The Music Business is Healthy Again? Really?

One of the more abstract but dire consequences of this streaming mentality is that we’ve started to treat art and culture like wallpaper. The rise of algorithmic curation and AI-generated content has sent this into overdrive: On Spotify, music is detached from its human creators and flattened into algorithmically-generated playlists with hashtag-ab

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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!