Happy Monday to you all!
Below is a clip from the NBC Nightly News yesterday. Violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an amazing story, and some wonderful playings on the NML. Look for her recordings on the Cedille and Dorian labels!
Enjoy!
Nick
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Marin Alsop and the BSO Previews their Season
If you're anything like me, the fall season brings with it three things: cooler weather, football and a new symphony season! The BSO and Marin Alsop have a killer season coming up. I may have to fly to Baltimore just for their Shaolin Warriors show or Hollywood: The Epics concert.
They have a great promo video up on their website with Marin Alsop talking about the upcoming season. It's a great video and even mentions the Naxos Music Library!
They have a great promo video up on their website with Marin Alsop talking about the upcoming season. It's a great video and even mentions the Naxos Music Library!
Friday, September 18, 2009
Friday Subscriber Salute
Happy Friday to you all!
Today, we highlight the folks at The University of Arkansas for all of their awesome guides!
Here's a screenshot of their Naxos Music Library landing page.
Lora Lennertz Jetton, the Performing Arts and Media Librarian at the University has created 2 unique User and Faculty .pdf guides. They are step by step Walk Throughs that include everything from basic navigation to finding and listening to music.
The Faculty guide gives a wonderful and easy to follow set of instructions for creating and sharing the professor generated playlists. Both guides also give great screenshots and offer information on how to get in touch with the "powers that be".
Head over to their page to see the guides for yourself!
Many thanks to Lora Lennertz Jetton, and the staff at the University of Arkansas!
Enjoy the Weekend!
Nick
615.465.3836
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
Today, we highlight the folks at The University of Arkansas for all of their awesome guides!
Here's a screenshot of their Naxos Music Library landing page.
Lora Lennertz Jetton, the Performing Arts and Media Librarian at the University has created 2 unique User and Faculty .pdf guides. They are step by step Walk Throughs that include everything from basic navigation to finding and listening to music.
The Faculty guide gives a wonderful and easy to follow set of instructions for creating and sharing the professor generated playlists. Both guides also give great screenshots and offer information on how to get in touch with the "powers that be".
Head over to their page to see the guides for yourself!
Many thanks to Lora Lennertz Jetton, and the staff at the University of Arkansas!
Enjoy the Weekend!
Nick
615.465.3836
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
Monday, September 14, 2009
iPhone and the NML!
That's Right!
Some NML features are coming to the iPhone! Remote access to all of those playlists!
Stay tuned for all of the information.
-Nick
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
Some NML features are coming to the iPhone! Remote access to all of those playlists!
Stay tuned for all of the information.
-Nick
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Who Says Streaming Is Dead? Not Us!
That's right! Not Us!
The folks at the LA Times have used the NML as one of the "positive gainers" in the world of streaming music! Go ahead.....have a read!
The main focus of today's article is about Rhapsody appearing on the iPhone, but the NML is cited, and the original article is linked as well!
Today's Mention!
Original Article!
A HUGE Thanks from your Naxos team!
Nick
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
The folks at the LA Times have used the NML as one of the "positive gainers" in the world of streaming music! Go ahead.....have a read!
The main focus of today's article is about Rhapsody appearing on the iPhone, but the NML is cited, and the original article is linked as well!
Today's Mention!
Original Article!
A HUGE Thanks from your Naxos team!
Nick
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
New Playlist Window!
It's that time of year!
Back to School, New Orchestra Season Preparations beginning...
We've made some great changes and enhancements to our Playlist window! In addition to the UI (User Interface- Here's my computer geek coming out) changes, we've also added some great new features. Below you can see some screen shots, explanations, and general information!
Here's a "Bubbled Out" version of the new interface. The main new feature here, are Playlist folders. Each professor/librarian/music director can now have their own folder(s) for members to locate the playlists quickly!
We've also updated the playlist control features to support the addition of folders. "Move Playlist" is an example!
Student and Individual Playlists!
Ever have that perfect album playing, and get frustrated you're unable to save it to a playlist?
Not anymore! All members of subscribing institutions (Orchestra's Included!) will have the ability to create and save their own set of playlists!
Here's the window that members will need to fill out.
* Naxos will NEVER sell, rent, or otherwise distribute your e-mail address to a third party*
E-mail in today's world, is simply the easiest way to retrieve and store member profiles!
Once logged in, members will be able to add, edit, and delete tracks from their individual playlists, all while having full access to the account playlists. Indeed, the NML is becoming the destination for classical music lovers of all walks of life!
Adding Directly to Account Playlists!
Some people know exactly what I'm talking about! As an account adminstrator, or professor, you will now be able to place playlists directly into the "Shared Playlists" area!
The "Folder" pull-down menu will allow you to drop those playlists right into the "shared" access area. No more un-necessary moving! This feature is available as a direct result of User communication, so please keep those comments coming!
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to write or call!
Stay Classy,
Nick
615.465.3836
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
Back to School, New Orchestra Season Preparations beginning...
We've made some great changes and enhancements to our Playlist window! In addition to the UI (User Interface- Here's my computer geek coming out) changes, we've also added some great new features. Below you can see some screen shots, explanations, and general information!
Here's a "Bubbled Out" version of the new interface. The main new feature here, are Playlist folders. Each professor/librarian/music director can now have their own folder(s) for members to locate the playlists quickly!
We've also updated the playlist control features to support the addition of folders. "Move Playlist" is an example!
Student and Individual Playlists!
Ever have that perfect album playing, and get frustrated you're unable to save it to a playlist?
Not anymore! All members of subscribing institutions (Orchestra's Included!) will have the ability to create and save their own set of playlists!
Here's the window that members will need to fill out.
* Naxos will NEVER sell, rent, or otherwise distribute your e-mail address to a third party*
E-mail in today's world, is simply the easiest way to retrieve and store member profiles!
Once logged in, members will be able to add, edit, and delete tracks from their individual playlists, all while having full access to the account playlists. Indeed, the NML is becoming the destination for classical music lovers of all walks of life!
Adding Directly to Account Playlists!
Some people know exactly what I'm talking about! As an account adminstrator, or professor, you will now be able to place playlists directly into the "Shared Playlists" area!
The "Folder" pull-down menu will allow you to drop those playlists right into the "shared" access area. No more un-necessary moving! This feature is available as a direct result of User communication, so please keep those comments coming!
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to write or call!
Stay Classy,
Nick
615.465.3836
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
www.NaxosMusicLibrary.com
Friday, July 31, 2009
Congratulations to our winner!
Congratulations to Mr. Sam Cook!
He's won a fantastic pack of Naxos American Classics CD's, as well as some other Naxos things!
A big thank you to all of you who entered! We received over 200 entries through all the various sites!
Until 1,000,000 tracks(or the next post),
Nick
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
www.NaxosMusicLibrary.com
He's won a fantastic pack of Naxos American Classics CD's, as well as some other Naxos things!
A big thank you to all of you who entered! We received over 200 entries through all the various sites!
Until 1,000,000 tracks(or the next post),
Nick
Nick@NaxosUSA.com
www.NaxosMusicLibrary.com
Monday, July 27, 2009
The NML reaches 500,000 Tracks: We Celebrate!
We've done it!500,000 tracks!
To show our appreciation we want to say "Thanks" to all of you!
We're going to be giving away 20 of our Naxos American Classics CD's!
4 Ways to Enter:
Twitter: NaxosMusicLib
Follow us on Twitter, and tweet with the following Hash-tag
#NML
Facebook!
Reply on our Facebook Wall, to the story about this Post!
Myspace
Post on our Myspace Wall with the Hash-Tag #NML
NML Blog
Comment on this post!
We'll pick a winner at 4:00 PM CST on Friday July 31, 2009!
A big Thank You to everyone involved in making the NML the resource it is today! We look forward to many more years of fine music!
Best of Luck, and Happy Listening!
Nick
Nick
615.465.3836
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Brave New World of "Flash Only"
Wow how time flies!
August 1st is just over a week away, and we're already excited to transition the NML to an Adobe Flash player.
At 12:01 AM on August 1st, 2009, the NML will retire it's Windows Media Player and Microsoft Silverlight servers, and offer only an Adobe Flash player.
Since October of 2008, the NML has been streaming in all 3 available formats. Many have called and written about the various ways they've been able to easily upgrade older computers.
The change from WMP to Flash is welcomed, especially by our friends and colleagues who work on Mac's. Now, the NML will "just work" on Mac's! No more Flip4Mac. No more crazy WMP Plug-In's!
We're also working extensively with the folks that maintain EZ-Proxy to ensure continuous access. Should you encounter any of those infamous Gremlins in the system, please don't hesitate to call or write to us!
EDIT:
Here's an e-mail clarifying many of the recent questions!
Hi Sam, Richard, and all,
We've actually just finished re-encoding all of the old AAC (flash) files. The issue currently / previously, is the encoding.
"FM-Quality" (20 KBP/S)- were playing through the Flash player, as "Near-CD".
"Near CD" (64 KBP/S)- were playing through the Flash player, as "CD" quality.
"CD Quality" (128 KBP/S)- were not playing through the Flash Player. These were being streamed at 192 KBP/S.
Just recently we here in Nashville received more files to test from our colleagues doing to actual encoding, and have finally sorted everything out. In fact, I'll be working with them later this evening on the final details, so that once August 1 comes around, there won't be any Sound Quality issues.
*EZProxy*
A few people have also written in regarding EZProxy. We've been rewriting all of our back end code to work with EZProxy. Also, the folks at EZProxy have adjusted a few settings regarding how the NML works through the servers.
Here's a bit from an e-mail with Chris Zager, a technical designer at EZProxy:
"I can alter EZProxy in any way required to hand the user off to your service. This would eliminate the proxying component, and uses EZproxy just for the authentication component. From my perspective, this is ideal as it eliminates any of these side-effects and also reduces network bandwidth requirements since the media does not have to pass through the university network."
Please keep the questions and comments coming! They are crucial to ensuring that everyone is happy!
Stay Classy!
Nick
Nick
615.465.3836
Thursday, July 16, 2009
500,000 Tracks of Music- Here we Come!
How do you think we should commemorate this special event? We really want to have a giveaway, but what to give away... now that's the real question...
And how to achieve these type of results......
Video c/o Youtube User: ArielColella
If you aren't a Naxos Music Library Twitter follower, be sure to look us up!
Twitter.com/NaxosMusicLib
Until Next Time, Stay Classy!
Nick
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