The Future of Radio Broadcasting is Curation

Radio will no longer be about the 'free' delivery of music and audio - everyone else will have that, too (and at least in technical terms, a lot of it will be much better). Once music on the Internet is collectively licensed (i.e. within 1-3 years, depending on which territory we are talking about), on-demand streaming and downloading will simply be included in your Internet access - and Radio Broadcasters will need to add value by being the best possible curators, period. Watch this video on Facebook if you want more details.

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Comments

[Jon Smirl]

After playing around with last.fm for a year I have to agree with this. The social networking tools for public curation are woefully lacking. Very simple things like adding Christmas tracks only in December aren't possible.

There's room for a new pandora/last.fm that makes star DJs. Then take these global playlists and customize them for your own taste.

last.fm's like/dislike controls are binary too. These need to be shades a gray. I am often being forced to ban tracks I like simply because last.fm is playing them way too often. Finer control is an important part of curation.

Next music statup should focus on good public curation tools.

And why can't the RIAA get it's act together and release these digital song databases to last.fm/pandora with consistent album/track/artist names? That's a product that people would pay the RIAA for. Right now I think pandora/last.fm are paying people to find old CDs/records manually.