From: Hans De Bock (hdebock_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 2004-01-17 17:44:45
isn't being heard and played out the first incentive for an artist?
if his music is good people will show up at his concerts, parties,
so he can make a living out of it - but what about non-performing artists?
some maybe want to have extra info and buy the album for sleeve notes, artwork,
and other will simply not be interested in havin all these 'high tech' discs and stuff
and would just go and buy the vinyl :)
of course discs capable storing that much music might be the next problem for music
industry.. it sure is a threat, but maybe those big libraries of music will only be
interesting for lets say 'freaks' - regular people just want 1 disc a time,
don't they? without browsing through all those tracks..
i think i'll buy a disc of that brother and via that buy the albums that i liked the most,
and in that way try to support the artist i like. - anyway.. the whole copy issue def.
is a complex discussion!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Davis" <earthjuice_at_prodigy.net>
To: "Soul-Patrol_at_Davisind.Com" <soul-patrol_at_davisind.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 5:17 PM
Subject: [acid-jazz] The future of music consumption?
> Someone sent this to me via email
>
> >>This year a spoiled young woman or man at a college campus will be given a blue laser DVD
> burner as a gift by her/his parents. Capable of holding 26 gigs of data that is the rough
> equivalent of 26,000 minutes of music. The now rampant and truly sick in the head collectors
> of MP3's have on average amassed approximately 4-6 gigs of music each, and they are likely to
> be the room mates or neighbors of the young man or woman with the blue laser DVD. While under
> the influence of some type of substance typically accompanied by music, one of the kids in
> this clique will put the pieces together. The pieces being say five different 4-6 gig
> collections, the many programs out there that organize and sort music in to categories, and
> the 26 gig disk that can be read and obviously copied to personal computers. Long burn times?
> Expensive drives? Expensives DVD disks? Skip the burning step, copy the one DVD floating
> around to the hard drives, and puff puff pass, if you will.<<
>
> Given this scenario...
>
> That's 433 hours of music on a single disk.
> Just for the sake of math lets say that 1hr = 1 album
> That would mean I could potentially have the top 433 Classic Soul albums on a single disc.
> Remember this single disk also includes search/sorting software which enables me to call up
> whatever artist/track I want in just a few seconds.
> Now lets say that this single disc were available from a brotha standing outside of a subway
> station at with a table & a handmade sign that says he is selling this disc for 10 bucks.
>
> Would you buy this disc?
>
> Take it one step further.
> What if this brotha had a selection, and had such a disc for say 10 different styles of music?
>
> * Soul
> * Hip Hop
> * Rock
> * World Music
> * Jazz
> * Blues
> * Classical
> * Country
> * Show Tunes/Movie Soundtracks
> * Clear Channel Top 433 from 2003
>
> ....and u could buy the equivelent of a 4330 album comprehensive music library for 100
> dollars?
>
> Would you give the brotha 100 dollars and walk away with this?
>
> Of course this same brotha would also have "specialty discs" which would contain 433 hours of
> rare, unreleased out of print and or live music for each style as well.
> Those would be available at "premium prices" of $12.00/disc...
>
> Now you can walk away from this brotha's table with damn near all of the music you ever wanted
> for less than $200
>
> What do you think that the future of music consumption is?
> What would be the incentive for ANY artist to produce ANY music whatsoever?
> (or do you think that this is crazy, and could never happen?)
>
>
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