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Indy: Auto-Discover Free Music to Download

Posted by timothy on from the no-pirates-here dept.

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.)

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  1. Amazing! by SleezyG · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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 :\

  3. Is it honest? by dfn5 · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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  4. System similar to that used by Amazon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  5. Re:RIAA by Humorously_Inept · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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    ~Someday, I hope to be an aspiring author.
  6. first rule of indy, don't tell slashdot. by Suppafly · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 /. ;-).