itunes streaming is going to destroy most of the competitors.

Streaming is the future. It will mean more money regardless of the breakdown. The idea of actually having an mp3 on your system will be laughable in 10 years.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney itunes streaming is going to destroy most of the competitors. Streaming is the future. It will mean more money regardless of the breakdown. The idea of actually having an mp3 on your system will be laughable in 10 years.

I think you're right. May even be sooner like 5 years. I just had 2 songs released and the only announcement I make is for the Spotify link. I think another promising avenue is monetized Youtube channels as well.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney itunes streaming is going to destroy most of the competitors. Streaming is the future. It will mean more money regardless of the breakdown. The idea of actually having an mp3 on your system will be laughable in 10 years.

id say even less, cant remember the last time i downloaded a mix or mp3 track

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Not totally related but an article came out today that leaked the fact the Uber (as I mentioned earlier) lost at LEAST $500m least year, if not closer to $1bn yet are valued in epic bubble proportions.

I'm not even sure tidal (or should I say JayZ's stake in ti) will last 6months now.

it will eventually be a mix of catalogue and support. Tidal's statement about its first investors ie the top tier artists isn't really making it sound better. They will sell out any way they can but do it pdiddy style with white clothes.

The only music that needs to be lossless is classical and dynamic acoustic. I suppose it won't be an issue in a few hears but right now, nobody or very few data plans in NA will cover it.

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great.

The only problem is that the radio portion is shit. They ned better curators and stations but if you know what you want, well the catalog is enormous.

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there is.

I actually like to hear new music and i suppose people have lost the point of a dj and what they are supposed to do. There is so much new music, that to have someone you trust to filter the rubbish, i find that of value.

Its fucking great tho. Music piracy is done. It is 256 AAC which is often as good or close to 320 mp3. iTunes also still keeps the master versions so it will eventually be bumped in fidelity when data transfer is no issue or they feel like charging a premium.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney there is. I actually like to hear new music and i suppose people have lost the point of a dj and what they are supposed to do. There is so much new music, that to have someone you trust to filter the rubbish, i find that of value.

Same here, I like to hear new music. I like Sirius radio for that reason, their DJs and curators do a great job of sifting through the pile and finding the best. The DJs for Alt Nation are so good at what they do, they're influencing the charts in a big way. We still need "radio".

I want high quality too, or at least have that option. Neil Young removed his music from all streaming services. His complaint was poor audio quality, it's not fair to sell that to fans. Maybe he will go with Tidal. He's got his Pono thing though, but that's not online streaming.

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neil young is retarded

the number of people that benefit from hifdelity music are insignificant. If you are actually old enough to have the money for a system that would reveal flaws for the untrained ear, you've already lost most of your hearing. People will just youtube his shit.

neil young might as well make you sign an agreement regarding your playback system and your ability to hear past 12khz

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Originally posted by zodiac9 Same here, I like to hear new music. I like Sirius radio for that reason, their DJs and curators do a great job of sifting through the pile and finding the best. The DJs for Alt Nation are so good at what they do, they're influencing the charts in a big way. We still need "radio". I want high quality too, or at least have that option. Neil Young removed his music from all streaming services. His complaint was poor audio quality, it's not fair to sell that to fans. Maybe he will go with Tidal. He's got his Pono thing though, but that's not online streaming.

There was a independent test of Young's Pono by one of the consumer sites and sadly for him, most people in the blind preferred the lo fi version.

That should tell you enough about the average consumer's listening ability and conditioning to know that hi fidelity, unless selling to a small niche audience (basically us - younger people who have a background in music/engineering) there's really not much point.

I too like sirius - at least you get to hear new things in somewhat an east way (in that it's spoon fed to you rather than having to go out and dig for it).

Radio (I use that term loosely) is still important as we need someone to curate music for us. Sure machines can do it too but you start getting to the point that you're programming so much variance in them to give diversity, it's easier and more efficient to have a music enthusiast or DJ play some music at you.

I would however like to have better quality streaming - Sirius (at least on car systems) has horrific data compression and I can hear all sorts of artififacts and aliasing on my car's audio system.

dynamic music is actually worse for your ears. It is those percussive hits that don't allow your ears naturally muscles to tighten the ossicles acting as a organic compressor that kills your hearing the most. I mean if you are listening to loud music , then it will damage it

if you had any idea how much distortion PA speakers are adding, you wouldn't really be arguing about mp3 and wav. Yes, even function one.

I haven't checked in a while but the fatigue is mostly psychological in that they have't provided a proper study to test this theory. We don't know.

knowledge whut

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