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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. OK by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now does that make them a one download wonder?

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  2. Slashdot by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A band from the 80's, just trying to make ends-meat, and you link them to slashdot. Hopefully the publicity will skyrocket whatever profits they can make, instead of just incuring heavy ISP costs.... looked like an independent site.

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  3. 10 maximum on their FTP server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are less than 10 of us on Slashdot, right?

    *cough*

    Mirror, mirror, who's got the mirror.

  4. 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! :)

  5. 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.

  6. 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.