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Record W2754167297 · doi:10.17742/image.ld.8.2.7

“Hear the World’s Sounds”: Locality as Metadata in Two Music-Streaming Services

2017· article· en· W2754167297 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Michael Audette-Longo

Bibliographic record

VenueImaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetadataLocalityWorld Wide WebComputer scienceMultimediaLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract | Music-streaming services have disrupted the music industry’s established commodity formats and place-bound consumer experiences, producing seemingly limitless and algorithmically driven modes of listening. These music services target a global audience, as evident in Soundcloud’s promise to enable audiences to “hear the world’s sound.” This article maps out the deployment of local regions as tags and metadata in music-streaming services, arguing that there is a reconfiguration of locality evident, what I dub the indexi-local. This portmanteau—coordinating the terms index and local—grasps at the effort to design a participatory platform experience vis-à-vis local regions. This article undertakes a close reading of the interfaces of two music-streaming services: Bandcamp and Soundcloud. First, metadata is shown to play a significant role in the design and operations of digital music platforms, not only organizing the circulation of data but also generating listening recommendations. Second, the circulation of local regions as metadata within these two services’ interfaces is then highlighted in the tagging activities of platform users. While the circulation of local regions as metadata imbricates with broader efforts to create a more participatory and place-bound streaming experience, it also flattens local differences into a gray media aesthetic of hashtags and geotagged text.Résumé | Les services de diffusion de musique ont perturbé les formats de produits établis par l’industrie de la musique et les expériences de consommation liées aux lieux, produisant des modes d’écoute apparemment illimités et basés sur des algorithmes. Ces services de musique ciblent un public mondial, comme le prouve la promesse de Soundcloud de permettre au public « d’écouter les sons du monde ». Cet article décrit le déploiement des régions en tant qu’étiquettes et métadonnées dans les services de diffusion de musique, en faisant valoir qu’il y a une reconfiguration de localité évidente, que je surnomme l’indexi-local. Cette expression, qui combine les termes index et local, capte l’effort de concevoir une expérience de plate-forme participative vis-à-vis des régions. Cet article effectue une lecture approfondie des interfaces de deux services de diffusion de musique : Bandcamp et Soundcloud. Tout d’abord, les métadonnées sont présentées comme jouant un rôle important dans la conception et l’exploitation des plates-formes de musique numériques, non seulement en organisant la circulation des données, mais aussi en générant des recommandations d’écoute. Deuxièmement, la circulation des régions comme métadonnées dans les interfaces de ces deux services est alors mise en évidence dans les activités de marquage des utilisateurs de plateformes. Alors que la circulation des régions en tant que métadonnées se superpose avec des efforts plus larges pour créer une expérience de diffusion plus participative et liée au lieu, elle réduit également les différences locales à une esthétique morne de médias de hashtags et de balises géographiques.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.831
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.010
Scholarly communication0.0170.018
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.158
GPT teacher head0.434
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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