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The Future Of Music?

When you download a song on 8Stem, you're given all eight tracks so you can remix the song to your liking. You can remove the bass, add guitar, and manipulate the song to make it your own. ~ Sub Pop founder thinks he's found the future of music
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The Future Of Music?

Reply #1 –
It's a lovely idea, but 1) I don't think most artists will give up that much control over their creations, and 2) 99,999% of listeners are way too lazy to bother, they just want the music with as little effort as possible.

The Future Of Music?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: KozmoNaut on
It's a lovely idea, but 1) I don't think most artists will give up that much control over their creations, and 2) 99,999% of listeners are way too lazy to bother, they just want the music with as little effort as possible.


That's me.  I'm not going to do a better job that a professional engineer.

The Future Of Music?

Reply #3 –
I'm not good at predicting the future, but I have to agree with KozmoNaut. 

The current trend is iTunes, MP3, and streaming.    The current trend is convenience. 

iTunes/AAC supports multichannel, but there's virtually no demand (or supply) for multichannel music.    If there's no demand for multichannel, I wouldn't expect any demand for re-mixible/remasterable  stems.  Most of the concert DVDs I buy have surround sound, but otherwise it's very hard to find multichannel music.

And on the supply side, if the music industry is anything like the movie industry they won't go for it.    Look what happened in the CleanFlicks case:

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Editing movies to delete objectionable language, sex and violence is an “illegitimate business” that hurts Hollywood studios and directors who own the movie rights, said U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch in a decision released Thursday in Denver.

“Their (studios and directors) objective … is to stop the infringement because of its irreparable injury to the creative artistic expression in the copyrighted movies,” the judge wrote. “There is a public interest in providing such protection.”

Matsch ordered the companies named in the suit, including CleanFlicks, Play It Clean Video and CleanFilms, to stop “producing, manufacturing, creating” and renting edited movies. The businesses also must turn over their inventory to the movie studios within five days of the ruling. . . .
Note that this case wasn't about traditional copyright infringement.  The studios were being paid (I believe the customer had to send-in an original-legitimate copy which was destroyed and replaced with a censored copy).

To me, this is stupid!    It's like I can't black-out all of the dirty words in a book, or pay someone else to black-out the words.  Or, maybe I want to rip-out the last page and change the ending!

Screw 'em!  If I want to edit/alter my music, books, or movies, I'm gonna' do it!   

The Future Of Music?

Reply #4 –
Quote from: 2tec on
When you download a song on 8Stem, you're given all eight tracks so you can remix the song to your liking. You can remove the bass, add guitar, and manipulate the song to make it your own. ~ Sub Pop founder thinks he's found the future of music



With studio tools and DAWs available for free, everybody gets a chance to play engineer, and with something like this, they don't even have to create the component sounds themselves.

I'm not knocking it: I think it could be great fun, and quite a learning experience too. Sadly, though, I foresee  that it will go in the direction of "Now, at last, I get to hear the artists as they wanted me to hear them."  Oh dear.
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