Since we have been offering more invites to musana’s private beta, the blogosphere has been so fast to comment. Here are some of the reviews currently on line. Warmest thanks from Musana’s team. This will be really helpful to enhance your Music Happiness Center for official release. Here are some encouraging tidbits:

• Betta Beta
• TechCrunch.com
• TechCrunch japan
• PureDistorsion
• Mi2N
• ChangingWay
• MyDDnetwork
• VentureBeat

Rural Soundtrack Credits : chezrump, Thanks to the artist

Musana is here to help you to store your music securely and listen to you tracks or favorite albums from any web browser or mobile phone wherever you are. Please enjoy these tutorials we designed with icaza_production and vimeo to guide your new experience.

Right here, right now: Musana provides you with free storage and access to your digital music library, on any PC or mobile phone. Be prepared for some unique quality and ease of use. Whether on the go or visiting friends, you will benefit from an experience similar to the one you already have in your own living room. Using Musana music player is very much alike manipulating your CDs : see, open the case, listen. It’s as simple as drag & drop & enjoy! Moreover when your tunes are uploaded the correct information tags assigned to each song are systematically completed through Musana’s partner Gracenote. Forget about unnamed music files.

And of course we aim to develop numerous music related services and the most accurate recommendations to suit your musical tastes in order to become the Music Happiness Centre, the place where music feels good.To ensure an outstanding quality of service, we’re starting Musana as private beta so, when you click on this link to register, remember to request your invitation code.

See you soon on Musana.

Hey! Despite the lack of posts on this blog, we are still here. We actually used our summer time to work on delivering (soon!) Musana as a private beta service (check www.musana.com to be one of the first to enjoy this Music Happiness Centre). As we’d like to make up for the wait, we have a little exclusive sketch of Musana music player to show you right on this blog.
Musana music player is based on the idea that, no matter where you are and what device (PC or mobile) you’re using, you should be able to virtually play with your music as you would in your living room, with your Hifi.

Touch your CDs, look through their covers, read artist info, discuss with friends. Do all the things you already do in real life and add to it the power of the web - more friends you can imagine, new music discovery - and you begin to encompass what will Musana bring to you.

On this sketch, on the top left, lies your music library which reproduces your own digital music collection of mp3. In this example, our user grabs a CD from his music library, drops it onto its desktop and eventually inserts into the player - on the right - the tunes he or she wants to listen to from this album. It’s obviously only one of the possibilities you’ll soon be able to enjoy on www.musana.com but it shows the whole idea of this Music Happiness Centre, where your music feels good.

Have you ever thought about living without the Rolling Stones ?

Personally, never. This band delivers exactly what you expect plus the little more which make it the biggest band ever on Tour. This is a value we share at musana.

I was proud to be last week-end at the “Bigger Band Tour ” in Paris -Stade de France. As sincere gift from Musana’s team, these two scenic pictures with especial thanks to Nokia for N95 enabling such multimedia quality.

Frédéric

- welcoming you to register for our private beta on musana !

Is there anything music-wise you can not do? You have your radio, your video clips, your CDs, even your old tapes. You can buy ticket concerts, ringtones, merchandising… But isn’t there something wrong after all? Why do you have to use a specific service for each thing you do with your music? All these industry professionals, do they know you? Do they know your musical taste? Your favorite bands? I mean, the executive who just sold you the concert ticket might just work in the same company than the one from the CD department. How come you have to talk to so many people when all this commes originally from the same artist?

Oh wait, wait! There’s Internet. Of course there is. And it brings you a whole new range of possibilities: get your personal online radio, put some podcast on your mp3 player, download digital music, socialise with people who have the same taste, talk about your music on your blog, and do all the things you could already do in real life. But you just have to talk to more people. Internet just didn’t made it any easier to enjoy your music. It just added new problems: accounts for each thing you want to do, DRM that won’t let you listen to the tracks you purchased, back-up preventing hard-drives crash and so on and so on.

Wouldn’t it be nice for a change to just enjoy your music and get more from it? Well we thought it ought to exist, this place where music feels good, that let’s you do most of the things you want from your music by intuition, that helps you socialise and discover new music. We call it Musana and we’d be glad to have you testing it on our private beta.

Frédéric

Photo credits: Jen - Music Portrait Session Originally uploaded by Fisher_Photographics.

My heart goes boom as I’m starting to write this blog’s first post. We wish our service will be your I-can’t-live-without my “music happiness center” referring and all. Actually, there’s several months of work going real so this is quite an exciting moment.

But first, let me introduce with a few figures:

• online music world income have doubled since 2006 reaching 2 billions dollars,
• That same year, this activity has grown by 10%,
• 795 million songs have been downloaded worldwide, 90% more than in 2005,
• The number of available digital tracks has doubled to reach 4 millions,
• 40 countries now accounts for 498 digital music retailers,
• 120 millions music players have been sold in 2006,

Reading these figures, one would think: everything’s fine then? Music industry’s crisis is behind us and the future’s bright, shinny and all.

Well not quite. Even though mp3 player owners are more willing to buy music from legal offers, digital revenues stay low and won’t compensate loss from CD sales for now. On a broader level, lawsuits by producer associations (eg RIAA in the USA) have opened new perspectives for the public: there’s no such thing as free music. Music generates business, jobs, and above all remunerates creation: the work of the artist wishing to earn his or her living from his or her art.

The good thing is new business models and new online services regularly become available. Recent acquisition of last FM by CBS for a mere 280 millions $ is a dream for any entrepreneur in this business. As in music, success stories are real on the Internet but there’s a long way down starting up this kind of activity.

As for now, with few means but a full load of enthusiasm and passion, our team has decided to offer you the musical service you always dreamed of, allowing you to access all YOUR music wherever and whenever you want and to discover new music with recommendations based on your personal tastes.

This blog is the right place to start if you’d like to stay tuned with the development of this service and I can only suggest that leave us with your email address on www.musana.com so that we can soon invite you to our private beta.

Jérôme