Can the music industry learn from open-source culture?

Musician Damon Krukowski performed royalties of streaming music through the Pitchfork column. I went back to discussing on Friday and wrote a well-thought out new article entitled "How the music industry learns from open source culture, and why distributed musicians and fan networks should lead the way".

His theory is that artists and fans are still "excluded in transactions between rights holders and technology companies" and the solution is that artists use their own ways and music flow It might be

"So please make it flow freely from not only the company that deals with the copyright owner but everyone including fans.The service like Spotify will be operated with a modest revenue share, as it is There is a possibility of competing in free streaming open market for musicians and fans

"What I imagine is like music released on YouTube but you can spread it across the network without managing the environment and quality."

This is very similar to existing service, SoundCloud. In addition to Spotify, it is a company funded by a venture capital company and may be profitable through acquisitions and initial public offerings driven by music content.

Although this is not to criticize the company, the necessity to build a service that can deliver streaming music on a large scale requires a certain amount of money, which causes doubts about artist's music and ultimately enriches investors . Technical supervisor

But perhaps our idea is too narrow about the possibilities - to concentrate too much. Indeed, artists can combine more diverse tools and services to make their music available, then profitable, and APIs of these services will enable this.

However, there are some interesting questions about how to find and share these services. Spotify's playlist is the same as a distributed network of musicians and fans, and recommendations and delivery methods of recommendations.

SoundCloud, Echo Nest, Tomahawk, Bandcamp, Topspin etc are looking for some of these answers, they are still in the early stages.

This project is part of Magenta's ongoing experiment. Google's open source deep learning project is exploring how machine learning tools can help artists create art and music in new ways. NSynth Super is a machine learning algorithm that learns the characteristics of sound using a deep neural network and creates a completely new sound based on its characteristics. Instead of combining and mixing sounds, NSynth synthesizes a whole new sound using the acoustic characteristics of the original sound.

Musician Damon Krukowski performed royalties of streaming music through the Pitchfork column. I went back to discussing on Friday and wrote a well-thought out new article entitled "How the music industry learns from open source culture, and why distributed musicians and fan networks should lead the way". "So let's let them flow freely, not just from everyone, including fans, but also with companies that have agreements with the copyright owner. You might keep services like Spotify as they are Musicians and fans will compete in the open market, "Krukowski wrote.

People say that "all these industries such as fashion and architecture are very good". However, please look at industries that have shifted from physical products to digital products, such as music, movies, and books. There are open source markets with millions of free products, but people are still spending money by reading the Harry Potter, watching the latest big hit shows, buying music from favorite artists. Moved by simple distribution and promotion, you can share your own market with free open source. This is the direction we are heading

Spotify inherited the decline of the music industry as early as 2008, as the Internet eroded the music's profit with a free downloading culture. However, even at the peak of the music industry in 1999, consumers spent an average of $ 28 per year (41.46 in the case of inflationary adjustments). Today, even a subscription fee of $ 120 per year, many people want to pay for music again. Thus, as more consumers adopt new music models, Spotify triples the potential revenue of the music industry.