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dave2010
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« on: 22:54:22, 29-05-2007 »
Has anyone else tried Last FM - see http://www.last.fm/ ?

Is this the way that "radio" should function in the future? Perhaps not, but is the model of "the broadcaster decides ...." outmoded?
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« Reply #1 on: 11:44:58, 30-05-2007 »
Hi Dave

I've tried similar operations but found that they take you on a diluting tour rather than delivering the key artist
you start off with. However, in that last.fm allows musicians to upload their tracks for free it could well be an
enlightening force.  However, given the uncertain future of net radio in the states (big players pay no royalty fees,
smalloperations being overcharged instead subject to outcome of congress decision on july 15th) the way th ppl
over here will react to that decision has implications for the future of it  i should think.
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« Reply #2 on: 14:43:31, 05-06-2007 »
Quote from: marbleflugel on 11:44:58, 30-05-2007
Hi Dave

I've tried similar operations but found that they take you on a diluting tour rather than delivering the key artist
you start off with. However, in that last.fm allows musicians to upload their tracks for free it could well be an
enlightening force.  However, given the uncertain future of net radio in the states (big players pay no royalty fees,
smalloperations being overcharged instead subject to outcome of congress decision on july 15th) the way th ppl
over here will react to that decision has implications for the future of it  i should think.

I was amused to note that the day after my first posting it was announced that CBS had bought last.fm. I'd not really heard of it before. See http://musicality.wikia.com/wiki/News
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« Reply #3 on: 14:57:49, 08-10-2007 »
Oops!

I searched for "Sinatra" and the first song I heard was a Christmas song.  Undecided

I sincerely hope that this will not become the future of radio. Still I think that classical stations of the future will all sound like Classic FM.

Oh, look: I found Luciano Berio's Sequenza VII on Last FM!  Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: 17:21:44, 08-10-2007 »
I found Kurt Weill's The Eternal Road on Last.Fm, so I am instantly impressed (I was mischievously expected to be served-up with "Mack The Knife" by default).

As I listen to R3 entirely over the www anyhow,  this isn't the future of radio... it's already the present.
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« Reply #5 on: 09:48:45, 09-10-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 17:21:44, 08-10-2007
As I listen to R3 entirely over the www anyhow,  this isn't the future of radio... it's already the present.

Would you still listen very often online if you had to pay for it?

A few months ago, there was a item about online listening in Feedback on Radio 4. I heard that many people outside the UK listen to the BBC via the internet. The question was raised if these people should pay for listening online. The BBC was still examining the issue, it was said.
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« Reply #6 on: 10:31:59, 09-10-2007 »
I often post links on facebook to programs, of interest, to people, like composer of the week to groups that are about that composer.

BBC tv sell their programs around the world, why not bbc radio 3 ?
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« Reply #7 on: 10:51:39, 09-10-2007 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 10:31:59, 09-10-2007
BBC tv sell their programs around the world, why not bbc radio 3 ?


That's exactly the reason why not.  Since BBC News began selling its services around the English-speaking world  (ie to Australia and America, both prime movers in the religious war against Islam) the BBC's previous objectivity was sold-off for cash.  Now BBC News just makes pro-Bush pro-America News because it has to win viewers away from the even more right-wing Faux News.  Try finding any objective criticism of the Cretin Of Crawford on BBC - you won't.
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« Reply #8 on: 11:08:08, 09-10-2007 »
I think "the news" is not the same as programs about the arts.
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« Reply #9 on: 13:54:57, 09-10-2007 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 11:08:08, 09-10-2007
I think "the news" is not the same as programs about the arts.

I agree!

By the way, are there really people on this earth who want to talk about the relationship between the arts and politics?

I never heard of such people.
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« Reply #10 on: 17:41:00, 09-10-2007 »
I think there are a few such people, Pim  Wink

They've gone somewhere else, leaving in a most melodramatic way, and banging the door behind them.
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