Staying with download platforms, and TuneTribe, the download site backed by, among others, Groove Armada, is due to go live this month having raised over a £1 million in funds. The site will be very much about independent music - concentrating on unsigned and independently signed artists. Crucially the service plans to give the artist a bigger cut of the profit.
The service is now in a position to launch following the recruitment of Irish entrepreneur Patrick Rainsford as a financial backer.
Commenting on Rainsford's involvement, TuneTribe co-founder John Strickland told reporters: "He [Rainsford] brings a depth and breadth of technology that can move us on to a different level."
The new funds will be spent primarily on refining the technology and on a marketing drive for the new service. The plan is to make the TuneTribe service available through as many different platforms as possible - Strickland: "It will be downloaded on to whatever platform we think is appropriate, wherever you need to have access to Tune Tribe. That's what we are trying to build".