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.
You know... I have Apple Play, $9.99 per month. I'm a musician, but you know.... I will guy that for the rest of my life. Unlimited access to 40 million songs. From 60's Folk, to 40's big band, 70's rock, 80's metal.. etc etc. Country, Rock, Punk, Jazz, Christian, Metal, Rap.... it is all there. It is an amazing service, in my opinion.
We have access to some old records...from the 30s/40s...trying to decide what to do with them
“Music is nice during a colonoscopy, though.”
Being KNOCKED OUT is nice during a scope.
I have over a thousand cd's Few hundred albums. I know what you mean. But a few months ago I bought a $99 Sony receiver and hooked it to my 1970's vintage JBL home speakers. The receiver has Bluetooth. I use apple play and stream to it all day with either my iPhone or Ipad. I'll never get rid of the CD's, but for $9.99 a month, I mean it is a great deal. And it is EASY EASY
Agreed. There is a lot of good stuff out there. Of course, there being so much of it, there is also a lot of crap. I've really enjoyed some of the stuff coming out of fusions between classical and bluegrass musicians. For those of us who love music of all different types, it's never been better.
Tracks aren't "chosen" for users. The user chooses what to listen to. All the software does is provide suggestions from what is available.
Likewise, use of computers in music composition only makes it possible for more people to express a talent for music composition, when they might not have the talent (or physical ability) to physically play an instrument. So, either way, he is WRONG!
Wouldn’t it be great if Apple was run by somebody hip again instead of Ichabod RumpRanger?
That's where the problem began.
That's what happens when you divorce music from the source
Yep ... that's what happens when you record it and then play back the same recording endlessly.
You want music to come from its source ... learn to MAKE music. The source of music is a person generating tones to form rhythm, melody, and harmony right now in real time.
Don't blame Spotify. Or iTunes. Blame Thomas Edison.
Ban rap.
I have never understood DJs as stars.
I mean, you play tunes and yell stupid stuff. It is one of the few things that requires less “talent” than cRap.
Do you have a record player that does 78 RPMs? Do you have a lot of spare time?
Back in the late 90’s/early 2000s, I used my nice vinyl player and Soundblaster card to rip a bunch of my ‘classic’ (not available on CD) albums to CD, and eventually to MP3.
I eventually got it down to an hour or so per album, and most of that was just doing other things while side 1 and 2 played. Splitting up the tracks with a .wav editor and saving all the files off took another 10 minutes or so.
(However, these days, I follow the plan of, if the artist is selling a re-mastered CD of one of my favorites, I buy it, because hassle)
Anyway, on that stack of old albums, you might just have some very amazing classics, or a bunch of dreck. We forget that the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s had their share of bad music too. It’s just gotten buried under the carpet as everyone gushed over Glenn Miller, etc.
If you look on YouTube, you can find channels of old, recorded (and preserved) music, and old time radio shows. Perhaps you could donate the old records to one of them, or (no clue) maybe museums are into that sort of thing.
There’s also Ebay. I don’t know if your collection includes things like, oh, Robert Johnson, but if it does, hoo boy $$$.
Good luck!
I can barely listen to the radio these days. I live in the midwest rural area and we listen to country but even that has gone all to hell and fast.
You got faggots like Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt who sing about being emotional little bitches and pouting over some broad that left them. Pathetic.
These days I listen to classic rock. At least they PLAYED INSTRUMENTS
As long as recording artists, songwriters, and their heirs get paid, I’m all for it.
I’m guessing you’re not involved in producing music?
Quantizing everything with one button stomps the humanity out of the idiosyncratic rythmic differences that go into making up any pop musician’s signature sound.
Everything snaps to the barline, mathematically perfect.
Pitch correction software is dirt cheap. Can’t sing for S&&t? No prob. Computer correction gives you perfect pitch.
Tip of the robot iceberg.
Anyone can buy a decent DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) program for $200.00. Tons of pooter handled correction software comes with them.
I miss the days of real (to reel) tape, when you had to be able to actually Play your instrument instead of just Edit it together on a pooter.
I don't have time for that.
Thanks
LOL can’t spare an extra half hour?
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