willyhoops;198844 Wrote: > > Maybe they will fail and the future will become music on demand > services. Then you pay a monthly subscription and get access to > zillions of CDs. However itÂ’s unclear if all the bandwidth that would > entail is feasible... and it still requires new audio formats and > standards.
Or perhaps music sales are down because the Big4 catalog for the most part sucks. Indie labels are mostly growing: how come piracy isn't affecting them? Lots of bands have free tracks on Myspace, and they get people to buy their albums.... but that is mostly Indie acts. The "problem" to me seems to be more that society is more accepting of microcultures, that diversity is more acceptable in the current world... except for the Big4, who believe the only music worth producing is the double-platinum. You can see some of this in the fight for 'net radio royalties here in the US: the RIAA should be encouraging the most offbeat and weird stations, the stations that play stuff that has been buried in their catalog that 4 people found. Getting those songs onto last.fm, Pandora and other "discovery" services should be a priority for them. But they don't care. Instead, they will have consultants pay to get yet-another-Britney album onto the radio. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928
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