The FM radio station owners did a survey once, and they were asking people this question.

Which do you prefer?
a. 30 minutes of music and 30 minutes of commercials
b. 20 minutes of music and 20 minutes of commercials
c. 15 minutes of music and 15 minutes of commercials
d. 10 minutes of music and 10 minutes of commercials

What was the outcome of that survey?

Also because of commercials on FM radio, satellite radio was able to thrive.

Well, the survey results were only for the FM radio station owners, so I never got the results. That wasn't the point though. The point was, every option was the same. No matter what people said, they still got 1 minute of commercials for every 1 minute of music, so it was mostly a big slap in the face of the listener, telling them they were stupid idiotic tools and were going to take whatever the FM radio station owners decided for them.

And yes, that was done probably the same time or just a year or two before Sirius Xm satellite radio was coming out to the public.

I don't remember the year the survey was done, but it was before 2005.

Hey, for this Holiday, everyone wanted to listen to some music, so we were going to listen to some music on MixCloud, but I think MixCloud got flooded with too many people because none of the music would play.

So we tried Slacker and that worked, but no one liked any of the music options on Slacker, so everyone decided on no music.

Then some old people turned on the TV even though they weren't watching it and no one else was either. Old people, they have serious brainwashing issues.

If it ain't spotify, I don't care. Who the **** uses You choob anyway?

I use MP3's like a boss. If you peasants are so superglued to Spotify's cock then that's your business.

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There are some nice mixes on youtube. I use it every once in awhile.

Spotify and youtube to listen to new music, and MP3s otherwise.

I like the discover weekly playlist on Spotify.

You also need 100 Spotify subscriptions.

i dont think thatyou do. free subscriptions count as streams as well and the royalties are not paid per subscriber... all the subscription money go to a pool and then are divided to artist according to everyones streams....

only problem with mindfulness idea is....others already had it (stream or click farms or however they re called) :)

That's true. What you can also do is have several different browsers open, one regular and one on private browsing, each with a different account open on it all streaming your short track playlist. The application can be open on the computer as well. I wonder if it would be cheaper to buy the phones or to pay for a virtual desktop that you can have open on that same computer and replicate that process.

moreover whats totally ridiculous is that they could eaily avoid having all this crap just by giving the subscription money of any particular user based on his streams alone.
but obviously they dont want that. the official response by spotify to this claim is that they are not able to track a specific users streams (which sounds ridiculous)

i guess they are better with all the bots creating thousands of streams so they look bigger than they actually are and thus attracting more money from investors..

spotify ...but im still rocking my 180gb ipod classic full of my fav tunes


hell I still buy used cds save them to my laptop and ipod LOL

there is about 3 music shops left in my city …..

I mostly listen via live streams using one of my 4 media players :)

VLC
Realplayer
Screamer
WMP9

Realplayer still exists? That was always the annoying video player that made you wonder why anyone even bothered. Surprised you're not still on Winamp tbh.

Actually I didnt ever use Winamp,did you??

Didn't use Winamp?! Who the **** didn't use Winamp?!

You're just a baby.

Its a media player like VLC is elphenor :)

Its still out there but its not as good as it was before v 2.73 I think I remember reading.... After 2.73 it went to crap like realplayer did after version 8...

Is Realplayer the one that had the sheep visualizer where the sheep would jam out to your music and if I remember right some of his sheep buddies get abducted by aliens in the background?

I dont have visualizations on mine... That crap must have started after V8

Yep.



Though I was more fond of the Windows XP SHEEP.EXE.

https://i.imgur.com/GcSH8SFl.jpg

I'll bet Lucem's ex is a sheep.

I think it's more like a "how can you live with yourself" kind of question.

I listen to radio to find something new, and then I go to Spotify.

bandcamp, soundcloud, deezer, spotify, youtube, lastfm, accuradio, anghami, jango.

99.9% of the time I use spotify nowadays which is super convenient because they have most stuff, but now and again I will come across something they don't have and have to download it which is a pain in the ass.

Is there something better than spotify, I mean larger library? Something that has EVERYTHING so I don't have to download anything ever again? Hmmm?

I've started using this app and it's pretty great.

Sounds like you should be using youtube music. I don't know if it has a larger library, but you can upload missing stuff to it and it plays like any other music on the service.

Since I make music, I f.ex. put my unfinished mixes up there so I can listen to them whenever and from wherever on pretty much whatever device.

I like artists like Joanna Newsom or Don Tiki who are largely absent from streaming services, so just bought mp3s and put them up there.

It is so much better than Spotify's dumb local file support.

Dick. :rolleyes:
I wanna do less work, not more, Tore...;)

I thought I was suggesting less work :) you wrote that you download music, so I figured you either use two different apps/services (some audio player + spotify) or you use Spotify's local file support, but that can be a bother when you're out of the house.

Both of these sound like a hassle, but I may have missed something.

But, Lars, aren't you worried about people ripping your music from Youtube?

Whatever music files you upload is there for you, not other people.

Publishing music to the platform is different.