{"id":1914,"date":"2014-07-02T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2014-07-02T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:30:11","slug":"can-we-fix-music-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/07\/can-we-fix-music-streaming.html","title":{"rendered":"Can We Fix Music Streaming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;gqUq5BWr0TyCF2J8po7C3NUJDqWArzLu&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>MOST of the complaints about music streaming so far have been about the way the new system leaves musicians out in the cold. But a new <a title=\"Ted Gioia on streaming\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/06\/30\/25-things-i-want-from-an-online-music-service-and-almost-never-get.html\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> looks at the way they frustrate listeners. as well. Ted Gioia &#8212; jazz pianist, music historian, and avid listener of a wide range of music &#8212; recently signed up for the Beats streaming service, recently purchased by Apple, and finds it as bad as the rest. &#8220;My Beats experience has been just as frustrating as my previous forays into streaming and downloading,&#8221; he says. &#8220;If Apple has that kind of money to spend, certainly they can do a better job than this. But 15 years after Napster, we are still in the Dark Ages of online music.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/110px-Beats_Electronics_logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"110px-Beats_Electronics_logo.svg\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/110px-Beats_Electronics_logo.svg_.png 110w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/110px-Beats_Electronics_logo.svg_-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave my readers to check out the list themselves, but here is the first item:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Allow me the option of making a cash payment directly to the recording artist.\u00a0 Many fans feel that streaming services give a raw deal to musicians, and want to make amends for using them. Make it easy for us to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;ve got two streaming stories coming in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;gqUq5BWr0TyCF2J8po7C3NUJDqWArzLu&#8221;] MOST of the complaints about music streaming so far have been about the way the new system leaves musicians out in the cold. But a new story looks at the way they frustrate listeners. as well. Ted Gioia &#8212; jazz pianist, music historian, and avid listener of a wide range of music &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[598,32,58,616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-models","7":"category-internet","8":"category-music","9":"category-music-streaming","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}