“Apple plans a push for iTunes Tagging-ready, HD Radio-equipped boomboxes with iPod docks during the mid-January Macworld Expo event in San Francisco, California,” Charles Starrett reports for iLounge.
“Announced in September, iTunes Tagging is a new HD Radio feature designed to further boost iTunes sales by allowing listeners to ‘Tag’ the currently playing song, automatically adding its information to a ‘Tagged’ playlist on the connected iPod. When synced with a computer, the playlist appears in iTunes, making it easy to purchase tagged tracks from the iTunes Store,” Starrett reports.
“CBS Radio, Clear Channel, Cumulus, Cox, Entercom and Greater Media have all announced that they are in the process of installing iTunes Tagging technology,” Starrett reports.
More details in the full iLounge article here.
Kind of like squirting, but without the hassle of having to interact with another person. (nice)
Moscone is going to be covered in graffiti.
Does anyone actually hear anything on Clear Channel that they want to buy? Seriously?
Hmm, I don’t know. I guess I’m not really all that excited. How ’bout you?
Re: Clear Channel Management
“Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and The Pentagon, radio stations circulated a list of songs that were deemed inappropriate for broadcast during the time of national mourning following the attacks. A small list was initially generated by the Clear Channel office, though individual program directors added many of their own songs. A list containing about 150 songs was soon published on the Internet. The list was criticized and lampooned as an inept attempt at censorship, especially as some of the songs, such as “Imagine” by John Lennon, seemed wholly appropriate for mourning. Some critics suggested that Clear Channel’s political preferences played a part in the list. A number of songs were apparently placed on the list because they had specific words such as “plane”, “fly”, “burn,” and “falling” in their titles. Clear Channel denies that this was a list of banned songs, claiming it was a list of titles that should be played only after great thought. Songs that were played included Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin'” and Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications#September_11.2C_2001
The only time James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain” will ever be banned. >.<
Okay, I was just kidding, but it’s actually on the list.
“Sweet dreams and flying machines/In pieces on the ground…”
What A Ludicrous World.
Clear Channel stations blow. They are losing the war of the ears to the iPod, mainly because they play and replay crap.
“Moscone is going to be covered in graffiti.”
Physical Graffiti?
To Thorin: Yeah, but mostly American Graffiti.
When the Dixie Chicks criticized Bush and one of them said, “he’s not my president”, the media reported that “hundreds of radio stations have removed the Dixie Chicks from their playlists following their comments about president Bush.” What the media failed to mention is that all of the stations that banned the Dixie Chicks were ClearChannel-owned stations and that the mandate came from corporate. This wasn’t some grass-roots outrage that spread across the country. The guy who owned ClearChannel at the time was a hard-core right wing republican and Bush lover. ClearChannel even put up those hitlerian billboards during the 2004 campaign that featured a giant picture of George Bush with the words “Our Leader” emblazoned across the top, and they did so at no charge to the republican party.
I am quite excited by this news.
I am often listening to the radio, hear a catchy new tune, and wait for the title or artist but never hear it, so I can’t make a note and buy the song or album or check out the artist’s material.
This feature will drive not only listeners to iTunes, but also artists. Imagine the increase in your track sales if listeners could instantly tag your song after hearing your tune!
It looks like such a small detail, but I think the positive implications are huge.
What’s a radio?
Non-commercial, pubic radio stations are doing some very interesting things with HD radio (HD1, HD2, HD3) — with much more to come. So, if true, the iTunes connection will help raise public awareness of HD Radio and give it a much-needed boost.
Radio…..
I can’t remember the last time I spun the dial.
And maybe that’s sad. My music collection has stabilized at about 5000 songs, ALL from purchased CDs (RIAA – you listening?).
How do you find new music?
@C1: As silly as Clear Channel’s actions may seem in retrospect, a list of songs for which extra consideration is due is hardly “banning”. When keeping an audience is your prime business you become far more sensitive than most of us average listeners. I don’t think it Orwellian. Besides, companies decide everyday what to sell and not sell, what they think their customers want and don’t want. If CBS chooses not to renew “Punky Brewster” they do it because they think few want to view it, and no one accuses them of “banning” it. It’s the same result: no more PB. Clear Channel made a decision that for a time it would be best for their business to not to play some songs. I don’t think that they were the only ones, but because of the owner’s public Conservative leanings it becomes reported as some sinister government conspiracy to control the airwaves.
@Jooop: At the risk of sounding like a Clear Channel apologist I’ve got to say that regardless of the political leaning of its owner and his actions, there was indeed a grassroots outrage at the comments of the Dixie Chicks. And it wasn’t so much what they said (which included the declaration of embarrassment of being from Texas), it was that they made these comments were made in France while pandering to the French press at the same time Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin were doing everything in their power to undermine US foreign policy. If the Chicks had left their politics at the water’s edge they would not have seen such a backlash.
@ Spark
That’s just so not Rock & Roll. I’d be playing Rock The Casbah before the towers hit the ground. That is exactly what’s wrong with corporate radio these days – They’ve cut the teeth out of anything that music (rock in particular) ever had to say and given us a river of sh|t that Menudo would have been proud of.
Kinda boring… I want MORE!!!
get your friggin facts straight, they were in London when the comments were made. What a lame a$$ American attitude.
MW “England” well what about that!
entrenchment.
Apple should market them as BOOM! boxes.
iTunes Tagging is a great idea especially for those like me who never remember the name of the song or band. Also most of the time the DJs never say what the song is anyway.
I hope that this tagging feature will make the radio stations more responsive to customers needs. Perhaps they will find out that playing Maroon 5’s “Sweetest Goodbye’ every hour will not result in more sales.
With this feature the stations will be able to track sales with songs and may also realize that playing a greater variety results in more sales overall.
I think this is a win-win situation and may even get consumers like me back to listening to the radio if they start playing more interesting music.
Clear Channel, not that I agree with their decision, can ban anything they want because they are a private company.
Censorship by the government is illegal and against the constitution because the government has the ability to use force.
So what does the broadcasting radio station get?
Does there station have an embedded tag too so they get a percentage of any sale made on the apple store that was purchased from a tagged song heard on their station?
Interesting concept.
Thanks for the reply to Joop, Spark. Saved me the trouble.
“hitlerian” should be used to describe diluting the truth to a point that it becomes a lie.