How we listen to Music Now

by Alwin Lawrence

                   Music is one the best kind of instrument that brings us lots of emotion and power in our daily life.  Music is something innate and internal, which needs little nourishment from without, and no experience drawn from life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1831). Music is not deception, but revelation. Its unique Power is to reveal to us elements of beauty which are not accessible by other means, the contemplation of which reconciles us to our lives not just for the moment, but forever. ( Piotor I. Tchaikovsky n. d).

All this meaning we can define that music is something that very useful, memorable, and the best way to have fun with. The way we listen to Music, also have changed through time to time. This we can call as Music Revolution. In term of history process in our life , “revolution” refers to a movement, often violent, to overthrow an old regime and effect complete change in the fundamental institutions of society. After the French Revolution of the 18th century which deposed the monarchy and attempted to refashion society from top to bottom, revolution became synonymous with the radical overcoming of the past. Modernity, many came to believe, could only be achieved through such violent and total transformation.

This modern day we are being introduced to lots of online music streaming application. The one best kind that music have is the revolution from traditional to modern.  When it comes to streaming music, you are listening to songs in "real time" instead of downloading and storing the file to your computer to listen later. This is the new way that we should accept as technology ecome more advance nows a day. This is a few streaming music platform that we should know today.

IUMA

This music streaming  have started in early year of 1993 where Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) launched as the first free online music archive of MP3 downloadable songs. It allowed unsigned musicians to share music, communicate with their audience, and distribute their music to fans while avoiding record labels.  (image from: http://www.iuma.com/iuma2-500x237.gif)

link: http://www.iuma.com/

LAST. FM

Next we have is Last.fm. Created in January 2002. Last.fm launched as a platform that uses a music recommender to build a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste after recording details of the tracks they listen. The site offers numerous social features and can recommend artists similar to the user's favorites. This music streaming platform still available and can be access until now and keep on growing.

link : https://www.last.fm/

Pandora

Then on September 2005, Pandora was born. Pandora is music online streaming platform that created based on America. Pandora Radio launched as a rebranding effort for Music Genome Project with the goal of using algorithms and a complex song sorting program to create personalized radio stations based on listener's preferences. Users can listen for free with ads or pay $10 per month for uninterrupted streaming. This trend keeps on continuous to other music online streaming platform such as Spotify today. Pandora only available in certain region all around the world except for Asian country and a few country. Pandora is only available in the U.S., Australia and New Zeland. 

link : http://www.pandora.com/

Spotify

Spotify was created on September 2008. Spotify was launched to tackle the issues of music piracy and ride the wave of new music technology platforms, offering a seemingly infinite, catalog of music for audiences to listen to. Rather than get paid by download, artists would receive a royalty payment for every play, which was funded by 1) advertisements played in Spotify's free version, and 2) Spotify's ad-free Premium subscription service. Spotify is the best way for you to listen to music nowadays where you can listen to music wherever you want.

link : https://www.spotify.com/

        This entire music streaming platform is unique and so accessible when you know how to handle it. The Best way to use it is we must know how to appreciate this music online streaming platform. No matter how advance this technology, we must do not forget where the compact disc, cassette, vinyl and many more as the first created. Thanks to technology have change the way we listen to music today.

 References

What is Revolution? Neitzel L. (n. d.) Retrieved from http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/exeas/asian-revolutions/pdf/what-is-revolution.pdf

Some definition of music Retrieved from http://www.williamepowell.com/pdfs/DefinitionsOfMusic.pdf