Dave Haynes

I received a note yesterday indicating that Medianet (the back-end provider of download stores for the likes of HMV, Samsung and iMesh) would be throttling the number of tracks received from its content suppliers per year. They state:

“We are making some changes to our content ingestion and processing procedures effective immediately”.

Citing that this will:

“Assist in load balancing across the label partners we work with and allow us to will allow us to manage content more efficiently.”

I blogged recently about Beatport also limiting the number of labels it carries on its stores. Is this another example of the bigger stores trimming their long tail?

As a footnote, the message also mentions that they won’t be carrying classical labels. I don’t know if this is because they have exclusive deals with certain partners to deliver classical only or whether they have simply decided not to carry this genre as its not core to their business?