Questlove, from an interview in the May issue of Esquire magazine:
“People in my age range have to pay up and start teaching. We take for granted that … people will know what quality music is.”
This is part of our unwritten manifesto at The Music Snobs podcast. We wanted to do a show that either gives the listener greater insight into music they’re already familiar with, or introduces them to music that they should know about.
That is the metric for every episode we do.
From Chris Welch at The Verge:
Audio apps being factored into the RIAA’s tally include Spotify, Rdio, MOG, Rhapsody, Xbox Music, Muve, and others. On the video side, YouTube, Vevo, MTV.com, Yahoo Music, and other sites are counted. The formula being used here is also interesting: in the RIAA’s eyes, 100 streams are equivalent to a single paid download.
100 streams are worth 99 cents, and (unnamed) artists were involved in determining valuation. This could set the stage for artists to demand revenue that’s generated from ads shown on the pages hosting their songs.
After some weeks of planning, I’ve again committed to iOS as a primary platform, with emphasis on my podcast as the use case.
Two things are different in the setup: an iPad mini and Auria.
We had a four-hour recording session, and the setup ran more smoothly than I hoped. The iPad was warm (not hot) and battery depleted to ~35% from a full charge when we started.
I’m looking forward to the edit and will write about that at another time. But I will say is that my hope is I can do more post on our vocals than I’ve been able to do in the past; which is to say none. Jehan plays as large role in the final output as I do.
So, we’ll see.
At the end of July 2012, I concluded a nine month process of using iOS as my primary computing platform. The goal was to see if I could accomplish all I needed to do using only my iPhone and iPad. I learned that I could, but that I was ever-so-slightly forcing it.
When I started, I only had an iPhone. I used Numbers and Pages to create cue sheets for a weekly radio broadcast. Soon, I moved to Byword for new document creation (Pages on iPhone is too cramped for New Documents.) and forced myself to learn Markdown.
Then it got interesting in April 2012. My wife gave me an iPad for my birthday, and around the same time some friends and I were developing a podcast. Why not see if we could use the iPad to produce it? After a few hoop-jumps, I recorded, edited, and released* the first three episodes on iPad.
(*Only show 003 was fully finished on iPad. The other two had help from desktop GarageBand. And in all cases, Transmit was used to upload files to our server.)
Even with the successes, what made me rethink iOS-only was the general needs I have, primarily keyboard input and (moreso) an exposed file system. It’s not realistic for me to get a working rhythm going with 45% of an iPad screen available when typing on glass. I bought a Bluetooh keyboard, but it’s equally disruptive to have a hybrid workflow where I have to touch the screen or home button to drive the iPad. It makes sense to me that Apple would engineer a proper physical keyboard to drive the iOS interface for iPad after four generations.
But that tablet is the Real Thing™. I’m telling you, it handles a four-man podcast production without issue; four concurrent data streams per show without breaking a sweat. Battery hit: nominal. Heat: non-issue. Speed: fast. And this is iPad 2 hardware. (And the software never crashed on me; even when I ran out of drive space on one occasion.)
Hopefully by iOS 7 I can get a file system; although I doubt it. My takeaway: although iOS is not the Swiss Army knife that I was hoping for, it’s my stable go-to platform in nearly every use case.