty from SomaFM clarifies the relationship in the comments. (eMusic’s thing was apparently a demo, not a real deal relationship. YOU SUCK, Mashable. OK, you don’t totally suck, but still.)
My understanding is that this is not an official project from emusic, but was merely an in-house technical demonstration. SomaFM (Boot Liquor, Groove Salad, Indie Pop Rocks and Secret Agent) has no business relationship with emusic, and it puts us in a strange position: we have to pay royalties and bandwidth for music played on their site; which has their ads and promotes their service – yet we have no share of that revenue. (Although they did donate $600 to us on the Day of Silence, which we appreciate!)
Rusty Hodge
June 27, 2007 at 7:11 pm