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While Spotify was mentioned in the original post, it isn't the only game in town and there are alternatives like Deezer and Tidal, which offer higher-quality ma
by Topfi 2y ago
While Spotify was mentioned in the original post, it isn't the only game in town and there are alternatives like Deezer and Tidal, which offer higher-quality masters, more consistent libraries and ensure a better compensation for artists.
> The only way the record companies could have kept selling records is with vinyl. But they killed that to get more profits decades ago.
Maybe I don't understand something about your point, but why skip over CDs and direct sales of single tracks, as popularized by iTunes? Purely looking at potential profit from sales, I don't see a difference between vinyl and CDs, at least prior to the recent resurgence when vinyl got a premium due to the perceived exclusivity and quality.
> Good luck convincing people music is worth sitting down for like people do with books, movies and games.
Sitting down and listening to music is still greatly appreciated across all ages, at least from what I can tell. That seems somewhat reductive.
> Yeah, let me sit down and listen to Cardi B for the next 40 minutes, said no one.
That seems very reductive.
> The youth just press play on a playlist and whatever comes out doesn't matter, it's all basically the same anyway.
That seems extremely reductive.
I do not know what you were listening to in your youth, but I'd be surprised if there weren't tracks, artists or even whole genres that people of your current age might have looked upon unfavorably in the past.
- m000 2y ago>> Yeah, let me sit down and listen to Cardi B for the next 40 minutes, said no one. > That seems very reductive. It seems, but it isn't. Music is produced for the YouTube/Spotify "formats" these days. Putting together an album that would be listened on a turntable or a cassette player, is a very different task than releasing a Spotify single. As an analogy, modern artists are more like weekly columnists on a magazine. Past artists were more like book writers. Both categories write, but their output is very much affected by the format they use. And a columnist is very likely to be bad as a book writer, and vice-versa for the book writer.
- globular-toast 2y ago> Maybe I don't understand something about your point, but why skip over CDs and direct sales of single tracks, as popularized by iTunes? The way I see it, there are three choices: 1. Sell a physical good and let the free market do its thing, 2. Sell a service and let the free market do its thing, 3. Attempt to create a non-free market using various combinations of technical and legal means (e.g. DRM, copyright etc.) Vinyl records were an example of (1). They couldn't practically be duplicated. But CDs could and the free market very quickly realised this. So CDs were the beginning of their journey down route (3) which they eventually lost. They have now settled on method (2) just like movies, games and everything else.