Thought, have we captured any ringtones yet? 
seems like something @UltimateRiff would be interested in
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Another entry, another interesting and concise dive into a British institution
I’ve been following this podcaster for about a year now. She does a weekly series called Multi Level Mondays that covers multilevel marketing companies and other scams. One episode deals with BurnLounge, a now-defunct MLM that dealt in digital music downloads:
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Thank you! Fascinating topic!!
I’ve gone deep into the MLM tunnels (not joining them hah, just reading…) and it’s fascinating! I’ve actually been looking for rips of MLM ‘training tapes’ for ages. Sub-orgs of MLMs like Amway pump them out like crazy, in their thousands, but it’s actually quite hard to find any online in full.
If anyone has an aunty with a bunch of that crap lying around, hook me up 
If anyone curious, here is a full rip off an older one that someone in Discord was kind enough to point out: How To Earn $550.00 Cash : Matt Dalley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
P.s. fascinating in a morbid curiosity sense - pyramid schemes are a blight upon the earth. But there’s some interesting psychology involved.
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I was going to recommend checking out Uncommon Ephemera on YouTube, as they had a collection of obscure media like this. Unfortunately they took their entire collection down upon receiving complaints from copyright trolls 
This makes me feel c r e a t i v e 
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This video sets out to figure out who really made the original Roblox “Oof” sound (spoiler: it was (most likely) Joey Kuras)… and takes a massive detour to unravel (some of) all the lies that Tommy Tallarico keep telling about himself. It ends up with discussing how a lot of artists involved with creating video games go unrecognised (like the mostly female Capcom Sound Team) and how important it is to record/archive history as it happens (like we’re doing!) and other talk about video game music in general.
After watching this, I’m curious how many of Tallarico’s credits need fixing…
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incredible video, I kept going “He didn’t, he didn’t, HE DID” throughout. I half expected him to ask if his name really was Tommy Tallarico!~
I’ve posted this video on the forums before, but it reminds me of jan misali’s video on Caramelldansen, a tale of lost media, historical revisionism, and balsamic vinegar:
(it also reminds me of Internet Historian’s videos The Fall of 76 and The Engoodening of No Man’s Sky, but those are more video game related, not really music related)
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I hate to double-post, but in the comments of the OOF video, someone mentioned Defunctland also did a video recently in a similar vein
I never even watched the Disney Channel, but I found the deep dive into production music absolutely fascinating~
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I’ve started this, it’s great so far
absolutely amazing watch - I agree production music is such a dark-art
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Not really that long of a video; but interesting either way… I love craptronics (as I call them) for this exact reason!
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Adam Neely hitting it out of the park yet again~ all about copyright and the concept of owning a ham sandwich music
edit: also makes me wonder how many works we can connect to I Got Rhythm…
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More odd audio hardware time!
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I feel validated with what was #1 considering my damning review of it
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very interesting watch~
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I know it’s not quite “long format”, but I think the ideas put forth here could be put to good use in MusicBrainz/ListenBrainz~ it’s definitely “of Interest to the MBz Nerd Community”, tho… 
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with the discussion about AI-generated music and whatnot, it’s quite timely that Tom Scott just did a video touching on it
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probably already well known to many here, but interesting anyway
