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Music Listening Has Changed
A lot of Americans will not understand what spotify is but do not worry it will be making its way across the atlantic very soon. It is great that Europe actually has something before the Americans!
Back to the point, Spotify is a service that allows people to listen to their favourite artists without pay, illegal activity or that much annoyance. It is similar to a radio but is better because you get to choose the songs that you want to listen too. You can do everything from make a playlist to listen to an entire album and there arent really many downsides to the system other than the rare adverts that occur every 5 songs or so. If you are prepared to pay that bit extra then you can use it on the mobile as well as get rid of all of the adverts too!
Spotify is great as you no longer have to download music before you listen to it so in theory music downloader’s have no excuses for why they are downloading music because you could give the album a listen too on Spotify before thinking about buying the album.
Although Spotify is like the radio it has no annoying DJ’s using the latest DJ Equipment who talk for 50 minutes of the hour and play around 2-3 songs. You choose the music to listen to and you can choose to pause or skip too!
Spotify has endless limitations and with the release coming to the US more songs are going to be added.
If you are a big fan of music then why not think about getting one of your very own drum kits. If you are really into your guitars then consider getting a bass guitar amp.
Illegal Downloading Is Good For The Industry?
it has been said that the people who are currently getting all of ther music for free are actually spending more money on music than the people that arent taking part in ilegal downloads. What is the reason for this and if it is the case then perhaps the government should allow it to continue.
The thing is these kinds of things are happening because people are downloading the album just for a listen before they decide on whether to buy it or not which I think is actually a good idea. There are thousands of albums out there with just a couple of decent songs in which is why a small preview of the song is just not enough.
People well then go on to buy the album or the songs that they like which all sounds quite sensible to me. There are loads of artists out there like Lily Allen that are moaning that it doesnt give smaller artists the money they need but it would seem that they may be wrong. If your music is rubbish then it doesnt matter if your music is downloaded or not. With all of this in mind what should be happening with all of this?
The best course of action is to stop wasting money stopping the people from doing it as there will always be a way and start getting people to buy the music.
The real lesson here is that the artists should not always jump to the conclusion that it is the people doing wrong but should think perhaps its just people are not buying music and it could even been to do with the quality of the artist.
For all things music look into Behringer and if you are interested in your Guitars then considering getting a Fender Twin.