David Emery OnlineHiring for a Web Developer
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic designer/developer to join our in-house web development team, to design, code and build artist, label and promotional web sites.
Required skills:
- Strong Semantic HTML
- Strong CSS
- Great design skills
At work we’re hiring for a web developer / designer (front end stuff, basically). So, if you’re interested (or someone you know is) in working with artists like Radiohead, The Strokes, The National, Sonic Youth and many, many more drop me a line.
Visit ➔Music Hackday Boston
Hack-wise I was most impressed by Dan Kantor’s playdarTunes. An iTunes like web-interface that you populate by upload your iTunes library file and then play tracks through Playdar (as it’s all local content, in theory). It’s similar in principle to the Playlick player (James introduced me to Dan, in fact) and I can’t help but get excited about this idea of portable music collections. Where not only is the audio portable, but the library itself could come from different sources and is sharable. What I really want is a slick web-based iTunes which lets me select which of my libraries (or friends libraries) I want to browse and listen to.
That’s what I’d like as well – I guess it’s a similar sort of thing to what Spotify is doing, just more so. Could someone make it please? Ta…
Visit ➔Apple Strikes Deal to Buy the Music Start-Up Lala
In the most recent sign that Apple is looking at alternative ways for people to store and play their digital music, the company has agreed to buy Lala, a four-year-old start-up based in Palo Alto, Calif., a person with knowledge of the deal said Friday.
Everyone had assumed for a while that Apple was going to get into streaming music at some point, but this is the first actual sign it might be happening.
I wonder if Lala is to their forthcoming streaming product as SoundJam was to iTunes back in the day?
Visit ➔Efterklang - Modern Drift
For some reason I thought Efterklang sounded completely different then this – no idea why. Luckily though they do sound like this, where ‘this’ is something really quite special:
Visit ➔My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
But there’s another possibility – one I don’t necessarily subscribe to, but one that could be avoided entirely by humoring pests like me. There’s a theory that labels and publishers deliberately avoid creating the transparent accounting systems today’s technology enables. Because accurately accounting to my silly little band would mean accurately accounting to the less silly bands that are recouped, and paying them more money as a result.
I’d chalk it down to sheer volume of numbers – number of digital services x number of new digital services every month x number of artists x number of releases. Maybe with a dab of evil and a dash of laziness on the side, of course.
Well worth a read though if you have even a vague interest in how artists actually get paid (or not, in reality) by record labels.
Visit ➔Dear Taylor Swift
But I’m sad that your web site lets some of your most important fans — those who have special needs — down, in ways that you might not realise. Not that I blame you, you’re an artist, not a web designer or developer.
To be fair, yours isn’t the only country artist site that is inaccessible to people with disabilities. Both Shania Twain’s and Dolly Parton’s also make it either very difficult or impossible for some people to access their content. So I would like to show you how your site could be improved in small ways that would make a huge difference to a lot of people, with or without disabilities.
Always good to be reminded about these things; it amazes me, though, that people are still making nasty all-flash sites like this…
Visit ➔iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for Developers
Here’s everything you need to know to create a rich, interactive experience around your music and movies. All right in iTunes.
Apple have released all the specs, templates and a load of documentation for the iTunes LP format, which is nice. Skimming through them I see lots of “don’t use JS for animation, use CSS” – nice to have a HTML5 + CSS3 based platform to develop for…
Visit ➔The future of audio: The UK Radioplayer
It’s a really exciting development and a result of focussed, collaborative thinking within the radio industry. It’s a simple, compelling proposition for listeners, and I would welcome any comments on the project.
This looks pretty interesting – an standards-based, multi-station online radio player. Basically like the iPlayer Radio, but open to other stations. What I’d really like to know, though, is whether it’s open to people that aren’t radio stations – could Hype Machine have a station on this, for example?
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