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A Call For Assistance in Changing the Music Industry

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look out! Ninjas!:
Market forces dictate price, and as much as you and I want to think we're somehow important, we're a really, really small part of the market. Most of the record sales go to the mainstream acts that are essentially owned by the label, and the people who buy those records are generally happy to pay the AUD$25 for a new release.

Dimmukane:
Believe me, I have no illusions about how much influence people like us have, I'm just hypothesizing.

Johnny C:
To be fair, I would really like to make a living from art.

I don't view that as society's debt to me, and I doubt a lot of people do. That's why Will Sheff worked at a Blockbuster. That's why Polymaths have or are getting degrees.

Pyrofyr:
Although I am very for this, I believe having one internet service gain enough popularity and having enough artists embrace this would be the best thing they can do. I'm not talking about a website, and I'm not talking about a commercial store. I'm speaking of a database that would take all old and all new works, upload them, those that are free would be free, and since some artists don't allow companies or elsewise to 'give away' their music, those musicians can instead sell it, or an alternative may be listed.

I believe the best way to have this start is small, with something dedicated to it, and to gain popularity. Now the problem with that, is it seems that since the iPod everyone needs to be as commercial as possible and as 'hip' in that sense relating to 'pop' as possible to gain any widespread popularity, which might kill a site that is trying to embrace both popular music AND indie music.

My main problem I see with most of it is the contacts and starting something up like that. Since near no revenue for the music will come in, you will have to have the site run on ads (very unattractive) to sustain itself, and it would take forever to be in contact with so many people all the time, that a regular joe couldn't start a site like this alone.

Pyrofyr:

--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 18 Sep 2008, 06:37 ---I posted this before but honestly, consider this very hard.

Think of the capacity of an iPod now, compared to the early MP3 players from just a few years back. Notice the enormous jump in terms of the amount of space you have to store music. Sooner or later, I'm talking for sure in the next ten years, there will be a portable media player which can play basically every song ever commercially released. Maybe it won't even have to store them, it will be like a portable conduit for online media such as Last.FM. Certainly you'd be able to store entire subgenres of music for sure, that isn't even debatable.

Then the downloading music debate is going to seem as hilarious as the "home taping is killing music" debate in the 80s.

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I agree with this wholeheartedly. WiFi will only last so long, eventually we're going to move up to satellite for basic everyday things, it just WILL happen.

As it is, I know that back when Zune Gen1 came out, you were able to(still are) swap the HDD out with a 200GB one. If the Zune can work fine and pretty much be a HDD with a case, you could say that within the next 5 years or so we will see 1TB MP3s (Current highest retail store HDDs?).

I'm fairly sure they'd move to more of an online database feel, especially because it also is a more valid attempt at trying to block out 'pirates', although it'll just mean they'll start they're on open source database xP

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