Posts by mp3michael

Google casts about for wireless audio

Wonder how this compares with Airplay and AllPlay

This seems to be a direct competitor to Qualcomm's AllPlay for which several new speaker vendors are debuting at CES this week.

AllPlay is a more open version of Apple's AirPlay.

Google's effort would seem to similar in many regards to AllPlay. Their control of Android would seem to give them a huge market forcing function to compel adoption.

Spotify 'sold soul' to boy king Zuckerberg

Andrew agrees with me? Whoa - that's a victory!

Anytime I can get Andrew to even kinda agree with me, I call that a victory.

I will politely remind him that I was founder and CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com which I sold for about $400 million. At the time of the sale we were doing $80 million in revenue with profit of $18 million. Not Google money, but show me any other digital music company that has ever made any profit with a consumer digital music business. Not sure there are many others so I think I'm somewhat qualified to make economic assessments.

-- MR

Radio in the cloud: Do we want to TiVo our radio?

el reg is like talking to your Grandpa

i love the register cause it's like talking to your grandpa

half the time he's sharing wisdom collected over the the last 80 years and half the time he's a crotchety old fart who doesn't fully grasp what's happening.

Andrew is one of my face authors. I flew to UK just to meet him.

It seems puzzling to ponder if people want all audio content I'm demand, interactively (rew, pause, and ff). Seems like a no-duh to me but I guess readerscan make up their own minds

I'll comment on just one aspect of his article. cloud recording has massive advantages over hardware and software solutions which require purchase, installation and maintenance. dar.fm is easy, cheaper and much more powerful. it takes just a few clicks to setup. no equipment needs to be left on. its much more powerful. go click record on classic rock section and watch 10 stations record simultaneously. and resulting recordings are automatically in the cloud so you can listen from any PC, smartphone, internet radio, and other devices like Roku video player. other solutions dump material on a PC drive somewhere. Cloud recording and storage will win for video, audio, text, everything. bet against the cloud at your own peril.

I know this. If I ever invent a company or service that Andrew applauds it will be worth billions or such a small geek niche it won't be worth the cost of the domain name.

-- mr

Michael Robertson

Is that a Wi-Fi media server in your pocket?

Local media streaming? NOT interesting

Local media streaming is quaint - like hosting your own email or web server. It's fun for geeks who want to play but it's completely impractical for majority of users. It's expensive in terms of time to manage and cost of the machine and energy to run it. It's also much more limited when compared with online services which have the advantage of economies of scale.

-- MR