This month in digital music libraries - August 2024
August 30, 2024 in digital music by Dan Gravell
This month we discuss music storage in the cloud, an actual documentary about music hoarding on an actual mainstream television streaming service, and a couple of new music players.
Music storage - cloud sync and backups
We’ll start with a warning that is still valid - now that Windows prefers you to setup and link Microsoft accounts to Windows during installation it also tries to be ‘helpful’ in auto-syncing content, including your music library.
Warning: if you accept defaults for a Windows 11 installation, Microsoft automatically enables #OneDrive sync https://t.co/yuRQFsQJDA . Solution: uninstall the default OneDrive client. pic.twitter.com/voKNvVkdVC
— bliss (@bliss_music) July 28, 2024
There are a number of reasons you may want to avoid this. However, there are two possible advantages. First, at least you could use Astiga to stream it! Second, this might form some level of backup via redundancy (although it’s not really a proper backup, it’s better than nothing).
But if you do understand the importance of backups, and want an easy introduction, this new device might help you out:
I always say that it's best to have some backup rather than none at all, so if this makes it easier to start... https://t.co/AehJCkK5g0 Thanks @kevinpurdy pic.twitter.com/lzHtzBgovr
— bliss (@bliss_music) August 14, 2024
Documentaries and articles
Some thoughtful and insightful content about music now.
Thrillingly enough for someone that was around during the early innovative file-sharing of Napster, Limewire, eDonkey et al in the early 00s, Paramount+ has created a documentary all about those days.
Coming soon to @paramountplus "How Music Got Free" - a doc about the early 00s and file sharing https://t.co/lb2GE02Kyv (I think I'd add a "kinda" to the end of that title). pic.twitter.com/aqz6l3LEeJ
— bliss (@bliss_music) August 3, 2024
I always maintained, at the time, that convenience was actually the most significant factor driving growth, and that people would pay money for music on the Internet if it was made convenient and frictionless as possible. So it proved with the streaming companies…
The New York Times also posted a review of the documentary.
Changing the subject to the music itself, I found this article about how Jungle and EDM worked well with video gaming in the 90s really interesting. Again, probably because remembering these things provoked some nostalgic feelings!
How jungle and EDM were perfectly aligned with console gaming in the 90s https://t.co/As3wzD0qCS thanks @pikuma pic.twitter.com/hI2DPYfZKc
— bliss (@bliss_music) August 9, 2024
Two new music players
Finally, a couple of new music players for Apple platforms.
A #Mac music player which is "Winamp-like" https://t.co/lD7EX6BqxS pic.twitter.com/oYAEJ9DdJ3
— bliss (@bliss_music) August 17, 2024
And for something a bit more niche…
As if to prove music player development is _not_ dead, here's an iOS app focused at children: https://t.co/Cv9ctkVhKA pic.twitter.com/PM3lPcchzl
— bliss (@bliss_music) August 19, 2024
See you next month!
Photo by Bruno Bučar on Unsplash
