The company even went so far as to partner with music library services and production companies under a program called Perfect Fit Content, or PFC. This saw the creation of fake or "ghost" artists that flooded Spotify with songs that were specifically designed to be pleasant and ignorable. It's music as content, not art. [...] Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened

Plunging value and a content cliff edge: what’s gone wrong at Sky? Since Comcast takeover, broadcaster has slashed jobs and is losing the exclusive shows that drew subscribers

Cable channels have increasingly become zombiefied dumping grounds for reruns, old movies and reality programming — with virtually all original scripted TV having shifted over to streaming

It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.

I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture

Incredible. Was ich an Strom zahle für meine eigene Wohnung, zahlen die hierzulande alleine für Unterhaltung durch Streaming. WTF.

app for streaming radio stations around the world

Sony entwickelt wohl neuen Handheld. Aber nur fürs Streaming

Bollywood: 77% aller neuen Blockbuster floppen weil sich Indien dem Streaming zuwendet

Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. We are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context

Kann mal versucht werden: "Social Dilemma" versucht in Serienform Kritik zu üben an (a)sozialen Medien - indem Techies berichten

Twitch & Streaming: es verändert sich etwas