youtube – Rocknerd

Links: EBM is trendy, managing the Rolling Stones, Swiss modernist post punk, egregious YouTube content filtering.

3 September, 20185 September, 2018 Dance, Industrial, Post-Punk, Rock, Your rights 0

Post-punk albums in the style of 1960s Penguin nonfiction paperbacks.

Links: Why the Rolling Stones suck, “fake artists,” ’80s remixes of current pop, ABBA, Philip Glass and S-Express, YouTube Music.

6 August, 20185 September, 2018 Dance, Links, mp3, Pop, Rock 2

The Rolling Stones piece certainly answers for me the question “why could I never get into this stuff?”

YouTube Music: your move, Spotify.

22 May, 2018 mp3 0

Good thing I eventually got that Spotify article done, hey.

How to make Spotify suck less than YouTube for streaming.

9 May, 201828 June, 2023 mp3, Opinion 0

I actively try to use Spotify, because I like the idea that the artist will get at least a penny shaving. So why do I keep just using YouTube? Because it’s not a goddamn pain in the arse.

Links: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal, YouTube finances, Bananarama and the legal system.

4 March, 20187 September, 2021 Dance, Indie, Links, Pop 1

There are many legal inaccuracies and errors that Bananarama fall into here. I think it’s important that we address them.

YouTube stream ripping: the record industry is being thick again.

12 September, 201719 September, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion 3

I feel like I’m giving away the game here by revealing the truth to the terminally incompetent, but good Lord this is ridiculous.

Links: Venue archaeology, winning fair use on YouTube, M’era Luna, I wrote a textbook.

25 August, 201725 August, 2017 Industrial, Links, Rocknerd, Your rights 0

You can guess which of these I’m particularly excited by.

Warner does a deal with YouTube. The record industry is outraged!

8 May, 20179 May, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion, Your rights 0

Warner has signed a completely expected deal with YouTube, because they do great business with each other and fully wish to continue. The music industry is hilariously outraged that Warner did the obvious deal with a fantastic and essential publicity outlet.

Followups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.

25 April, 201728 April, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3 0

Ongoing sagas that remain perennial bad pennies of stupid.

Record labels want money YouTube doesn’t earn, just because Google has some and they’d like it.

3 April, 20177 April, 2017 Industry, Opinion 1

With cites that they know this money doesn’t actually exist yet.

Discopedia: a dance music search engine.

31 March, 20171 April, 2017 Dance, mp3 1

Search for dance mixes on YouTube and play them right there.

Links: The record industry is still suicidally stupid, torrented MKV at 11.

3 October, 20163 October, 2016 Industry, Links, mp3 0

Shazam makes a profit but not from records, the record industry goes back to trying to sue the Internet out of existence, the record industry thinks a YouTube employee is really working for them for free, Spotify and Soundcloud will prove that 2+2=1.