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Web Radio Negotiations Carry Poison Pill

Posted by kdawson on from the in-a-tear-over-ripping dept.

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?

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  1. What the.... fuck... was this? by Sneakernets · · Score: 3, Informative

    Impossible. Nothing was saved. As long as microphones and Full duplex cards exist, and a headphone jack, you cannot...

    Why is my nose bleeding?

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  2. Already done? by jgiam · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sky.fm and Smoothjazz.com are already doing crossfading. Plus they crossfade jingles into the end of a track, so if you try to stream-rip, the jingle gets saved too. I can't speak for the other Internet Radio stations.

  3. Re:Digital hole by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Informative

    All the sound cards I own have an option to record "what you hear".


    Even with the sound hardware integrated onto many motherboards these days with the regular VIA, etc., 5.1 audio chipsets, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture pretty much allows you to capture anything the sound card is putting out. So if it can be played on Linux, it can be captured on Linux.

    Makes me wonder if they'll preclude open source platforms from listening to Internet radio streams.
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  4. Re:Crossfading songs?!? by cosinezero · · Score: 4, Informative

    "It really is a lost art, because it took real finesse for DJ's to get it sounding right with vinyl."

    -->It's not a lost art at all; djs in clubs do it every night, with much greater technical skill. Many match beats, some even match key, others even use various tricks with the mixer to provide greater range of blending options.

    Really, the art is not dead; in fact, it's come a long, long way.

  5. JJJ is a favourite of mine too by Nazlfrag · · Score: 3, Informative
    Listen live or browse the archives.

    The geeks will love Dr. Karl and the other science shows, like his recent call-in show with Sir Roger Penrose and Dr Kip Thorne (links to mp3).