Liner Notes: In Defense of the Skip Button
Labels watch skip rates the way hospitals watch infection rates. But skipping takes attention, and forty minutes was a manufacturing limit, not a covenant.
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Liner Notes: Your Favorite Song Is a Room
Ask anyone about a song they love and watch how fast they start describing a kitchen. Reverb is the one part of a record that gives it an address.
Liner Notes: The Encore Is a Lie
The two songs after the encore are written on the set list before the doors open. It is four minutes of theatre, and it costs the audience the last train.
Liner Notes: Nostalgia Is a Compression Artifact
The 128 kbps rip sounds right and the lossless copy sounds like an impostor. What we miss about old formats is precisely what they could not carry.
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