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I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
When I worked in a factory they piped the local pop station over the PA system all day. At first it is really cool, but then when you've heard Alanis Morrisette for the 112th time that day, it can grate. And there is no escape :(
Seeburg's had their own orchestra, in Chicago, and recorded their own records. They just had to buy a "mechanical license" from the songwriters, which in the US costs a fixed rate set by law. So they owned rights to the content. To protect it, they recorded it on a nonstandard sized disk (9 inches), a nonstandard hole size (2 inches) with a nonstandard speed (16 2/3 RPM, rather lo-fi) and a nonstandard stylus size (5 mils). They didn't copyright the content; that cost money back then.
Someone collects these obsolete machines, restored a Seeburg player, and modified a modern turntable to play them. They stream it out, legally.[1]
I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
When I worked in a factory they piped the local pop station over the PA system all day. At first it is really cool, but then when you've heard Alanis Morrisette for the 112th time that day, it can grate. And there is no escape :(
3 days a week for what felt like a whole year I was hearing that "Hot and fresh out the kitchen" song. I think it was about sex.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I worked in a factory they piped the local pop station over the PA system all day. At first it is really cool, but then when you've heard Alanis Morrisette for the 112th time that day, it can grate. And there is no escape :(
> And there is no escape :( From the irony? ;)
(I’d assumed this was a global thing, but it seems to mostly just be the UK and Ireland.)