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Trent Reznor Working on 'Challenging' Music Delivery Project at Apple
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These Nine Inch Nails Albums:
Pretty Hate Machine
Broken
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
Also:
The Social Network Soundtrack.
If the interview doesn't spend at least some time complaining about soldered RAM in the Mac Mini, he's definitely not a "Pro".Damn right. Great stuff. I mean he is not as "Pro" as the folks here claiming to be "Pro" but he does alright.
For those wondering what he's done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Reznor_discography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails_discography
He's been a busy boy.
Some of the NIN stuff might not be up everyone's alley, but musically it's just fantastic stuff. I used to listen to them as an outlet for young angst, but now I just listen amazed at how much attention to detail there is, and how brilliant he is at mixing sounds and rhythms.
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"Everybody is comfortable with the cloud -- your documents, who knows where they are? They are there when you need them. "
There are so many things wrong with these statements I don't know if there's enough room in a book for them...let alone a forum.
1)Everybody is comfortable with the cloud?! This guy is way off. Everybody means 100%...but hey, I'll give it 75% just to debate the point...he's telling us that 75% of the world population is comfortable with the cloud. No. Bleeping. Way.
2)What happens when your internet connection (for any reason) is down for a few minutes or hours? What about when the connection stinks or is spotty? What about when the "cloud" magically goes offline for a period of time....I'm talking about the specific servers that serve your content. What happens when a cloud service/company goes out of business...or is sold...or messes up your account...or gets hacked...or you forget to pay/renew your bill and it's all deleted...but don't worry, you can just re-upload 500GB of data again.
3)My documents? I (and my wife) know where a vast majority of them are...at least the semi-important ones...physical paper is stored in our $75 filing cabinet, sometimes that paper is ALSO in electronic format (PDF from our insurance company for example...email from our tax person for example)...and these electronic documents (outside our email system) are in the ever-popular My Documents of Windows...taking up a whopping 400MB. Anything super critical is stored in our $50 fireproof box.
Cloud services can be useful and easy to access, yes. But to RELY on them vs. your own stuff in your own home is just a bad, bad decision.
More on his topic, as someone else said, this is simply another push to rent music/movies rather than owning them, lending them to friends for free, playing them in all your players, etc. I'm not talking about illegal activity like duplicating them or knowingly lending them to your friends to dupe.
There are so many things wrong with these statements I don't know if there's enough room in a book for them...let alone a forum.
1)Everybody is comfortable with the cloud?! This guy is way off. Everybody means 100%...but hey, I'll give it 75% just to debate the point...he's telling us that 75% of the world population is comfortable with the cloud. No. Bleeping. Way.
2)What happens when your internet connection (for any reason) is down for a few minutes or hours? What about when the connection stinks or is spotty? What about when the "cloud" magically goes offline for a period of time....I'm talking about the specific servers that serve your content. What happens when a cloud service/company goes out of business...or is sold...or messes up your account...or gets hacked...or you forget to pay/renew your bill and it's all deleted...but don't worry, you can just re-upload 500GB of data again.
3)My documents? I (and my wife) know where a vast majority of them are...at least the semi-important ones...physical paper is stored in our $75 filing cabinet, sometimes that paper is ALSO in electronic format (PDF from our insurance company for example...email from our tax person for example)...and these electronic documents (outside our email system) are in the ever-popular My Documents of Windows...taking up a whopping 400MB. Anything super critical is stored in our $50 fireproof box.
Cloud services can be useful and easy to access, yes. But to RELY on them vs. your own stuff in your own home is just a bad, bad decision.
More on his topic, as someone else said, this is simply another push to rent music/movies rather than owning them, lending them to friends for free, playing them in all your players, etc. I'm not talking about illegal activity like duplicating them or knowingly lending them to your friends to dupe.
Great points! I didn't get into NIN until way late. Most people complain that he doesn't do stuff like The Downward Spiral anymore, but that's because he's actually a fairly well-adjusted adult, now... I love his work because of the complexity in the music, the interesting sounds he uses, the rhythms, the production.
Na not all "pro" I mean the "Pros" here have albums far more successful than him. Films better than Nolan's etc.. we will never see them but trust their word. On custom built rigs too cause you can't do it without those.
Water cooled and gaming ready for ultimate PWNGE for teh utubes!I'm joking around BTW not trying to offend anyone, relax and Happy Halloween.
Girl with the Dragon tattoo opening is awesome as well. He does the music for that (cover), I forget who the vocalist is.
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Agree, totally. Spotify is great, by the time Eddie Cue gets a clue and stops throwing things at the wall to see what sticks... Spotify and Rdio will be even better.
lol, yeah.
I guess Apple is going for the teenage goth girl market from 15 years ago...
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Yes he can. Most of Apple's software engineers spend too much time coding and not enough in user experience. Concerning streaming, IMO Trent is one of the best UX guys for this. He almost singlehandedly moved the industrial rock scene in the late 80's from dying metal bands playing in warehouses to a revival of the genre.
Personally, I knew the guy while working with an entertainment equipment provider. This guy is as bright with a computer as he is a stage show. Look forward to what he creates in streaming services. Would love to work with him again.
They want to eff you like an animal. They want to feel you from the inside. Their whole existence is flawed. Money gets them closer to God.
What is the thing we appreciate the most about Apple? What is the thing that makes Apple Pay so much better than CurrentC?
It is about making the best experience for the user. You don't need to know how to be a software programmer to envision the best experience possible to enjoy music. You can use people who have an ability to envision the best way to do something and people who have the skills and creativity to achieve those visions to work together and achieve the goal.
Steve Jobs was never the best engineer or programmer, but he had a great vision for what would provide the best experience for the user.
(That being said, I don't know Reznor or his ability to provide insight, but just because he isn't a programmer doesn't mean he can't help mold a great experience)
lol, yeah.
I guess Apple is going for the teenage goth girl market from 15 years ago...
:roll eyes:
Still missing one that got away?
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Not suddenly, this guy has been pushing computer music technology longer than most of you have had jobs. He was one of the first to give desktop computer sound edit suite developers a reality check on z-transforms concering music filtering for different music genres.
And YES, the guy can code.
I don't assume to know more than the industry higher-ups that give out these awards, nor do I have anything against Reznor (never liked NIN, just not my style). I was sitting in the movie theater with my wife for The Social Network, with absolutely NO prejudice about the score, and I HATED IT. I am a musician, albiet not a film score composer, and I just didn't get it. It was overbearing and, at times, down right odd. I'm sorry, but if you NOTICE the film score while the actors are trying to tell a story, then you have a problem. I was truly shocked when I heard that score won an award.
Years later, I'm in the same theater with the same wife to see Gone Girl. Mid way through the film I feel like I'm in an aquarium with a simulated submarine sonar ping mixed in for good measure. I say to my wife, "Trent Reznor?". "Yep." "Ugh."
Well, seeing as he nothing better going on. Dude was probably a week away from pimping life insurance on late night TV or selling George Foreman grills.
What a retread. Can apple dig up someone interesting? U2? Trent Razor or whatever the heck his name is?
He's got an ongoing creative partnership and excellent track record with one of the best film directors working today, recent Academy Award winner by result, continuing to tour and make albums and doing all else that he wants creatively.
But yeah he's working as a creative partner and consultant at the most valuable brand in the world right now because "he's got nothing better going on." Good burn.
You need someone with domain expertise to make good stuff. In the past, that person was Steve Jobs. Why hasn't there been any music hardware updates since he died? Because everyone there is clueless as to what people actually want.
Why haven't there been any real updates on the movies side of the house? Because Jobs is dead. He built Pixar and was the biggest Disney shareholder. More importantly, he had industry cred. They don't have anyone like that now on the movie side. They have people like that on the audio side now, thanks to beats.
What are they going to come up with? Something great, hopefully.
As it is, streaming via iTunes match sucks. No crossfade, and it doesn't buffer enough to prevent dead signal stops . Whomever's working on that side of the house doesn't commute, so isn't willing or able to fix the problem. You can blame the network, or you can do something about it. Apple's been doing #1, they need to do some more #2.
I wasn't all that much into the Beats acquisition, but I just learned about Trent Reznor's involvement.
I can't wait to see what comes out of this - and yes he did release a few of his songs on GarageBand on separate tracks, now that was fun to play and remix
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So they should have mentioned "Trent Reznor" without mentioning a thing about NIN? Some people are so offensed by product names on this site... whew!
I can't wait to see what comes out of this - and yes he did release a few of his songs on GarageBand on separate tracks, now that was fun to play and remix
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So they should have mentioned "Trent Reznor" without mentioning a thing about NIN? Some people are so offensed by product names on this site... whew!
Here is an hour and fifteen minutes live concert from LA last year.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBC3NXnN8y4
Agreed.
Somehow calling it "The Cloud" seems to make people think they don't have to worry about their data anymore.
Once any data is uploaded to the cloud, you can't assume you own it anymore or that you will be the only one to have access to it in the future.
This is all about rent vs. own... not about end-user convenience.
Going to a lot of trouble to re-invent "radio".
Yeh I know it's on-demand in some cases. I may be in the minority at this point, but I'd still like to have some level of ownership with the music I like.
Yeh I know it's on-demand in some cases. I may be in the minority at this point, but I'd still like to have some level of ownership with the music I like.