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Radio Listening Declining w/ Digital On Its Way Up
Redlands CRC writes "According to C|Net and The NPD Group, the number of listeners to radio media has declined by 4% against the previous year, and the number of people listening to music on their computer has risen 22%. The study has also shown that online radio station listeners have increased to 53.5 million this March, up from 45.3 million a year ago. Music streaming also saw an greater uptake in listeners this year, with an increase of 37% compared to the previous year."
Do radio stations pay to play music? I'm thinking not.
Yes, they do.
Also, any time you hear music being played in a restaurant, taxi cab, elevator, clothing store or anywhere else that is "public", someone is (or is supposed to be) paying the RIAA.
The only time I ever hear FM radio is when I'm in a cab or someone has it on in an office as I'm walking by. Strangely, the last six times in a row that I've heard an FM radio on, the song blaring out of it was some stupid thing about "sugar" which, from what I gather, is basically a half-assed rap song about pussy juice (edited for broadcast, of course).
If that's what's being played the most these days, ther eisn't any cause for wonder at why the industry is crapping out. So awful.
Okay, get this. If you are a restaurant or an office that plays the radio for its customers. RIAA and/or ASCAP and whoever gets a cut.
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1: 44.1k and 48k are not frequency ranges, they are sampling rates.
2: You are either comparing apples to oranges (CD to DVDA), or you are listening to music on your computer equipped with a known flawed soundcard. Many many many soundcards out there (including popular SoundBlasters) can not play 44.1k material and upsample it to 48k. This is not a problem. The problem is that their hardware upsampler is broken and produces distorted sound. This would cause native 48k to sound good and 44.1k material to sound bad.
The solution to this is to upsample all your CD derived media in software. (Foobar2000 does an excellent job of this, though plug-ins are available for most any player including Winamp.)
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Try BBC Radio 4 if you want talk radio (you'll obviously need to get it over the Internet). Of course it will be rather British-centric for news reporting, but there's a lot more on Radio 4 than news.
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Plenty of online radio links at shoutcast.com. (I always follow the link from winamp.com because it's easier to remember).
From their web site: "The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is a performing rights organization which licenses and collects royalties for performance"
Radio stations PAY.
The Mall PAYS.
The elevator company PAYS.
That's why there are "studio session" musicians who play 'covers' of popular songs, give up all rights to their music so that the cheezy music playing every hour in that elevator makes money for the elevator company. The artist who recorded the original version is probably not getting a dime.
ASCAP had to listen to every dreadful hour of the crap that was aired 24/7 until they got the idea of making the content consumers keep and submit play lists.
The reason they don't announce they artist to you anymore is that they are doing it to those that count, ASCAP, on paper so they don't need to lose commercial airtime (which pays for the 'filler') to the names of the artists or the songs.
That's also why they don't announce the 'songs' at the mall or in the elevators.
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Last night one of my favorite on-line broadcasters got in to an hour-long collection of really enjoyable music. I stayed at the computer faaar too long listening.
Not bloody likely. Given the current cultural climate of everything becoming more corporate and homogenous it's signifigantly more likely that Clearchannel, et al will simply legislate their way to an online music monopoly posistion and drive out the last bits of online radio diversity.
Stations like you propose will never come again simply because that is against the interest of the corporate monopolists