innerspaceboy

I created a thread in the Lounge but I realized I failed to mention it here in my journal...

Fellow Banterers - Innerspaceboy needs YOU!

I'm compiling data for an article on music and technology. I've constructed a one-question survey asking users to share how you discover new music.

I'd like to run a feature on the empowering nature of metadata and how mobile web and both public and private online communities have adopted some of the best elements of digital music - sharability and dynamic organization, and introduced them into the vinyl and other music communities.

Today, groups like The Youtube VC take advantage of YouTube and of social media networking to share crate-digging stories, reviews, and album information of otherwise rare and unique albums with fellow collectors the world over. The community turns members on to strange and wonderful sounds that they may not have discovered in the days before the web.

And while commercial streaming services limit their catalogs to license-able mass market recordings, dedicated fans with a penchant for more elusive sounds have risen to the challenge and have ripped and shared their rarest LPs via less-than-legal channels to get great music into the speakers of listeners yearning for something unique.

I want to write about the tremendous impact global-connectedness has had on both the general music consumer and on the vinyl community. This survey is where I begin.

I don't know if the mods can give me a hand but please, take the one-question survey and if you'd like, share it with your friends.


Thank you all.

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