krankshaft format solution found

[Jonathan Smith]

People *are* listening to a wider range of music than ever before, despite
the big companies. As a listener, my musical life is greatly enhanced these
days. I used to be limited to a few LPs which you had heard too many times,
your friend's LPs and poor quality audio cassette recordings. Thank god
there were bargain bins and second hand shops.

Everyone who has come through the PC/ Internet explosion over the past few
years knows how to get hold of music without paying, but I have bought a lot
of music I would never have heard as well. Young people may or may not
know-- so many people buy from iTunes you wonder. You should be able listen
to music before you pay-- too many big bands produce rubbish because they
know they have the market.

I still quite like CDs as they are a real album and have some packaging to
look at and they are usually better quality than digital downloads. I have
too many now though-- its easier to find something on my hard drive but also
easier to lose completely.

Companies like Apple are very obstructive. They have cornered a market by
clever marketing and stealing of ideas from elsewhere (ironically one of the
iPods included controls stolen from a Asian company). They have sold the
idea of the MP3 player being their's and manage to make people buy from
iTunes at ridiculous prices. Their computers, whilst better than PCs, don't
even support Blu-Ray discs because they want to sell HD video from iTunes.

I think that the next innovations will probably come from China. They are
already rolling out a 4G phone network of their own. Their main search
engine, Baidu, actually contains an MP3 search on its home page, so selling
MP3s is hard and genuine copies of CDs/DVDs/BDs are hard to buy or tell from
copies. They will have to work out a way of selling entertainment, but doing
that for sake of American and Japanese companies would be pointless for
them.

On 4 April 2011 07:08, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/3/11, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
> > In the scheme of things, no probably not a big deal ... ;)  I mean, I'm
> not
> > stuck in the middle of a civil war, nor have tsunamis or earthquakes
> leveled
> > my house, nor I am I (to my knowledge) being wickedly irradiated.  So if
> I
> > can't get a vinyl record, then (especially considering I have no means of
> > playing such a thing), I will probably survive ....
> >
> > Still, all the other jazz aside, I do think the "brave new world" of
> online
> > communication and distribution contain considerable opportunities for
> > artists -- "opportunities", though, which are not at all the same thing
> as
> > out-and-out "advantages"!  It is, after all, probably easier to make
> decent
> > sounding music (regardless of how good that music may be" than ever
> before.
> > It is easier to find people who might like your music (regardless of what
> > kind of music it is) in the farthest-flung corners of the world,
> communicate
> > with those people, and make one's music accessible to them in some way.
>  And
> > even if international travel, however easier now than it may have once
> been,
> > is still not easy enough to play gigs around the world, it is at the very
> > least easier than ever to let your local fans know when and where you'll
> be
> > performing, and to help get them spread the word.
> >
> > What may be _harder_ than ever before is catching and holding people's
> > attention -- at least long enough to get them to part with their money
> for a
> > ticket, a download, a CD, a T-shirt, or whatever it is that you might be
> > vending directly or indirectly.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Carl
>
> Absolutely agreed
> before I try my best to stop making a whetever it may be that I always
> may be making of myself, I just want to share that for me, ending up
> still alive and living (for various reasons), totally alone about 360
> days a year, relcaiming things on vinyl that I lost has been my
> passion since 2007. I am not even a "vinyl person" really, just a
> 46-year old retracing the child part of me that wanted my "stuff"
> back. I have done so well, and also had a lot of struggle, that I am
> toning down "mining operations" and I expect to have more money for
> things over on that side of the POND. pretty soon.
> I cal tell I have "randomly" received some contact with radiation
> it's freaky
> like the "background strych-ie feeling" for anyone familiar with "that
> stuff"
> night
> May we all have access to our preferred "music pill" of choice, and
> not have the red or blue colour affect the other ones!!!
>