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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. iRate by athakur999 · · Score: 3, Informative

    This sounds pretty similar to iRate which is a front end for downloading freely available songs from artist web pages and letting you rate them which in turns find more songs to download.

    It seemed like a good idea but the interface was annoying enough that I gave up using it when I tried it out several months ago. Hopefully this project can take the idea and run with it and couple it with an interface that's more flexible.

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  2. Re:RIAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    looks like it gets streamed.

    That's what I thought too, but fortuantely I read TFA before I posted, so I had a chance to grab the program before the site was slashdotted.

    It downloads a few mp3's at a time. As you rate each song, it either plays the rest of the song (3-5 stars) or immediately skips to the next song (1-2 stars.) After the song is over, the file gets sorted into one of 5 folders, depending on which star rating you gave the song. Then it downloads a few more mp3's, presumably based on your star ratings of previous songs.

  3. Indy is based on Irate.. by acomj · · Score: 3, Informative
    Indy is based on Irate.. see Ian Clarks page

  4. looks like an ipod/ buggy/ submit your music by acomj · · Score: 3, Informative
    I submitted this monday, so was surprised to see it today. That aside.

    This article has a review of the player. Not ready from prime time software buat a great idea though. As another poster pointed it its based on the open source Irate software .
    It also looks like an ipod shuffle sideways with a screen.

    When the page is done with its slashdotting, you can submit your music to the indy page

  5. Re:RIAA by DigiShaman · · Score: 3, Informative

    SomaFM.com got shut down by CARP because the were broadcasting indi music over the internet without giving CARP and RIAA royalties, but only for a moment. I think it's all settled now and SomaFM is still free. You can read about the history of this issue here http://www.somafm.com/news

    But basically, the RIAA/CARP are a legalized mofia using the power of government to shape the industry right into their own pockets.

    I think I speak for most of us on slashdot when I say "fuck em"

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