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Friday, May 15, 2009
THE DYNAMICS OF MUSIC DISTRIBUTION
t used to be that musicians had to scrounge for music gigs and record labels in order to be heard. Now artists can find their own audience by distributing and promoting their music electronically through the Internet Underground Music Archive,(IUMA)-the Internet's first free, high-fidelity archive.
It began just a year ago when three UC Santa Cruz students combined their computer savvy and knowledge of the Internet with their passion for music. Together Rob Lord, 24, Jeff Patterson, 21, and Jon Luini, 26, have created something bigger than they ever imagined. They're receiving national acclaim for defining the music distribution industry for the next century.
IUMA levels the playing field with alternative and mainstream music in the same game. For the price of about a dozen demos any artist can get their music online. About 250 signed and unsigned bands are now available on IUMA--from the alternative groove of an 80 year-old grandmother singing Blame It On the Monkeys, recorded live at the Los Angeles Zoo, all the way to more mainstream artists like Madonna and Sting. And it's all being made possible through the most advanced technology on the planet. IUMA is using Silicon Graphics equipment to author and serve content.
Listeners can log on and download songs, musician bios and artwork. You can even interact directly with the musicians to critique their music. You have three choices of music formats, full length mono, full length stereo, and a 15 second excerpt, so you can get a taste before you decide to download the whole thing. There's plans in the works to make excerpts on the fly. Soon you'll be able to choose however many seconds you want to hear and click on the timeline so you can listen to any part of the song.
IUMA Web site downloads have quadrupled with the addition of Silicon Graphics workstations and servers. "When we got the Challenge S server we went from about 10,000 hits a day to almost 40,000 hits," says Luini, who calls himself the `renegade system administrator', "our monthly numbers hit the millions."
The IUMA team is using an Indy workstation for a slew of media authoring tasks such as capturing and manipulating digital audio, video, and graphics. They record the music digitally in mono and stereo directly onto the Indy workstation, then compress and encode it. The team then creates digital artwork, videos, and photos, and any text needed to accompany the song, and uploads everything to the Challenge S server for mass distribution.
Co-founder Lord says he's tons more efficient now that he has an Indy workstation. "These systems are perfect for what we're doing. Indy has all the graphics already on board, the video and audio input, and the various utilities. And it's incredibly responsive and fast enough to play two different songs at the same time."
A handful of volunteers are working late into the nights to make significant interactive improvements to IUMA. "When you're pullin' a 24-hour day, having a machine that's capable of doing all the multimedia authoring you can think of makes the long hauls more enjoyable," says Lord. They're busy creating features so you can pick songs randomly, do online voting, and make top ten lists of your favorite songs. Soon you'll be able to say `I want to see all of the rock bands in San Francisco for the last six months' and just those bands will come up.
If you're a Jazz fanatic and you don't want the Heavy Metal, Rock, or the Country you'll be able to narrow your focus right from the home page. Using the Challenge S as the database back end will make it much easier for listeners to search multiple keys. So immediately as you dive in you won't see the two-thirds you don't want to see.
Soon you'll be able to place orders for actual CD's through IUMA and they'll send them out through the mail. "Then we want to make it possible for people to get music right off the Net through Indy, with systems set up in several key locations," says Patterson. "Maybe radio stations and record stores, these locations just need any high speed Net connection."
The next step for IUMA is to provide music to listeners right in their home. "Let's say down the road everyone has Silicon Graphics equipment in their living room and they hook it up to their stereo- then they don't need CDs anymore. They can collect music directly off the Net in real-time," continues Patterson. "The Indy can already hook directly into the stereo. It has all the jacks for it, just plug it in and you're all set."
This idea is not as far fetched as it sounds. In fact, Silicon Graphics and Time Warner are now testing interactive, set-top devices in homes in Orlando, Florida. And the Silicon Graphics- Unintended partnership is securing real-time, three-dimensional, interactive entertainment for the home.
The only thing limiting IUMA right now is Internet bandwidth. They're just waiting for the pipe to open up. "Then people will be able to share music on machines powerful enough to do everything. Which at this point it isn't PC's, it isn't Macintoshes, it isn't even Suns. It's MIPS based systems from Silicon Graphics. Then there won't be anymore need for physical CD's. And that's where it gets really intense," exclaims Lord.
By Wendy Maurer
It began just a year ago when three UC Santa Cruz students combined their computer savvy and knowledge of the Internet with their passion for music. Together Rob Lord, 24, Jeff Patterson, 21, and Jon Luini, 26, have created something bigger than they ever imagined. They're receiving national acclaim for defining the music distribution industry for the next century.
IUMA levels the playing field with alternative and mainstream music in the same game. For the price of about a dozen demos any artist can get their music online. About 250 signed and unsigned bands are now available on IUMA--from the alternative groove of an 80 year-old grandmother singing Blame It On the Monkeys, recorded live at the Los Angeles Zoo, all the way to more mainstream artists like Madonna and Sting. And it's all being made possible through the most advanced technology on the planet. IUMA is using Silicon Graphics equipment to author and serve content.
Listeners can log on and download songs, musician bios and artwork. You can even interact directly with the musicians to critique their music. You have three choices of music formats, full length mono, full length stereo, and a 15 second excerpt, so you can get a taste before you decide to download the whole thing. There's plans in the works to make excerpts on the fly. Soon you'll be able to choose however many seconds you want to hear and click on the timeline so you can listen to any part of the song.
IUMA Web site downloads have quadrupled with the addition of Silicon Graphics workstations and servers. "When we got the Challenge S server we went from about 10,000 hits a day to almost 40,000 hits," says Luini, who calls himself the `renegade system administrator', "our monthly numbers hit the millions."
The IUMA team is using an Indy workstation for a slew of media authoring tasks such as capturing and manipulating digital audio, video, and graphics. They record the music digitally in mono and stereo directly onto the Indy workstation, then compress and encode it. The team then creates digital artwork, videos, and photos, and any text needed to accompany the song, and uploads everything to the Challenge S server for mass distribution.
Co-founder Lord says he's tons more efficient now that he has an Indy workstation. "These systems are perfect for what we're doing. Indy has all the graphics already on board, the video and audio input, and the various utilities. And it's incredibly responsive and fast enough to play two different songs at the same time."
A handful of volunteers are working late into the nights to make significant interactive improvements to IUMA. "When you're pullin' a 24-hour day, having a machine that's capable of doing all the multimedia authoring you can think of makes the long hauls more enjoyable," says Lord. They're busy creating features so you can pick songs randomly, do online voting, and make top ten lists of your favorite songs. Soon you'll be able to say `I want to see all of the rock bands in San Francisco for the last six months' and just those bands will come up.
If you're a Jazz fanatic and you don't want the Heavy Metal, Rock, or the Country you'll be able to narrow your focus right from the home page. Using the Challenge S as the database back end will make it much easier for listeners to search multiple keys. So immediately as you dive in you won't see the two-thirds you don't want to see.
Soon you'll be able to place orders for actual CD's through IUMA and they'll send them out through the mail. "Then we want to make it possible for people to get music right off the Net through Indy, with systems set up in several key locations," says Patterson. "Maybe radio stations and record stores, these locations just need any high speed Net connection."
The next step for IUMA is to provide music to listeners right in their home. "Let's say down the road everyone has Silicon Graphics equipment in their living room and they hook it up to their stereo- then they don't need CDs anymore. They can collect music directly off the Net in real-time," continues Patterson. "The Indy can already hook directly into the stereo. It has all the jacks for it, just plug it in and you're all set."
This idea is not as far fetched as it sounds. In fact, Silicon Graphics and Time Warner are now testing interactive, set-top devices in homes in Orlando, Florida. And the Silicon Graphics- Unintended partnership is securing real-time, three-dimensional, interactive entertainment for the home.
The only thing limiting IUMA right now is Internet bandwidth. They're just waiting for the pipe to open up. "Then people will be able to share music on machines powerful enough to do everything. Which at this point it isn't PC's, it isn't Macintoshes, it isn't even Suns. It's MIPS based systems from Silicon Graphics. Then there won't be anymore need for physical CD's. And that's where it gets really intense," exclaims Lord.
By Wendy Maurer
The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) was a pioneer of online music.
The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) was a pioneer of online music.[1] IUMA was started by Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson and Jon Luini from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993[2], for the purpose of providing a venue for unsigned artists to share their music and communicate with their audience. IUMA's goal was to help independent artists use the Internet to distribute their music to fans while circumventing the usual distribution model of using a record company.
IUMA originally existed on Usenet newsgroups, before the World Wide Web was widely used. On March 9, 1994 CNN featured IUMA in their "Showbiz News" segment.[3]
Around 1998, IUMA was purchased by EMusic, and moved operations from Santa Cruz, to Redwood city, Home of the Emusic offices. IUMA provided artists who registered with a free URL and web page. The artists could present their music over the Internet in stream, download, and internet radio format. Further, it provided an easy-to-use home page for the band and the ability to distribute their music with no bandwidth fees. Some of the original file formats used to encode the music were WAV, AIFF and MP2. MP3 was added later as that format became more popular.
Interesting extras included a "charts" section where bands were tracked by how many people visited their page and downloaded their music. At one point, IUMA was sending royalty checks to bands.
In 2000, IUMA offered US$5,000 to couples who named their baby "Iuma". Several families took up the offer.[4] IUMA Flourished, hosting events such as "Music-o-mania", the largest online "Battle of the Bands" ever held. The winners were given rock star treatment, flown to San Francisco to open for Primus at the Fillmore auditorium. Early in 2006, the IUMA website disappeared from the Internet. The site had already been closed to new submissions since 2001, when EMusic downsized, eliminating most of the IUMA Staff. Despite this set back, many of IUMA's core group continued to work on a "volunteer" basis, in the hopes that IUMA could be resurrected. IUMA Was then purchased by Vitaminic, an Italian Music company. But with many of the core group now gone, IUMA finally has shut down altogether
An online music store is an online business which sells audio files, usually music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. The Internet's first free high fidelity online music archive of downloadable songs was the Internet Underground Music Archive. IUMA was started...
IUMA originally existed on Usenet newsgroups, before the World Wide Web was widely used. On March 9, 1994 CNN featured IUMA in their "Showbiz News" segment.[3]
Around 1998, IUMA was purchased by EMusic, and moved operations from Santa Cruz, to Redwood city, Home of the Emusic offices. IUMA provided artists who registered with a free URL and web page. The artists could present their music over the Internet in stream, download, and internet radio format. Further, it provided an easy-to-use home page for the band and the ability to distribute their music with no bandwidth fees. Some of the original file formats used to encode the music were WAV, AIFF and MP2. MP3 was added later as that format became more popular.
Interesting extras included a "charts" section where bands were tracked by how many people visited their page and downloaded their music. At one point, IUMA was sending royalty checks to bands.
In 2000, IUMA offered US$5,000 to couples who named their baby "Iuma". Several families took up the offer.[4] IUMA Flourished, hosting events such as "Music-o-mania", the largest online "Battle of the Bands" ever held. The winners were given rock star treatment, flown to San Francisco to open for Primus at the Fillmore auditorium. Early in 2006, the IUMA website disappeared from the Internet. The site had already been closed to new submissions since 2001, when EMusic downsized, eliminating most of the IUMA Staff. Despite this set back, many of IUMA's core group continued to work on a "volunteer" basis, in the hopes that IUMA could be resurrected. IUMA Was then purchased by Vitaminic, an Italian Music company. But with many of the core group now gone, IUMA finally has shut down altogether
An online music store is an online business which sells audio files, usually music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. The Internet's first free high fidelity online music archive of downloadable songs was the Internet Underground Music Archive. IUMA was started...
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