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by Practicality 4051 days ago
I am sincerely curious as to how music could be not qualitative (IE, quantitative). Is better music just more notes? Or more words? What numeric value of music would be better? Making more money, perhaps?

Or are you saying that a music's popularity, in terms of how many people listen to it, is how you determine it's value?

That is definitely an interesting way of looking at it. I can't say it's not a valid way of measuring it.

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I thought you meant that there is some way to measure quality of music.
I think there really is music that is clearly better, but only subjectively. But you're right, a lot of hipsters think that there is objective quality in their particular brand of music. But I think they are just a different section of average.
> I think there really is music that is clearly better, but only subjectively.

Hmm... it looks like we agree much more on this point than I thought.