<p>The digital music market is a dynamic market which keeps evolving all the time, as it is the case in France.</p><p>The purpose is <strong>to explore what the state of the current digital music market </strong><strong>in France is and its trends.</strong></p><p>Thus, we exhibit the tools implemented by companies to act in this market.</p> / Very Good

In 2007, Radiohead released a downloadable album, In Rainbows, allowing consumers to pay what they thought the album was worth. The band responded to a moment of change in the music industry. Since then, other bands, like Nine Inch Nails and Coldplay, have made similar moves. Radiohead's capability to release an album and let the fans decide its worth relied on the image they built, which foregrounded their commodification. The historic move redefined the boundaries between art and commodity, a well know tension in popular music studies. The thesis focuses on popular music as communication in the changing industry. Using Radiohead’s album as a case study, it looks at the changing boundaries in the tension between art and commodity. The thesis examines Radiohead's performance, its mediation by the press, and what the album’s distribution method meant to the fans.

The digital music market is a dynamic market which keeps evolving all the time, as it is the case in France. The purpose is to explore what the state of the current digital music market in France is and its trends. Thus, we exhibit the tools implemented by companies to act in this market. / Very Good

Esta tesis propone un juego de algoritmos que puede emplearse para computar estimaciones de las distintas facetas de complejidad que ofrecen señales musicales auditivas. Están enfocados en los aspectos de acústica, ritmo, timbre y tonalidad. Así pues, la complejidad musical se entiende aquí en el nivel más basto del común acuerdo entre oyentes humanos. El objetivo es obtener juicios de complejidad mediante computación automática que resulten similares al punto de vista de un oyente ingenuo. La motivación de la presente investigación es la de mejorar la interacción humana con colecciones de música digital. Según se discute en la tesis,hay toda una serie de tareas a considerar, como la visualización de una colección, la generación de listas de reproducción o la recomendación automática de música. A través de las estimaciones de complejidad musical provistas por los algoritmos descritos, podemos obtener acceso a un nivel de descripción semántica de la música que ofrecerá novedosas e interesantes soluciones para estas tareas. / This thesis proposes a set of algorithms that can be used to compute estimates of music complexity facets from musical audio signals. They focus on aspects of acoustics, rhythm, timbre, and tonality. Music complexity is thereby considered on the coarse level of common agreement among human listeners. The target is to obtain complexity judgments through automatic computation that resemble a naive listener's point of view. The motivation for the presented research lies in the enhancement of human interaction with digital music collections. As we will discuss, there is a variety of tasks to be considered, such as collection visualization, play-list generation, or the automatic recommendation of music. Through the music complexity estimates provided by the described algorithms we can obtain access to a level of semantic music description, which allows for novel and interesting solutions of these tasks.

[pt] Plano de Marketing é um documento que analisa toda a empresa sob a ótica do marketing e através dessa ótica destaca forças, fraquezas, ameaças e oportunidades para então traçar estratégias e objetivos. Esta dissertação traça um Plano de Marketing para o lançamento de uma banda independente, através da percepção de especialistas ligados à indústria fonográfica e da análise de dados do mercado fonográfico nacional, e estuda o caso da banda Seu Cuca. A banda enfrenta várias dificuldades para conseguir expandir seu público e deve tomar decisões para trabalhar sua carreira de forma independente, e para isso precisa desenvolver um planejamento de marketing, estabelecendo estratégias de penetração ou crescimento junto aos públicos alvos. Este estudo identifica possíveis estratégias de marketing que poderiam ser utilizadas pela banda, e alternativas de divulgação e distribuição para artistas independentes. / [en] Marketing Plan is a document that analyzes the whole company under the optics of marketing and through this optics it detaches forces, weaknesses, threats and opportunities for then tracing strategies and objectives. This present work traces a Marketing Plan for the release of an independent band, through the perception of phonographic industry specialists and through the analysis of the national phonographic´s market data, and studies the case of the band Seu Cuca. The band faces several difficulties to expand its public and must take decisions to work its career through an independent way, and needs to develop a marketing plan, establishing penetration or growth strategies to expand the band´s target public. This study identifies possible marketing strategies of that could be used by the band, and alternatives of promotion and distribution for independent artists.

Currently, digital music is evolving. In connection with this development new business models are formed, e.g. between majors and mobile operators. In the thesis, I am analysing the current trends and czech and foreign music services in this field. In my own research I am evaluating czech customers preferences in respect to digital music, their music habits and their idea of an ideal music service offered by mobile operator. On basis of music services analysis and the research results, I am suggesting an ideal music service to the biggest mobile operator in the Czech republic.

Die Langzeitverfügbarkeit von Forschungsergebnissen und der dafür häufig notwendige langfristige Erhalt der Lauffähigkeit von Software ist eine gemeinschaftliche Herausforderung für Forschung, Softwareentwicklung und Gedächtnisinstitutionen. Es stehen verschiedene Maßnahmen wie Standardisierung, Emulation oder auch die Weiterentwicklung durch Open-Source-Communities zur Verfügung, die in unterschiedlichen Kontexten für unterschiedliche Arten von Software zum Einsatz kommen können. / Long-term availability of research findings is a challenge for research, software development, and memory institutions altogether. This often includes the necessity to keep research software running over a long time. There are various methods and actions like standardization, emulation, or the development of research software by an open source community which can be taken to achieve this goal.

Submitted by Odilio Hilario Moreira Júnior (odilio@espm.br) on 2016-11-28T11:43:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Igor da Costa Bento.pdf: 1998113 bytes, checksum: 2d92fce83dcc4fa643a078f0ea361b40 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Odilio Hilario Moreira Júnior (odilio@espm.br) on 2016-11-28T11:43:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Igor da Costa Bento.pdf: 1998113 bytes, checksum: 2d92fce83dcc4fa643a078f0ea361b40 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Debora Cristina Bonfim Aquarone (deborabonfim@espm.br) on 2016-11-28T11:44:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Igor da Costa Bento.pdf: 1998113 bytes, checksum: 2d92fce83dcc4fa643a078f0ea361b40 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-28T11:44:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Igor da Costa Bento.pdf: 1998113 bytes, checksum: 2d92fce83dcc4fa643a078f0ea361b40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-25 / The process of symbiosis between information networks and the urban areas gives rise to an informational dimension of ubiquitous access to cyberspace that promotes the emergence of a myriad of new social practices from the appropriation of these networks and a variety of connection devices (cell phones, palms, MP3 players, etc.). Nomadic listening is one of the social practices identified in the current urban scene. It can be seen as a semiotic modulation, also social, cognitive, corporal and it works on the coupling between mobile devices and the act of roaming through the city. This new form of consumption focuses on listening to digital music and mounting customized playlists as soundtracks for the day to day. From a conceptual framework that focuses on the intersection between media and consumption, this paper aims to map the nomadic listening in the urban scene and to understand how the music industry has incorporated this practice into their promotion and commercialization strategies. / O processo de simbiose entre as redes telemáticas e a malha urbana enseja uma dimensão informacional de acesso ubíquo ao ciberespaço, que propicia o surgimento de uma miríade de novas práticas sociais a partir da apropriação destas redes e dos mais variados dispositivos de conexão (celulares, palms, MP3 players, etc.). A escuta nômade é uma das práticas sociais identificadas na cena urbana atual. Ela pode ser entendida como uma modulação semiótica, social, cognitiva e corporal, e funciona no acoplamento entre aos dispositivos móveis e o vagar pela cidade. Esta nova forma de consumo privilegia a escuta de música digital e a montagem de playlists personalizadas como trilhas sonoras para o dia a dia. Partindo de uma estrutura conceitual que privilegia a interseção entre mídia e consumo, este trabalho pretende mapear a escuta nômade na cena urbana e compreender de que modo a indústria da música tem incorporado esta prática às suas estratégias de promoção e comercialização.

Science fiction has long promised the digitalization of books. Characters in films and television routinely check their palm-sized (or smaller) electronic displays for fast-scrolling information. However, this very technology, increasingly prevalent in today's world, has not been embraced universally. While the convenience of pocket-sized information pieces has the techno-savvy entranced, the general public still greets the advent of the e-book with a curious reluctance. This lack of enthusiasm seems strange in the face of the many advantages offered by the new medium - vastly superior storage capacity, searchability, portability, lower cost, and instantaneous access. This dissertation addresses the need for research examining the reading comprehension and the role emotional response plays in the perceived performance on e-document formats as compared to traditional paper format. This study compares the relative reading comprehension on three formats (Kindle, iTouch, and paper) and examines the relationship of subject's emotional response and relative technology exposure as factors that affect how the subject perceives they have performed on those formats. This study demonstrates that, for basic reading comprehension, the medium does not matter. Furthermore, it shows that, the more uncomfortable a person is with technology and expertise in the requested task (in this case, reading), the more they cling to the belief that they will do better on traditional (paper) media - regardless of how well they actually do.

Record companies are suffering due to a downturn in recorded music sales. Innovative firms have developed digital music services that offer recorded music products to customers in new ways, yet sales are not what they used to be. Web 2.0 technologies have changed the customer’s tastes, expectations, and desires. Thus, a deeper understanding of the new “digital customer” is needed in order to better offer services in a way that he or she prefers most.