Beatport is a
USThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-based
online music storeAn online music store is an online business which sells audio files, usually music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. It may be differentiated from music streaming services in that the music store offers the actual music file, while streaming services offer partial or full listening without...
located in
Denver, ColoradoThe City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River Valley on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
that specializes in
electronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
,
dance musicThis article is about dance music in general. You may also be looking for electronic dance music or dance-pop.Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
and
remixA remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. This name is also used for any alterations of medias other than a song ....
es. Beatport offers new releases, classic and exclusive tracks, all of which are categorized by genre, such as
house musicHouse is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American and Latino American communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City, New Jersey, Detroit and Miami...
,
drum and bassDrum and bass , is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy sub-bass lines...
,
trance musicTrance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 155 BPM, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. Trance can be understood as a combination of...
and
technoTechno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
. Beatport's graphical user interface, or
GUIGui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...
, was created using
Adobe FlashAdobe Flash is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages...
and version 9.0+ of the Adobe Flash plugin is required to view the Beatport store.
Visitors to Beatport can browse, preview, purchase and download music in a fashion similar to that of the iTunes Music Store.
Overview
Beatport is a
USThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-based
online music storeAn online music store is an online business which sells audio files, usually music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. It may be differentiated from music streaming services in that the music store offers the actual music file, while streaming services offer partial or full listening without...
located in
Denver, ColoradoThe City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River Valley on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
that specializes in
electronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
,
dance musicThis article is about dance music in general. You may also be looking for electronic dance music or dance-pop.Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
and
remixA remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. This name is also used for any alterations of medias other than a song ....
es. Beatport offers new releases, classic and exclusive tracks, all of which are categorized by genre, such as
house musicHouse is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American and Latino American communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City, New Jersey, Detroit and Miami...
,
drum and bassDrum and bass , is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy sub-bass lines...
,
trance musicTrance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 155 BPM, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. Trance can be understood as a combination of...
and
technoTechno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
. Beatport's graphical user interface, or
GUIGui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...
, was created using
Adobe FlashAdobe Flash is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages...
and version 9.0+ of the Adobe Flash plugin is required to view the Beatport store.
Visitors to Beatport can browse, preview, purchase and download music in a fashion similar to that of the iTunes Music Store. Purchases can be made as individual tracks or as bundled releases, albums or charts. 'Top Ten' charts are made available on Beatport by DJs and producers who provide lists of their favorite recommendations on a regular basis. Record labels on Beatport.com are paid on a
royaltyRoyalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property right. Royalties are typically a percentage of gross or net sales derived from use of an asset or a fixed price per unit sold of an item...
basis. Beatport can be accessed directly at www.beatport.com or from within
Traktor DJ StudioTraktor DJ Studio is a DJ software package developed by independent developers and later licensed to Native Instruments...
software.
Beatport recently launched a new store called Beatsource which is to specialise in urban music. Beatsource claims to be "the first legal online digital retailer specializing in the global sound of urban music." Beatsource uses the same Adobe flash Interface as its sister site Beatport.
History
The first version of Beatport, 1.0, launched in January 2004. The latest version, Beatport 4.0, was released in January 2009.
In 2005, Beatport was made accessible through a scaled-down GUI embedded within the popular DJ software,
Traktor DJ StudioTraktor DJ Studio is a DJ software package developed by independent developers and later licensed to Native Instruments...
by
Native InstrumentsNative Instruments is a software instrument company that develops musical hardware and software for professional musicians, producers, DJs, and sound designers...
. Native Instruments is listed as "proud partner" of Beatport.com. Beatport is also listed as a partner for the online music store
BurnloungeBurnLounge, Inc. was an allegedly illegal pyramid scheme founded in 2004, with offices in New York City. Its primary business is the BurnLounge online music store, and it is associated with Orbital Publishing, which produces printed matter for the company...
.
In February 2007, Beatport launched a
viral marketingThe buzzwords viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer...
web widgetA web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge, module, webjit,...
called the Beatport Player. Built using Adobe Flash and HTML, the MP3 player gives users the ability to create custom, dynamic playlists from Beatport's entire catalog of song previews. Users can embed customized Beatport Player widgets into nearly any HTML website.
In August 2007, Beatport launched a community-oriented music site, Beatportal, whose stated mission is
"...to provide music lovers with up-to-date information about the world of electronic music". Registered Beatport users can submit news, reviews, podcasts, event listings, radio streams and photos to Beatportal.com.
In March 2008, Beatport introduced the Beatport Music Awards. Voting began on March 18. In early 2009 Beatport 2.0 replaced its predecessor. It now includes easier access to its options.
Popularity
The popularity of Beatport.com is up now because it has a radio, 100% electro, progressive and other electronic genres.
All top 100 beatport release and are updated throughout the month, events are scheduled ...
More information on the official site:
BeatPort-Radio.eu
Content
Currently listing more than 8000 labels with thousands of new tracks added each week, Beatport's entire catalog is available for download in
MP3MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on...
, M4A and
WAVWAV , short for Waveform audio format, also known as Audio for Windows, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF...
(44.1 kHz) formats. Beatport's MP3s are encoded at a bit rate of 320 kbit/s using the
LAMELAME is a free software application used to encode audio into the MP3 file format. The name LAME is a recursive acronym for LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder, reflecting LAME's early history when it was not actually an encoder, but merely a set of patches against the freely available ISO demonstration...
codec while the M4A files are encoded at 192 kbit/s VBR using
FAACFAAC is an audio compression computer program that creates AAC sound files from other formats . It contains a library that can be used by other programs...
, respectively.
Some tracks within Beatport's catalog cannot be purchased by some users due to territorial sales restrictions. These restrictions are the result of licensing agreements made between the original
copyrightCopyright is a form of intellectual property that gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which time the work is said to enter the public domain...
owner and one or more record labels who negotiate sub-licenses to sell content within specific territories.
Awards
2007
- International Dance Music Awards ( IDMA ) - Best Dance Music Retailer
- International Dance Music Awards ( IDMA ) - Best Dance Music Specialty Retailer
External links