Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.

 

• I was pretty sure someone at Spotify would read my whinge. They’re now promising to fix the data themselves, not just trust the record companies to do it for them.

• The early history of Smash Hits Magazine. I READ IT A WHOLE LOT, OKAY.

• The VU meter: how it got that way, and what the heck it’s supposed to be measuring.

• Tin Pan Alley Away Days — let’s all go to songwriting camp! (archive)

• Set your irony meters to “stun” — Disney Takes A Stance Against Overzealous Copyright Holders! But finds it can’t sue knockoff kids’ birthday characters quite as easily. So they may not become an EFF donor any time soon.

 

“Twenty Deadly Diseases,” Lausanne, 7 November 1986