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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.
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iTunes is free. . . are you referring to the subscription service?
Additionally, I seem to remember they published some kind of fix so it could be removed from iTunes.
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.
“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
I don’t go past the 80’s stations.
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, , ,
I thought you had to pay for music that you buy. Like $1.99 or so. I’m on an Android.
When Will The Bass Drop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8
You’re not supposed to drive or do much of anything the whole day. Also, it costs more.
Going round and round like a circle game. 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.
I think MTV killed the music. Once silly visuals took over, they obscured poor vocals & everything else.
Knows quite a lot about draining the meat flute, to be sure.
Worst piece of software EVER. I still refuse to believe Apple wrote it.
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.
...It said “Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions...”
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.
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”.
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