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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.)
Apparently, the article is already slashdotted, so you'll have to forgive me for following tradition and not R(ing)TFA, but I have to say, I'd love to get my hands on this.
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I use iTunes quite a bit (yes, in conjunction with Jhymn so I can listen to the music I buy on the CDMP3 player in my car), and while I appreciate iTMS' decent selection of indie and less-known bands, I have to say that their suggestion system sucks.
I find most iMixes to be abhorrently bad, and iTMS' recommendations as to what other users bought are, quite frankly, nuts. I'll be looking at an indie rock/screamo band (like Sparta), and I'm getting recommendations to buy, and I'm not kidding, opera, elevator muzak, and some christian metal. What the hell?
Hopefully, Indie will work a bit better than that. Can't wait to try it out - I'm running out of suggestions on Gnoosic and Music Plasma.
I think they should do something like having the artists register which songs they are distributing. There then could be a master list of all available songs that the user side would look to to see if the song they are downloading is supposed to be on the network. It would also be a good idea to make it so that users cannot add files to the network. Probably there's a much better way of doing this that might already be imped, but that's just the concept that I was thinking about.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
And why not just use a web site?
Have you ever tried Irate? The more popular download locations can get hit pretty hard.
Everything will be taken away from you.
WeedShare is my current favorite way to find new music.
I think it's actually a brilliant way to distribute and promote music. You get three free plays of each track you download. If you decide to purchase it, you can put it on three PCs, burn it, put it on a portable device and even share it with someone else as long as it remains in the original file format.
I just looked at their site and now it looks like they will give you $5 to buy music with for creating a free account. As far as I know, they've never had a sub fee. You just buy the tracks.
Pricing is totally up to the artist. I've seen tracks as low as a qaurter, but most are right around a buck.
Now for the "different" part. The artist always gets 50% of the track price. 15% goes to Weed and the balance is split up among the people who distributed the file. This is fucking brilliant, you can actually make some money by sharing someone else's music.
Check it out here.
BTW- if you're an artist, they tell you how to get your music in their system. Sweet.
R(k)
Wants away with P2P, not the "pirating" as pirating is a part of marketing to your stuff well known...
They can't stand other distributors because that would really mean the end.
Even the richest companies can go down, mainly because lack of daily revenue can cost millions a day.
I hope the indies out there in the world will be in high numbers and pluriform to keep off the RIAA.
I for one wish them all success in the world.
How long until people start using this as a way to transfer non-independent songs?
That, and after that, how long would it take the RIAA shuts it down?
Furthurnet.net has been supplying free artist authorized live recordings through p2p quite successfully for several years. They use a band whitelist, but with a supportive community it's kept pretty clean. And why wouldn't it be? We know we've got a good thing going, why would the majority risk losing it?
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