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Or go here for your music and have a whole lot more left for Oxfam :)

You mean kinda like this?

MusicBrainz::TRM does that. Also, there was the project Songprint (now defunct). The perl bindings for TRM (the part that listens to the song and makes a fingerprint) are currently broken. I can't manage to get them to work :/

The developers of musicbrains hang out on irc.freenode.net/#musicbrainz. They'll tell you to use libtunepimp, which can be found in their CVS repository on musicbrainz.org

There's an extremely cool website that is being developed by the audioscrobbler folks, Last.fm. It's a personalized radio station. You pick what songs you like, and it learns what you like. Very, very cool.

That looks a lot like Last.fm, with the difference that iRATE caches songs (you need an IRATE client to do that), but Last.fm streams everything (webradio).

I am glad you mentioned Dawkins. I have studied Dawkins massively.

I will refer to two items. Firstly - in the Simulation - the best possible group were the tit-for-tat. Although short-term gain is greater from a selfish act, if there is no-one to bum off, them you have nothing to gain. I think I pretty much operate a tit-for-tat basis(with mroe complex rules - but similar).

The second is the points about parasite/host relationships. If you consider - the RIAA members do not make music, they just retail it bulk. They are in effect parasites - where the Artists/Listeners are hosts. Now if you kill off, or seriously piss off the host- you will loose out - than quietly draining money off.

Anyway- this fringe benefit may prompt the music industry to host a site similar to last.fm and harvest market data there. They could even allow people to upload Open Music/Stuff they have composed themselves - as long as they do not lay claim to it.

Not everyone has net access - so people will buy, with market data like that - they would have a bigger picture than the charts do now.

Artists who want to make their stuff available for streaming, and in return see some stats on how it performs might like to check out a project i'm working on: Last.fm.

Also... people (like myself) who want to hear something new once in a while.

There's a pretty good alternative station in my area so I'm covered in the car. I was kind of at loose ends in my office, though. Oddly enough, it was the Internet that has (at least for now) come to my rescue there. last.fm is a streaming music station that doesn't play the songs and artists I choose, it plays similar ones I haven't heard of. Well, actually, it plays stuff that isn't very similar, but what the hell... that works for me, too. It's not going to help you in your car, of course...

last.fm might be for you then.

You should also check out Last.FM.

A personalised 128kbps stream, you can skip the songs you dont like, it learns and your personalised stream gets better :)

Last.FM is great, it starts streaming you music, you skip the songs you dont like, it learns what you like, and your personalised stream gets better and better!

Check 'em out for some great new music from independants and small/medium label stuff :)

There is already something like this out there, that uses loads of cool independant and smaller label stuff as well as some massive label stuff..

Check out Last.FM, they are very good. I've found a load of new artists from there. It is all stream based (128kbps) and they have a massive flash development section starting for open source goodness.

There's also the (all open source) Audioscrobbler project.. see my .sig :)

RJ