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Originally Posted by station
I think the way out of this for the music industry is higher quality content as well as fidelity. That not to rag on 'pop' music at all, I personally enjoy a great pop song and make pop music all the time. However, the music industry spends hundreds of thousands of dollars for radio and publicity for every hit song out there and most of it is music that aimed at the tastes of 12-25 year old's who are the least likely group to purchase music. Lost of music is created that's aimed at an older, more sophisticated audience (people who likely have money to spend on music and who might feel uncomfortable stealing it) but that music is not being heavily promoted by labels so these people have to go out of their way to find it. I read an article comparing it to television where it basically sucked for a long time but people got it for free and now there are endless great television shows and people pay money to watch them. The music industry has basically gone in the reverse direction. A bit of an over-simplification but I think there is truth in it.
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It's true. All the simple pop songs also don't offer any reason for people to care about high quality audio. They are catchy but aren't interesting or have any depth musically or sonically. They aren't bad songs but they are made with digital studio cookie-cutter simplicity and compressed so they sound good on low on earbuds and speakers.
What's the point of high quality audio when this is the case? Most people simply do not care. They were raised on low quality audio equipment and have been streaming stuff on Youtube and internet radio. They don't have an appetite or reason to pay for anything more.