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Anything Box Releases An Album To Share

Posted by timothy on from the meet-me-by-the-electric-tree dept.

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."

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  1. other recent free music by rehabdoll · · Score: 5, Informative

    There has been some "free anti-war" music recently.
    http://www.marchofdeath.com/ & http://www.beastieboys.com/

    Dont whine, its free! :)

  2. Re:why do people even bother zipping mp3s? by aheath · · Score: 5, Informative
    Sometimes it's easy forget that there is more to ZIP utilities than file compression.

    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.

  3. Re:I would love to hear this group by milkmandan9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Come on, 10 users? by ralphus · · Score: 4, Informative

    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
  5. Re:Because it's bundled by De+Lemming · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.