This month in digital music libraries - September 2024
September 27, 2024 in digital music by Dan Gravell
This month: storing music, critiqueing it, and ‘casting’ it!
Music storage
Let’s consider music storage first. An article that was much shared this month was this one highlighting findings from an Iron Mountain survey.
A wake-up call https://t.co/spqBuDt5ab Backups are not backup-and-forget, unfortunately. You also need to test the stored copies _and_ run through your restoration process periodically. pic.twitter.com/RLpuUpY4Y0
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 2, 2024
Ok, so that confirms what we know: even hard drives have lifespans. If you’re looking to invest in storage for your own self-hosted setup, you could do worse than invest in a premium brand like 45Drives.
High-end NAS and home lab manufacturer @45Drives is launching a lower capacity, more affordable NAS https://t.co/okSDoAVXjk pic.twitter.com/K4qBtqKKJd
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 10, 2024
Music criticism
Music critique from different angles; first, mindfulness when we intentionally listen to music:
This affects me a lot, and I think it affects different people to different extents. It's (one of the reasons) why I don't think I could be a music critic! https://t.co/KunG8kcO8Z pic.twitter.com/7x28jk0A8I
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 6, 2024
If, like me, you’re a junkie for review sites, here’s a new one I’ve only just found:
A review/rating site I don't think I've mentioned before https://t.co/yk6ujDxhQz @aoty
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 6, 2024
But if you rather listen to the “hivemind” than appointed “experts”, Music League has been making big waves. But is its data access model trustworthy? What are they doing with the data?
Gamifying recommendations is an interesting idea, but it's telling the data isn't available, even to browse... https://t.co/zIscgbwt0n . Is @MusicLeague3 exploiting competitive instinct to harvest and hoard data? pic.twitter.com/RMWEfGlRbF
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 12, 2024
Chromecasting
Casting using Chromecast has become the fallback for many, kind of like the equivalent of the spreadsheet but for media playback. What’s its history?
A history of #Chromecast https://t.co/hXyh7vIPGZ pic.twitter.com/B0YUWVChgR
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 14, 2024
Photo by Bruno Bučar on Unsplash
