Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Salt Lake Tribune Music industry finds new beat in online recommendations

Non members got song samples. ILike an offshoot of GarageBand. It launched in October and quickly amassed Advertisement million members. ILike is percent owned by IAC InterActiveCorp the home of Ask. ILike offers free MP s of unsigned bands from GarageBand it deems similar to other bands you like. If a friend recommends something we ll pay more attention. The increase in digital sales isn t enough to stem the decline in CD sales. All told the music industry s sales were down . percent in with sales of . billion according to the Recording Industry Association of America from . AOL s Jenckes says the recommendation services can only help the business. On AOL getting movie recommendations from friends is huge he says and music is no different. What we re trying to do he says is help you find an artist you didn t recognize before. If you go out and buy the album great. We have tools to help you do that. AOL s AIM Tunes lets instant message buddies tap int! o their online music libraries and listen to songs. How it works Download the latest version of AIM version . com and the AIM Tunes plug in at x. The AIM Tunes window opens. Select one of your linked buddies who has to be online and his or her music collection will appear. Some caveats Only songs without copy protection will play.

Source: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7185851

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