Gnomoradio: Creative Commons Music Sharing

An anonymous reader writes "I just stumbled upon Gnomoradio, a file sharing jukebox based on Creative Commons licenses. This program looks like a garage band's dream come true! It recommends songs based on each user's ratings, and has the capability to share them. Announced less than a year ago, the program has already made a great deal of progress, as can be seen from these screenshots. I downloaded the Debian package, and aside from a few interface quirks, the program works flawlessly. Is this the future of digital music, or should we be looking for something less centralized?"

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Re:Asked and answered

[stratjakt]

So do I, and I'd rather go to the local bar and get drunk while listening to the local band on a Saturday night.

But, like I said, most people are only interested in artists that they're told to listen to by the E! channel or MTV. And those are RIAA artists.

Americans want corporatized boardroom approved crap and thats the way it is.

Any "alternative" music scene of any popularity is quickly assimilated into the mainstream these days. They absorbed punk, metal, hip-hop, country, ska/reggae.. Anything artists come up with, they absorb like the Borg and package and polish into MTV crap.

Because that's what the majority wants. We can bitch but we can't change it.

That's why, as I've said before, I hate music and have all but eliminated it from my life.