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Links: Spreading the take at the top, custom ringtones, the Human League.

19 September, 202025 September, 2020 Industry, Pop 0

The black hit of space.

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Links: Threatin’s faked tour, WFMU archive closing, Winamp 5.8, streaming as the last format.

13 November, 201813 November, 2018 Industry, Links, Metal, mp3 0

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.

20 August, 2018 Audio, mp3, Musician, Pop, Writing, Your rights 0

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.

27 July, 201827 July, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3 0

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.

9 July, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Prog 0

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.

23 June, 2018 Links, mp3 0

And foreshadowing of Monday’s long-form post.

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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.

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Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.

14 April, 201815 April, 2018 Industry, mp3, Pop, Post-Punk, Your rights 0

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.

9 February, 2018 Audio, Games, Links, mp3, R'n'B, Television 0

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.

12 December, 20179 September, 2018 Industry, Links, mp3, Post-Punk, Writing 4

Neoreaction a Basilisk is finally out!

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Links: “Rasputin”, DIY Spotify payola, Thriller, Tommy Keene.

6 December, 2017 Dance, Indie, mp3, Pop, Rocknerd 0

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.

18 November, 2017 Links, mp3, Punk 0

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.

31 August, 201731 August, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links, mp3 0

And PlayMobil Joy Division.

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How Spotify dragged the record industry kicking and screaming to its own survival.

22 August, 20179 May, 2018 Industry, mp3, Opinion 0

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.

17 July, 201717 July, 2017 Audio, Links, Media, mp3 2

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.

12 July, 201717 July, 2017 Industry, Media, mp3, Opinion, Pop 1

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.

20 June, 2017 Links, mp3, Writing, Your rights 0

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.

27 May, 201727 May, 2017 Audio, Links, mp3 0

“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.

21 May, 201722 May, 2017 Film, Games, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

More ongoing thrills.

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Streaming links: Spotify, Netflix versus Android, the return of the undead Live365.

18 May, 201719 May, 2017 Film, Links, mp3, Radio 0

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.

3 May, 20179 May, 2018 Opinion, Writing 0

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.

27 April, 20179 May, 2018 Industry, mp3, Opinion 6

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.

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

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.

5 April, 20177 April, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion 0

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.

3 April, 20177 April, 2017 Industry, Opinion 1

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.

24 March, 201724 March, 2017 Film, Industry, Links, Record 0

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.

20 March, 201721 March, 2017 mp3, Opinion, Record, Writing 1

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.

17 March, 201717 March, 2017 Industrial, Industry, Links, mp3, Punk, Rock 0

Never interrupt the music industry when it is making a mistake.

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Links: Spotify hackers, voiceover woes, Cabaret Voltaire in 2017.

12 March, 201712 March, 2017 Industrial, Links, mp3, Musician 0

“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.

3 March, 201729 March, 2017 Audio, Jazz, Links, mp3, Prog 0

And a picture that’s definitely a trap.

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