Tag: Music
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Why I love remastering music
People often ask me, “You’re a translator and writer. How come you also remaster music?” Well, here’s my answer. In professional translation, there’s one principle you need to keep in mind: the reader of the translated text must have the exact same experience as the reader of the original text. I have loved this process…
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This is 2021—no need for geo-blocking
Jotting down some notes and thoughts for my readers on Facebook yesterday, I mentioned the term geo-blocking. I think everyone’s painfully familiar with this inconvenient feature of the internet: you go to a site, including YouTube, to look at some specific content, and the site tells you, sorry, this content, video, etc. is not available…
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YouTube Music will prove Google’s downfall
Watch, listen, read—this is what most people use the internet for. They watch movies and TV shows, they listen to music, and read newspapers, magazines and books. When it comes to getting one’s entertainment fix, or educating oneself about this or that, these are good times to be alive. But sometimes things happen that make…