The Invisible Mountain
The Library of Alexandria is long since history. Until today, however, it embodies an ideal: to collect, organize and make available all the works of the world in a single place. This ideal is still just that: a dream. Because there is still no universal library for non-fiction and specialist books. After all, thanks to streaming, the entire world of music is available to us. Or is that not the case? In fact, the figures from the largest providers are impressive - according to current information, 40 million songs are available on Amazon Prime Music and Deezer, 50 million on Spotify and Apple Music. Tidal even boasts 60 million. But that is only a part of what has been recorded in the history of music. A conservative estimate puts the total number of all recorded tracks at just under 100 million. [1] This does not, however, take into account the fact that most of the recordings are far from being digitized and are therefore not included in the calculations. The potential of streaming, it is becoming increasingly clear, is far from exhausted.
Some people do not want to accept this. The
