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More than 2.5 million people have attended a concert by Lady Gaga. It is not excellent news for music

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If someone wondered if THE FIASCO AT CUP OF ‘JOKER: Folie à Deux’ I was going to have a negative impact on Lady Gaga’s career, this weekend the artist has been in charge of demonstrating that she has not been beating a worldwide record: about two and a half million peopleaccording to sources from Lady Gaga, they gathered in Rio de Janeiro for a direct artist. It is the largest amount of audiences ever gathered for a female singer, thus exceeding the figure that Madonna had previously held with 1.6 million people. Free abracadabra. The artist played on the beach of Copacabana before these two and a half million spectators, and came to thank the presence of the crowd live. In the previous days, the fever by the singer, who has been preparing the event since last Tuesday, has taken over Brazil. Lady Gaga had been seen for the territory for 12 years, and took the opportunity to review all her great successes, including some of her last supervants, ‘Mayhem’. After being a sign in Coachella and giving this historic concert, the singer addresses Singapore. Shortly after the world tour will begin to promote his latest album. More macroconcientes. The echo that Lady Gaga’s concert has had nothing strange: the macroconciente is, paradoxically, The new music expression unit. Media mastodon with a media deployment only within reach of the largest and that are the musical equivalent of Marvel’s-evidence. Its profitability is beyond doubt: in Spain in 2024, live music entered 25.32% more than the previous year, 725.6 million euros. This upward traction is only possible in terms of great events and concerts in giant enclosures. The authentic business. We can jump to a global scale: According to Pollstar dataonly the 100 most successful tours in the world (that is, all macroconcientes) reached a joint collection of 9.5 billion dollars. If we take into account that the music industry globally billed 29.6 billion dollars in 2024we can get an idea of ​​how important this part of the business is: practically a third of the total. Let’s add another nuance: in 2023, concerts and macroconcientes They generated 304 million euros in Spainbut its real economic impact was 2.2 billion euros. The figures are multiplied in proportion to global scale, and it is understood why the industry is interested in supporting the great events, however expensive they are. The roller of the macroconciente. Macrofestivals and macroconcierts have become a completely autonomous monster and outside the industry movements. Undoubtedly, this new normality of the industry has affected, above all, the smallest concerts and the most modest proposals. As Cruz saysauthor of the ‘macrofestival’ essay, “the penalty is that the possibility of enjoying live music is only in enclosures with 40,000 people, video screens, overlapping groups. We should be able to have other ways to consume live music because I believe that this does not generate public for music, but in any case for more festivals.” More money does not imply growth. Or said with figures, Pollstar numbers of 2024 they throw a paradox. While concert revenues increased by number 8.7 % compared to the same period of 2023 and the number of shows increased by 16.7 %, which suggested an expanding industry, that growth is not uniform. On the other hand, the average gross income per show fell 6.9 % and the average number of tickets sold by show decreased by 14.9 % (what does this mean: that in a year the tickets have risen notoriously at the price). Obstacles for the rooms. All these figures point to a domination of macroeventos and macroconciertes in the musical panorama. And it is not necessary to go to the specific numbers: in Madrid, institutional efforts are turned into the Reopening of Santiago Bernabeu and in a fight with Barcelona to see who organizes the most gigantic event. Meanwhile, legislation for small rooms and events is extremely demandingwith very noticeable capacity limitations, and the most modest concert organizers find continuous obstacles to access specific subsidies or to guarantee the survival of their businesses. The artist loses. The artists themselves in groups not only small (who often have to pay rates for the rental of concert rooms), but of medium impact and sometimes international reach, they lose with the comparison. British Kate Nash talked about how after a medium -sized room tour I could lose 50,000 pounds. A few weeks ago, the group of Wales the peasants! He took off the costs of turning out of his country, and no matter how successful they had, the accounts They hardly square. The Spaniards Viva Belgrade talked about how La Riviera and Tokyo Salas filled and They couldn’t live from music. They are just some examples that give away a situation that may not be reversed. The monster of the macroconciertes devours the most modest scene, and it is not so much a popular impact problem (two and a half million people!) Or income for the industry, but of something so simple and essential for the survival of music as there are still groups that compose new songs, and that make the medium beyond the castle of fireworks. Header | Ralph_ph – Peter e In Xataka | Taylor Swift has already released 34 editions from his latest album. OBJECTIVE: Never abandon success lists

put malware in your music CD

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Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo is one of the most solera companies in the technological world. He was born just after Second World War and his early years spent repairing radios and inventing appliances as a failed electric rice. As his name was so complicated for the West, they decided change it for something much simpler: Sony. Now surely the movie begins to sound because we are not going to discover the Importance of Sony and its innovation At this point. But that innovation is not always positive and just 20 years ago, Sony committed the one that could be the biggest error in its history: install malware in the music CD they sold. Oh, the MP3 … Although it was at the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000 when the MP3 format broke out in popularity, its story had already a few years behind it. It was in the 80s when a German engineer named Karlheinz Brandenburg developed a method to compress digital audio files without loss of quality being noticeable to the human ear. The most purists of Flac will say that E MP3 is the devil, but the Brandenburg team used an algorithm that eliminated the sound information that humans do not easily perceive, thus reducing a barbarity the weight of those files. This opened a world of possibilities in the consumer and distribution industry: the MP3 portable playershe opened his way to the distribution of digital music and for the streaming of it. He also opened, two by two, the gap for the copy of songs and their illegal download. To attack. Sony Music was already a giant of the record industry in the early 2000s. Now it is very combative with AIand in his day the MP3 did not make them a hint of grace. In fact, they were very aggressive about it. They were actively developing protection methods for their music albums and, in August 2000, Steve Heckler, vice president of the United States declared as follows: “The industry will take any necessary measure to protect and protect its sources of income. We will not lose that flow of money. Whatever happens, Sony will take aggressive measures to stop this and develop technology that transcends the individual user.” You may think so, hard words, but it is too aggressive. Attentive because Heckler continued to affirm that they were going to put a Firewall To Napster. “We will block it in your cable company. We will block it in your telephone company. We will block it in your Internet company. We will put a Firewall on your PC. They are aggressive strategies because, simply, there is too much at stake.” And what if they fulfilled their word. XCP. It may be something that sounds to you due to how close the Conflict between LaLiga and Cloudflarebut Sony’s matter really was much more … curious. Shortly after Heckler’s statements, Sony launched Natalie Imbruglia’s second album with Anticopia protection Without announcing that it carried anticopia protection, but this was a plan that was already underway and the company launched certain albums with strong protection in some markets. In addition, before merging with Sony, BMG also launched millions of albums with some protection system. The player | Image: Mark Russinovich In March 2004, Sony and BMG formed a 50%alliance, marking muscle in the music industry and seeing how this strategy against song piracy had many points in common. The two companies had been hard about it and had declared that they would do what they had to do to stop the illegal distribution. Thus, at some point, they hired the services of Firts 4 Internet. This company had a tool that seemed infallible: a system called Extended Copy Protection, or XCP. When a music CD was introduced with XCP on a PC, the self -arrange was activated and showed a license agreement that the user had to accept. If not, the CD was expelled and we could not reproduce it. By accepting it, we could enjoy the music and we would not notice anything … except for us to want to copy the files, since only three copies of the complete CD or three of each track were allowed. Some points of that eula: If you got rid of the country, you had to erase all your music. If they stole the CD, too. By accepting, you assumed that Sony could install rear doors on the PC so that they can force compliance with their rights. In case of disagreement, the maximum sum for which you could sue Sony was 5 dollars. Almost nothing, but the worst was not that. It was … malware. But when the Eula was accepted, we were not only allowed to access the CD, but several programs were installed. They were the usual ones such as the protection itself, a Sony BMG player or the drivers to reproduce it. But there was something else, something much darker. So much that the users had no idea that accepting that agreement was infecting their PC. The reason? Together with the other files, a rootkit called “$ Sys $ Aries” was installed that was automatically activated when starting the operating system and did everything possible to hide its processes. Even in the eyes of antivirus. This, as you can imagine, was a problem because hiding so deep in the system opened a huge security gap that could be used by malicious malware. Mark Russinovich Caught. They soon discover the cake. Mark RussinovichSoftware Engineer, unleashed the controversy when he published in October 2005 a blog post detailing the operation of this rootkit. Not only did he uncover the malware, but he indicated that the eula did not mention that software and denounced that digital rights management had gone too far. Mark Russinovich Russinovich was not anywhere: this Salamanca with American nationality is currently the Microsoft Azure Cto And XCP was not the only rootkit who brought to light (he did something very similar in … Read more

Spotify prepares a new subscription option, according to Bloomberg. Music Pro will come true the ancient Hifi audio promise

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It seems that this time is serious. Spotify could be closer to comply His former promise to offer higher quality audio to its users. Bloomberg points out that the Swedish firm is preparing a subscription option called Music Pro that will include this and other improvements for those who seek an experience a step beyond Premium. The sources consulted by the aforementioned medium say that Spotify is still working on the price and in the schedule, but they hope to launch the new level at the end of this year for additional $ 5.99 in the United States. At this time it is not clear if the supposed novelties will expand to other markets, including the European Union. Good news for audiophiles In the best case, paying a subscription and listening through the application, Spotify offers sound in AAC format with a quality equivalent to 320 kbps. Taking into account that the loss -less audio bits rate begins around 1,411 kbps, this shows how compressed are Spotify files. And while the service created by Daniel EK has the largest number of planet users, several less popular alternatives offer higher quality audio. There are Apple Music, Amazon Music HD or Tidal, who have been betting on this ideal possibility for audiophiles for a long time. Spotify will seek to make a difference with its new proposal. In addition to offering better quality audio, streaming service will allow subscribers to mix songs by different artists. For this characteristic it will use artificial intelligence, but it will not be the only thing. The additional payment of $ 5.99 The door will open to buy tickets for pre -sale concerts or access better seats. In any case, there is no official confirmation, so we will have to wait to know if this will end up materializing. Even having an official confirmation the ideal would be to wait. In its 2021 Stream On event, Spotify announced with bombs and dishes that would offer “Music with CDs without losses” at the end of that year. Four years have passed since that announcement, and not only the promise is still not fulfilled, but the video in which Billie Eilish participated, which was originally on YouTube, It has disappeared (Now it is private). In addition, la page with more details also It has been eliminated. Over time we will know what will really happen. Images | @felipepelaquim | Sound Tools In Xataka | Huawei Freebuds Pro 4, Analysis: The best way to summarize these headphones is with a word and that is “Chapó”

The Danish ITV has suspended one in four Tesla Model 3 in one year and is a music that sounds to us

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The Tesla Model 3 is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting electric cars in the autonomy/price relationship. Since arriving on the European market, he has played to stay at the level of the rest of competitors but always offering an extra autonomy and with the security network provided by Tesla superchargers. Year after years, Tesla sales in Europe They have continued increasing What has filled the car market that adds years. That is what has happened in Denmark, where the electric berline is facing the First mass calls to ITV. Last year, for example, they had to go to the periodic exams to certify the good condition of the vehicles Tesla Model 3 Buy in 2020. And the results have not been good. One in four The Tesla Model 3 arrived in Denmark in 2019. According to the accounts of ‘FDM Test & BILSYN’the main organization of ITV in the country, about 35,000 units of the completely electric Berlina circulate on its roads since they began to be sold just over a five years ago. Every year that passes, periodic inspections receive more and more cars in their facilities. Specify that in First 11 months of 2024some 28,000 electric cars underwent the ITV. Of these, many are units are a Tesla Model 3 that, four years after their arrival at the hands of the drivers, the examination of the inspectors passes for the first time. And the results have been extremely bad. As reflected in their accounts, of the 4,668 Tesla Model 3 examined between January 1 and November 21, 1,051 units suspended the test. That is, almost one in four units of the electrical model were left without approved. That 22.5% of Tesla Model 3 units that did not receive the approved one is far from the average suspensions between electric cars, which is 9%, according to the data collected by the country’s ITV stations. “This percentage is alarmingly high and reflects quality and durability problems in the first generations of Tesla Model 3,” they affirm from the association. The problems referred to are recurring in brakes, lights, axes and direction. And emphasize: “The Tesla Model 3 accumulated more than triple failures compared to other inspected electric cars. “ When talking about ITV it is easy to ask whether the problem is really in the vehicle or in the neglect and lack of interest of drivers. In Spain, for example, The most recurring failures Among the suspensions is a malfunction of the lights or excessive wear in the tires. The latter is not a minor issue. In fact, doubts about the little maintenance that must be done to an electric car has led some to wonder If the car uses oil or not. The Spanish Association of Collaborating Entities of the Administration in the Technical Inspection of Vehicles (AECA-ITV) indicates that, before going to the ITV, some of the simpler elements to review are tires. In spite of everything, we must not overlook that it is not the first time that Tesla is pointed out by an ITV organization. The Tüv Süd, the German ITV, also prepared its own report alerting that The Tesla had recurring failures and that Dacia won them in reliability. In that case, the German organism remembered the importance of keeping the car In the best possible state. They pointed out that an electric car also had to comply with minimum maintenance And that, again, the most recurring failures collected in the Tesla suspensions had to do with the tires and lighting. These are the most recent reports but already in 2022 The OCU pointed to Tesla as one of the least reliable brands of the market. And JD Power, a specialist in this type of reports in the United States, showed the same results in 2023. While Japanese brands occupied the first positions, Tesla was one of the least reliable manufacturers. Photo | Tesla In Xataka | The Tesla Model and should be the change of paradigm in Europe. It has been destroyed as a best selling car by Dacia Sandero

This way you will now share all the music you want from the chat app

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It’s almost impossible to keep up with the news. with the continuous updates that it is deploying WhatsApp in Spainand almost every week a new one appears that would be arriving in the next update to the final version of the most installed chat app in these parts. Now he is going for a great novelty: sharing his favorite music from the states. WhatsApp status updates like Instagram Stories are a great way to share anything and so you can reach all your contacts that are present in both applications. It is not even necessary to send a direct message for friends or family to follow the content that is published from this space, which also receives changes from time to time. The new WhatsApp proposal is aimed at that audience that likes share your favorite songs; just as it does on Instagram by having the exquisite musical catalog of Universal Music Group. The idea is very similar and what it will allow is to share the latest song by Kendrick Lamar or Dua Lipa from the status update. This novelty already appeared as part of a development in the beta of WhatsApp on Android with version 2.25.2.5 and now it has re-emerged, but on iOS with version 25.1.10.73 of the app through TestFlight. Which means that Meta would be preparing everything for the arrival to the final version of a very important novelty. As can be seen in the screenshot provided by WaBetaInfothis function allows you to search for specific songs or artists from the same editor, which will make it easier share this type of content in status updates. This feature is only available with a stable internet connection for obvious reasons to search through the entire catalog available for the thousands of artists and groups available from Universal Music Group. The new option to share musical content on WhatsApp WaBetaInfo The Free Android The music sharing icon It appears located just like the second in the row located at the top, always used to edit the content or even put a text among the different options offered by WhatsApp. And just when a song is added to the image to be shared, the content is transformed into a video that lasts 15 seconds. On the other hand, if it were a video without sound, the duration of the shared content would be the length of the video itself. Manuel Ramirez The Free Android This WhatsApp music experience is practically identical to Instagram and it is because Meta has expanded its usage rights agreement with Universal Music Group just last year in August according to TechCrunchso that millions in Spain can enjoy their musical content from the most installed chat app.

The White House disdains Spanish, others elevate it to promote Latin American art

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LOS ANGELES — The use of Spanish is considered an act of rebellion and resistance in the United States. Now, more than ever, the language of Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar will be a dissonant element, a language that the spouses Ivonne Guzman and Jorge Espinosa They have decided to elevate their venture that promotes art through books and records. On his first day as president, a few hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump closed the website and social networks in Spanish from the White House. However, these entrepreneurs use their digital platform, called The thinking junkto celebrate the literature and music produced in Spanish, betting on a reunion—in some—and discovery—in others—of the delight caused by art in this fertile language. “In general it is about dignifying, showing the joy and beauty of this language,” commented Ivonne. On the digital platform, Los trastos depensa, these entrepreneurs offer alternative music and literature in the United States. (Soudi Jiménez / Los Angeles Times en Español) This Ecuadorian couple launched on April 23, 2023, within the framework of the Book Dayits platform that now has a presence on Facebook and instagram. In part, this digital initiative responds to their personal tastes, but along the way they have realized that there are more Latin people with the same preferences in literature and music. The idea of ​​creating this website arose during the times of the pandemic, as a result of that unsatisfied need that they have been dealing with since they both settled in the United States. Jorge arrived with residency in 2011, while Ivonne did so in 2018 when she assumed her position as Consul General of Ecuador in Los Angeles. “We didn’t find a lot of things that are easily accessible in other countries,” said Jorge. If they wanted to acquire a book by the Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz, the Ecuadorian Mónica Ojeda, or the Spanish Irene Vallejo, they had to buy it on a trip they took to Quito, the Ecuadorian capital; or ask for any friendship that could bring them from their homeland. The same thing happened to them if they wanted to buy an Argentine rock album, or a Brazilian or Chilean artist. “There weren’t any, it was impossible to get them, it was like they didn’t exist,” he added. In their own words, they do not consider themselves experts; However, academic training and experience gives them knowledge and authority to speak about what they are doing. Ecuadorian journalist Ivonne Guzmán shows some of the books that were put on sale at the LéaLA book fair, held in September 2024 in Los Angeles. (Soudi Jiménez / Los Angeles Times en Español) For the last 31 years, Ivonne has practiced cultural journalism in her native country. She has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the newspaper The Commerce. He also has a master’s degree in research in history and is author of the book Social painting. Three women in the art world of the 1930samong other professional achievements. On the other hand, Jorge is a musician and has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with an emphasis in painting and printmaking, as well as a master’s degree in education and is currently pursuing another master’s degree in sound art. To launch this venture, in 2022 they did a market study, they visited record stores and bookstores in Southern California, they talked to different people, they asked them where they got their books and music. By receiving a grant they applied for, they enabled the platform that sells new and used books, as well as compact discs and vinyl records. “This is a bit of facing what is there and seeing what works; We got records from Mercedes Sosa, Julio Jaramillo and Astor Piazzolla, as well as Aterciopelados from Colombia and Caifanes from Mexico. We emphasize artists from Ecuador, taking into account those who are outside the city of Quito,” Jorge explained. Among the books they have for sale on their portal are those by Ecuadorian María Fernanda Ampuero and Daniela Alcívar Bellolio, Argentine Leila Guerriero and Colombian Pilar Quintana, among other authors. (Soudi Jiménez / Los Angeles Times en Español) In literature, the bet is to have books like those written by the Ecuadorian María Fernanda Ampuero and Daniela Alcívar Bellolio, the Argentine Leila Guerriero and the Colombian Pilar Quintana, to name a few examples. They are also interested in offering copies of graphic novels, essays, novels and short stories by prestigious authors. Along these same lines, the public can suggest a book or an album; If the person is patient, these entrepreneurs can get it and send it to any city in the United States. At this time, delivery takes time because only the two of them select and renew their catalog. They themselves take the orders to the postal service. “The nice thing is that we are bringing more indie, newer, smaller publishers; We have things that you can’t get easily and that Amazon doesn’t have either, that’s the difference,” Ivonne highlighted. These publishers are Ecuadorian, Spanish, Colombian and Argentine, which publish many of these books by unknown authors in the United States, but with wide recognition in Spain and Latin America. Jorge Espinosa shows a book about the Argentine musician Fito Páez. (Soudi Jiménez / Los Angeles Times en Español) Despite the position recently adopted by the White House, Spanish is moving forward at a steady pace. Currently more than 600 million people speak this language in the world. In the United States, 67.6% of the 63.7 million Latinos use Spanish at home, that is, more than 43 million people, according to the 2024 report from the Cervantes Institute. This interest in this language was noticeable at the last LéaLA book fair in Spanish, held in September 2024. These entrepreneurs sold almost half of their catalog, there they found many learners of Spanish and people who are competent or who are native speakers who seek alternative literature and music. For this reason … Read more

Chris Brown sues Warner Bros. for $500 million

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The singer Chris Brown has filed a lawsuit for $500 million dollars against the Warner Bros. company.since he argues that in the documentary “Chris Brown: A History Of Violence”from the channel Investigation Discoverythey refer to him as “a serial rapist and abuser.” Chris Brown investigated for allegedly slapping woman Brown, 35, posted on his Instagram account instagram a statement mentioning a woman named Daisia ​​Chantel Frankand who in the documentary introduces herself as “Jane Doe” saying that several years ago Chris allegedly raped her aboard a yacht owned by the rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. Get to know the mansion where Chris Brown organized a scandalous party with hundreds of guests Levi McCathernBrown’s attorney, states in the statement that “this case is about protecting the truth. Despite having evidence to refute their claims, the producers of this documentary intentionally promoted false and defamatory information.consciously ignoring their ethical obligations as journalists. “His actions undermine not only Brown’s decade-long efforts to rebuild his life, but also the credibility of real survivors of violence.” Investigation Discovery has presented other controversial documentaries, such as “Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV” and “Fallen Idols: Nick And Aaron Carter”both released in 2024. Chris Brown’s lawsuit is for alleged defamationintentionally inflicting emotional distress, and using your name and likeness for promotional purposes. The document also notes that Chris Brown has never been convicted of any sexual crimes. For a decade the artist has tried to improve his image in the public eye, since in 2009 he was accused of assault and criminal threats for having hit the singer. Rihannawho was then his partner. Chris pleaded guilty, then served five years of probation, took courses on domestic violence and did community work. Keep reading:

Cazzu is in the middle of filming the film “Risa”, in which she makes her debut as an actress

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cazzu is very much enjoying his return to the music scene this year, but also She ventures as an actress, with a role in the film “Risa”whose filming is currently taking place in Ushuaia, Argentina; will be released on the platform Netflix. Cazzu shines in a collection of images and promises “new music soon” The program Data 7 News and the company MazzClip Films They released images in which the singer is seen wearing baggy pants and a sweater, and then driving a car. cazzu He also appears outside the La Victoria supermarket, wearing a red sweatshirt and hugging a young actress during the filming of a scene. Does Cazzu throw a hint at Nodal in his new song? According to the information of MazzClip Films and Lab House Productions, “Laughter” is about a girl who, after losing her father, discovers that she can communicate with him. They also act in the film Diego Peretti and Joaquin Furrielbut the release date has not yet been announced. The singer also lived with people who were at the locations, she took selfies and he was in a very good mood. cazzu does not neglect his musical career, and On his Instagram account he shared a fragment of the video clip of his new single, titled “Dolce.” It will be released todayand the music heard is of the corridos tumbados genre. She has not given any further details on the matter, but her post earned more than 350,000 likes on that social network. Keep reading:

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