On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Martin Dust wrote:
On 22 Mar 2007, at 09:37, robin wrote:
> We have a culture coming up that don't believe they should pay for
> anything, that's the problem.
And it seems that they feel like they should not contribute in any way. I
understand the attitude of not wanting to have anything to do with
money ("I downloaded a record you made, here's a record made by me.". But
I think that in the past, during self-sufficient economy (when agriculture
was the main form of ""industry"), the kind of lazy sods only willing to
leech on other people's effor would have been dealt with quite harshly.
The music culture as we know it has changed so much, everything is on tap and
instant demand these days - so old methods don't and won't work.
I'm looking forward to the Web 2.0. I know it's a buzzword (and they
usually won't live up to their excpectations, or blossom gradually), but
lately I've been having problems finding good music. At the moment almost
all of the webstores have only very narrow (or very vague) music
descriptions, and they use only a couple of description tags.
An interesting development towards user friendly music search, utilizing
tags and metafiles, would be to combine for example:
- active community functions (last.fm, 313-list)
- personal up-to-date information (discogs' collections and wantlists)
- music rating - system would analyze a piece of music according to it's
metadata and mayhaps even waveform, and the users would thet rate it
according to their taste (even random music rating would improve the
accuracy)
With the previous kind "evocation" of SMART agent, I'd probably spend a
lot more money on records (or music files) than I do at the moment.
Jussi Lehtonen
"Metaprogram yourself."
