Archives for June 2013
Melody Pods Launch Background Music Player For Android.
Melody Pods has now made available its background music player for Android.
Here’s a quick video introduction:
This app provides both smart phones and tablets (although a layout design specifically for tablets is due soon) with the ability to download and play royalty free background music in your business. Whether that be for an in-store installation, a restaurant, cafe, hotel, reception, spa or any business that can benefit from music to assist in the ambience of the business environment.
Melody Pods’ background music player for Android provides a simpler way to get background music into your business and is more affordable than traditional routes such as CD players, mp3 players linked to performing royalty and composition royalty licenses which increase the overall cost of playing music in your business.
Cut the cost of playing background music in your business today by downloading our app for free here:
Then choose a subscription from our available music collections that best meets your business need, download to your app and play in your business today here:
Artists Claims He Made More From T Shirts Than From Pandora
An artist has gone on record to explain how one million plays of his music on Pandora earned him less than one sale of a T shirt.
His earnings also show how important terrestrial royalties are for his music collection.
The artists concerned is following a traditional route and using performing and composition royalty collection agencies to hand a portion of their license income (after staff and executive salaries and other operational costs) for the terrestrial radios to play his music.
This must be an eye opener for many musicians struggling to work out how to sustain an income with their music collection.
However, an article here reports on Pandora responding to claims by reporting how well some assist we’re earning with them.
When Is A Song Public Domain?
With the announcement by a filmaker that he aims to go to court to claim that the song “Happy Birthday To You” is actually public domain I thought it would be worth just clarifying a little about public domain compositions but very briefly.
Public domain music describes compositions that are available and free for anyone to use. However, the recording, or the performance of a freely available composition will be owned by the maker of the recording or performance, or whoever the title of the copyright is transferred to.
So what compositions are public domain? Well even though there seems to be some sort of constructed confusion around the validity of the song Happy Birthday To You, it is normally very simple to define in the USA. Other countries differ slightly but in general follow the US’s ruling that any composition created before 1922 is now public domain. A useful set of questions and answers are located here.
This ruling means that providing classical music from the great composers of a few hundred years ago is easy enough if you can record them yourself. Of course not many people can record full orchestral or complex piano pieces so we still generally have to rely on the skills of musicians to make these creations available to us royalty free.
If you do have any questions around the use of compositions and copyright please contact us and we will be happy to help you.
Careful Of Bird Songs Used On Your Mobile
The UK’s Dorset Wildlife Trust recently reported it was warning users of mobile phone apps that mimic bird song that they were disturbing the birds activities in doing so.
The article located here details that nature lovers are using an app to attract the nightjar away from important tasks such as feeding their young.
Here at Melody Pods we will be adding a bird song collection to our relaxation collection (as an add on option only) in the future so we will keep this issue in mind about ensuring we understand the type of bird song featured and the times of the year we release the recordings for.