Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright infringement liability lawsuit. Altice, meanwhile, will receive anti-piracy information, including that related to a letter the RIAA previously sent to BitTorrent Inc., the owner of popular torrent client uTorrent.
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I remember when modern music was interesting enough to want to pirate.
It still is, that problem lies with you and an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.
It is OK to like a specific era and for that to be your favourite but to claim that modern music isn’t interesting is just a shitty take. You just don’t personally like it.
It is OK to like a specific era and for that to be your favourite but to claim that modern music isn’t interesting is just a shitty take.
So much this. Claiming modern music is all bad or something has the same energy as
It has the same energy as someone who says “modern gaming is bad!” because all they play is regurgitated EA sports slop and AAAA shooters like Call of Duty.
What are you suggesting? That music, as an art form, didn’t peak when I was 15-25?
Lies and propaganda!
This research aims to examine whether a preference for popular music of a specific era still exists and whether it still follows a
non-monotonicnon monolithic relationship with age.I went with a typo at first :/
I think it’s harder to find the signal from the noise of sameness.
I used to be able to find interesting bands and artists by watching The Wedge on MuchMusic or listening to my local alternative radio station. Now those stations all play Top 40 and TV shows got replaced by algorithmically curated beige.
As much as I am complaining I’d love if somebody could recommend some useful sources for somebody who wants to navigate away from Apple Music and Spotify streaming land.
I do see what you are saying but your methods just need to evolve with time, also as you have gotten older in theory you should have got to know yourself better in terms of what you do and don’t like which should help streamline finding things.
The claim of sameness and that first article are moot points really because you are referring solely to popular music which is a small percentage of the overall music. Pop music has always been a bit boring and same-y by design, it is appealing to the broadest audience possible usually but your original response claimed music in general to not be interesting. Pop music ≠ all music.
In terms of finding new things then you need to put in some effort if you don’t want to just rely on an algorithm.
Bandcamp have genre tags to explore, you can follow tags as well as artists and it will make recommendations based on what you are following everyday. They will also “spotlight” artists and such on a main front page that isn’t affected by your followers which can help with discovering something some what removed from your current listening.
SoundCloud has similar genre tags but also lots of DJ shows of many different kinds. Listen through shows, take note of the tracks you like and then look up that artist, look at “similar artists”, look for the record label that released something you like and explore their back catalogue.
Look on store fronts at their charts based on sales. Places like beatport or Juno etc often have top 10, 50, 100 within genres for the week or month or year. Have a scroll through them, have a listen. Again if you find something you like then go down the rabbit hole, try their other stuff out, look for artists the collabed with or would play shows with them etc etc.
Communities are everywhere no matter what social media you choose you can usually find music based discussion or sharing on such a granular level with specific sub genres and more obscure stuff often coming to the surface. There aren’t many on Lemmy here yet that are super active but they are growing. If you love a particular genre then start a community here and by extension that’ll help motivate you to find new things to post and start growing that community here.
Ultimately I don’t think it is harder to find music it is just that the methods have changed as time goes on.
Don’t write off all “modern music”, you’ll be missing out for sure :)
While I agree, I’d like to object a little to this:
an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.
It’s extremely tedious to look for new music, since most algorithms seems to fixate on “oh you like this song? Here, let me suggest all the discography of the artist and these artists that are barely similar yet non or their songs sound like that one you liked” and radio stations only play what they get paid for.
If you like a specific genre it might be easier, but for someone who likes songs instead of genres or artists… It’s a fucking pain.
tidal has been significantly better than Spotify for finding recommendations. I know it’s ironic recommending a paid service on a piracy community but fuck music piracy is tedious.
I’m not going to pay for a service for ONE reason only, but yeah, I use the free version on Spotify for the weekly discovery and then I don’t open it till the next week, sometimes there’s some good shit… Most of the time there isn’t.
Deezer used to have a nice discovery algorithm, then they shitted on it and then they made it fully pay to use so I haven’t it since then.
I do agree to some degree but the problem here is that you are relying too much on just “the algorithm” to serve you up new and interesting stuff. Whilst some times maybe it comes in clutch for the most part, like you say, it is trash.
You need to go out and put in a little bit of work listening to things in other places, following rabbit holes based common denominators or listening to DJ mixes / radio shows, hearing a song you like then going on a mission to find out what it was.
You say it is tedious but you have so many options these days to explore if you just put in a little effort. It used to be tedious as fuck buying a CD for £15 based on a cover or one song you heard on the radio only to find the majority of the music you hate and it was a waste of money!
Basically proving my point about it being tedious but trying to force some hopium into it.
Yeh I guess, if you don’t like listening to music then sure it is tedious.
There are more ways to listen and discover music than ever before. In the past you had mainly radio or word of mouth and even then your exposure was extremely narrow based on the radio stations tastes. You now have so many other avenues for exploration and discovery.
Basically you want to be handed a list of stuff you are already going to like with no effort on your part, that isn’t really tedium, more laziness on your part.
if you don’t like listening to music then sure it is tedious.
Of course, you know me so so well.
Basically you want to be handed a list of stuff you are already going to like with no effort on your part, that isn’t really tedium, more laziness on your part.
See? That was 100% TOTALLY what my comment was about, glad to see your reading comprehension works so well you have no need to assume things to make them fit into your argument.
There are more ways to listen and discover music than ever before. In the past you had mainly radio or word of mouth and even then your exposure was extremely narrow based on the radio stations tastes. You now have so many other avenues for exploration and discovery.
There’s no need to comment about this, since you already assumed and decided for me and you must be right because YOU MUST BE RIGHT, so I’ll just leave you and your right assumptions to believe whatever you want so… gOoD vIbEs OnLy, amirite?
I’ll just go to listen to music I like BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE LISTENING TO MUSIC.
Many algorithms aren’t even doing that in good faith, instead substituting in their low-cost contract cover bands as often as they can.
I’ve even tried some websites recommended on lemmy, not just the usual services, but I’ve got a similar outcome anyway
I used to be with “it”. Then they change what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” amd what’s “it” seems wierd and scary to me. It will happen to you.
It totally did. I am old enough to remember laughing at Abe Simpson and now I am become!
