Indy: Auto-Discover Free Music to Download

Luyi Chen writes "Indy is a free p2p music download system, which is a new way for independent musicians to find their listerners. From Buzzsonic News, "Indy uses collaborative filtering, a system similar to that used by Amazon to recommend books, etc, to prospective buyers, to learn about your musical preferences in relation to other Indy users." The author of Indy is also the creator of the Open Source P2P platforms Freenet." (That would be Ian Clarke.)

Comments

Re:RIAA

[Flamora]

One would assume (a dangerous pastime, I know) that they have measures in place already to regulate this... Community moderators? Checksum analyzers? Who knows? I think there'd be a way to stop it...

Amazing!

[SleezyG]

The results show that the two most recommended "indy" artists are Green Day and 50 Cent! Never saw that one coming.

Re:Amazing!

[evil-osm]

No, you got that incorrect, its actually Gleen Day, and 50 Cert. They are the knock off bands silly!

Wrong...

[mekkab]

listerners.

I believe the correct spelling is list-turners. When with the editors learn? SIGH.

Re:Wrong...

[cacepi]

At first I thought it said cisterners .

Puts a whole new spin on the term "crappy music".

meh

[Anonymous Coward]

"Clarke is also the designer of Dijjer, a distributed P2P web cache, meant to reduce the bandwidth load on slashdotted websites." - From wikipedia

http://www.indy.tv/ is already not responding :\

Re:RIAA

[Reignking]

MPAA will shut it down first, for using the name "Indy", which is a clear rip-off of Indiana Jones...

Is it honest?

[dfn5]

What I mean is if no one wants to listen to an artist's music, will it tell that artist, "I'm sorry but you suck, have a nice day". Or will it instead find pity listeners.

System similar to that used by Amazon

[Anonymous Coward]

People who didn't buy Death Cab for Cutie also recommended anything by Elliot Smith.

You already can

[Anonymous Coward]

All you need to do is find a torrent site that has a RSS feed, set up a few simple regular expressions and you will get everything you want.

I do it with TV episodes, as well as new PC game ISO's.

I already got all the music I will ever need (about 40 gigs) from napster before they closed the virtousa loophole.

Re:RIAA

[Humorously_Inept]

Maybe they should just shut it down right now. Clearly, "Indy" "artists" are cutting into their members' sales by producing music that is luring away members of the teenage demographic target market and does not generate profit for... Anyone? This erosion of the teenage demographic's core values of purchasing and consuming represents a serious threat to member record labels, enterprise at large, America and the entire world! Nefarious uses of a so-called P2P "sharing" scheme are of secondary concern.

SAVE THE MUSIC! Share your favorite music by buying it for a friend!

Re:Finally..

[Max_Wells_SH]

The state of the music industry and its bastardization of the art of music is in dire straits

Didn't you hear "Money For Nothing"? I think it's pretty obvious that the bastardization of the art of music has nothing to do with the Dire Straights.

Re:Who cares?

[MrP-(at work)]

yes because the nsyncs and britney spears of the world are super talented

(yeah i know you're a troll, but i just like to bash nsync and britney =P)

first rule of indy, don't tell slashdot.

[Suppafly]

From Ian Clarke's blog


Check it out here, let me know what you think (PS. the website will shut down automatically if it starts getting too many hits, so tell your friends, but don't tell /. ;-).