Members Pine Apple Slim Posted September 6, 2011 Members Share Posted September 6, 2011 Does this mean I should throw away my cassettes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted September 6, 2011 Moderators Share Posted September 6, 2011 Does this mean I should throw away my cassettes? absolutely not...store them carefully...the cassette retro craze will happen soon enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted September 6, 2011 Members Share Posted September 6, 2011 absolutely not...store them carefully...the cassette retro craze will happen soon enough Great, then I'll save my Tascam 4trk and my 2 deck player/recorder too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeverTheMachine Posted September 6, 2011 Members Share Posted September 6, 2011 I have a question, how do you get your music on Spotify? Do you have to join BMI or something? cdbaby supposedly can get you on spotify, just like it can amazon, itunes, etc. http://cdbaby.org/stories/09/03/02/6767462.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeverTheMachine Posted September 7, 2011 Members Share Posted September 7, 2011 My only thing with this is .... why can't they just offer the highest quality right away? If I was a new artist who had stuff on Spotify and people were hearing it for the first time, I'd want them to hear the master quality versions. To me it effects the perception of things, but that could be just me. I just can't understand how anyone would settle for a reduced audio quality, but I guess it bothers me because many people don't care and maybe it really doesn't matter ... Of course, a good song is a good song. I just did an A/B take between the same songs on my Itunes library and Spotify and there's no comparison. Itunes is louder, clearer, less muffled. Spotify sounds a bit more compressed and muffled. I don't know exactly what they're doing, but I would assume they're both 128kbps versions of the same song. Then there's the other story about how it "enhances the listener's experience" giving them access to more music and what not, but to me that's just more of the same thing we've had the past decade or so, in which a bunch of niche markets form and there is no real sense of timelessness in the new music. But that's just me, and is another discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted October 20, 2011 Members Share Posted October 20, 2011 Here we have listening by demand music services via internet since about 3 years, with apps and everything, services who pay royalties to the songwriters. Spotify didn't get a licence to start their service because they don't wanna pay the usual broadcast royalties to the composers, as well couldn't get an agreement with the IP owners (record companies). The founder of Spotify seems to be the typical pirate guy, an arrogant asshole who believe his service is a godsend for the world, and he also believes that music should be free, and only he is permittet to cash in on our music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A. Einstein Posted October 20, 2011 Members Share Posted October 20, 2011 The consumer will indeed decide. The IP owner decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted October 20, 2011 Members Share Posted October 20, 2011 Well, we either embrace it, or we do not. The consumer will indeed decide.I see it as pretty compelling. Let's posit an 'average human'. Let's say that this person is willing to buy one CD per month - or perhaps 10 digital singles. They're spending $120. For that investment, they can own maybe 120 songs.For that same investment, they can have 'access to' .... ummm... EVERYTHING. Seems pretty compelling to me. Especially as this 'access' model is indistinguishable from ownership.I signed on for the big plan. Why not? And look - My 'Nova-K' stuff is there! So is my "Lee Thomas Band" project! Cool! For less than I have been spending on music, I get everything. ever. recorded. (?)I think the horse has left this barn. We embrace and adapt, or we're cast aside. It may be a smaller pie, but maybe not. Long tail, here I come.If someone's not ready to spend $10 month on all their music investments, that's not a consumer in which I am interested, anyhow. Actually, there is a lot of difference between owning CDs and owning singles. Ten CDs might well be 120 dollars, but owning 10 digital singles is more like ten bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members [Animals2] Posted October 20, 2011 Members Share Posted October 20, 2011 FWIW...I was listening to Spotify exclusively for a month or so. After a while, I was finding more and more music that was on Rhapsody that was not on Spotify. I haven't logged in to Spotify in a few months and don't really plan to. Also....I don't know one other person who has tried Spotify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted October 21, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 21, 2011 my phone provider just gave me a free month of Rhapsody...spotify can wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted October 21, 2011 Members Share Posted October 21, 2011 And you can get my stuff on Rhapsody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members [Animals2] Posted October 21, 2011 Members Share Posted October 21, 2011 my phone provider just gave me a free month of Rhapsody...spotify can wait... Nice... If you have an Iphone, the Rhapsody app is great. You can download any song to your phone and listen offline. You may have a hard time giving that up after a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted October 21, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 21, 2011 Nice... If you have an Iphone, the Rhapsody app is great. You can download any song to your phone and listen offline. You may have a hard time giving that up after a month probably not, unfortunately, since I don't get a lot of time to listen to music....and the battery on the phone doesn't seem to last much more than a day on a charge, just as a phone... And it is an Android, not an iPhone...I refuse to fund Apple's gradual takeover of the planet... but I'm sure there's an app for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeverTheMachine Posted October 23, 2011 Members Share Posted October 23, 2011 Here we have listening by demand music services via internet since about 3 years, with apps and everything, services who pay royalties to the songwriters. Spotify didn't get a licence to start their service because they don't wanna pay the usual broadcast royalties to the composers, as well couldn't get an agreement with the IP owners (record companies). The founder of Spotify seems to be the typical pirate guy, an arrogant asshole who believe his service is a godsend for the world, and he also believes that music should be free, and only he is permittet to cash in on our music. + Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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