People being able to afford professional equipment and professional session musicians vs a guy recording himself in a bedroom over a MIDI karaoke track is not the same at all.
Most people are not professional music critics, and most of their consumption is as a backing track to the rest of their life.
You could replace most of this category with a Markov chain bouncing up and down a simple key without most people even thinking about it, and I know because this is exactly how I made music for my shareware video games a decade ago.
> You could replace most of this category with a Markov chain bouncing up and down a simple key without most people even thinking about it
That actually makes Spotify worse, because they could have offered that product instead of using huge sums of capital to reshape the expectation anybody with a device is entitled to listen to any work on demand for free.
I guess the good news is that it wouldn't cause a fuss if someone were to change policy so that you can't pay out buffet streaming like it's digital radio and people ended up having to buy songs or at least do the honest work of piracy if they won't accept the app directing programming. After all, most people are just as happy listening to a Markov chain generate bloops for free.
> Most people are not professional movie critics and enjoy more a hollywood film rather than me recording barbie dolls and making them talk.
Sure, but they'll also watch daily soap operas, and the meme "I showed my favourite film to a loved one, but they paid no attention" predates multi-screening.
> Did your video game sell as much as outcast? A game with a proper music score.
Even in aggregate over all the games: I wish :P
But the real question is: how much of that was the music?
Even now, were I to redo that period of my life (and so no need to caveat markets changing), the music isn't what I'd focus on changing — shareware was already a bad idea though I didn't realise it, MacOS shareware written in Java just as MacOS got its own (ObjC only) app store moreso.
Many don't see a difference. Just amount of coolnes.
You can apply this on professional filmmaking or vlogging. I guess amount of time consumed audiovisual production today is much higher on amateurish production thanks to antisocial networks.
If you are used to fast editing, loud music and cheap filters, you'll get hard time to watch ie Malicks films, listen concertos or go to photography exhibition. No doubled about qulity.
Nowadays most valuable is attention. Cheap stimuli is easier to consume. That's what technology teach us.
Turns out that having skills to get money is exactly the point I was arguing, in response to "there is an infinite supply of (crappy) music, so its value is 0"…
If you can't hear the difference, see a doctor.