Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : StormTrooper
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Apr 30 2025 10:53 pm

On 30 Apr 2025 at 05:15a, StormTrooper pondered and said...
 
 St>  bo>  LAstly, streaming doesn't help at all.  If you produce an album,
 St>  bo> intended to be
 St>  bo>  listened to from start to finish, you can mix it so that each musica
 St>  bo> component
 St>  bo>  is at a particular level.  Perhaps you have a LOT of layers,
 St>  bo> instruments to fit
 St>  bo>  in to the soundspace, you need to mix carefully, so that they all ar
 St>  bo> distinct.
 St>  bo>  But if its going to be played with streaming services, you have the
 St>  bo> same issue  with radio.  Someone is going to listen to something from
 St>  bo> completely  different artist, genre, producer, and your song will com
 St> 
 St> There was a time I'd agree with that. But I think that was either done,
 St> or in severe decline by the end of the 70s.  After that its wsa nothing
 St> to buy an album for some track, and the rest were a bunch of duds.  
 St> 
 St> ST

REally, it declined that early?  I wasn't around during that time, but I've heard a remaster here and there, compared to the 90s version, and it was different.

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