Apple Music Classical

Re:Apple Music Classical by gumby on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:21AM (#35339651)

> For people who want to listen to pop, they're probably fine. But anything that's even a little niche is trouble. Or that's my experience, anyhow.

O what happened to the idea of the “long tail”, eh?

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Re:Apple Music Classical by JasonFruit on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:02AM (#35340295)

I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?

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Re:Apple Music Classical by gumby on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:14AM (#35341447)

Yeah, the theory of the long tail was that the marginal cost of that old, low volume stuff was nil.

I guess the truth was that it didn’t scale.

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Re:Apple Music Classical by nordsieck on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:20AM (#35341552)

> I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?

IMO, that's not a great point. The music is already made - that's the hard part. It just needs to be licensed.

Maybe there are other channels that are more profitable than streaming, but I'm guessing that a lot of older/niche music is just locked away for no good reason.

At a certain point, I have to imagine that most artists would prefer their music be listened to if they aren't going to make money either way.

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