Nothing wrong with experimenting - provided everything isn't an experiment.
That's about forming a view on what's liked, and disliked.
How's that anarchic? One might also use recommendations - like yours - which may be oart of some LLM type database. It's just a statistical choice.
Too bad, I thought I had made myself clear enough in the comments leading up to my last statement:
Yes. If you knew where to find it - even 'free'. And if you had your own storage and playback systems. Even 'lossless' formats - although I suspect most AT dancers too old to notice. Maybe even interpolated and resampled to any other format if you know how to work it.
Yes, for those (the many) who don't understand the tech.
Time will tell. The question of false information used to come up. Now it's hallucinated. And, as I suggested, the obvious, simple, indicator of 'popularity' is frequency of playing.
TangoLink, the tool for DJs to synchronize their local metadata with that of el-recodo.com? Yes, as with their other tools TangoScan, Tanda Manager, and Play!, you provide your data so that (eventually?) useful suggestions for tango streaming can be made. In my opinion, there will soon be useful tanda suggestions for DJs, and then soon after, automatically managed milonga music.
You're still caught up in the technical aspects of the topic, itwillhappen . But this is merely a random epiphenomenon. Basically I'm talking about the kind of tango music that's being played, and indirectly, of course, about the prescribed dance style. And the traditional DJ and the organizers of encuentros milonguero always pulled together.
Spotify has been around for 20 years, Encuentros for only 15. And of course, conservative organizers hire conservative DJs for conservative events. But the audience has always had, and still has, the choice to attend other events.
In the distant past, obtaining usable tango tracks depended on personal connections or long-distance travel; the crucial "democratization" occurred when access became available to everyone. But regardless, if there are positive effects now, then everything is fine.
Tango suggests that success comes from hard work and following rules. This also attracts individuals with challenging personalities, even mild autism, often combined with mathematical and audiophile talent. For these people, the DJ booth is a safe, ideal space that exerts a magnetic pull. This will likely remain the case, but since the pandemic, when many had to dance to the acoustic quality of Zoom and similar platforms, discussions about audio quality seem to have diminished significantly.
I didn't understand the advantage of this app at all. The percentage of extra tracks not listed on Shazam is extremely small. And these extra tracks are rarely played at milongas anyway. It will mainly refer to CD releases that don't include discographical information about the original releases (i.e., shellacs). Perhaps you read my critical comment on this. But once again, it didn't find any resonance. The average tango DJ simply isn't interested in discographical information.
As I mentioned earlier, the tango crowd isn't selective in their listening and will dance to any music that's the problem.
Good question. I would play an hour of similar gloomy yet challenging tracks in a row. I think a series like Pugliese-Maciel, Salamanca-Guerrico, di Sarli-Pomar, Gobbi-Landó, de Angelis-Larroca, Maderna-Rivas could do the trick. Then hopefully most of the leaders would be thoroughly exhausted, duped, disappointed, and finally change their shoes.
