Beats 1

[K9 Kai Niggemann]

Read a smart article (without having installed iTunes 12.12 yet) about beats in the paper today (yes, I do read the paper on paper...;)

Said how it's a curse and a blessing. when you drop out of the radio stream and listen to the song again, of course you are being monitored, this influences everything.

It says how it's really good that it is a real radio station that actually plays the Otis Redding original after a Lamar track that sampled it, something that algorithms don't (yet) do.

all in all the article was negative, saying that once again Apple is trying to take in pop culture, pretend it's a cool thing, like pirate radio, when in fact they are pirating the idea of pirate radio and see culture as a trove to pick from.

Apple pays a lot more to labels than spotify, I hear -- but looking at the minuscule amounts, spotify pays for a stream, it's not hard to pay "a lot more" and still make a killing...

Peter Kirn had a long article on CDM where he described what it all looks like to artists and I felt like I neglected what I need to do -- check out new means of distributing my music. Sometimes I wish I had an assistant to do all that, so I can actually *make* music instead of getting into the whys and wherefores of streaming...;)




On 02.07.2015, at 23:12, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess I have to backtrack on this, I thought it would be Taylor Swift and bullshit r&b all day, but I listened to Julie Adenuga's show yesterday and it was pretty good. I'm sure there will be the the pop moments but looking at the schedule I'm actually looking forward to this.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jul 1, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Actually I just found a cool group thanks to beats1 http://www.ibeyi.fr
>> 
>> Thanks Dr. Dre and Trent Reznor.
>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Did people think beats1 was going to be cool? One station being as generic as possible?
>>> 
>>> The real streaming section seems to work good, though messy interface, find a song, do I "heart" it, add it, add it to a playlist, start station, make offline? Does making it offline add it? They put together spotlights on say a label, why can't I add the whole thing as a playlist? Oh right I'm supposed to pick the "cooking" or "getting it on" playlist. Also adding puts it in the same library as all other purchased music, seems sloppy.
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Tony Scharf <tony.scharf at outlook.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I agree on this one.  I've played with their iTunes Radio but have no interest in Beats1.   Spotify, while loathsome for other reasons, is still my favorite from a listeners perspective.
>>>> 
>>>> Tony
>>>> 
>>>> Subject: Re: Beats 1
>>>> From: ibisum at gmail.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 12:23:51 +0200
>>>> To: music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
>>>> 
>>>> >  Beats 1... also a pretty dumb move by Apple.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m holding off on even going near it, and anyway I mostly use VLC for my local media playback, with Spotify for music-finding.  I’m switching away from Apples’ services-grab as much as I can ..
>>>> 
>>>> ;
>>>> --
>>>> Jay Vaughan
>>>> ibisum at gmail.com
>>>> http://ibisum.ddns.net/
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