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> it's like there's a reason when you go to the gym, all the music is some piped in re-recorded version of famous songs with an unknown singer doing it, rather
by irrational 3y ago
> it's like there's a reason when you go to the gym, all the music is some piped in re-recorded version of famous songs with an unknown singer doing it, rather than the actual music.
Wait, is that a real thing? I’ve never heard of that before.
- Aeolun 3y agoYeah, I remember we had to pay licensing fees for just turning on the radio in the office. It wasn’t cheap either.
- LanceH 3y agoIt's definitely real. And it's not well known covers. The only place you'll hear these covers are on this channel, where presumably they paid for performance rights as a work for hire and they own the songwriter rights in their catalog. Sometimes they have the real performance, so you'll get real bands/songs mixed in.
- zzzeek 3y agoGoogling around to find who these vendors are, it might be Rockbot https://rockbot.com/ https://rockbot.com/ and others who are the big players here. This is really where I wonder where the AI solutions are. Feed it a Taylor Swift song, get a high quality cover recording with comparable vocals of a different voice of that song back which can be licensed much more cheaply (still has to be covered by ascap/bmi etc).
- JohnFen 3y ago> when you go to the gym, all the music is some piped in Heh, I hate it so much when gyms play music at all that I only use gyms that don't play any.