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Music Industry Innovation: Meta Data

Just as long as music has been released for consumption, there have been procedures in place to acknowledge the parties involved in a song’s creation. Traditionally this information is solely used to issue royalties to music creators. In the late 1870s, Thomas Edison created the first iteration of the phonograph. In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell revamped the phonograph by inventing the graphophone. This music player with the added ability to record sound became the inspiration for cassette recording boomboxes in the late 1970s. In the heyday of the graphophone, the standard methods of metadata collection were spoken introductions and sticker annotations on a piece of paper. Moving forward to 1930 we saw the introduction of LPs by RCA Victor; eventually to be renamed RCA Records, and in 1948 Dr. Peter Goldmark and Columbia Records revamped the vinyl disk by increasing playtimes to two minutes as opposed to the potential minute of a cylinder phonograph. During this era in music we also saw the introduction of large gatefold liner notes with artwork and lyrics; as the preferred method of metadata collection. This led to what is now commonly known as an album booklet for CD’s beginning in the early 1980s containing photos, lyrics, thank you notes and a list of all parties who contributed to each song. Now with the current advancement of digital albums, consumers are provided with digital album booklets that continue the trend of information included in LP’s and CD’s but don’t require physical output.

In the music industry, Meta Data typically focuses on audio recording and refers to, the name of the recording artist, songwriter(s), producer(s), musicians, audio engineer(s), recording studio, etc. This information notifies companies like ASCAP and BMI who handle music publishing, of the proper parties to issue payment and ownership rights whenever their creative intelligence (in the form of song) is used (be it in a video, movie, concert, radio program, commercial, karaoke machine, etc.). Metadata in its more historic forms has always been an integral part of music intellectual property ownership documentation. In the ’80s and ’90s cracking the plastic on a CD for the first time and reading the liner notes in an album booklet was nostalgic (ahhh fond memories).

However, with the dawn of the Big Data Age, metadata now also helps music companies like Apple Music and Tidal determine what music and other content to target to their listeners. Today the favorite that a consumer makes on any given song in a streaming platform, triggers metadata to prompt suggestions of additional content they may enjoy. This new execution made it possible to compose a uniquely curated library of music for their customers directly from their catalogs or indirectly through a relationship with radio networks; who direct traffic to these entities for customers who are interested in purchasing a song they’ve heard.

Apple Music and Tidal are currently the two primary monopolies of music streaming in the music industry aside from Pandora and Spotify. Apple Music allows consumers to have access to over thirty million songs, so they can explore all of their musical interests and the recommendations from Apple based on the content they favorite and view with a membership. Consumers can also communicate with the artists they’re fans of with comments and actions on the artist’s live posts. Apple Music additionally offers its own 24 hours, 7 days a week radio service which introduces customers to a variety of music, shows, and other content they can purchase within the program. Furthermore, this facet of Apple Inc. has a relationship with radio stations where recognizable tags are placed in songs metadata; embedded with iTunes coding so that a query of the song in apps like SoundHound, Shazam and players like Pandora and Spotify will populate a result in the iTunes store for the potential purchase of the music.

On the Tidal platform, consumers enjoy a similar thirty million songs and relationships with radio through metadata tags using, artist names, lyrics, and sounds from production; like Apple Music. However, the draw of this flagship is that the owners of the company are artists, writers, and producers of music. This enables them to show more concern and compassion for those with creative rights being properly compensated for their work, whenever streamed through their servers. At Tidal an artist, writer or producer, earns a higher percentage of profit through the metadata tags when their content is consumed, compared to other companies like Apple who focus the profit margin on the streaming company itself. Other benefits of Tidal for consumers are the access to exclusive content from the creative individuals that are not available on any other platform or early release exclusivity, streaming of large ticket items concerts and boxing matches, and the purchase or winning of tickets to shows.

Unfortunately, while radio tagging seems to be working very well to direct consumers to music purchase portals, the systems in place to process who is responsible for creating each song played, do not always have the proper information to guarantee that all worthy parties receive royalty payments. Surprisingly, the logging of this information was more accurate when everything was manually notated and funneled through a select group of specialists. In this digital age, where technology streamlines all of our processes, the quality of collecting and organizing relevant data in the music industry has been lost. The main culprits causing incorrect information are, name misspellings, performer name changes, content having multiple release dates, and content being released under different artists presenting a conflict in ownership to the data analysis tools.

All of these issues result in a loss of potential sales, missed promotion opportunities to consumers, and miss-distributed or undistributed royalties to deserving parties. Some artists have experienced piracy as a result of the inconsistencies in digital music metadata, causing the need to pull content from streaming services and other platforms. In turn, customers then can’t enjoy or purchase the content either. Currently, there are 350 digital music providers, and each is monitoring its systems and security. The industry as a whole is at a loss financially due to each company independently create its metadata solution. NARM suggests that digital music and streaming providers should come together and create one unified system for metadata collection, analysis, and output to lower expenses and increase product output and ultimately, economic growth. Likely this will be executed when the Global Repertoire Database is accepted as the standard for metadata functioning in the music industry. It will compare duplicate entries and those that belong to the same artist under different names to ensure that ownership is put in the proper places. This will raise the accuracy of royalty payments, and the content catalogs of creative the customers see in their queries, in addition to standard cataloging and analysis.

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my three dad

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Skateboard decks by Side Project Skateboards

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All three boards are complete! One is already on it’s way to a new home in the US, I’m holding onto these for now but I’m planning on ordering some more in for commissions.

I’d also like to get a more usable printed edition done, so they aren’t as precious and can be skated on.

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Truuuue lol 1glamorousbelle , definitely me

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High-Definition image of Mars. Inspiring doesn’t even begin to cover it.

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This morning on that (TRASH) show ‘Morning Joe’ or some shit.. They really had the audacity to say those “kids” from that racist frat sang that song b/c of rap music.. So of course black Twitter got together & got this little gem of a hashtag going this morning to mock them lmao

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74.

Robyn sat on top of the examination table and took deep breaths as the cold stethoscope pressed against her back.

“Take one more breath for me.” Her doctor murmured. Robyn pulled in and held her breath, releasing slowly.

“Ya sound good to me. I think…” He said while scribbling on a notepad. “for an 8 am appointment, dis went really well! You all set.”

“Really??”

“Yeah! You shown lotta progress, rehab is working and your stitches are good, plus incision is almost healed all de way. Usually 8 am appointments are a hassle. You good wid me- just make sure to get your medication from de pharmacy.” He shrugged. Robyn beamed and pulled her shirt down by the edges and got off of the table.

“You excited?”

“VERY! I am. It feels like it’s been forever. I missed home, but I feel like I’m ready to get back.” Robyn rolled her shoulders as she spoke and the doctor gave her a serious face.

“Did you discuss what you were supposed to with your husband yet?”

She bent to put her shoes on, avoiding the doctor’s eyes. “Not yet. I think it’d be better to be settled at home and we can talk about it.”

“Robyn. It’s important to-”

She stood up and adjusted her short bangs while wiggling her foot in the Nikes. “I know. I’ll talk to him.”

“I faxed that info to your doctor in the States. He IS going to follow up witchu. We can’t force you to go… but..” He reached out and touched her shoulder. “I really think you should go. Maybe he’ll even go wit’ you.”

Robyn looked down and mumbled she’ll talk to Chris about it. She thanked him for everything and stepped out to the waiting room where Rah waited for her.

“Ready?”

Robyn nodded and mentioned they needed to stop at the local pharmacy to pick up her pills and they exited the office into the breeze.

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Robyn pushed her clothes into the bags and glanced around her room to see if she forgot anything. She pulled her bag out and met her brothers at the door, holding other baggage and their mother honked from the car.

“Ready?” Rah grinned at her and she nodded as Ro pulled the door open, happily tossing the bag in the trunk.

“I hate ferries!” Robyn complained on the dock and flattened her damp bangs from being whipped in the afternoon wind. Her family walked off of the dock as Robyn looked at the wooden planks beneath her feet and caught a chill. She didn’t know why she caught the feeling she had been there before, but she walked off of it immediately. She saw a red minivan and her cousin waved from it gleefully, whipping the car door open to greet everyone. Robyn dropped her bags and ran to give her a big hug and kisses.

“Noellaaaaa! You lookin’ so good!!”

“Come on!” She laughed, pulling Robyn to the car while her brothers loaded the trunk with bags. “We only got a few hours, so let’s go!”

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Robyn bit into a turkey leg as she sat on a blanket in the grass with other family members walking around laughing and telling stories. The grill was out and paper lanterns swung in the air with music playing. Robyn sipped her fifth glass of wine, grinning stupidly with her cousin.

“How’s Russ?” Noella asked about their other cousin and Robyn crossed her eyes.

“LET’S NOT EVEN TALK ‘BOUT HIM. So stupid.”

“I heard bout dat wife of his.” Noella clucked her tongue. “I never liked her.”

“I never will.” Robyn said spitefully and the air pushed a breeze between their silence.

“Ellie..” She sang over at her and Noella looked over with her eyes low.

“Robbieee. Ya married woman now. Off de market.”

“Yuuuup.” Robyn nodded slowly.

“So? Wait!! You didn’t even show me de ring, you show everyone else.” She said indignantly. It was true, Robyn walked in to see her uncles, aunts and other family members swarming around her with love and wanting to see the ring. People gasped at the size and gave her advice on how to keep her marriage strong by never going to bed angry and always trying to talk out their problems. Robyn internally scoffed at the advice because it was the polar opposite of what she and Chris did anytime there was an argument. But, after her first glass of wine, she realized that maybe her family was right- they had no where to run to anymore, all they had was each other so she said to herself that once she got back to the U.S., they were going to have a serious talk. Robyn brought her hand around and Noella gaped at the ring size, tugging her arm to examine it.

“Ayyyeee, Robbie!!! Two questions- WHAT does he do?!”

Robyn scoffed and said, “He renovates buildings and sells drugs.”

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Monrovia animated

Liberia, 2014

françois beaurain

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What is ” talk shit under your breathe as you’re walking from an argument forgetting ya moms got bionic hearing “

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How To (Really!) Use The Law Of Attraction!

Powerful attracting action steps:

1. Write your goal out by hand everyday. Anything you will not write down by hand on paper, isn’t something you really want.

2. … Write out your goal with your non-writing hand everyday. This activates new neural pathways in your creative brain and tells your subconscious mind you’re serious.

3. Brainstorm different plans, however unrealistic they seem. It costs you nothing to imagine.

4. Read up on people that have had similar success. Even if their successful in a different industry, it feeds your brain with “like images” it can begin to create.

5. Stuck? Ask the Universe a question and then forget about it. Questions stir your brain to search for the answer. If it cannot answer, it will connect with Universal Intelligence to find an answer. 6. Do something that feels good. And repeat. We have desires because we think they will make us feel good. By feeling good now in whatever small way, we align with our dreams. 7. Fall asleep asking yourself one question: if my wishes were fulfilled how would I feel? Your subconscious mind assumes you want more of what you want when you fall asleep thinking about it as if it’s already done.

8. Team up with a law of attraction based Life Coach. Let them unlock your potential. If I can help, please see soulfulfilled.tumblr.com/coaching

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Master List of Museums with Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and/or Near Eastern Antiquities in the United States of America

These collections may not be extensive or on display (and may contain only one culture from the above list), and I am including museums with minimal collections as well; please check with the museum before you visit or check their collections search online if the object(s) you wish to see is/are on view.

Feel free to message me if I’ve missed a museum! I’ll be constantly updating this post. (Initial Post: October 16, 2018; First Update: October 16, 2018, 2:18 p.m. Pacific; Second Update: October 16, 2018, 7:15 p.m. Pacific; Third Update: October 17, 2018, 6:29 p.m.; Fourth Update: October 21, 2018, 10:36 p.m.)

Alabama:

Anniston Museum of Natural History (Anniston, AL)

Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL)

California: 

Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology (Berkeley, CA)

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

J. Paul Getty Museum (“the Getty” which includes the Getty Center and the Getty Villa) (Los Angeles, CA)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) at the California State University, San Bernardino (San Bernardino, CA)

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) (San José, CA)

San Diego Museum of Man (San Diego, CA)

Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA) (Collection for Greek and Roman Art not on view, but can be found in Collections Search)

Colorado:

Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Denver, CO)

University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum (Boulder, CO)

Florida:

The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art at Florida State University (Sarasota, FL)

Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)

Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures (Cocoa Beach, FL)

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, FL)

Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa, FL)

Georgia:

Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University (Atlanta, GA)

Illinois:

The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)

The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Spurlock Museum of World Cultures at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL)

Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)

Indiana: 

Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)

Gustav Jeeninga Museum of Bible & Near Eastern Studies at Anderson University (Anderson, IN)

Kansas:

Museum of World Treasures (Wichita, KS)

Maryland:

Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD)

John Hopkins Archaeological Museum (Baltimore, MD)

Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)

Massachusetts:

Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA)

Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA)

The Harvard Semitic Museum (Cambridge, MA)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA)

The New Bedford Museum of Glass (New Bedford, MA)

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA)

Michigan:

Institute of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum at Andrews University (Berrien Springs, MI)

Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI)

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

Minnesota:

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN)

Mississippi:

The Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology at Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, MS)

The University of Mississippi Museum (Oxford, MS)

Missouri:

Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO)

Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO)

Nevada:

Las Vegas Natural History Museum (Las Vegas, NV) (Note: the artifacts are replicas of the tomb of Tutankhamun and other Egyptian antiquities and are one of only two sets that were authorized by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)

New Hampshire:

Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

New Jersey:

Newark Museum (Newark, NJ)

Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ)

New York:

The Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)

The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY)

Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in the William D. Walsh Family Library at Fordham University (New York, NY)

Onassis Cultural Center (New York, NY) (Note: exhibitions vary but may contain art from Ancient Greece)

Steinberg Museum of Art at Long Island University (Brookville, NY)

North Carolina:

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)

Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC)

North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC)

Ohio:

Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH)

Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)

Museum of Classical Archaeology at Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

Museum of Natural History & Science (Cincinnati, OH)

Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH)

Oklahoma:

Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art (Shawnee, OK)

Oregon:

Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University (Salem, OR)

Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum at Corban University (Salem, OR)

Pennsylvania: 

Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, PA)

Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA)

Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Pittsburg Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh, PA)

Reading Public Museum (West Reading, PA)

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, PA)

Rhode Island:

Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI)

Tennessee:

Art Museum of the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN)

Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum at Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, TN)

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)

The Parthenon (Nashville, TN) (Note: the Parthenon is more like a building of art itself as it’s a replica and the art in its galleries are not from the ancient world)

Texas:

Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX)

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX)

Kimbell Art Museum (Forth Worth, TX)

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX)

Utah:

Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT)

Utah State University Museum of Anthropology (Logan, UT)

Vermont:

Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)

Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT)

Virginia:

Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)

Washington:

Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA)

Washington, D.C.:

Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)

West Virginia:

Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington, WV)

Wisconsin:

Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College (St. Beloit, WI)

Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI)

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All the dates and deadlines you need to know before voting in the 2018 Midterm Elections

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Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco - California - USA (by Steve Corey) 

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Intuition is real. Vibes are real. Energy doesn’t lie. Tune in.