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The AudioGalaxy Story

mouloid writes "Now that Audiogalaxy is blocking all songs. One of the ex-programmers of AG writes about his days with the AG team." Interesting read.

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  1. Re:Good plan, though by colmore · · Score: 5, Informative

    Burn the CDs, see the show and buy a T-Shirt, the artist will get a much greater percentage of your money.

    Record Labels and distributors get something like 90% of CD revenue.

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  2. Re:Download Queues & Gnutella by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope it's been available for a really really long time as a "harvester" of sorts.

    napshare allows you to set up bot rules to snag everything that matches "butthole surfers mp3 moving to florida" will attempt to snage EVERYTHING that matches that search. so if you leave it running for a week, you're hard drive will be full of 90,000 copies of that song.... that's the bad part. the good part? leave it going overnight, and delete the 80 crappy ones and keep that one 256VBR ot 192 bitrate mp3 that was encoded propery and with a good encoder.

    remember just getting it is the easy part... getting an mp3 that isn't crappy is the hard part.... only one out of every 20 mp3's of the same song is worth downloading, the other 19 are crap. and the ratio is getting worse.

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  3. Re:Download Queues & Gnutella by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    If I understand what you want, Gtk-Gnutella can do this. It's by far the best Gnutella client I've ever used (whether in *nix or Windows).

  4. Re:Good plan, though by joshsisk · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you think it's a myth, check out this article by Steve Albini. In case you don't know who he is, Albini is a career musician who, among his other accomplishments, produced at least one Nirvana album.

    Make sure to check out his royalty breakdown at the bottom, based on his experience working in the record industry. It's pretty interesting stuff.

  5. your options are... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You're going to take one hell of a beating for that. Check the links on the page below for more consistent tech news. You'll see a few familiar names; just skip them.

    http://rootprompt.org/links.html

  6. Re:Peer to Peer for friends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    RIMPS http://sourceforge.net/projects/rimps/

  7. Re:The Moral Thing to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    > Remember that they spend money promoting the bands too. You might not get to hear some good bands because the record comanies did not "discover" them.

    Guess what ? Online music communities would just do that.

    And that's exactly what record label fear. The end of their business model.

  8. Re:AG will be missed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Have you heard of Emusic? It sounds similar to what you describe. Not P2P though, but it's good for finding new types of music and is supposedly profitable.

    Short description of Emusic: $15 a month for unlimited downloads of regular mp3s, downloading fast enough to saturate my 2mbps cable line. My only gripe is that it's all at 128K (I usually use 192 or 256 when ripping), which sounds fine for most songs, but not all of them.

  9. Re:Good plan, though by kidlinux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Did you read the whole article? Like this part, for example:

    "I bought a ridiculous number of CDs while I worked there, because I found out about music that I wouldn't have otherwise."

    I can say the same thing. Over a half of my 200 CD collection is due to AudioGalaxy (it was my file sharing app of choice.) That's 100+ legitimate CD purchases due to file sharing, and file sharing only.
    Gee, who'd have figured, eh?

    If Kennon Ballou did it, and I did it, it makes me wonder how many other people did too.

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