The Seeburg 1000 could play a stack of 25 records, both sides, each side good for about an hour of music at the slow speed. Thus there was about 50 hours of audio in the stack, enough to keep it from being too repetitive.
Musak worked by distributing audio over phone lines, rather than using an on-site player.
Streaming no-name covers of songs as low-cost background music is not new at all. From a historical perspective, that's the history of music - mediocre musicians playing background music for little money. For a brief period of history in the 20th century, being in a famous band was a Big Deal. That started with mass-market record production, and ended when there were several million MySpace bands.
All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach.
Yes. See [1]
The Seeburg 1000 could play a stack of 25 records, both sides, each side good for about an hour of music at the slow speed. Thus there was about 50 hours of audio in the stack, enough to keep it from being too repetitive.
Musak worked by distributing audio over phone lines, rather than using an on-site player.
Streaming no-name covers of songs as low-cost background music is not new at all. From a historical perspective, that's the history of music - mediocre musicians playing background music for little money. For a brief period of history in the 20th century, being in a famous band was a Big Deal. That started with mass-market record production, and ended when there were several million MySpace bands.
All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000