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The article describes what used to be called a 'radio mix' or 'radio edit': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_edit T

The article describes what used to be called a 'radio mix' or 'radio edit': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_edit The only difference is that today it is less common to have several mixes of the same song (which mostly existed to fill singles) and people will often stream the album version, so everything is a radio mix today.

wil421 7y ago
I used to notice radio songs would be played slightly faster than the CD or an MP3 ripped from the CD I downloaded. Sometimes I woundnt like the slower tempo of certain songs. Now that I steam a lot I don’t notice it. Maybe the streaming services play the radio edits or, as you said, it’s much less common.
- lbotos 7y ago
  No, radio stations would pitch up songs (play them faster/make them more "upbeat") to get more ad time: http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/58007 http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/58007 You'll know the difference between a radio edit and the "original" because one will be ~3-4 minutes and the other can be somewhere from 4-9 minutes for the DJs to mix with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjE9H8QlA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjE9H8QlA4 - 3:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2Q62uMew0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2Q62uMew0 - 7:22
  - munificent 7y ago
    I think you're talking about slightly different things because of the different genres. You can think of there being three flavors of a track: * A "dance mix" is specifically designed to be played by a DJ at a club. It's designed for mixing — overlapping with the previous and next songs so that dancers can continuously dance through multiple songs. It has a long intro (often only drums and nothing tonal to avoid clashes between different keys) and a long outro. * An "album mix" is designed for personal listeners. It can be as long or short as the artist wants because they can assume the listener wants to hear this exact song because they chose it. * A "radio mix" is designed to be played by radio DJs. Artists want to get played as much as possible and radio stations want to have plenty of time for ads and avoid boring dead air, so the incentive is to make this really short and punchy. Electronic dance music often only has a "dance mix", especially in the niche subgenres. If a track is popular enough, it might have a "radio mix" that's actually closer to an album version — its intended for personal listening with less need of a mixable intro/outro. Pop and rock used to often have both an album and a radio mix. Now that radio is dying and randomized streaming is growing, those two are converging (which is what the article hints at). Many of these, especially upbeat ones will have longer "dance remixes", often many, often radically different from the original. A lot of times all that's kept from the original song is some of the vocals or the hook. These are usually created well after the original produced version (hence "remix"). So the "original" version of a song depends a lot on the genre. Most original versions of rock and pop songs are either the shorter or middle-length one and the longer dance mixes and shorter radio edit (if there is one) come later. Most EDM songs are longer in their original for-DJs version and the shorter edit comes out later if the track gets big enough to get popular adoption.

wil421 7y ago

I used to notice radio songs would be played slightly faster than the CD or an MP3 ripped from the CD I downloaded. Sometimes I woundnt like the slower tempo of certain songs. Now that I steam a lot I don’t notice it. Maybe the streaming services play the radio edits or, as you said, it’s much less common.

lbotos 7y ago
No, radio stations would pitch up songs (play them faster/make them more "upbeat") to get more ad time: http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/58007 http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/58007 You'll know the difference between a radio edit and the "original" because one will be ~3-4 minutes and the other can be somewhere from 4-9 minutes for the DJs to mix with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjE9H8QlA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjE9H8QlA4 - 3:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2Q62uMew0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2Q62uMew0 - 7:22
- munificent 7y ago
  I think you're talking about slightly different things because of the different genres. You can think of there being three flavors of a track: * A "dance mix" is specifically designed to be played by a DJ at a club. It's designed for mixing — overlapping with the previous and next songs so that dancers can continuously dance through multiple songs. It has a long intro (often only drums and nothing tonal to avoid clashes between different keys) and a long outro. * An "album mix" is designed for personal listeners. It can be as long or short as the artist wants because they can assume the listener wants to hear this exact song because they chose it. * A "radio mix" is designed to be played by radio DJs. Artists want to get played as much as possible and radio stations want to have plenty of time for ads and avoid boring dead air, so the incentive is to make this really short and punchy. Electronic dance music often only has a "dance mix", especially in the niche subgenres. If a track is popular enough, it might have a "radio mix" that's actually closer to an album version — its intended for personal listening with less need of a mixable intro/outro. Pop and rock used to often have both an album and a radio mix. Now that radio is dying and randomized streaming is growing, those two are converging (which is what the article hints at). Many of these, especially upbeat ones will have longer "dance remixes", often many, often radically different from the original. A lot of times all that's kept from the original song is some of the vocals or the hook. These are usually created well after the original produced version (hence "remix"). So the "original" version of a song depends a lot on the genre. Most original versions of rock and pop songs are either the shorter or middle-length one and the longer dance mixes and shorter radio edit (if there is one) come later. Most EDM songs are longer in their original for-DJs version and the shorter edit comes out later if the track gets big enough to get popular adoption.