Wired Italy meets Thounds today
February 26th, 2010
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Today you can read an interview with Francesco Fraioli (founder of Thounds) on Wired Italy.

Journalist Andrea Girolami is also having a word with Sem Ronzoni, founder of SplitGigs that is a useful platform for all the bands looking to swap live dates worldwide.

If you are curious to know why we believe Music is not suffering as much as (music) Industry is, or what is our copyright policy don’t miss:

http://www.wired.it/news/archivio/2010-02/26/startup-musicali-italiane-thounds-e-splitgigs.aspx

Interviews above for the Italian speaking only.

Two big Italian TV channels on Thounds
February 10th, 2010
Thounds

Last week we’ve been featured twice on the Italian Television, here is the two videos (for the Italian speaking)

On Thursday the 4th, TG1, the most popular newscast in Italy with 5.5mln viewers, introduces Thounds as a groundbreaking tool for young musicians and music lovers:

On Saturday the 6th, Innovation show on LA7 introduces Thounds as an innovative start up in Italy and takes a tour for an insight:

iPhone App v1.1 update available
February 9th, 2010
Thounds
Thounds app for iPhone and iPod Touch v1.1

Thounds app for iPhone and iPod Touch v1.1

Thounds app v1.1 is now available for free from the iTunes store:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/thounds/id349922471?mt=8

Improvements with the new release:
- thound visibility settings (decide who can hear your recordings)
- share your thounds (or someone else’s) on twitter or send by email
- the metronome now starts before recording begins
- minor bug fixing

Please don’t forget to write a review on the iTunes store after download, your support will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Coolio Freestyle
February 2nd, 2010
Francesco Fraioli

Hi thounders,
We spent nice days in Cannes at MIDEM. We’ve met a lot of interesting people.
The most cool guy was Coolio! He has also added a line on my thound.
Check it out, it is amazing

Thounds at MIDEM 2010
January 22nd, 2010
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Thounds is only four months old and already showing at MIDEM, our agendas are getting busy with interesting meetings and conferences to follow, and be sure you are going to read lots from us through the next days.

MIDEM is the the largest music convention in Europe (some might say on the Planet) with nearly 10,000 partecipants from 4,000 companies gathered in the Palais de Festivals in Cannes, France from Saturday 23rd to Wednesday 27th January.

Who’s attending the show? Probably everyone in the music industry, record labels, promoters, licensing companies, artists, managers, social networks, content aggregators, music journalists, etc

During the exhibition, not only we will introduce our web platform (and new mobile application) but also we are joining forces with SplitGigs, a new start up that helps bands to swap live slots.

Come and find us all at the OpenSpace pavillion, pod no. 34!
… or follow us on Twitter @thounds and Facebook www.facebook.com/thounds

Sharing becomes easier
January 20th, 2010
Giovanni Cappellotto

Going from inspiration to sharing (through recording) now becomes as easy as pie.

What can be shared?
Any thoundstrack that you set at public from your library (click “edit info” for the tweak)
You can modify this property only if you own the track, that is if you started it.

Share with a Thounds page
You can invite your friends or audience to a specific URL to play the thoundstrack.
Just click on the title of the track and you will get its own Thounds page, where you can play the thounstrack alone and find many sharing options (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Delicious, …) for spreading your inspiration to others.

Post your Thoundstrack on Facebook
Go to the Thounds player page (see above) and copy the URL address, then paste in your comments. Or the simpel way: just click the Facebook icon below and you will get the preview of the embedded player.

Facebook share for Thounds (example)

Facebook share for Thounds (example)

Hallo and happy New Year thounders!

We are back on track and have great news for you: Thounds is attending MIDEM, the European’s leading music show in Cannes (France) and want to showcase the best recordings we have collected so far.

If you like the idea of being played to a potential crowd of label managers, record labels officers, PR people, distributors, etc don’t wait any more and start a thound or collaborate on an existent one.

Tip: make your thound public (go to “library > edit info”) and share its link with a comment below so other users can play along with it.

MIDEM 2010 http://www.midem.com/ Sun 24th to Thurs 28th January 2010

Sharing your tracks (and other updates)
December 23rd, 2009
Giovanni Cappellotto

Hallo,
a quick message before leaving for the Christmas break, as we have just released a few new features:

  • Share your thoundstrack just with a direct link, and also you can now decide whether to make your music available for everyone, for your contacts or just keep it for yourself.
    Go to your library and click “edit info” on selected track, you will see these new features
  • Have you noticed a mobile phone over some avatar?
    You guess it, those are the beta testers and they are uploading music with the iPhone application
  • Feedback tag: drop us your ideas and comments to improve our application, it’s on the right side of the screen



Still working on a major update due for early January, meanwhile hope you will enjoy these new small improvements.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year

Library, now showing collaborations too
November 4th, 2009
Thounds

The library section is now showing either your own thounds and also your contributions to others’ thounds.

Festival of Creativity, Florence
October 14th, 2009
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Festival della Creatività 2009
We are very glad to announce we are taking part of the 4th Festival of Creativity this weekend in Florence, Italy

We will host presentations showing you what is Thounds and more about its features and tips to get the most out of it, and we will not as well miss the chance to meet some of our favorite artists playing live, such as Patrick Wolf, Rinocerose, Dani Siciliano, In Flagranti, Golden Bug, Hot Chip, The Invisible, The Emperor Machine and many other.

Festival della Creatività / Festival of Creativity
After the increasing successes of the first three editions (with 400,000 visitors in 2008), the Festival—with the personal support of the President of the Republic Giorgio  Napolitano—is taking on an international profile as a premier event of the 2009 European Year of Creativity and Innovation. The 2009 programme offers four days of meetings, talkshows, workshops and live performances with artists, scholars and scientists from around the world.

If you are around, drop by, say hallo and record your Thounds with us!

Making Ideas Happen
Iuav & H-Farm
Stand no.9
Pavillion Ghiaia

Presentations will be held every day at 12:00, 16:00 and 19:00

http://2009.festivaldellacreativita.it/homepage