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How the music industry has changed over the last 30 years

How the music industry has changed over the last 30 years

Over the last 30 years, the music industry has undergone a massive transformation. With the advent of the internet, the rise of digital music, and the proliferation of streaming services, the way we listen to and consume music has changed drastically. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the key changes in the music industry and how Song Director music software can help you organize your music collection.

The Rise of Digital Music

One of the most significant changes in the music industry over the last 30 years has been the rise of digital music. With the advent of MP3s and digital music players, people could easily carry their music collections with them wherever they went. Digital music also made it easier to share music with friends and family.

However, the shift to digital music has also had some negative consequences for the industry. Piracy and illegal downloading have become major issues, with many artists and labels losing out on revenue.

The Proliferation of Streaming Services

Another major change in the music industry has been the proliferation of streaming services. Platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal have made it easier than ever to access a vast library of music from anywhere in the world. Streaming services have also become a major revenue stream for artists, with many earning significant income from streams of their music.

However, the rise of streaming services has also had some negative consequences for the industry. With so much music available at our fingertips, it can be challenging for independent artists to get their music heard. Additionally, streaming services often pay artists very little for their streams, leading to criticism that they are not doing enough to support the artists whose music they distribute.

How Song Director Can Help You Organize Your Music Collection

If you’re someone who has amassed a significant music collection over the years, you know how challenging it can be to keep track of everything. Song Director music software can help you keep your music organized and easily accessible.

With Song Director, you can quickly and easily create playlists, tag your music with relevant metadata, and search your collection for specific songs or albums. You can also use the software to clean up your music collection by removing duplicate files or fixing incorrect metadata.

Song Director can also help you discover new music by allowing you to browse your collection by artist, album, genre, or year. You can also use the software to create smart playlists based on criteria like tempo, mood, or era.

Conclusion

The music industry has undergone significant changes over the last 30 years, from the rise of digital music to the proliferation of streaming services. While these changes have had both positive and negative consequences for the industry, they have also made it easier than ever to access a vast library of music from anywhere in the world.

If you’re someone who has amassed a significant music collection over the years, Song Director music software can help you keep your music organized and easily accessible. With its powerful features and intuitive interface, Song Director is an excellent tool for anyone who loves music and wants to make the most of their music collection.

New versions of Song Director for 2018

There have been some new versions of Song Director released in 2018.

To know which version you are using go the pull down help menu and choose “about”

To get the latest version, simply download Song Director again from the website and install it into the same location as before, just like the first time.  The setup program will not overwrite any of your existing data.   Here are the changes:

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Song Director is great to use on a network

Song Director is great to use on a computer network

Found songs easily on a computer network

My server tower has over 300,000 songs located on a 4TB external hard drive downstairs.  I can access any of these songs with Song Director from my laptop or Windows tablet.   I have my laptop connected to my home stereo system upstairs and connected to the wireless network.  I play all my songs with Song Director on my large stereo system.   I also have a computer office in the loft which can access the network music drive downstairs.   I can set up playlists, categories and perform advanced music searches at any location of my home by accessing the 4TB music drive downstairs.

-Steve

New review of Song Director Music Player from a customer

New review of Song Director Music Player from a customer:

“I have been using your Song Director for the last few days.   It is by far the best song program out there.
I have one recommendation:  Don’t change anything, Don’t try to improve it. Don’t embellish it.
Everyone I’ve come across who has a good program winds up destroying it by “improving” it or adding
stuff that is neither needed or wanted.”

“As for your program:
It took under a minute to index 2000 .wav songs.
Your index look-up is perfect… especially when you get a song in your head but can’t put your finger on it. The random feature is just what I need although it is hard to test. Note that the one car radios use has a tendency to repeat as if they didn’t know what random meant.”

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New Review of Song Director by Gizmo’s Freeware

Review of Song Director by Gizmo’s Freeware – Rob Schifreen

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“Windows comes with a music player app as standard. If you don’t like it, there are others freely available too, such as Apple’s iTunes. Trouble is, neither of these programs is particularly good. iTunes is huge and unwieldy, and is best kept away from your PC if at all possible. Windows Media Player is OK, but it’s not particularly easy to use.

If you have a lot of music tracks stored on your PC (perhaps as a result of ripping your CD or vinyl collection), then take a look at a neat program called Song Director. Once installed, the first thing you need to do is to choose Add from the File menu, and then tell it to scan your entire hard drive. It will do so, and create a searchable database containing the name and location of every music track (MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV etc etc) it finds.

This makes it really easy to play any song. Just type a few letters from its title into the search box, wait for it to be found, and then hit the Play button. It really is very easy, and is great if you have lots of locally-stored music tracks.

Song Director is free and is at www.songdirector.com. It’s only a 1.1 MB download, and is malware-free according to VirusTotal. It’s also a reputable site according to Web of Trust. Note that the free version only allows you to play one song at a time – you can’t cue up a set of tracks and have them play in turn.

Although the interface does look very dated, the program is still perfectly usable and is supported on all versions of Windows from 7 to 10.”

How to Edit MP3 File Tags for free for digital audio music -Song Director

How to Edit MP3 File Tags for free for digital audio music -Song Director

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Editing File tags – A file tag is information contained inside a file that further describes the file. For example, some typical file tag information for a music file is the artist name and song title. In most cases you can edit this tag information by changing the file properties using Windows File Explorer. You can also edit this information from within Song Director. To do this from the Edit window in Song Director, click on the “Edit tag” button next to the File name field. This displays a File Explorer window of the folder containing this song file. Right-click your mouse on the file you want to change, then choose “Properties” from the menu that is displayed after you right-click. Click the Details tab on the next window, then select the tag field you want to change and simply type your new information. Click the OK button and your changes will be saved within the file. Click the Cancel button to return to Song Director. This changes that information within the file only, not within your Song Director database.

After you update your file tag information in the File Explorer window, if you want Song Director to update this information also, you can either edit the record manually in SD or you will need to delete your record in Song Director (just the record information NOT the file) and then re-scan the folder or file that has the changed file tags and Song Director will pick up the new tag information without having to re-type it.

Windows does not let you change the file tag information for certain files that do not support tags or that contain invalid tag information.
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How to Organize thousands of digital music files for free – Song Director

How to Organize thousands of digital music files for free – Song Director.

This Video goes some of the basics of Song Director. Sorting, The Find button, Filtering records, Cataloging, inserting and finding information about your songs, Using the main Grid screen. The Help Menu, and much more.

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How to organize your music library. How to assign music files to a category. – Song Director

How to organize your music library.

How to assign music files to a category.

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Categories – You create a Category by clicking on the Categories button and adding a new Category. You can assign each record to Categories you create. This is great for keeping track of groups of songs. You can then view and print just the songs in that Category. You can display just the songs in that Category by double clicking on the Category name on the same screen.
Note:
If you are displaying songs in a certain Category, any songs you add are automatically assigned to that Category.
To assign a song to a Category, highlight the song you want on the first Song Director screen (the screen with the toolbar buttons at the top), then click the Assign button. The Category Assignment screen appears. Double-click on a Category in the box on the left side of the screen, and that Category will be assigned to the current song. Double-click on a Category in the box on the right side of the screen and that Category assignment will be removed from the current song. You can assign a song to as many Categories as you want.
Assigning many songs to a Category, all at once
You can easily assign many songs to one Category at the same time, or remove many songs from one Category. Select and display just the records you want (see the Selecting Records topic), then choose the option “Assign Many Records to Category” or “Remove Many Records from Category” on the Edit menu. On the next screen that is displayed, select the Category from the list and choose the appropriate button.

To display all records in your Song Director database, click the Show All button. This is useful if you previously limited the records displayed by choosing a specific Category, or by specifying a Filter or by Selecting Records.
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Organizing and cataloging digital audio recordings – Song Director

Organizing and cataloging digital audio recordings – Song Director

Digital audio recordings are great until you try to sort through thousands of them to make sense of it all.  Fortunately  Song Director music catalog software is here to help.  As well as being a music player to play the songs the way you want them to be played.

Below is a great article about digital audio recordings:

The death and life of digital  audio
By Jonathan Sterne

For many years now, critics have written of digital audio recording – in its myriad formats  – as less ‘live’ or less ‘natural’ than analogue recording. By implication, these critics suggest
that digital audio is closer to death. Taking the metaphysical assumptions behind such claims as its starting point, this essay analyses three key elements of digital audio:
temporality, definition and mobility. By troubling the notion of time as a continuous linear flow, and by troubling the idea that all analogue media share this continuity with ‘natural’
time, it is argued that digital recordings have as legitimate a claim on sonic experience as their analogue counterparts. The argument about experience extends into a consideration
of the problem of sonic ‘definition’: the range of possible pitches and volumes in a given recording. Higher definition does not necessarily make a recording more lifelike. Finally, the contexts in which recordings are generally heard today mitigate against the idea that
they must aim to perfectly reproduce a live performance. Rather, their liveliness should be judged by the degree to and manner in which the recordings themselves circulate. Judged
by their social lives, rather than by a dubious metaphysics, digital recordings are at least as lively as analogue recordings ever were.

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