The technology for listening to music has not stood still. Over the last ten years alone, the whole ‘accessing your chosen audio’ has leapt from one tech to another as the (main)stream has changed course. I enjoy DAB and streaming services (even though the latter blates rip off the musicians, financially speaking). I enjoy listening to audio on my super-duper Bose noise-cancelling earbuds. Inevitably I’m listening to one of my Spotify playlists (I do buy the work of the artists that I swipe right on, so I don’t feel bad about Spotifying them). I miss my iPod but the main reason for missing it is the access the iPod gave me to my personal music library, the physical music that I had converted into digital in iTunes and saved onto the NAS (for reasons of resilience and redundancy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, this evening has been a brilliant technical and musical revelation and a time of great joy! I’ve learnt how to stream my music library from the NAS to the Sonos One. As a result of this technological interfacing I am listening to artists I haven’t heard for years (since my last iPod died). Why haven’t I Spotified some\/many\/all of the artists that lurked, digitally, in my music library before now? That would be because the vast majority of the tens of thousands of tracks were performed\/recorded\/produced by unsigned artists – musicians whose work (for various reasons) does not and will never appear on Spotify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve listened, with a large smile, to some brilliant work by some terrific musicians this evening. And I shall continue to smile. But it just makes me a little sad that the creativity and effort (and money!) that these folk put into their art will remain, largely, hidden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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