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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.)
The results show that the two most recommended "indy" artists are Green Day and 50 Cent! Never saw that one coming.
Hooray!
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"Clarke is also the designer of Dijjer, a distributed P2P web cache, meant to reduce the bandwidth load on slashdotted websites." - From wikipedia
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http://www.indy.tv/ is already not responding
Does it matter? You could come out with a new-fangled widget and say "How long until the stoners figure out a way to smoke pot out of this?"
Who cares??? It's primary use is, and probably will be for the forseeable future, sharing of indy music. Besides, since when has the RIAA shut down anything? Their M.O. is lawsuits, and you can't sue if there is no traffic going.
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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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That might slow them down a bit by preventing network sniffing, but the Powers That Be would just dummy out clients to act like client software and get the same information. Unless you went private, they'd still be able to see what you were sharing.
Heck, that might be what they are doing now. It'd be faster than grep-ing through network logs...
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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.
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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.
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.
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I'd love to get my hands on this.
So would I.
Unfortunately, I got through, and its only available for Windows. No Linux or Mac support. Bleh.
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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
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.
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I mean like two different account types. Artists (posters) and Users (downloads/sharers) Artists register their files with the network. Users can then download and share those files, but ONLY those files. They can't add anything they've ripped off a cd or anything like that.
Basically, there just needs to be a system in place to make sure that the music really is independent so that this doesn't become just another Kazaa or Napster.
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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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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
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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