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urn_piqoqon A Former Spotify Exec Explains Why Artists Get Paid So Little on Streaming

However, he doesn't address the disparity BETWEEN LABELS on Spotify. Some labels have much sweeter deals, and that's considering aggregators already, I mean at the raw-play-count level, some get a bigger portion than others.

urn_piqoqon Car Repos Are Exploding. That’s a Bad Omen

Here I was imagining actual explosives hampering repo efforts, when they merely speak of a rising rate of auto repos. OK. I fell for it.

urn_piqoqon Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

I'm in the opposite camp. I recall great monolithic software for media production from the 90's and think our modern web-centric view is "dumbed-down".

There's a time and place for minimalism, but the term "power user" also has a meaning: your accumulated user-base that didn't leave.

Windows post-Vista has forced me and countless others into never bothering again. The fact of a 90's MCSE certification means nothing when I blankly gaze at the visage of a "modern" Windows UI that tells me nothing of import. M$ basically told all their power users to go away.

urn_piqoqon Is the DTS vs. Dolby war effectively over?

Yeah what's up with the 20 minutes of what are basically commercials in the beginning of every cinema-shown film? We pay ticket prices to get commercials? Cinema is archaic in some ways...

urn_piqoqon Is the DTS vs. Dolby war effectively over?

Growing up with the DJ/Rave experience, after being primarily interested in MUSIC, not HOME THEATER, I basically have a stereo bias and have no interest in surround-sound formats or multichannel (beyond 2) playback.

I realize that this comment serves no purpose in this discussion, other than as a point of reference for a steady community that has never gone away: that which uses hi-fi playback for stereo music. The soundfield is immersive enough with stereo, and as sound has an inherent latency somewhere around 3ms/meter in 20 degree C air, I find that any large surround-sound setups are incapable of cleanly reproducing events like beats. Dialogue gets blurred, etc.