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An eye-opener (these micro/macro graphics are all the rage) but a complete nonsense.


1m plays will pay about about $7k. So the final 'ta-daaaa!' graphic is out by a factor of nearly 30.


Whether 'the artist' gets all of that is a different matter. But that's because the biggest enemies of 'the artist' are the same as they always have been: the people in between them and the distributor, not the distributor themselves.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Spotify rips off artists... not nearly as bad as

> p2p sharing which was the norm before it came

> along.



Depends how you look at it.


From a direct royalties point of view it's not good for the artist; but from an exposure point of view it is. There will plenty of folk like me that will use spotify as a listening post before buying. They will also indirectly benefit from

more peoplem paying for gig tickets because they have first heard a band they like on spotify.

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What I like about spotify is that I will listen to something on there I would never have listened to, or considered buying before. Do sites like spotify reduce copyright theft? I'm not sure. I subscribe to netflix and I love it. I'd much rather pay a fiver or so per month for that than watch live TV, and have to fork out for a licence. But again, does netflix have any impact on reducing copyright theft? Or is is just putting more traditional forms of renting films out of business?


Personally, I think the future is one where we don't need to own CDs or DVDs at all. A monthly fee will be all it costs to have access to much bigger libraries than we could ever afford to buy or find space to keep. And music companies (like film companies have) need to get on board instead of wondering whatever happened to their highly profitable monopolies of both artists and CD sales.

Naaaa, silly.

I'm setting up a home network using Pure's jongo stuff

http://www.pure.com/wireless/jongo-multiroom-speakers/


it streams your ripped stuff and internet radio to various bits and bobs around your house, including via this thing into seperates hifi stuff, which you can route via a DAC to sound amazing if the hifi fluffins are worth it.


a fuck sight cheaper than sonos too!!!

This whole debate around quality is nonsense now. DJs play off laptops via usb connected sound cards to give the best quality sound. I listen through sennheiser headphones (which are pretty much as good as it gets) and the quality is good enough. You can now link to speakers via USB wifi as well. The need to have lots of seperates in every room doing everything has gone, unless absolute quality is paramount.

just to clarify, what's the debate around quality?

If you want quality then the components(from musical source to reproduction) need to be quality.


Doesn't have to be traditional analogue seperates by any stretch, but they still need to be, you know, good, whether you're talking about a sound card, or a standalone wifi active speaker.


Plus what you get has to be tailored to what you're doing with it and where.

So yes, seperates overkill for many a situation.

I've just got the internet radio in my kitchen and a mono speaker in the ceiling in my bog

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