You see all these new DSPs in the wake of Spotify's ruthless efficiency trying to rescue the artistic context that’s been lost now that Spotify has essentially become the artist. How do we approximate even the simple immersive experience of buying a CD and reading the liner notes on first playthrough?Hint: The solution is not “immersive” audio!

I am negotiating how much a song should be recognized as a song , and whether it hurts or helps the artist at that juncture in their career to make music that more resembles supposedly “timeless” music, even though “timeless music” usually just means commercially released songs from the last 60 or so years. (If you want an easy way to out yourself... See more

Music is an inherently inefficient medium. There are more direct ways to get your point across. Perhaps music can be "efficient" at stirring emotions, but our ears tire quickly, are incredibly sensitive to bullshit, and can’t help themselves from intermodulating. Like a dog in a bathtub, recorded music can’t be held down to singular interpretation.