{"id":913,"date":"2006-08-30T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/spiralfrog-to-provide-free-music-from-universal\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T12:34:09","slug":"spiralfrog-to-provide-free-music-from-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/spiralfrog-to-provide-free-music-from-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiralfrog to provide Free Music from Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if you&#8217;ve heard about this or not yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiralfrog.com\/\">SpiralFrog<\/a>, the new music download destination, has signed an agreement with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/www.umusic.com\/ \">Universal Music Group<\/a> (UMG), the world&#8217;s leading music company, to make UMG&#8217;s extensive catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog&#8217;s advertising-supported service.<\/p>\n<p>SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the ability to legally download music by many of the world&#8217;s most popular and award-winning artists.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Robin Kent stated that the site &#8220;will offer consumers a better experience and environment than they can get from any pirate site&#8221;. Kent also stated that &#8220;Offering young consumers an easy-to-use alternative to pirated music sites will be compelling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kent highlighted some key factors &#8211; legal digital files with no viruses or spyware in a controlled client-server architecture, quick downloading, and quality songs and music videos by great artists as among the primary benefits users will gain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiralfrog.com\/\">SpiralFrog<\/a> will launch in beta later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if you&#8217;ve heard about this or not yet, but SpiralFrog, the new music download destination, has signed an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world&#8217;s leading music company, to make UMG&#8217;s extensive catalog available for legal downloading in the US and Canada via SpiralFrog&#8217;s advertising-supported service. SpiralFrog will offer users of its no-cost web-based service the<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/30\/spiralfrog-to-provide-free-music-from-universal\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiralfrog to provide Free Music from Universal&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}