sungo on Nostr: Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 nprofile1q…kq5wq The Wall was designed to be consumed via an ...
Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 (nprofile…l9qu) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq3n409lc4d9w06xuqurrkkh4mtdzc2afc5m07tkkc26u7p2lcq04q2kq5wq (nprofile…q5wq) The Wall was designed to be consumed via an LP. No track breaks at all. The CDs fuck with the original too. This is true of almost everything before the invention of CD player. Both records and LPs were designed around having two sides. The Wall has two distinct sections. Sometimes CDs will press a dual set but even then they put artifical track breaks and most CD players will hiccup a bit or even be remixed to fade in and out to support jumping around.
And today's music is often designed specifically for streaming. tracks are mixed with shitty skull candy earbuds in mind. Spotify is known for this. Apple is mixing with their big expensie headphones in mind. Even their "lossless" is mixed that way. "Albums" barely exist now.
capitalism crushes vision but listening on CDs and not streaming doesn't actually solve anything from an artistic perspective. The vision is often encoded in the medium so if that's important, you need to know what the artist and engineers were intending.
Yes, always own content so DRM or whatever can't take it away. Own content physically so the cloud can't take it away. Own content because the money helps the artist more (and be intentional there beacuse that's not _always_ true). But if you're actually looking to the artistic vision, ownership is of secondary importance. Have to understand authorial intent in this context, which I'm not normally a fan of.
And today's music is often designed specifically for streaming. tracks are mixed with shitty skull candy earbuds in mind. Spotify is known for this. Apple is mixing with their big expensie headphones in mind. Even their "lossless" is mixed that way. "Albums" barely exist now.
capitalism crushes vision but listening on CDs and not streaming doesn't actually solve anything from an artistic perspective. The vision is often encoded in the medium so if that's important, you need to know what the artist and engineers were intending.
Yes, always own content so DRM or whatever can't take it away. Own content physically so the cloud can't take it away. Own content because the money helps the artist more (and be intentional there beacuse that's not _always_ true). But if you're actually looking to the artistic vision, ownership is of secondary importance. Have to understand authorial intent in this context, which I'm not normally a fan of.