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

Amazing!

[SleezyG]

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

Finally..

[blake213]

I've been predicting the rise of indy music for quite some time now, and I believe this is a great tool that will further the movement. The state of the music industry and its bastardization of the art of music is in dire straits, and I believe it is only a matter of time before listeners will no longer be able to be "brainwashed" into listening to cookie cutter music.

Hooray!

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

[PDXNerd]

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.

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.

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:RIAA

[jim_v2000]

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.

Re:Sounds interesting

[rkcallaghan]

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.

~Rebecca

Re:Finally.. - Like indy music, try Weed

[EtherAlchemist]

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.

Re:RIAA

[Hatta]

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?