CPT112 Assignment 1: User-Centred Analysis 1 Introduction Spotify is a commercial digital music streaming service that offers two subscription levels: Free and Premium. The Premium service removes ads, provides improved audio quality, and allows offline listening (Spotify Premium, 2016). The service gives you access to more than 30 million songs (Allsopp, 2016), which are available on a variety of devices (computers, smartphones, smart TVs, gaming consoles). Spotify Premium for iOS, version 5.1.0.1019, has been analysed in this report. Spotify is typically used to stream music on your smartphone or computer and has the following features: • Stream and download music on multiple devices • Search for music by artist, album, song, playlist, radio station • Discover new music and browse by genre or mood • See music charts • Listen to Spotify radio • Find playlists curated by Spotify and other users • Create your own playlists • Create your own library • Download songs to listen offline • Sync your library across all devices Spotify has partnered with other applications to provide additional features: • Find concerts for your favourite artists in your area (Songkick) • Share music with your friends (Facebook) • See lyrics for songs as you listen to them (Musixmatch) 2 Analysis Spotify is used by
In music, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Buddy Holly and Marvin Gaye were the most prolific people on the world stage. Marlon Brando, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe ruled the cinematic stage. However, the major highlight of this era was the dawn of technologies involvement in our life. Radio, television and all electronics in general no longer became wants but needs. Once somebody owned one they were aware of everything happening around them, knew what’s hot and what’s not and could be easily persuaded to buy the newest vacuum cleaner model or dress from the shops.
Nowadays, record labels and artists cannot persuade listeners to ‘buy’ their music. It is believed that the aspect of music has changed due to the popularity of music streaming. Allen (2013) agreed by stating that music streaming has changed the view of people in the industry of music. For example, popular music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora and a number of new music streaming applications provide the easiest way for listeners to enjoy music freely without having to do illegal downloading or buying a CD. Likewise, Listeners have the ability to choose the music they want to listen.
The Walkman Imagine not being able to listen to your favorite music as you please. Music is a beautiful thing that we often take for granted, because we are so used to having it wherever we go. Throughout the 1970’s many strives in the technology world had been taken, including the introduction of the Walkman by Sony. The walkman forever changed the way we listen to music by having songs pre-recorded, and being able to listen to them wherever you please.
Early music communities learned that the relationship between physical space and the rules of music consumption, defined the boundaries of musical style. Musical space moved from the church, to the concert hall, to clubs, to the dance floor, to physical CDs, to online data. The rituals surrounding these spaces of listening, help audience’s understand their role as listeners. A concert hall asks the listener to hold a concentrated, and physically quiet relationship with the music. A dance club asks the audience to experience the music with their bodies.
Course: HUM 101.8620 Professor: Christopher Ogburn Student: Nadejda Kan Date: 02/22/2015 Music is a powerful thing, for it can influence people’s minds. Every person has some specific preferences in music genres depending on cultural preferences and emotional conditions. People prefer listening quiet and slow music to relax or choose fast and loud melodies to improve their mood. It is interesting to notice how musicians reflect the world around them; contextual meaning represents cultural and historical changes in society, and the appearance of every genre in music illustrates the people’s needs and concerns.
The earliest enjoyments of music were in the form of Sheet Music, then it had progressed to phonographic records, network radios, sound films, all the way up to modern day, where everything is digitally streamed across platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. However, accessibility was not the only reason why technology had been important, advancements in audio technology and inventions of new instruments gave way to new genres of music. The electric guitar was one significant invention that is used in nearly half of the genres today. There are a plethora of ways technology transformed popular music, but there's enough information on that topic alone to write a research
The fact cannot be denied that the technology has drastically affected the music industry in recent days. The society has incorporated the advanced technology in their lives and it has changed the manner they hear the music. One of the huge changes in the music industry is that now they can collaborate with anyone all over the globe, who have a different background, music style and culture. Earlier the visual and acoustic elements of the music were a necessary duo but for the first time, they have been separated because of the up gradation in audio engineering.
Streaming services have taken over the music industry. There was some suspicion in the wake of music piracy platforms like Napster, but users are now willing to pay subscription fees for access to libraries of music. According to the researches, the tendency of resting digital music, which shows a great increase especially in the last two years, is expected to increase further in the future and the usage of online music services will increase because music is an event that is thought never to be destroyed and as long as technology continues to develop.
Knowledge of these effects can be used to manipulate our work and purchasing behavior.” As stated , music also affects the work environment, which in turn if you can imagine everyone at work enjoying themselves and their job because of listening to their music, then we could possibly have better quantity and quality in speed and production in all of our society which brings in more money at a faster rate. Just like that, just listening to music can easily change and better our society like how it has throughout history. ”The easy availability of music means that it tends to be taken for granted. This can lead to neglect in considering how the infrastructure supporting music and musicians is resourced, maintained and developed”.
Recorded music is fabricated with precision – studios, microphones, and a great deal of equipment are involved with high expenses and engineering. They are a near-permanent fixation. Live music, on the other hand, such as concerts, are transient – and perhaps this adds to their value, for it is a good that we as consumers are aware lasts for a brief period of time. This experience, though fleeting, is not able
Our generation mainly listens to music through a variety of streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music. These streaming services require smart technology such as tablets and computers. However, the preferred media device for this generation is the smartphone. They offer a user-friendly interface and portability, allowing them to be the preferred music media device for this generation. In contrast, however, between the mid to late 90’s when my parents frequently listened to music, music media devices began to revolutionize.
”- (Katz, 2004, p.2). I am analysing the growth in the technologies within music production and how they differ to modern technologies, and the change of roles within the recording studio in the last 50 years. Exploring artists such as Timbaland, George Martin and Pharrell Williams.
Conclusion Technology as we know it today has completely transformed the music industry. Many companies are still struggling to keep up with the Internet, as it is changing or improving itself every day. From the beginning, problems transpired like: unlawful downloading and sites which allowed music to be shared, to existing disagreements over music streaming services and to how much revenue the artists or the labels should be paid in royalties. There are many questions being raised concerning the Internet with mostly none of them really being answered. Decades ago after Apple transformed the music world with its iTunes store, the music world as we know it has experience yet another even more drastic transformation as listeners of music
The advancement of technology leading to the illegal digital copying of music has negatively impacted the music industry by bringing down record sales; however, some proponents state that this issue of digital copying has improved how musicians make money by allowing for alternate ways to make a living with their music. Technology has brought us to a point where anyone with access to a computer and internet is able to download music for free at the click of a button. With a little help from file sharing websites, people are able to share the music that they own. People consciously make the decision to download songs with the sole intention of saving a few dollars while knowing that they negatively affect and reduce the artist’s sales. There is the argument that the illegal downloading of songs is inevitable and serves no benefit to the artist but research shows
