So, listening to one of my own 'Y'know, this could work as a racer's backing track' candidates, it struck me that it'd be really cool if the highlight/streaming broadcast reels, along with the announcer and commentators, included whatever happened to be blasting in the current leader's cockpit at that moment.

Including changing when the leader status did.

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>So, listening to one of my own 'Y'know, this could work as a racer's
>backing track' candidates, it struck me that it'd be really cool if
>the highlight/streaming broadcast reels, along with the announcer and
>commentators, included whatever happened to be blasting in the current
>leader's cockpit at that moment.
>
>Including changing when the leader status did.

I've been watching corpo livestreamers enough recently that my thoughts automatically turned to how the music licensing for the broadcasters would work, or not work, as the case may be. :)

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>>Including changing when the leader status did.
>
>I've been watching corpo livestreamers enough recently that my
>thoughts automatically turned to how the music licensing for the
>broadcasters would work, or not work, as the case may be. :)

Honestly, I feel like 'Register your playlist' being a field on the signup forms would probably be the simplest way.

No, the tricky bit would be the tracks whose titles include the words 'Explicit Version'.

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>No, the tricky bit would be the tracks whose titles include the words
>'Explicit Version'.

(glances at iTunes "Music for Asteroid Racing" playlist, which, yes, he's had for many years)

Of which there would be... many.

Ah well, the event itself would probably have a viewer discretion warning anyway, given that competitors sometimes... you know... get atomized and stuff.

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True, true. Given the prominence of military hardware, the need for high-speed rescue ships and medical support, etc, the budgets involved are probably enough to lose the music rights under a couch cushion.

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