The biggest record labels have decided to allow Spotify MP3 service to upload and spread their music to it’s clients, said The Times. Spotify’s catalogue contains over four million songs bringing them to the same level with iTunes (nearly ten million songs). Recently, more and more record companies began to realise that their traditional way of selling music is totally outdated and simply cannot adjust itself to the world of digital technology. Labels are coming to the idea that there is no way to stop MP3 agenda, which currently runs through another unstoppable thing – Internet. In case of Spotify there is no free downloading, but any customer can listen to the sound online without any limitations, in other words some computer program will soon be invented to record this sound. Every thirty minutes users have to listen to fifteen seconds of commercials, and in order to get rid of them they will have to pay ten euros per month. All of it shows new ways to make money out of music, and they look quite different from the way it was ten or fifteen years ago. Generally speaking, those who would like to make money on sounds will have to either play live or just simply find another way to make it. Art for the sake of art comes closer.
A Source: ThatsJustMusic.com
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