The music streaming metaphor and its underlying tangle of transcodes

IF 1.5 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Andreas Lenander Aegidius
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ABSTRACT This article presents an interrogation of streamification, a concept that addresses the influence of streaming software on cultural artifacts and uses. I argue that the streamification builds on an underlying tangle of transcodes. I base this on empirical findings from a qualitative study of digital online music uses and the technologies that operate beyond the interface of streaming media. I map the typical online path of music files and exemplify the tangle of transcodes with three empirical cases and detail their meaning-making processes: 1) The most informal and tangled, when a listener is stream-ripping from YouTube. 2) The re-appropriation of informal YouTube material by a musician. 3) The more formal transcoding performed by a distributor. By drawing on metaphor theory and software studies, I discuss cultural transcoding and metaphor as central to streamification and discuss how a focus on ease-of-use inevitably hides the tangle of transcodes.
音乐流媒体的隐喻及其潜在的代码转换
摘要本文对流媒体化进行了探讨,流媒体化是一个概念,旨在解决流媒体软件对文物和用途的影响。我认为,流化建立在代码转换的基础上。我基于对数字在线音乐的使用和流媒体界面之外的技术进行的定性研究的实证结果。我绘制了音乐文件的典型在线路径,并用三个经验案例举例说明了代码转换的混乱,并详细说明了它们的意义形成过程:1)最非正式和混乱的是,当听众从YouTube上进行流式翻录时。2) 一位音乐家对YouTube上非正式材料的挪用。3) 分发服务器执行的更正式的代码转换。通过借鉴隐喻理论和软件研究,我讨论了文化转码和隐喻作为流化的核心,并讨论了对易用性的关注如何不可避免地隐藏转码的混乱。
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Popular Communication
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