Pandora Music Office Picker=attn BMI, ASCAP and SESAC

Check this sweet piece of gadgetry out...  Obviously this is pretty fricken sweet!... but I'm not too sure that Pandora was created as a replacement for muzak.  In any regard...  hopefully the PRO's are listening up.  Perhaps they could attach a natural blanket license to this thing and make some real dough assuming any business using this is over the minimum square footage requirements. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVrmRzIWM8&feature=player_embedded

Interesting way to allow everyone to weigh in on office background music though!

The Music Industry's New Digital Problem

I was recently sent this article from Business Week speaking of the growing digital issues facing the Music Industry. Streaming VS Downloads... that is the question...

My take on this is that Streaming Services need to be paying the right's holders whether it be through a pro-rata share of advertising profits, PRO's, or what-have-you. I wonder though... Is it the streaming media's fault for declining sales, or are the declining sales are part of a larger shift in the music purchase paradigm? It would be arguable that terrestrial radio could have ruined record sales in the earlier parts of the 20th century... No-one was complaining then. What is so different about streaming internet radio and other services? I guess that answer will help us get to the bottom of this sinking music industry economy.