You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music
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You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

By
Glenn McDonald (Author)  

Paperback

PRE-ORDER released 20 June 2024

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From Spotify's 'Data Alchemist' comes a comprehensive guide to music's digital revolution. Starting with the 1990s days of vinyl and CDs and moving quickly to the explosion of new technology in the 2000s, and then onto the rapidly changing soundscape of the 2020s, YOU HAVE NOT YET HEARD YOUR FAVOURITE SONG is a fast-paced, factual look at: * How streaming has changed the musical landscape for all global music genres, from rap to punk to jazz * How people worldwide listen differently and what type of songs and artists are popular in each country * How music gets onto the streaming platforms, and what platforms like Spotify know about you as a listener * How Spotify and rivals reward artists and the record companies and the lengths some musicians go to to game the algorithm * How to exploit the fact that pretty much every song ever recorded is available now, at the touch of the button - and discover new music. (Statistically, you have not yet heard your favourite song...). With 10 free exploratory playlists downloadable by QR code
Glenn McDonald is a software engineer, algorithm designer and Data Alchemist at Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service.From the 1990s, he was one of the earliest and most prolific explorers of how to use data to understand and amplify our collective and individual experiences of music, and became principal engineer at The Echo Nest, a US music-tech start-up.On its takeover by Spotify in 2014, he became its only 'Data Alchemist,' putting him at the algorithmic heart of streaming music. He has access to the listening habits of 400 million people. He also runs Everynoise. com, a dynamic computational map also of the world's music genres.
  • Contributor: Glenn McDonald
  • Imprint: Canbury
  • ISBN13: 9781914487156
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 153x234x25mm
  • Packaged Weight: 450
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Canbury Press
  • Release Date: 2024-06-20
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Glenn McDonald is a software engineer, algorithm designer and Data Alchemist at Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service.From the 1990s, he was one of the earliest and most prolific explorers of how to use data to understand and amplify our collective and individual experiences of music, and became principal engineer at The Echo Nest, a US music-tech start-up.On its takeover by Spotify in 2014, he became its only 'Data Alchemist,' putting him at the algorithmic heart of streaming music. He has access to the listening habits of 400 million people. He also runs Everynoise. com, a dynamic computational map also of the world's music genres.

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