The artifact ecologies emerging from the increasing number of interactive digital artifacts, capable of communicating with each other, have created a situation where software applications no longer need to be limited by the physical boundaries of a single artifact. In order to take advantage of the full potential of this situation, we first need to establish a common understanding of the intera...

The last two decades have witnessed an increasing scholarly interest on music consumption. This can be explained, at least partly, to the relevance of as a form cultural consumption and profound changes sector has undergone. paper performs bibliometric analysis literature research. In doing so, database comprising 455 academic documents fields business, economics, management, was reviewed follo...

Despite the widespread adoption of social networks, the value of implementing similar opportunities for social interaction into online content consumption websites has received limited attention. The research that has been done suggests that there is significant potential in implementing social features on these sites, since increased interaction can lead to higher engagement with the site, and...

Spotify is a large-scale peer-assisted music streaming service. Spotify’s P2P network serves 80% of music data to desktop clients. On the other hand, the rapidly growing number of mobile clients do not use P2P but instead stream all data from Spotify’s servers. We enable P2P on a Spotify mobile client and empirically evaluate the impact of P2P protocols (in particular low-bandwidth traffic betw...

In this paper we address the problem of building user models that can predict the rate at which individuals consume items from a finite set, including items they have consumed in the past and items that are new. This combination of repeat and new item consumption is common in applications such as listening to music, visiting web sites, and purchasing products. We use zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP)...

Both legal and illegal forms of digital music consumption continue to evolve with wider adoption of subscription streaming services. With this paper, we aim to extend theory on digital music piracy by showing that the rising controversy and diminishing acceptance of illegal forms of consumption call for new theoretical components and interactions. We introduce a model that integrates insights f...

Abstract One of the spheres transnational consumption young Brazilians today is music in digital media, mainly different audiovisual formats. Music, which main cultural product consumed by people everyday, listened to and watched, with software, apps devices, through use smartphones. In this relationship music, individuals present forms consumption, both relation formats – listening only watchi...

Turkish makam music needs a comprehensive database for public consumption, to be used in MIR. This article introduces SymbTr, a Turkish Makam Music Symbolic Representation Database, aimed at filling this void. SymbTr consists of musical information in text, PDF, and MIDI formats. Raw data, drawn from reliable sources, and consisting of 1,700 musical pieces in Turkish art and folk music was proc...

Demand spillovers between distribution channels are critical for revenue streams in the music industry. Drawing on consumption capital theory, this study investigates impact of a subscription (unsubscription) or upgrade (downgrade) streaming live, physical, and digital consumption. The propensity score matching approach applied to biannual panel with six waves indicates that conversion subscrip...