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by pwinnski 4y ago
I also lack the vision to see what could ultimately replace streaming as the primary delivery mechanism for music. It delivers an ongoing revenue stream, the monthly nature of which beats the old "put it out in a new format every few y
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The composers of some very early jazz standards are literally unknown, or unverifiable!
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> For classical, streaming is not an option > Streaming is the death of the classical recording industry. Apple seems to disagree, so I guess we'll see. It clear that the best days are behind us, at any rate. Bottom line: you m
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I largely agree. I guess I would just say that every decision comes at a cost, and maintaining compatibility usually comes with a small performance cost, exactly the sort of cost Apple least wants to pay on their new devices.
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That redirects to the non-classical music app page already.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because that's already a redirect for the standard Music app? My guess is that the team developed the site without knowing whether they'd have permission to deploy it on *.apple or not, so they put apple in the domain basename and
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It's always rights. The composers may be largely long-dead, but the recordings are controlled by labels, so there are rights involved.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
While you're thinking about playlists, I should introduce you to classical radio. Out-of-context movements are the norm there!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There are 1,182 recordings of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" alone, each running close to three hours. If you listen for 16 hours every day, you can cover this one in under a year, on to work number two! :D
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Spotify has been busy shoehorning their "podcasts" (on-demand audio shows) into every nook and cranny of the app people use to listen to music. If they notice or think of classical music, one can only imagine how they'll try
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You have to be logged into Apple Music before you can play Apple Music, regardless of whether you're using the Music app, the Classical app, or the web app. I'm not sure what's weird about that? Oh, are you saying you can&#x2
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I mentioned some of these numbers in another comment already, but for example: Search for "Don Giovanni" in the new app, and there are 1,182 "Works" that match. That's a lot of covers! The "Editor's Choice
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If your family had Apple Music Family rather than Spotify Family, you would have this option for free.
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I decided to check this out. I searched for "Don giovanni" and my first match was under "Works", telling me that "Don Giovanni" by W. A. Mozart (little pic of him), K. 527, is available in 1,182 tracks. Second
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by pwinnski 4y ago
People who care deeply about classical music will use this even at the same or higher cost than Spotify's now-inferior product. People who don't care at all about classical music won't use this at any price. People who like c
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I can definitely see why they passed. In 2017, it was already clear that streaming options render any music-purchasing platform niche at best, and a shrinking niche at that. Sad, but true.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is all true, and the interesting thing to me is that I don't think it's intentional. That is, it seems to be the natural result of steady innovation without special effort being made to keep things stable for those who want
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There's too much focus on "monopolies" and the word "monopoly" itself. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was about trusts, which are by definition different companies that work together to control a market. The FTC should
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Which is amusing, given the history of anti-trust enforcement in the US. Most activity in the middle of the last century was aimed not at companies owning 95%+ of a market, but companies owning every step of a supply chain, smaller pieces o
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I have very expansive taste in music, and enjoy Cardi B as well as Stravinsky (though not usually back-to-back). In a given week I might listen to rock, hip-hop, blues, classical, folk, world music, more hip-hop, and even Cantonese pop so
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Going out on a limb here, but I think you probably don't spend a lot of time listening to classical music. The reaction of nearly everyone who does is cautious optimism, because we know this is a very hard problem that companies and pr
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's sad how most programmers are so terrible they need IDEs to automatically create stubs for required methods or getters and setters. They should have to type all of that out every time, and from memory, too! VIM with no plugins is t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think that the concern about LLMs making up information are absolutely valid, and a serious concern. At the same time, I think most people focusing on those concerns aren't thinking much about the alternatives, namely Google. For man
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Bing is exposing source links for their answers, one-click verification. Wolfram has a much wider scope of information than I think most people realize, but your example of local hunting laws is a good example of what they don't cover.
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It definitely doesn't mean ads, and introducing ads would be a mistake. They will likely lower the limits on free use once they're ready to handle a huge influx of paid users. They are in a tough spot temporarily ramping up things
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OpenAI's product is AI, all else is in service to that. Google's product is ads, with all else--including AI--in service to that.
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They had the resources, but the Venn diagram of gamers and people familiar enough with Google to doubt their commitment had a lot of overlap.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> How on earth are solo indie devs outperforming entire well-paid teams?! They have different goals. The solo indie devs are performing horribly on the metrics the internal dev team is judged by, and vice-versa.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
California bill would ban sales of [current recipe for] Skittles, force them to remove chemicals to match the recipes they already use in the EU. Good.
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BTC is leaderless, which seems to be a large part of why the SEC is convinced it is not a security. ETH is not leaderless to the same degree, and to my knowledge has not been declared "not a security" by the SEC in the same way BT

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