Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Enjoy Korean indy music in internet, blayer review

Before introducing this service, blayer( http://blayer.co.kr/ ), you need to understand Korean's unfair sound source distribution structure.

http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/culture/music/554373.html

Sorry for Korean's news article. The content of this news clearly represents Korean's unfair music distribution structure. Psy (one of the Korean popular singer, his famous song is Gangnam-style) earned 36 million won to sell digital sound source in Korea, the news said, this is similar to $36 thousands in US dollar. This is very few earnings compared to other worldwide singers who earns more than $10 billion. The news says if one person download one digital sound source, singer of that music earns only 1.2 penny!!! This is very unfair compared to other foreign digital sound source services, which offers more than 1 dollar per one download.

Then, you can imagine how much indy singers, who isn't famous compared to pop singers, suffers because of unfair little income. Company cyrus and blayer music service is built to offer fair service via fair digital sound source distribution. They distributes 70% of their income through digital sound source download. Because of this, cyrus can become social enterprise in Korea.

Then, How can we use their service?

Currently blayer does not offer English web service, So you should carefully understand the process of their website.

You can listen music for free to visit blayer site, but if you download their music, you should pay. Price is usually from 1000 won to 2000 won, about $1-2 US dollar.

If you visit blayer website ( http://blayer.co.kr/ ), you can see screen like this in below.


To listen music, you should click '앨범'(Album) or '차트'(Chart)

In the menu, clicking '전체재생' button, you can hear whole music in the list. this service is offered even without log-in or getting membership.

But if you want to select music and listen music what you want, membership is required.


If you succeeded to listen music, The menu in left below will be changed. This menu substitute music player, so you can listen music without installing additional programs.

Sadly, pay cash to download music for foreigners will be almost impossible. Above all, thier electronic payment system is only available via Korean credit card. If you don't want to pay using credit card, you should have mobile phone which is registered in Korean wireless operator.

But for foreigners, to register membership is possible. I will show the method later via web video.


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