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Pitchfork: Is the Era of Free Streaming Music Coming to an End? This is Betteridge-compliant ( “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no'”), but is most interesting to see the quoted big time music industry figures desperately praying for rain, hoping that copying will somehow become harder and that the good times will return. Of course, they won’t. It’s scented candles at a weekend market in a human face, forever.
Mute Records sound engineer Paul Kendall goes through his favourite studio equipment.
Never, ever run iTunes on your music production computer. iTunes helpfully deleted the guy’s original musical files because it thought it had versions on iTunes he could use instead! Wasn’t that nice of it?