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Compact Disc News

Yes folks, the CD is safe for now

ShareYou can download a huge music library without ever leaving home, but reports of the compact disc’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, writes BRIAN BOYD . Read this article from the Irish Times. ———————————————————————————– IT WAS INEVITABLE. The report went like this. By the end of next year the major record labels are planning to [...]

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18 December 2011

Erick Yankton Erick Yankton

All About the DVD Logo- What is it? Do we really need it?

dvd-logo-importance

ShareWhat is a DVD logo? Do we really have to put it on our DVD? What is it for? Can we just download the logo on the internet or do we have to get it from some organization? If you’re a filmmaker, sometimes a very small thing like a DVD logo can be such a [...]

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6 June 2011

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

What you Have to Know when Sending CDs for Radio Promotion

ShareRadio has the most stringent requirements for the CDs that you send them, the discs you put them on, and the cases you put them in. Let’s go over them… MUSIC SPECIFICS: Should you make albums or singles? The easy answer is relatively simple: If you are sending to college radio, send an album or [...]

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12 November 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

The promo CD gravy train

ShareRandall Roberts of LA weekly pens a fascinating tell all, expose, or confession, whatever you want to call it, covering the promo CD racket that sits beneath the music reviewer industry. What on earth do those guys do with their piles of free CDs? The answer is probably a surprise to few who frequent used [...]

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4 December 2008

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Distributor and Label ‘Creative Vibes’ Pack It In

ShareAfter more than 15 years as an innovative Australian music company, Creative Vibes has called it quits. Their mission statement claims the company to be inspired purely by music, set out to make sure that music shops, music media and above all, music lovers got to hear and learn about the many brilliant, but non-mainstream [...]

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4 December 2008

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer