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3+hours? I remember being able to download roughly 10 songs in an hour.
Look. It was 25 years ago. I’m an old man now. My memory of that time is a haze of multiplayer Quake strategy. How about I rephrase it: it FELT like 3+ hours.
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Last study I've seen, that stopped being... I won't say true, but I'd say that it stopped being a valid counterargument to that particular complaint. Now that young people can access music from any time in YouTube, their choices are more atemporal and certain remote decades keep getting much love. If you combine that fact with current music being more marketed and aired, there's seem to be something at play here. I d…
There has always been a lot of marketing an airing to make music catchy. The entire “Motown machine” wasn’t about the artists, it was about the writers, producers, choreographers etc and making sure music was “acceptable” to a wider audience.
The graphic that I saw:
https://x.com/antonello/status/1781197022910947492
To be clear: I'm not arguing that it was better, just more memorable, uplifting or touching. Actually, in ye olden times, "commercial music" was a synonym of bad and "quality music" was expected to be minoritary.
Paramount+ coming out with a two part documentary June 11 based on a book with the same name, How Music Got Free: https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/paramount-plus/shows/h...
1) What kind of domain is that? Looks like a domain for a tabloid or something 2) It redirects me to https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/location-not-allowed which says "Your geographic location is not allowed access". Here is a mirror for others who happen to not live in the US (or whatever country it's restricted to): https://archive.is/AYgwj
Hence many don't get shared to a forum that is 80% US residents..
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Spotify is a prime example of an amazing service (yet still no FLAC equivalent) offering with a highly developed customer base ruined by the love of money.
Spotify loves money so much it has yet to show a profit in almost 20 years.
Before Napster I remember the AOL warez scene where you could get a bot to send you 35 emails with the content broken up to download off AOLs servers.
--÷^±/ Ràmϸàgè †øølz /\/\àss /\/\àilèr
--÷^±/ Mass Mail in 5 minutes
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No one "stole" anything. The original publisher wasn't deprived of anything. Don't use inflammatory language to push a narrative. Someone downloading a single off Napster no more "stole" that same single when they listened to it on the radio. The person downloading a song was as much of a non-customer as the radio listener. In fact Napster's rise was coincident with increased CD sales. Napster et al were not causing…
Yes, I'm familiar with decades of self-serving philosophy rationalizing piracy.
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I'd make the argument that the nature of tools drives much of mass/low-cost art (that is, the majority). Very few people have the training and complete skill set to fully customize everything. Consequently, the further you get away from "doing the thing" (e.g. playing an instrument) to "operating the tool that does the thing" (e.g. writing music for a player piano), the stronger impression the tool leaves on your wor…
The electronic music point is good, but I wouldn't label electronic music as inferior or not art. It's about choosing which parts of your stack are artisanal vs which parts are implemented for you. These choices impact the form factor, but I wouldn't say that they diminish the work itself.
Early electronic music (e.g. musique concrete) was nuts, because they were literally building sound. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=919RleFXcNM
Once the presets were packaged and productized... you ended up with 808 music.
Which wasn't worse, but was objectively less unique.
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> In 100 years iTunes may be dead, but there will be some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. Same with Netflix and it's bit starved encodes. Yeah, nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered.
>> some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC > nah. WhatCD’s full catalogue has never been recovered. The loss of WhatCD's torrent database didn't wipe out anyone's library.
Burning the Library of Alexandria also didn't burn the other copies, and yet many books were lost.