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Amazon is Building a Clubhouse Competitor That Turns Hosts Into DJs (theverge.com) 25

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
Amazon is next on the list of companies getting into the live audio game. The company is building a new app, codenamed "Project Mic," that gives anyone the ability to make and distribute a live radio show, complete with music, according to a presentation viewed by The Verge. From a report: This project's big goal is to democratize and reinvent the radio. The app will be focused on the US initially. Listeners will be able to tune in through the app, as well as through Audible, Amazon Music, Twitch, and Alexa-equipped devices. With the Alexa devices, listeners will be able to interact with shows using just their voice. The app experience will also be optimized for the car, playing into Amazon's idea of trying to reinvent radio. A mockup app image viewed by The Verge depicts a screen listing shows that are currently live; trending topics, like #NBA or #hot100; and featured creators. Users will also be able to search for content by topic, name, or music.
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  • "Hey, this is Sticky Nicky with Moldy Oldies on the Morning Zoo, saying gooood morning to our wonderful 14 listeners!"

  • Hitting every 'Upcoming DJ' for their royalties will cause the creation of whole new buildings full of call center employees. https://www.soundexchange.com/ [soundexchange.com]

  • I wonder (Score:4, Insightful)

    by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:19AM (#61928381)

    Will the artists whose music gets played be compensated?

    • Will the artists whose music gets played be compensated?

      I'd assume licencing agreements are already in place with the various rights holders and that some money would eventually find their way into the pockets of the artist. Is there some loophole because it's "radio" or something else I' not aware of that begs your question?

  • It's 2011 all over again

  • positively sane by comparison...

    I predict this will not end well.

  • With any copyright material (nearly all music) presumably forbidden, I'm guessing these will nearly all be talk radio stations?!?

    • With any copyright material (nearly all music) presumably forbidden, I'm guessing these will nearly all be talk radio stations?!?

      That's not how I read TFA: "Anyone will be able to pull from Amazon’s music catalog to arrange their program."

  • Mixcloud.com already does this, and has solved the performance, copyright and royalty issues. Will Amazon be doing the same?

  • That is an Amazon property and they already have stuff like that.

  • dmca'ed to shit because your music gets flagged as sounding like something big music owns. ie. it has the same 4 chords.

    • At this point, popular "music" is just the 4 chords rearranged and regurgitated over and over again. Listen to the crap now (if you can stand it) vs what was popular even 10 years ago. The difference in quality is striking. Keep going back further, and this difference becomes more obvious.

      All they have going now is peer pressure amongst the young crowd striving to be "cool" in the eyes of their peers, flash, glitz, and hype. The actual art left the building a long time ago and the RIAA knows their c

  • It was called Live365. And it was a great way to share and discover music via "radio" stations made by regular people. You could do true Live streams, or you could create a playlist and let it run. Listeners would stream via the Live365 web applet or use WinAMP to open the stream URL.

    As I recall, the company eventually hit the royalties barrier HARD, and back then there wasn't yet enough critical mass of Internet users + Big Data backend to make the revenue lucrative enough to payoff the licensing and opera

    • Had this 'barrier' not been hit, Live365 would've run into the same problem the platform in TFA is about to:

      Oversaturation, limited unique content, and quantity over quality.

      There will be a spike as every "me too"er gets on board, but most of the "me too" stations will die off as people are spending their time listening to the handful of ones that do offer quality.

      Really, I'm suprised that the ones bleating "everybody canz havez their own radio stashun" seems to not be aware of this ever rep

  • Wait until this quickly becomes saturated and you are dealing with millions of "stations" most with bad and very questionable content, and it becomes hard to impossible to find the handful of stations that are good but not well advertised.

    This is yet another case where idealism gets knocked over flat by grim reality.

  • The first half of this year, there were tons of Clubhouse headlines. The second half of this year, I can only remember one Clubhouse related headline, and that was that another tech company was starting a Clubhouse competitor. Seems the fad is over.

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