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Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 05:04PM This Week in Startups #22 with John MacFarlane
Live from New Noise Santa Barbara, Jason is joined by John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos. Check out the full interview to see the big new products that Sonos has planned (or at least what Jason implies they do), how they deal with the complex legal issues surrounding the music biz, and just how big a system you can configure using Sonos gear.
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Reader Comments (1)
Interesting podcast. I appreciate hearing a hardware story.
I was surprised there was no mention of either EMusic or LaLa - two services I go to first for purchase and discovery.
EMusic has a mp3-of-the-month model. The catalog is rich for indie snobs, jazz geeks and folkies and cost per track is way less than Amazon or Apple. Downloads have been DRM-free since day one in 1998.
LaLa has locker-in-the-cloud plus free-but-limited on-demand streaming plus one button download purchase. Price ratio for MP3 vs. unlimited cloud play is 10 to 1. But it is the UI that sold me. Bleeping perfect - it feels like a device. Nobody else has this right. You can browse anything without disturbing player, playback or queue. Also FB & twitter tie-in.
I'm not an insider with either of these, just a techie who loves music.