The black hit of space.
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Tag: spotify
Links: Threatin’s faked tour, WFMU archive closing, Winamp 5.8, streaming as the last format.
The Threatin story is this week’s winner.
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Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.
Twenty deadly diseases.
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Links: eMusic can’t pay its bills, nobody buys CDs, catalogue prices, majors upset Spotify not rolling out the red carpet.
Welcome to the music industry! Here’s your accordion.
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Links: Windowing is passé, piracy lawyers go to jail, MP3 “restoration,” Damo Suzuki.
I blame the delay on blockchain. Taking a while between confirmations.
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Streaming links: 24,000 new tracks a day, Spotify as label, streaming pays better than radio.
And foreshadowing of Monday’s long-form post.
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How to make Spotify suck less than YouTube for streaming.
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.
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Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.
The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.
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Links: The Shakin’ Stevens game, Quincy Jones, death of the CD, Spotify songwriter credits, Snub TV.
Now I’m trying to imagine an ’80s Quincy Jones game.
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Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.
Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!
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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.
Please forgive my neglect, I love you really.
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Links: failing to fake Spotify plays, John Cale plays Velvets, Drake on the blockchain.
Plus John Cale on US TV game show I’ve Got A Secret in 1963.
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Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.
And PlayMobil Joy Division.
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How Spotify dragged the record industry kicking and screaming to its own survival.
You’d think people running a business would do things that would make money and have them still be around next year. But, welcome to music!
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Followups: Spotify “fake artist” speaks, SoundCloud, more audiophile networking.
And I have two or three days to get the book absolutely finished OH GOD
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Spotify’s extruded pop product substitute is worth it for the industry outrage.
Spotify outrages the record industry by not giving them even more free money. The actual listeners are fine with this.
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Links: Spotify payola, cheap Apple Music, bogus Disney takedowns, music journalism pt 2.
It’s a much more dot-com new economy payola. The Uber of payola.
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Links: iTunes still sucks, Spotify not compressing as much, the Great Cultural Fragmentation.
“It’s like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.”
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Followups: Facebook dumps virtual reality, Spotify eats Niland, Denuvo still rubbish.
More ongoing thrills.
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Streaming links: Spotify, Netflix versus Android, the return of the undead Live365.
Why buy when you can trust other people’s computers? I’m sure services will never suddenly disappear or block paying customers.
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On “data-driven” discovered genres, artistic conversations and faces in clouds.
I am sceptical of the “data-driven approach” to cultural discovery. It reifies statistical artifacts, filter bubbles and faces seen in clouds.
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Why Spotify wants some Blockchain; how music industry Blockchain dreams work.
A detailed examination of why music industry Blockchain (capital B) dreams are not going to work out.
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Followups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.
Ongoing sagas that remain perennial bad pennies of stupid.
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The Spotify-Universal 2017 deal, with windowing, probably won’t change much.
Apart from revitalising the torrent sites, but everyone seems to have noticed that bit now.
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Record labels want money YouTube doesn’t earn, just because Google has some and they’d like it.
With cites that they know this money doesn’t actually exist yet.
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Links: SoundCloud $70m, Facebook the label, Discogs, Bitcoin and Boss Baby.
why does bitcoin keep coming up in my music links WHYYY
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All these streams will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
There is no “cloud”, there’s just someone else’s computer. Will we find a listener who cares?
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Links: Spotify to reduce convenience, the Velvets’ banana, Cosey Fanni Tutti goes establishment.
Never interrupt the music industry when it is making a mistake.
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Links: Spotify hackers, voiceover woes, Cabaret Voltaire in 2017.
“When nothing else works, just blast Darius Rucker.” Pictured: some micro-phonies.
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Links: 100 years of recorded jazz, Spotify lossless streaming, Dark Side of the Moon desk.
And a picture that’s definitely a trap.
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