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Tim Cook worries that humanity is “being drained out of music”
fastcompany ^ | 8/8/2018 | BY MARK SULLIVAN

Posted on 08/08/2018 9:29:00 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie

Fast Company’s former editor and good friend Bob Safian recently returned to contribute a profile on Spotify founder Daniel Ek, in which they discussed his views on music distribution and curation. For a contrasting viewpoint, Safian also talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook about the way he and his company view music. Here’s what Cook said:

“I couldn’t make it through a workout without music,” Cook says. “Music inspires, it motivates. It’s also the thing at night that helps quiet me. I think it’s better than any medicine.”

Apple Music relies mainly on human curation to suggest music to users, while Spotify depends on algorithms. Cook didn’t call out Spotify by name but he is clearly highlighting the difference in approach with this quote:

”We worry about the humanity being drained out of music, about it becoming a bits-and-bytes kind of world instead of the art and craft.”

Reading this, I wasn’t sure if Cook was talking about the way tracks are chosen for users, or the way music itself is created by songwriters and producers. Either way, he’s right.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobsafian; danielek; spotify; timcook
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Okie, The U2 album was not "pushed down" to Apple user's devices, nor was it "undeteable," as you mischaracterize it. It was made available to Apple users IF THEY WANTED IT for free as a GIFT from Apple and U2 in the iTunes Store. Nice Try at making a FREE OFFER sound like an invasion of people's devices with a lie.
41 posted on 08/08/2018 12:44:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook says he worries about Music choices losing the human touch when algorithms are being used to select music for listening. That's why Apple uses human curators for Apple's streaming services.—PING!


Apple Music Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

42 posted on 08/08/2018 12:48:15 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: moovova
Tim...you could help by making iTunes free.

iTunes is free. . . are you referring to the subscription service?

43 posted on 08/08/2018 12:50:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker
All I can say is it was Pushed down to my 6S and I couldn't delete it. I'm sure you remember there was some controversy at the time.

Additionally, I seem to remember they published some kind of fix so it could be removed from iTunes.

44 posted on 08/08/2018 12:58:12 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Rap and for-money-only over-produced fake music drained the humanity decades ago.

The vitality, creativity and exuberance that was present from the late 50s to early 70s was incredible. Just listen to the Top 10 from each year and you’ll find so much variation and different styles. Not so true today.


45 posted on 08/08/2018 12:59:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: reg45

“And the music is all the same ...”

That’s by DESIGN, not Chance

The Four Chords That Killed Pop Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuGt-ZG39cU


46 posted on 08/08/2018 1:16:53 PM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I don’t go past the 80’s stations.


47 posted on 08/08/2018 1:17:49 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: Fresh Wind

In Sacramento in the 60s and 70s, there was a junk shop on Folsom Boulevard, close to 35th Street near Alhambra, that sold old albums and 78s,, one record for a dollar, half a record for 50¢. Yup a broken half record for 50¢. He had piles of them. . .

He was quite looney... I asked him what someone would want a half record for and he said if they could find both halves they could glue them back together, , ,


48 posted on 08/08/2018 1:37:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

I thought you had to pay for music that you buy. Like $1.99 or so. I’m on an Android.


49 posted on 08/08/2018 1:44:33 PM PDT by moovova
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To: CtBigPat

When Will The Bass Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8


50 posted on 08/08/2018 1:44:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

You’re not supposed to drive or do much of anything the whole day. Also, it costs more.


51 posted on 08/08/2018 1:46:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Psalm 73
Joni Mitchell on the turntable for crying-out-loud.

Going round and round like a circle game. I wonder how ole Joni is doing lately.

52 posted on 08/08/2018 1:51:58 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro
"I wonder how ole Joni is doing lately."

Not well at all - saw a pic of her last year - sad.
I prefer to remember her vinyl days....she had such a great jazz voice, too.

53 posted on 08/08/2018 2:23:54 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I think MTV killed the music. Once silly visuals took over, they obscured poor vocals & everything else.


54 posted on 08/08/2018 3:10:22 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: txrefugee
And what, pray tell, does Tim Cook know about “humanity?”

Knows quite a lot about draining the meat flute, to be sure.

55 posted on 08/08/2018 3:18:20 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: KC_Lion

Worst piece of software EVER. I still refuse to believe Apple wrote it.


56 posted on 08/08/2018 3:21:44 PM PDT by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Heartily agree.
I remember back in the 70’s and seeing rack after rack of albums. The sheer number of a available artists was staggering. Then each artist had multiple albums. This was selections of music.

Isot a music store today and the number of artists is a fraction of what there was 30 years ago. And all the music is the same. Or it’s rap and the talent required to produce rap is minimal. Gone are the audiophile quality recordings.

I blame the music industry.


57 posted on 08/08/2018 3:26:54 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: PGR88; Swordmaker
I’m guessing it contains subliminal messages Apple wants me to hear!
**********************************************
I ran some subliminal message detection software and found the message that played repeatedly ...

...It said “Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions...”

58 posted on 08/08/2018 7:01:34 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Swordmaker

I think he’s wrong — I’d rather be able to put my car radio on shuffle play, rather than listen to the same old-assed tired-ass human-compiled canned playlist the area stations seem to use.


59 posted on 08/08/2018 11:50:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Swordmaker

Ha! That reminds me of a record dealer I used to know, may he RIP. One particularly obnoxious customer was trying to argue the price down on a dollar record; he only wanted to pay half that. My friend finally had enough. He snapped the record in half and handed the pieces back to the customer and said “now it’s 50 cents”.


60 posted on 08/09/2018 2:31:32 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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