Being a generalist is less fun when you don't have specialist colleagues around to teach you new things and take over the tasks that require actual experience, training, intuition, etc.
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Awesome! Much of the (non-technical) WFMU team who worked on this ended up landing in product and eng roles later in their careers... and I suspect working on this project was an influential experience for many of them (it certainly was for me). Thanks for your help in making it happen!
I worked on the FMA back in the early days when it was still run out of the WFMU office.
There's some really killer stuff buried in there alongside some solid netlabel output from the teens. It was very actively curated in the beginning but it quickly became hard to find the good stuff and after a couple years of emphasis on promoting royalty-free music for film it kind of drifted away from its original mantra of "It's not just free music; it's good music".
Honestly kind of bummed with where the project landed, presumably sold for peanuts to a for-profit so they can use it for lead gen.
Thanks so much for what you did here! I love that site so much, because yes it had good music! And playlists and curators. I remember exactly where I was when I found out it would be shutting down.
Agreed it's all lead gen but they haven't ruined it too much yet at least and its still on
There’s a fantastic (now out of print) biography of Edwin Armstrong that is worth picking up if you stumble across it: Man of High Fidelity by Lawrence Lessing
I've always wanted to start a company that does thoughtful sound design for restaurants using some of these research findings. 90% of restaurant sound is just an awful afterthought.
Fine dining sounds different from your hipster brewery, which sounds different from your mall food court, and often is tailored to produce a class/experience-appropriate aesthetic.
There is also the whole “authenticity” thing where manufactured sound may make an establishment feel like a cheap theme park if you’re not careful.
The conventional wisdom was that people would choose the loudest station when listening in their cars.
But also, the louder your station is the wider your FM broadcast, so you can really fill out the FCC-allowed +/- 0.15 MHz on either side of your allotted channel.
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