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Web Radio Negotiations Carry Poison Pill
Adambomb writes "It seems that the deal that saved Net radio at the 11th hour, the new terms that would limit the maximum fee for multiple-channel Web radio broadcasts, contains a hook. To qualify for the cap, broadcasters must work to ensure that stream-ripping is not feasible. Given that the analog hole will always exist as far as I can imagine in such scenarios, is this even possible?" The article mentions the measures Net stations could easily take but have been reluctant to — lowering bit rates, playing jingles over the music, cross-fading songs. How long before they are backed into using these techniques?
No. Just close the audio hole. Total audio saturation, even at the analog level.
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
you got tired of lost too, didn't you ?
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Please stop stalking me, bro.
In other news: Several defendants in cases against piracy, bought to the courts by the RIAA, have mysteriously disappeared, died of cancer, heart attacks and car crashes. Amazingly all of their families have donated their entire estates to a charity setup to support artists forced into poverty by the growing piracy epidemic.
You'll have to pry my analog ears from cold dead hands...erm...head!
As for your suggestion in a serious light - you know they'd do it if they could. Anything to get a "captive paying audience" rather than change their business model.
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It's actually pretty easy to get rid of the crossfading.
1. Grab some nice sound editing software (probably just steal it, you know, because you're a pirate).
2. Record tracks and split them up so that you catch the crossfades at both the beginning and end.
3. Once you have two versions of the same song, with different crossfades, use your new software to find and extract only the waves with "double strength". And subtract half of that from your actual songs until all you have is the add, or another song.
4. Now subtract what you have left from the track you want to keep. Voila.
5. ???
6. Profit!
Okay, so nobody is going to spend this much time on recording smooth jazz, or any other music format, as it would be cheaper to just buy the CD's. That's besides the fact that the file is going to be a bad quality 24, 48, or 96kbs file anyways... I'm only saying that it can, in fact, be done. I've done similar work, not removing crossfades, but taking out background noises from recordings and the like.
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