Music Business Future In Flux

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Waldo--so am I! I see webcast music as a reinvention of the diversity that flourished in the sixties, when you could hear pop, blues, r&b, country, jazz, rock, raga, folk, etc all on one station.

I had a small cognition the other day. The music that the majors get behind is all based on the large cities, where people have to be incredibly weird to get any recognition. If you leave the large urban complex and get out to the smaller towns that make up most of the country, the majors product doesn't communicate very well. Those less urban people still like real songs that communicate real emotions and life situations. They aren't buying weird for weirdness sake. In essence, there are two major musical markets--the cities and the rest of the country. Outside the metropoli, people still like the musical styles of the 60s-80's.

I checked out the World.com affiliate site too. (Can't remember the name). They are acting as if they are gung ho to continue, despite the bankruptcy. I hope so. Without the bandwidth, net radio is done. I won't even venture any conspiracy theories, but if AOL/Time/Warner puts a bid on the company, I'm one nervous guy.
 
That's why, at this very moment, and for all of today, most of the past few weeks, I've been beta testing a new P2P streaming software to host the radio network for NWR.

The automation for the broadcast is complete, and the software is 'almost' ready, I say that because we have it working properly on some platforms, but not others.

I will be calling on people in the coming weeks to help test the software.

What it will do is lower the main expense of hosting such a stream, and make it accessable to others further away from the central server. It will also allow a virtually unlimitted number of listeners to tune in, like modern radio.

Next step will be doing a similar thing with the on-demand streams, after project Everywhere of course.

W.
 
Waldo--I'm running a Mac G4 on System 9.2. If you need to test that platform, I'd be happy to help out when the time comes.
 
Sorry, it may be a long time before we can port to a Mac, development tools for Mac are way too damn expensive.

W.
 
fatalistic

Maybe artists should focus more on performing and less on selling. The Grateful Dead made a living by PERFORMING.
Shift importance from an album (something to which you listen when the actual performers are not there) to the performance.

Maybe record companies should sweeten the album packaging.
I buy certain albums not necessarily just for the music, but for the whole package: photos, lyrics, info, artwork etc. First exposure to Radiohead's Kid A is a tad different if you have the whole package rather than a collection of computer files.
Why not try a different format? Multimedia albums (DVD, VCD, books w/ cds)....

I think the fundamental questions is how does a capitalistic society support its artists?
 
I agree... dependance on albums isn't the way to go. (bad news for us recording people) I've decided that as a business I'm going to expand from audio recording into "other things" because even at $15 an hour a serious band could buy the software and mix themselves for less. (which is how I got interested in recording in the first place)
 
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