[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Nov 20 14:47:56 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 06:22 -0500, Greg London wrote:
> I'm talking about group dynamics and
> you focus on you. I might as well have
> said that most people lose when they
> play the lottery, only to have you inform
> me that you won the jackpot once.
> 
> Great. I'm glad for you. It could very
> well be that you've got a number of
> sources of music to the point that you're
> satisfied with your arrangement. Does that
> change the group dynamics at all?
> 
> Did you hear the other people on the list
> who mentioned their issue with slugging
> through 10,000 songs and most of it was
> stuff they didn't like? I spend a couple
> months going through Magnatune and come up
> with maybe a dozen or so artists that I like?
> 
> Do you get that *you* winning the lottery
> doesn't prove that *everyone* should win
> the lottery?

I'm saying that music discovery techniques find the tiny amount I like
out of many millions of available musical works (I'm talking about the
entire musical universe, not only CC licensed music).

There's no reason these same techniques cannot work to find stuff I like
out of the smaller (currently I'd guesstimate hundreds of thousands of
musical works) CC licensed musical universe.

That's it.

The ecosystem of tastemakers and collaborative filtering focusing on CC
licensed music is not there yet, but with work (fungible work at that),
it will get there.  There is no in theory reason it won't work.

> All I've been saying is that music doesn't
> work the same way as software.

If that's all you're saying, I agree.

But I suspect you're underestimating the amount of curation and
tastemaking that goes into making which software to use obvious.
Reviewers, local experts, and distributions (which are of course massive
collaborative efforts) are all crucial, no less than djs, friends who
are slaves to music, and labels (and now music bloggers and podcasters)
are to music.

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