Yeah they were still pretty exotic even in 2005.

Many people didn’t really have easy means to get files onto an MP3 player.

Uh sort of, but only when she’s speaking.

There’s a spoken bit on one of her tracks, and EVERY time am momentarily bamboozled into wondering why there’s a sample of me speaking playing out of the speakers.

Solely? As in being the only person to own a digital copy?

I’d have zero interest in possessing such a thing, and would go as far as boycotting any record company or artist that began to go down that route.

With two exceptions: if a friend gifted me some music which they did not wish to be released, or if someone asked me to guard their intellectual property in the event of becoming incapacitated themselves.

Still a bit confused - haven’t we been able to do this since the gramophone (if not before, idk much about early media)?

Vinyl, tapes, CDs, etc. & digital files? These can all be bought & sold today. My city doesn’t have as many record stores as it did in my teens, but two of the big chains are still here as well as one big independent, there’s a few small specialists & several second-hand places. Supermarkets & charity shops often have a small selection of new & second-hand respectively. Vinyl sales are steadily increasing & though I can’t imagine cassettes making much of a comeback, one local hifi shop recommenced stocking cassette players a while ago, and now carries three of them.

To display a piece of music you can usually apply to the copyright holder for a license - this is typically very expensive, with prices set by negotiation according to the purpose & frequency of the intended display and the audience size.

For the pieces in your survey which I have copies of, I paid whatever was the standard retail price at the time, but that spans ~16 years in different parts of the world. Sometimes music purchases felt expensive, at other times I was able to buy more than one album at once, but more often than not music purchases were plain out of reach. If I had to replace my whole collection now I doubt I’d bother, as I don’t really listen to music anymore, but if only a few albums got damaged I’d probably be ok replacing them at current retail prices.

Doubt I’d pay more for as-yet-unreleased work than for music which is already out there.

Bit confused what you are asking about, as “own” could mean everything from full copyright to the piece in multiple countries & the ability to collect royalties & to sue people for using the piece without your permission, to owning the original written manuscript & composers’ notes, or owning a master recording, or a copy to play as one wished, or just access to a copy.

When you ask about the dollar value I’d give to specific pieces, I don’t know whether you want to know how I’d assign a monetary amount to the value to humanity, to the music industry, to the artists involved, the retail price of an album or single, or just what I’d pay today to hear those pieces.

I’d have no interest in owning full rights to music I had no part in creating, so wouldn’t want to buy such a thing - guess if someone gave me something like this as a gift I’d make it available to the world on a CCC license or similar?

Manuscripts & master recordings? Again, I’d want to make these accessible to the public.

Physical & digital copies of recordings am happy to buy, and do this instead of streaming. Have copies of the released stuff your survey mentions, but idk what I paid for any of it.

Try to find a group near you that shows it in a venue. Many of these put it on fortnightly or monthly.

Late October would be best, but anytime is good.

Might be possible to have a bot that auto-converts youtube.com links to yewtu.be?

Think a guideline which encourages this might work better. Otherwise probably wise to avoid going as far as making it a bald requirement, but allowing imprecise indications i.e “[if you like X piece/artist/genre you might like this]” or even something as vague as a description of the vibe.

A lot of people know little to nothing about genres, and there is plenty of music whose genre is hotly debated.

Middle panel on most points, but only because too dumb & impulsive to be tech paranoid.

Don’t be dumb & impulsive, kids, it is not a good mix.

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