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Anything Box Releases An Album To Share
cats writes "Anything Box, the synthpop band from the 80's who had a hit with 'Living in Oblivion' have released an introspective albumn in mp3 format under a 'freeware' style license. Anyone who has ever seen these guys perform know they are just a bunch of nice people trying to make ends meet as musicians. I had the opportunity to hang with Claude before his show in NJ at The Pipe back in 1998. He had some interesting asides about how the music business in general operates. They manipulate the artists' work as well as take huge cuts of musicians' profits. The album is available via download as one big zip file including artwork and is in mp3 format. Very cool."
I don't know their music to say just how introspective their songs may be, but since this is a collection of previously released songs I think it's fair to say the word you're looking for is "retrospective."
But this has been available for 6 months. The first track is probably the best of the lot.
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There has been some "free anti-war" music recently.
:)
http://www.marchofdeath.com/ & http://www.beastieboys.com/
Dont whine, its free!
It makes sense to zip multiple uncompressible files in order to package related files. This simplifies the download process for someone who wants to receive all the .MP3 files and artwork files in a single download. This practice goes back to the early CP/M BBS days and such utilities as LU the "Library Utility."
ZIP utilities can also be used to control the presentation of a download. In a previous job, I packaged software updates for download. I often created self-extracting archives with an explicit recommended decompression path. This made life a lot easier for the person downloading the file. This also made it easier support person who had to walk someone through a software upgrade.
Manually FTPing in reveals that there is a 10-user limit to the server.
What are the odds you or I will be one of them?
That's what I thought. I'll be back in a few days.
You can also download individual songs.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
post a link on slashdot to a FTP site with a 10 user max? I'll be waiting months to download this.
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
An FTP authentication failure occurred while trying to retrieve the URL: ftp://ftp.anythingbox.com/pub/album.zip
Squid sent the following FTP command:
USER anonymous
and then received this reply
Sorry, the maximum number of allowed clients (10) already connected.
Your cache administrator is root.
Generated Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:41:47 GMT by localhost.localdomain (Squid/2.4.STABLE7)
Revolutions are never about freedom or justice. They're about who's going to be top dog. -- Kilgore Trout
album.zip mirror here
i don't know what winzip you are using, but the version i have can definitely handle both tar and gzip files
http://winzip.com/aboutzip.htm
I don't believe windows come with a zip utility.
As the parent post mentioned, zip functionality is bundeled with WinXP and WinME. It's not a separate utility, but its integrated in Windows Explorer. In explorer, zip files open as normal directories (and by right clicking files in explorer you can zip them).
So you don't need WinZip to handle zip files. But Windows doesn't know about tar or gzip files, so you still have to use WinZip for those.
from the site
"C+P Presswerk.13 Media. All Rights Reserved. These titles may not be mass manufactured, resold, or otherwise distributed in stores without the permission of Presswerk.13 Media. They are to remain FREE as the artist intended. If you bought this album, please report it to us!
why not?
sounds like they dont care if you redistribute it, you just cant sell it.
Other than a convenient way to gather multiple tracks together, to prevent these guys from doing this kind of stuff.
Yep, little old Winzip is the Sharpie for this expensive DRM.
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."