Go Play Music News Bites

Music Enthusiast is becoming part of the Go Play Music Network. Go Play Music provide video and social media e-learning platform for music schools, teachers and other producers of music instruction content. on July 15

New approach to delivering our DVDs via the cloud. What we call Buy|Store|Stream. Allows our users to buy DVDs, we store them on the cloud and stream them on demand. Lots of security for our producers, ease of use for users, and persistent connection to customers for us! on June 19

Been in rebuild mode. Discovered after investing lots of time and money into Microsoft's DRM solution, it just didn't work for us. Lots of issues but best of all it got us to totally rethink the world. After 9 mos in development we launched Buy|Store|Stream - more to come soon on June 19

Just released V2.0 of our download manager. This version corrected a number of serious bugs as well as improved error handling for downloading videos. The goal was to reduce support calls and so far it works great! on September 28

We just signed up for the Juice Pitcher competition - could be fun. Vote for us, please.... on September 14

Rich Severson of Guitar College will be hosting a new free show at Music Enthusiast - Rich Severson's Guitar College Video Magazine. He interviews great guitarists to get the inside scoop on their techniques and approaches. on September 14

Just signed Guitar College as a new video producer. Guitar College has a large collection of great jazz guitar videos that will be available for sale at Music Enthusiast. on September 14

We just shot the first episode of Collector's Corner. This is a guitar specific show along the lines of Antiques Roadshow where we review and rate vintage and collectible instruments. See it later this week on MusicEnthusiast.tv on September 14

Music Enthusiast will be at the Digital Media Summit at UCLA on July 29th. I will be presenting to VCs as well as the entire audience. Come check us out if you at the conference. http://www.ihollywoodforum.com/digitalmediasummit/index.html on July 13

Bill Susman's How High the Moon video is burning up our eCommerce system with new orders! Over 1000 registered users now and growing. on July 13

Just released: Bill Susman Teaches How High the Moon. This is a fantastic video for jazz piano. Bill Susman takes you through each measure of his arrangement teaching you step-by-step how to play this great jazz standard. http://www.musicenthusiast.tv/community/catalog/51 on June 25

New episode of the Business of Making Music. I'm chatting with our legal expert Tim Herr on the role of Music Rights Organization. It amazes me the legal stuff musicians and Internet businesses need to know about music rights! http://www.musicenthusiast.tv/?searchtext=business on June 24

We've just updated the first episode of The Business of Making Music. We weren't happy with the fast editing we did of the original. If you have business or legal related questions about Music, send them in and we'll try to answer them on the show. www.musicenthusiast.tv on June 22

For all you guitar rockers - we've just added Carl Verheyen's Intervallic Rock DVD as a digital download. Carl was the guitarist for Super Tramp and is one the best "first call" session guitarists in LA. Fluent in styles from jazz to country - this is a great video! on June 19

We've just added the Definitive Steve Morse instructional guitar series - 2 DVDs of great guitar tips, technique and lessons. Also, we've added the famous instructional video from Yngwie Malmsteen. These are complete high-quality versions - not the short You Tube versions. on June 17

Finalizing a deal to give us access to music products we can sell through a hybrid infomercial model. We're going to create a marketplace channel that will feature select heavily discounted products (guitars, bass, effects, etc.) with demonstrations and a buy now button. on June 17

Shooting our first episode of Collector's Corner. It is all about collecting vintage guitars. Our first show will feature a 1930s Charlie Christian Gibson guitar. We follow it through the restoration process and the end with a review of its value and market appeal. Way cool!! on June 17

Feverishly adding content!!! We are working to build out our catalog of downloadable videos. Just released video by guitar great Allan Holdsworth plus concert by jazz legend Ahmad Jamal. Full length concert videos from Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth coming. on June 17

WE ARE LIVE! We processed our first order yesterday marking the end of phase 3 of the company (P1 was concept, P2 was prototype and P3 was development). Now on to Phase 4 - build out content and Phase 5 for promotion. Thanks to all who have helped and given feedback. on May 13

Almost Live! We are planning on opening our store by the end of next week. We've completed integrating our rights management system and have been busily encoding videos from Play Like Me Music, Alfred Music Publishing and KeyFax New Media. on May 06

We've just partnered with MVD Entertainment to offer over 600 music performance and documentary videos as digital downloads. They include a variety of styles from jazz to hip-hop including performances by Chick Corea, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters and Alica Keyes. on May 06

Our new download manager application is complete! This allows our users to easily download collections of video files with one click and be managed as a single product. The download manager also does all of our rights management as well. on April 28

Off to LA in about a week. Will be shooting interviews and meetings. Technology platform upgrade just about done. However, typical of tech, one step forward sometimes causes two backwards - Arrgghh. on April 26

Finalizing a group of new episodes/shows and download video products this week. Also fighting our way through a final set of software issues with our download engine. Almost there. Should be up and running by end of next week - hopefully... on April 14

I know it sounds like sour grapes and quite frankly I don't mind loosing a competition. Its the lack on communications, clear criteria, etc. Just feels like a PR game - pay the money and get accolades... Nuff said. On to building a business. on April 08

You can imagine, I won't spend my time or money to hear about a bunch of companies that seem to want to repurpose movies over the Internet. Is AlwayOn on the way out? I'm tired of people marketing to me under the pretense of "getting connected." I have better things to do! on April 08

OK, maybe I don't get it. We got nominated for the OnHollywood 100. No feedback, no questions, no news and then we see today's announcement of the winners. Yes, we were not on the list but please at least let us know ahead of time or maybe its that we didn't buy a speaker spot on April 08

Got a call from a major video distribution company this week. They have a large collection of music performance and documentary videos that we may be able to get to offer as both rentals and as buy to own downloads. BTW, yes we can do download rentals of videos. on April 05

New content coming in from Alfred for our download catalog now. Working out the kinks on our production processes. Also bringing a couple of new shows on to METV later this week - Bass Notes, The Luthier's Shoppe and The Business of Making Music on April 05

Been in quiet mode the last week - doing taxes - Argghhh. Anyway, also went through migrating to a new hosting service and servers to resolve some major performance issues. All better now. Amazing what a dedicated 4- quad processor server will do. on April 05