Music Thread

[Shyster]

In the last month or so, I've spent some of my spare time revamping my music collection. All of the CDs that I had ripped to MP3s years ago were pulled out of storage and re-ripped to FLAC files. Disk space is cheap and plentiful these days. I also redid and standardized all of the tags on every music file.

I also decided to expand my classical collection. I just finished ripping all 90 CDs of the Beethoven Complete Edition from Naxos records. I also plan to pick up box sets for Haydn, Mozart, Handel, and J.S. Bach, at least.

[crusherstasiak]

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-is- ... dium=email

What’s the real cause of the crisis? Let’s examine it, step by step:
1. The dominant music companies decided that they could live comfortably off old music and passive listeners. Launching new artists was too hard—much better to keep playing the old songs over and over.
2. So major labels (and investment groups) started investing huge sums into acquiring old song publishing catalogs.
3. Meanwhile streaming platforms encouraged passive listening—so people don’t even know the names of songs or artists.
4. The ideal situation was switching listeners to AI-generated tracks, which could be owned by the streaming platform—so no royalties are ever paid to musicians.
5. These strategies have worked. Streaming fans don’t pay much attention to new music anymore.

[eddy]

[tifosi77]

In the last month or so, I've spent some of my spare time revamping my music collection. All of the CDs that I had ripped to MP3s years ago were pulled out of storage and re-ripped to FLAC files. Disk space is cheap and plentiful these days. I also redid and standardized all of the tags on every music file.

I also decided to expand my classical collection. I just finished ripping all 90 CDs of the Beethoven Complete Edition from Naxos records. I also plan to pick up box sets for Haydn, Mozart, Handel, and J.S. Bach, at least.

About two months ago I started a similar project. Started to go through our library alphabetically to standardize the file names and metadata, etc. It took me like three weeks of free time to get to 'E', and so I got fed up and quit. haha

[Shyster]

I used EasyTag for the relabeling tasks. It makes it pretty easy to change tags and filenames in bulk. I'm running it under Linux, but there is a Windows version. It's free, open-source software.

https://easytag.en.softonic.com/

[Freddy Rumsen]

Metallica is the Green Day of Megadaths

[faftorial]

Metallica is the Green Day of Megadaths

Corporate punk rock for the masses.

You need some Crass.

[Freddy Rumsen]

There ya go. Give Columbia my best.

[faftorial]

There ya go. Give Columbia my best.

Nothing to do with him.

I'm not a fan of punk rock from Green Day on.

[tifosi77]

To listen to them, I would say neither are they.

[Viva la Ben]

I was into these guys back in the early 2000s and then they released a bunch of music I wasn’t into. They just released an album much more akin to their earlier alt-punk.

[Gaucho]

[faftorial]

in elementary school the music teacher played the autoharp (chord zither) but this is far cooler instrument.

[eddy]

Good stuff, can't wait to see them with the kids this year

[DigitalGypsy66]

Dead & Company teasing a show or shows at the Las Vegas Sphere. Now that could be interesting...

[eddy]

Only $395 per ticket! (Probably)

[nocera]

Only $395 per ticket! (Probably)

That'd be cheap for the Sphere. U2's shittiest seats start at $450 and you have a balcony above you so you can't even see the sphere.

[eddy]

Hardly knew ye sphere, so long

[eddy]

This is so good

[MR25]

Hardly knew ye sphere, so long

Phish was starting at $183/night

[Morkle]

I don't think I've ever heard a new Kenny Chesney song that didn't deal with living in the past. Dude is mid-life crisis material, that's all he ever sings about.

I really like his 90s and early 2000s stuff.

I know it's one of those stereotype songs you are talking about, but I do like Back Where I Come From a lot.

That's right around where I stopped listening to him. Right as I was leaving school, I liked that talk about highschool and college. I heard a song today and it was the same damn thing though. Just a different turn, like guy - think of something else.

Kenny Chesney releases another new song called "just to say we did" about living in the past, lmao.

[Gaucho]

I did not win a Grammy.

[tifosi77]

But you're still a winner in our hearts, G.

[Gaucho]

[tifosi77]

I am pulling for you, though, because I know it will complete your EGOT.