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Digital Data Exchange Establishes New Standards for Digital Music Sales

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 19, 2006 - 3:18pm.
New York - The Digital Data Exchange (DDEX), a consortium of record labels, music rights societies and digital service providers working to develop data exchange standards for the sale of digital music, has announced the establishment of its first four standards on information sharing and transaction processing for digital music.
tags: Marketing | Tech | Payments | Music | Metrics | Commerce | DDEX | Retail | Sales | Standards |

Music Industry, Digital Retailers Team to Improve Tracking of Song Sales

Authored by dmw on May 5, 2006 - 9:08am.
Paris - The major record labels have partnered with several performing rights organizations and big technology firms to develop more comprehensive tracking of digital media sales. In addition to Sony BMG, Warner Music, EMI and Universal, the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) is backed by ASCAP and other performing rights organizations and royalty collection societies, as well as Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks. The companies are collaborating on a standard means of identifying each digital song through its metadata, so that sales of songs from each label through services like iTunes and Rhapsody may be reported and tallied in a uniform manner. The group said a number of music rights societies have already begun testing some of its standards.
tags: Marketing | Music | Metrics | Commerce | DDEX | ASCAP |