Classical music has lost a generation’s worth of music lovers beginning in the late-90s with the rise of file-sharing and Napster. A significant part of the reason might be: metadata. Metadata are the tags that travel with every audio recorded track. For a piece of music or a recording to be found, it needs to […]
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When “Vacuum Cleaner for Babies” Beat Taylor Swift: Fixing the Music Streaming Problem
“Content” is a Silicon Valley weasel word that suggests that nothing has any intrinsic worth or quality — every digital byte is equal and interchangeable — until it draws attention as measured and defined by popularity algorithms.