Comments by "mhtinla" (@mhtinla) on "How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage | Alexis Charpentier" video.

  1. This is a TOTAL DICRIMINATION against cassette collectors.
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  2. Collecting music and collecting records are two different things. Mixing these two is not good, but that's what the speaker is doing here. To me it's the content that matters, regardless of how it's stored. Why does 77% revenue go to top 1% of musicians? Well, perhaps their music is just that good! Before recording technology was invented, the only way to enjoy music, besides playing it yourself, is to go to live performance. Back in those days, top musicians can only reach a tiny audience even if they perform every day. Thanks to the technologies that democratize music, now we can all enjoy top musicians anywhere anytime at near zero cost. Why settle for anything less? But the speaker seems to think a hard-to-find record means good music. Well, perhaps nobody buys their record for a reason.
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  3. LittleLion93 "If you listen just to playlist you risk to not discover tons of music that you could love" Playlist is just a way to collect/organize songs, no different from record diggers collect/organize their vinyl, except that you don't have to go by a full album. Also, nobody listens only to the playlist, my playlists keep growing and evolving.
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  4. Yea I was just messing with you. Don't pay attention to me.
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  5. 100% meritocracy doesn't exist, and never did. But what we have today is way better than the vinyl or cassette era when the barrier to entry was sky high. Many of today's top musicians start with their own humble YouTube channel or singing competition (meritocracy). Art is subjective, but Capitalism surrounds the top 1% musicians with the world's specialists in rhythm, beats, hooks, lyrics, arrangement, and production, trying to crack the code of what makes music great. The singer is often the only visible member of a huge music team. So it's a lot more than just marketing. I recommend a book "The Song Machine" by John Seabrook. Just the 1st chapter is enough.
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  6. Yea I agree the industry's first priority is to make good money, not good music. Luckily there's a correlation between the two.
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  7. Alexis Charpentier "every collector follows the music that speaks to them" Back in the vinyl or cassette days, you often buy an album because you heard of 1 or 2 good songs, but realize the rest of the album doesn't really "speak to you" after opening the case. TOO LATE!! I'm glad these days are gone. Now I only collect playlist, and I pay nothing ;-)
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  8. LittleLion93 Before internet, buying vinyl/cassette/CD is like buying lottery tickets. I took a lot of risk and spent a lot of money in my youth. Today I spend nothing but my music world is wider than ever!! I like where we are, but of course it takes time and effort to go outside the algorithm and other curators to find our own tastes.
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  9. Cassette tapes die faster than vinyl, yet for every 100 vinyl collectors there's only 1 cassette collector. 100 years from now vinyl will still be around but cassettes will be extinct.
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  10. LittleLion93 Yeah nobody can expect to discover every piece of good music in the world. Not to mention our own taste is constantly changing. I don't know much about Italian music, but my favorite Italian musician is Fabio Concato because a friend of mine introduced him to me.
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  11. Nope. But I love traveling to Italy ;-)
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