Random Music Thoughts

[Unsomnambulist]

Since iTunes is being phased out, what other options do I have to play my music I have saved there now? I have a lot of music there that I don't have on disc or record, and I don't want to lose it. Is there another player option I can move everything to in order to keep playing it on my laptop?

Ancillary (but very important) question: are you backing up this music, both to local storage and the cloud?

 

[Nickyboy]

Ancillary (but very important) question: are you backing up this music, both to local storage and the cloud?

Not on the cloud, but on my external hard drive.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Not on the cloud, but on my external hard drive.

It's a good idea to have an offsite backup.

 

[Nickyboy]

It's a good idea to have an offsite backup.

The new laptop has an automatic Cloud back-up program on it, as it turns out.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Iggy Pop is 'surprised' by Grammys Lifetime Achievement win

Iggy Pop was "really surprised" when he got the call from the Recording Academy to confirm he would be receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Grammy Awards.

www.voiceofalexandria.com

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Who Are the Highest Paid Musicians?

Find out who the highest-paid musicians are and how they're making their money.

www.thestreet.com

 

[Nickyboy]

How a long lost album cracked Youtube's algorithm: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-...e-youtube-algorithm/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[axolotl]

How a long lost album cracked Youtube's algorithm: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-...e-youtube-algorithm/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

This article is awesome!

Suddenly reminded of this discovery last year, Debayan decided to Google the record. The results surprised his family: Rupa’s first and only album, 1982’s Disco Jazz, was selling for hundreds of dollars via sites like Discogs. “The day I found the record my mom said, ‘Throw it away. It is just pointless,’” Debayan remembers. “I said, ‘What the hell, you made this, why would you throw this away?’”

Wow.

Now Rupa is receiving proceeds from the Numero Group reissue and corresponding with fans around the world. She’s practicing every day to get her voice in shape and feeling optimistic about her future as a singer. “It’s almost impossible for me to explain why this is happening,” she says. “I think of it as a blessing from God that after so many years, I’m finally getting recognition.”

Double wow.

I can't get enough of stories like this.

P.S. While I'm not really a cratedigger any longer, I am a fringehunter/gatherer.

So it is written, so may it be confirmed.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

At one point in my life, all the musicians I listened to were older than me. Now, most of them are younger.

 

[Nickyboy]

At one point in my life, all the musicians I listened to were older than me. Now, most of them are younger.

I've noticed that too.
Also with work supervisors. They are kids now. I have undershirts older than them.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nightmares on wax: the environmental impact of the vinyl revival

From toxic wastewater to greenhouse gas emissions, the boom in vinyl has dangerous effects – but streaming isn’t as clean an alternative as it looks

www.theguardian.com

 

[Unsomnambulist]

This guy now owns Murfie’s nearly 1 million abandoned CDs

John Fenley bought them all for $6,000.

www.theverge.com

 

[axolotl]

This guy now owns Murfie’s nearly 1 million abandoned CDs

John Fenley bought them all for $6,000.

www.theverge.com

Sounds legit.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Sounds legit.

No employees. Just a man and his dad

 

[Unsomnambulist]

No employees. Just a man and his dad

It’s always interesting to see a goofball with money.

 

[axolotl]

It’s always interesting to see a goofball with money.

I refuse to post my photo here.

No employees. Just a man and his dad

...and a harebrained idea that didn't work the first time it was tried.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I get the impression that many users on RYM listen to an album only once before deciding they don't like it and giving a low rating.

 

[axolotl]

I get the impression that many users on RYM listen to an album only once before deciding they don't like it and giving a low rating.

I second that demotion.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

“Devastating” Manufacturing Plant Fire Threatens Worldwide Vinyl Record Supply

Third Man Records’ Ben Blackwell says the destruction of Apollo Masters’ California facility “will present a problem for the vinyl industry worldwide”

pitchfork.com

 

[axolotl]

“Devastating” Manufacturing Plant Fire Threatens Worldwide Vinyl Record Supply

Third Man Records’ Ben Blackwell says the destruction of Apollo Masters’ California facility “will present a problem for the vinyl industry worldwide”

pitchfork.com

It sure gave us some awful smog in the Inland Empire. Glad the rains came this weekend.