Mobile Login Tracking!

Greetings Friends!

I hope everyone out there is ready for a jam-packed few months of Naxos Music Library updates! Below, we're proud to announce the first in a line-up of great new additions to the Naxos Music Library. This new Usage Statistics function will allow you to track and display your "mobile logins" separate from your "total logins".

Now, you'll know just how many people really are listening on-the-go!  Access your usage statistics the same way you would previously (by logging in with your "Librarian/Usage Stats." password) - you don't need to do anything special to get these new metrics to show up.

The "Total Logins" row does *NOT* include mobile logins at this time, so to get your true total, it's easiest to export the entire stats window to Excel (using the fancy button, below). These new statistics are available beginning for the month of March, 2012.


As always, please feel free to call or write us at Naxos anytime.

All the Best,
Nick


Nick D'Angiolillo
Naxos of America, Inc.
615.465.3836 (direct)
Nick@NaxosUSA.com

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Naxos Music Library Adds EMI Classics Catalog

Good morning, music lovers!

It is with boundless pleasure that we announce that the complete EMI Classics catalogue is now available to NML and NML-Jazz institutional subscribers! This vast catalog of recordings includes EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and Blue Note Records.

Today, more than 225 albums are available in NML with the remainder of the 7200 album catalog available by the end of 2011. More details will be available shortly. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for all of the updates.

We hope you’re as excited as we are and look forward to many months of wonderful new music! These additions represent the first of many great things to come - so stay tuned for more updates as we near the end of 2011.

As always our ears and inboxes are open - so please feel free to drop us a line!

Happy historical listening!

Mo

nmlhelp@naxosusa.com

Rise Above the Noise!

We made this excellent infographic and I like it so much I wanted to share. Check it out!

NML App for Android--Now on Amazon Appstore

I know what you're thinking. You need another place to get our apps, right? RIGHT?

Now you can get the NML app on Amazon's Appstore for Android! Click the giant logo to go!


Don't forget that all of you institutional users will need to take an extra step to generate an app login. Sign up for a free Student/Member Playlist Account through your institution's NML page. The login for that account is also your app login.

Here's to options!



Pro musica,

Mo
nmlhelp@naxosusa.com

Calling All App Users!

So you have downloaded an app for the NML, NMLJ or NSWL.

That's great…unless you can’t use it.

What I have heard from a lot of librarians and professors lately is that they need an easy step-by-step guide to setting the app up for first time use. Here by popular demand is just such a guide!

Creating a Personal/Student Playlist for Naxos Apps

The iPhone app was designed with our institutional users in mind, so a subscription through a university, library, school, or orchestra works. It just works little differently on an iPhone than on a computer.

For one thing, it does NOT require any work with IP authentication or the university's proxy server.

To generate a login for the NML app, you should:

1. Visit the NML page for your institution (library, university, school, orchestra, etc.) from a computer by going through the institution’s unique URL: http://example.naxosmusiclibrary.com

2. Navigate to the Playlist area and click “Sign Up” in the "Personal/Student" playlist account area.

3. Create a login on the sign up page. This login, consisting of your email address and a custom password, then becomes your login for the app.

See the tutorial below if you need help creating a personal/student playlist account.

Once you are fully signed up you will have access to the institution’s playlists and you can create your own customized playlists as well. I recommend creating a playlist on a computer before attempting to access through the app. For some reason it seems to make your first access run more smoothly.

You can also use the app to search and browse the full NML anytime, anywhere! That means you can stream music anytime, anywhere!

Happy Mobile Browsing, Music Lovers!

Pro musica,
Mo

nmlhelp@naxosusa.com

Librarians: Please feel free to share or link this on your library’s website, as well as share or embed the YouTube tutorial to help your patrons use the NML more effectively.

Blue is the new grey!

Hi Friends,

Happy Friday! Below is a screenshot I saw this morning, and I just had to share. On our test servers, the NML's player window is blue!

Do you like the blue? If you could choose a color for the window, what would it be? Would you like to be able to change the color of the Player Window on the fly- or is it "All about the music, who cares about colors!"?

Leave your answer in the comment for a chance to win an NML "Prize Pack" complete with some fun items, as well as some CD's!


As always, feel free to call or write anytime.

- Nick

Nick D'Angiolillo
615.465.3836
Nick@NaxosUSA.com

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Naxos Spoken Word Library Writeup

Hello Friends,

Our colleague across the pond Nicolas Soams has written a fabulous article about the Naxos Spoken Word Library!

Nicolas works with our wonderful collection of Naxos Audio Books - and has some great things to say about all of the new changes and features of the NSWL.

The bookmarking ability is especially exciting! Head on over to the NAB Blog, and have a read!

As they say in England - Cheers!
Nick

Nick@NaxosUSA.com

www.NaxosSpokenWordLibrary.com

Easily Download Music You Enjoy!

Upon logging into the NML today, many of you notice the "Buy and Download" buttons in the NML. These links will take you to our Download store, Classics Online!

While many users welcome this feature, (as even some of the more well known recordings can be tough to find for purchase), some folks epxressed interest in the ability to turn this feature off.

Here's a step by step guide to turning the links off, should your institution like to.

Here's a Screenshot with the Link on.

1. To Begin: Log into the NML with your administrator Username//Password




2. Click on "Manage Account"






3. The next pop-up will display the account management screen. You can see the "Enable/Disable" option for the COL Links.



That will do it! If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us at Naxos.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Nick

615.465.3836 (direct)
Nick@NaxosUSA.com

www.NaxosVideoLibrary.com

www.NaxosMusicLibrary.com

NML at AMS

The American Musicological Society recently held their annual meeting in Philadelpia, PA.

I had a great time, and got some great feedback! We appreciate all of the folks who came by and talked about everything from the new iPhone App, to the Naxos Video Library (Look for a post shortly with some great new Developments and Screenshots), to the AWESOME Virtual Haydn.

Here's a clip of the Virtual Haydn we had on display!

(e) - I'm still learning how to format the Aspect Ratio of embedded clips! Please bear with me!




Overall the show was great, and it was nice to see everyone!

Are there other shows/meetings/conventions you'd like to see the NML team at? If so, post below in the comments section, and we'll be sure to try our best to attend!

Here are some pictures from the trip!

NML Booth at the AMS Meeting

Hello from the Curtis Institute of Music! What a GREAT Music Library they have!

Ah, the city life!

Where would you like to see the NML team?

-Nick
615.465.3836
Nick@NaxosUSA.com

www.NaxosMusicLibrary.com

Pick of the Week: I Dreamed About You - Songs of Love and Longing from World War II

As we are 2 days away from Father's Day (June 21 for those of you who don't know) I thought it only appropriate to create a Pick of the Week based on what my Dad would dig. He's obsessed with WWI and WWII. Growing up, we spent a lot of time walking around battlefields throughout France where my great grandfathers served. While most kids got a Gameboy for Christmas, we would get lectures on these Great United States. At the time I resented all that gab, but now I cherish our family folklore more than anything.

However, one of the things I find so interesting about the period of 1910-1945 is the music. It really conveys how good and bad things were during those times. I can't imagine anything more difficult than sending loved ones off to war, and anything more joyous than having them home safe. That being said, I bring you I Dreamed About You - Songs of Love and Longing from World War II. It is a great collection of music from the 1940s from ABC Classics. Here's a quick song listing:

1. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
2. We'll Meet Again
3. Amor
4. It's Been A Long, Long Time
5. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
6. I'll Walk Alone
7. I Cried for You
8. Nightingale
9. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
10. Room 504
11. Why Don't You Do Right?
12. Poinciana
13. I'm Beginning to See the Light
14. Star Eyes
15. I've Heard That Song Before
16. Don't Fence Me In
17. Frenesi
18. Home Town

I'm planning on putting together a playlist for my Dad on his account. Do you have any suggestions for all the Dad's out there? Hope you have a great Father's Day!

IE8 Compatibility with the NML

The latest and greatest version of Internet Explorer 8.0 was released back in March, but many of our users have been slow to download it. (We haven't updated our office yet either - so don't feel alone)! Needless to say, there are still some bugs that the guys over at Microsoft are still working out, and one of the major ones affecting many websites is the lack of compatibility with most websites.

Sadly, ours is one of those that's being affected! However, there is a remedy to IE8's compatibility issues. I found these instructions online from Craig Bailey.

1. Go to the TOOLS menu
2. Click on COMPATIBILITY VIEW SETTINGS
3. Select the check mark box titled "Display all websites in Compatibility View" near the bottom of the pop up window
4. Click CLOSE

Hopefully this will resolve some of the trouble with viewing the NML in IE8.0. If you have better instructions and/or more insight into IE8.0 we'd love to hear from you!

LA Times Articles: Who says subscription music services are dead?

Don't you love Google alerts? Well, I sure do. Otherwise, I'd miss important articles like the one from the L.A. Times! They just interviewed our CEO and our National Manager about the varying music subscription services Naxos offers. A major thank you is in order to our hard working PR gals at Naxos and to Jon Healey for a great article. Pretty fantastic way to start my Wednesday. You can find the article on L.A. Times website here or just keep reading below!

« Universal Music and Virgin Media, striking out with MP3s? | Main

Who says subscription music services are dead?

6:16 PM, June 16, 2009

Consumers have been slow to embrace music subscription services, so much so that Napster recently slashed its price by more than half to try to spur growth. Even services that colleges offered for free (or with the charge buried in other student fees) failed to catch on (killing off start-ups Ruckus and Cdigix), a testament to the enduring popularity of music-sharing and free downloading on campus. But one music industry player says it's actually "extremely successful" with a subscription music-on-demand service for the college market. That would be Naxos, which specializes in ... classical music. And it's prices aren't cheap, either.

This is a lesson in the value of finding the right niche in a time of technological upheaval. Naxos is both an independent classical-music label and a distributor of classical music. That's classical as in Charles Ives symphonies, not John Williamssoundtracks (which Naxos of America Chief Executive Jim Selby refers to as "crossover" classical). Using music from its own and its customers' rosters, it put together a service called the Naxos Music Library that's both an online jukebox and a classical-music database. (Note: the service offers no downloads, tethered or otherwise. It's streaming only.) "The metadata is incredibly deep," Sean Hickey, sales and business development manager for Naxos, said in a recent interview. That information -- which is comparatively sparse on other services -- is crucial to Naxos' target audience: music students, educators and musicians. They pay $220 to $240 a year for the service (which is sold only in bundles of five or more subscriptions), compared with $60 for Napster's music-on-demand offering. Selby said Naxos has signed up more than 1,000 colleges and universities for the service, collecting hundreds of thousands of subscribers there. Subscription sales are up 35% year over year, Selby said. It helps that there are more than 600 accredited music schools in the U.S., as well as music degree programs at many other institutions. The company is offering the service to younger students too, having just signed up the public school systems in Baltimore and Chicago. "It's not Rhapsody, but it's not meant to be," Selby said. "There's lot of educational tools on there.... No one else is trying to do that."

By the way, Naxos claims that the Naxos Music Library is prospering with no contributions from the major record companies.

The subscription service is just one of the company's efforts to attract and retain a new generation of customers. It's made about 350 podcasts that combine music and commentary from authoritative sources. Every member of its 12-person marketing staff is blogging about releases and performances, commenting on other blogs and Twittering, Selby said. So are many of Naxos' artists, who the company encourages to self-promote through social networks. "A lot of the things the pop guys are doing, these guys are doing as well." He hasn't seen a way yet to sell music through the likes of Facebook, and he's not sure how it could be done. But those networks are a good way to spread reviews, which are still the biggest driver of Naxos' sales, he said.

It also supplies tracks to online stores and has one of its own -- ClassicsOnline.com. One problem that vexed Naxos and other suppliers of classical music was the 99-cents-per-track business model at iTunes and its ilk, which priced entire symphonies and other lengthy classical pieces the same as a two-and-a-half-minute pop song. Naxos' response was to offer longer pieces only as part of a full-album purchase, not individual sales. This year, though, the company is offering individual works for sale with prices scaled to the length of the piece. The new offer may not matter much to "core classical buyers," who want the whole album anyway, Selby said. But it should help attract casual fans, who are an important source of growth for the genre.

Naxos has thrown itself into digital distribution despite the fact that its CD sales haven't slumped as badly as those in other genres, Selby said. Classical music fans haven't been as quick to shift to MP3s, nor has Naxos been reliant on the big-box retailers that have cut their support for CDs. (Most of the company's sales are through online retailers that specialize in classical music.) That helps explain why the company had its best year ever in 2007, and was on track to top those results in 2008 until the bottom fell out of the economy. This year looks good so far, Selby said, with first quarter sales in line with 2007 and April and May's results even better. Here's hoping that its results are a leading indicator for the economy in general.

-- Jon Healey

Healey writes editorials for The Times' Opinion Manufacturing Division.

Van Cliburn Recordings Added to the NML!

We'd like to officially welcome the Van Cliburn Competition to the NML!

The recordings from the 2009 preliminary rounds are already available in the NML, and we're uploading the rest of the competition as I write this! We're also pleased to announce that all of the semi-finals will also be uploaded!

You can hear the winners' recordings by searching these catalog numbers:

Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medalists Nobuyuki Tsujii: VCF090523D Haochen Zhang: VCF090525F.

You can hear all of the other full length recordings inside the Naxos Music Library, as well as purchase them at our download store: ClassicsOnline.com.