Mike Butcher

The mbites.com podcast this week looked at how digital music is impacting both on music fans and the artists themselves. The guests (pictured) were Laura Lee Davies, former editor of Time Out magazine in London and a music journalist of 20 years experience, and Ben Drury, founder and managing director of 7digital.com, which provides digital downloading services to many leading brands and artists’ web sites.

Download the MP3 file here (approx 18MB, 20 minutes long) or subscribe to the podcast feed and download it automatically into your favourite podcasting software and/or mobile media player device (ok, iPod then), or even subscribe direct from iTunes.

This is the third in a series of regular mbites podcasts, hosted at London private members club, Adam Street.

If you’d like to be a guest on the next Bitecast, where we’ll be documenting some of the most interesting new developments in digital and mobile media, contact Mike Butcher.

MusicBites put together a panel of experts for its end of year review of the digital music business, the recording of which can be downloaded here (Note: 49MB file).

It took place at one of London’s best private members clubs, Adam Street, which is rapidly becoming the hub of entrepreneurs and media/digital businesses in the UK’s capital city.

The panel discussed some of the big moves made this year by the likes of Apple, the major record labels and most recently Microsoft. And we looked to the year ahead – making a few predictions along the way… (Click here to download)

Participating were:

Paul Sanders, Co-founder of Playlouder MSP, the ground-breaking subscription music ISP.

Nick Watt, Director with New Media Knowledge and In The City, the annual music conference.

Helen Keegan, Founder and Managing Director of Beep Marketing, the mobile marketing agency and a specialist in mobile music.

The discussion was chaired by Mike Butcher, Editor and Publisher of MusicBites.com

(To listen to the podcast please click to download. It’s a large file (49MB), lasting 50 minutes, and hence we wanted to give Podcast subscribers the opportunity to check this file size before downloading).

Guess what? 50 individuals and companies who illegally uploaded music tracks from the web will be hit with legal action. For more news see:

Fresh crackdown on illegal music filesharers – Ireland Online:

addict3d.orgFresh crackdown on illegal music filesharers

IRMA announces further crackdown on illegal downloads

Irish file-swappers face more legal action

New legal action planned for filesharers

Gina Harkell speaks about her experience being sued by the BPI after her son downloaded music illegally.

Pete Jenner (former manager of Pink Floyd) on why Podcasting is cool: “Podcasting feels like FM radio did in the 60s.” (Jenner is the second speaker).

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Steve Jobs, cracking jokes about Disney – movie file.

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Click to download out welcome podcast, below.