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I'm not in it for the money - that's the point. Previously last.fm was a place where I could distribute music for free and have people listen to it for free.

My comment about the royalties was just to demonstrate that the fees that people are going to have to pay now are NOT going to go to the independent artists - which I've noticed is a potential excuse given by some commentators - but straight into the pockets of the majors. This was fine when it was advertisers paying (corporate money being transferred to another corporate), but it's a completely different matter when they are asking the listeners to pay.

P.S. If you really want to hear my albums you can go here. I don't claim to be particularly good mind you.

this is me- http://www.rpmchallenge.com/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/user,3336/Itemid,296/

What's your handle over there?

Mine.

Here is my RPM Profile.

All of my current music is Creative Commons-licensed. All the new material will be too.

The parent is right.

Dump the RIAA and its minions - in the the true American spirit, give these independants a shot:
http://www.rpmchallenge.com/

I agree fully that you can pretty much get the job done on just about any platform hardware/software combo. I disagree about the latency issue to some extent. As far as I know, most of the solutions involve some sort of low latency mode or monitoring without effects, where with an HD system, there is generally no issue, and the latency is normally measured in samples, not ms. I don't base this on any recent personal experience however. Mostly just anecdotal evidence, as it always seems to be one of the most common issues I see discussed in forums. Actually, I am participating in the RPM Challenge http://www.rpmchallenge.com/, and I saw a thread discussing Audacity and the first issue that popped up was latency.

For a lot of home recordists, I don't think it is that big a deal. It is my impression that a lot more people are making electronic-ish (hop hop, techno, trance, ambient, whatever) at home than recording multiple acoustic musicians simultaneously. At least that is my impression. Other packages (Logic, GarageBand, not so much Nuendo) really seem to be geared more toward songwriting and composition, where something like ProTools is more focused on mixing and post production. I think many people would find Pro Tools confusing because it presumes you have a good deal of understanding of analog mixing.

That being said, after recording for a week and a half solid, the biggest sonic improvement I have made recently was a new microphone and preamp. Truly worlds of difference there. The thing I would recommend to anyone who records themselves and finds it awkward and difficult is the TranzPort http://www.frontierdesign.com/Products/TranzPort. That thing works with just about any software out there, and trust me, it is absolutely awesome.

Uh, make that... http://www.rpmchallenge.com/rpm_player.html?band=T heNaughtyFive

Yeah, check it out, we're the Naughty-Five... http://www.rpmchallenge.com/rpm_player.html?band=T heNaughtyFive/

It is a big link right on their home page. Actually all pages.

http://www.rpmchallenge.com/rpm_player.html

Some of the songs are pretty good, some crap. Then again I think most of the 'hits' on the radio are crap, and many don't care for my taste. So what do I know?