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Gnomoradio: Creative Commons Music Sharing

Posted by michael on from the share-the-love dept.

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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  1. similar to irate by iamplupp · · Score: 5, Informative

    This seem to be based on the same concept as irate

  2. Good Start by jim_nanney · · Score: 5, Informative

    But really, I prefer http://www.magnatune.com/ . Its uses allow for free download of music and yet still promotes licensing music (paying the actual artist for thier creations) It is a perfect blend of free for public consumption, and paying musicians royalties.

  3. Performance is owned by Otto · · Score: 5, Informative

    Correct me if I'm wrong but nobody owns the works of Mozart.

    You're right, however the works of Mozart need to be performed. And those performances are owned by the people who performed them.

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  4. Re:The Classics by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Informative

    oh but that's the beauty! there's OLD recordings that can be transferred to digital in damn fine quality, too.

    one of the national stations over here used to play classical music from some 20-30's recordings all night long some years ago, as they didn't have to pay for playing them at all.

    now they just play pop.. trying to compete with commercial channels I suppose but whats the point for them(they're not a commercial channel, yet they try to act like one for some weird reason - taking all the bad bits from commercial stations like braindead hosts)..

    and in addition to that there's quite many classical orchestras that don't really make the recordings for profit(you can find good classical music cd's in the discount bin always).

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  5. Re:it will die to its own popularity by NereusRen · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it's anything like iRate, it doesn't use absolute rating to decide whether artists are "good" or "bad." It uses your ratings to find people who have SIMILAR interests to you, and gives you songs that THEY rate highly. Problem solved.

  6. There is also iRate by thelizman · · Score: 2, Informative

    irate.sourceforge.net

    I used it, but the GTK client was buggy as shit. However, I discovered quite a few good tunes once I got a working version installed. Clients for Win/Mac/Linux available.