Since I'm not an open-source zealot, other lossless formats would be OK by me, since they serve largely similar purposes. I already work with a bit of lossless AAC and WMA along with the large amounts of FLAC. (though it wouldn't hurt to have the OSS option as the de facto standard, let's all just pick something.:P)
Yes, some places do already offer downloads (whether paid or authorized free downloads) in lossless, but I wish it was more widespread. Various artists' bandcamp pages http://www.hdtracks.com/
I sometimes feel the need to buy a physical CD (when available) to get lossless.
yeah, it annoys me when people don't know about or understand FLAC. For their sake, I sometimes do a second copy of my uploads in 320kbps MP3. And speaking of my uploads, why won't some people use BitTorrent?....grr... I do appreciate those who do get it, however.
MediaMonkey, my player/manager of choice on Windows, handles most any audio format I throw at it, including FLAC and OGG. One reason it *is* my player of choice (it's closed-source freeware, by the way.)
I always merely saw it as the quality/popularity correlation not being as strong as we'd like, rather than negative.;) A lot of the mainstream does suck, don't get me wrong, but I'm willing to give credit where I feel credit is due. I wish some of my favorite indies were more popular, but many of them, while not filling arenas, are still fairly successful. Perhaps loving your work, being really good at it, and adding "bells and whistles" (to varying degrees) is a recipe for megasuccess.:D
(sibling AC was me, forgot to log in first. sorry)
I figure a digital scale would be more precise than trying to read the exact position of the dial on an analogue scale (for me, it's small packages rather than cooking ingredients; it's particularly important there since postal pricing increments at each weight level rather than being simply proportional.)
Yeah, in GMail it's in the dropdown menu under the arrow next to the regular reply button. (used it intentionally when communicating with group project teams) In the Zimbra implementation I'm looking at, it's right between Reply and Forward, but anyway, Reply All never cropped up as a problem for me anyway, sending or receiving.
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Designing the "molds" and running the printing process itself (managing printers, dealing with the raw material), etc would account for the manufacturing sector of this society I admit I'm not a Star Trek expert, but I think this was the whole point of Star Trek replicators, to show these things' effect on economy (also by contrasting with latinum and the Ferengi)
Cool project though this may be, the summary was patently unnecessary - obvious troll (of the anti-mainstream and anti-RIAA types common on Slashdot) is obvious.
My assessment of that research indicates that the graphite sticks will need to be pointed - now what if someone attacks me with a pointed graphite stick??
I still figure the popularity of major-label stuff will carry over to an extent, though not making it worse for the indies is a key requirement for designing this system.
I listen to a wide range of stuff, but can imagine skewing my donations under this system towards the modern indies.
That's one of the kinds of shenaniganry I was trying to prevent in the process of determining who's a valid musician. Even if the friends and relatives really are in the business, maybe there still should be anti-nepotism clauses and/or restrictions on quid-pro-quo deals like that, etc.
eMusic subscription credits not rolling over was a deal-breaker for me though, whatever other intriguing aspects of their service. I tried for a few months, got some nice albums out of it, but still...
Cool, but how does this differ from personal spending decisions except saying "spend at least $10/month"? Also would need to determine what constitutes a valid 'musician'.
I don't mind the music industry continuing to survive if it indeed gets with the times, and what appear to be steps in the right direction should be welcomed. The 360 does adapt to the reality that there's less money in selling recordings these days, though it can feed into label executives' penchant for abusive contracts
If Universal Music updates its circuitry and Warner & EMI hear us clearly fine by me * * Yes, this was a reference to the lyrics of MC Lars' _Download This Song_ (one of my favorite indie's best songs); incidentally, I feel that the new independent models, although they're wonderful game-changers, add to the industry rather than completely replacing the traditional model.
To be fair, the actual producers are involved in making the music itself, from high-level creative direction to being involved on the ground level of writing the songs and playing the instruments, depending on the nature of the particular project. Their additional role in coordinating the recording session is closer to useful managerial organization than the marketing suits you seem to be lambasting.:P
_Executive_ producers, now that isn't a creative role.
"I don't personally use A, so why should I pay a cent of taxes for A" to some extent makes sense, to some extent is a subset of antitax mania. ( a matter of degree?) Yet you probably like tax-funded activity B, and some fans of A probably feel the same way about B.
Nevertheless, mine and Tablizer's differing opinions on Ms. Germanotta aside, how to distribute the proceeds from such a scheme is a huge problem, something many others have also touched upon. People will game the system, as they will any system with a notable reward involved, but common sense presumes it will be insulated from the "paper musician" stunts often joked about in such discussions Being biased towards the mainstream music industry is a problem of the proposals put out by, well, the mainstream music industry, but I'm not sure if an anti-mainstream bias (the hipster mindset?) is the right answer either.
Nothing's perfect, but if done remotely well, such a scheme could be a great way around the P2P lawsuits and other excesses of copyright as pertaining to the music industry.
Looking at the Wikipedia pages his his albums, he often has a cowriter credit alongside hired-gun producers; thus I doubt how much he actually does - it may or may not mean something, but I don't care to do further research.:P Some non-Canadian pop stars also appear to be in this category.
I'm personally not much of a fan of Rush or Arcade Fire, but I like some Enter The Haggis and Great Big Sea as a subset of my taste for Celtic/rock fusion music, so I'll add those to the list of good Canadian songwriters.
I just knew this was going to be a Lady Gaga joke when I was halfway through the first line.
Becoming so popular (which seems to be her goal more so than money for whatever reason) does entail goofy bells and whistles and mouthbreathing-moron-sheep fans, but that's not all there is. There's plenty of steak elsewhere in the world, but there's more steak under this sizzle than usual, although it's easy for the average person to lose track of
Even her popular stuff is often better and a lot more fun than a lot of the stuff out there on the mainstream, low bar though that may be. Nevertheless, she actually can sing quite nicely; I wish there was more of her better material and it showed up more often. Speechless, You And I, various acoustic renditions of her electronic hits, (I could go on and on)
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Since I'm not an open-source zealot, other lossless formats would be OK by me, since they serve largely similar purposes. :P)
I already work with a bit of lossless AAC and WMA along with the large amounts of FLAC.
(though it wouldn't hurt to have the OSS option as the de facto standard, let's all just pick something.
Yes, some places do already offer downloads (whether paid or authorized free downloads) in lossless, but I wish it was more widespread.
Various artists' bandcamp pages
http://www.hdtracks.com/
I sometimes feel the need to buy a physical CD (when available) to get lossless.
I'll spell it out with regards to the XKCD you're presumably referring to: http://xkcd.com/841/
yeah, it annoys me when people don't know about or understand FLAC.
For their sake, I sometimes do a second copy of my uploads in 320kbps MP3.
And speaking of my uploads, why won't some people use BitTorrent?....grr...
I do appreciate those who do get it, however.
MediaMonkey, my player/manager of choice on Windows, handles most any audio format I throw at it, including FLAC and OGG. One reason it *is* my player of choice (it's closed-source freeware, by the way.)
yeah, I like FLAC, but converting to a lossy format for the portable (I tend to use MP3, 256 or 320kbps) is annoying.
I always merely saw it as the quality/popularity correlation not being as strong as we'd like, rather than negative. ;) :D
A lot of the mainstream does suck, don't get me wrong, but I'm willing to give credit where I feel credit is due.
I wish some of my favorite indies were more popular, but many of them, while not filling arenas, are still fairly successful.
Perhaps loving your work, being really good at it, and adding "bells and whistles" (to varying degrees) is a recipe for megasuccess.
(sibling AC was me, forgot to log in first. sorry)
I figure a digital scale would be more precise than trying to read the exact position of the dial on an analogue scale (for me, it's small packages rather than cooking ingredients; it's particularly important there since postal pricing increments at each weight level rather than being simply proportional.)
Yeah, in GMail it's in the dropdown menu under the arrow next to the regular reply button. (used it intentionally when communicating with group project teams)
In the Zimbra implementation I'm looking at, it's right between Reply and Forward, but anyway, Reply All never cropped up as a problem for me anyway, sending or receiving.
Designing the "molds" and running the printing process itself (managing printers, dealing with the raw material), etc would account for the manufacturing sector of this society
I admit I'm not a Star Trek expert, but I think this was the whole point of Star Trek replicators, to show these things' effect on economy (also by contrasting with latinum and the Ferengi)
Cool project though this may be, summary seems to be a blatant troll of the anti-mainstream and specifically anti-RIAA attitude common on Slashdot.
Cool project though this may be, the summary was patently unnecessary - obvious troll (of the anti-mainstream and anti-RIAA types common on Slashdot) is obvious.
"Great! Let's advertise on ThePirateBay, a site whose users are often there because they can't or won't pay for stuff."
My assessment of that research indicates that the graphite sticks will need to be pointed - now what if someone attacks me with a pointed graphite stick??
What exactly do you mean by unlimited access?
I still figure the popularity of major-label stuff will carry over to an extent, though not making it worse for the indies is a key requirement for designing this system.
I listen to a wide range of stuff, but can imagine skewing my donations under this system towards the modern indies.
That's one of the kinds of shenaniganry I was trying to prevent in the process of determining who's a valid musician.
Even if the friends and relatives really are in the business, maybe there still should be anti-nepotism clauses and/or restrictions on quid-pro-quo deals like that, etc.
eMusic subscription credits not rolling over was a deal-breaker for me though, whatever other intriguing aspects of their service.
I tried for a few months, got some nice albums out of it, but still...
Cool, but how does this differ from personal spending decisions except saying "spend at least $10/month"?
Also would need to determine what constitutes a valid 'musician'.
I don't mind the music industry continuing to survive if it indeed gets with the times, and what appear to be steps in the right direction should be welcomed.
The 360 does adapt to the reality that there's less money in selling recordings these days, though it can feed into label executives' penchant for abusive contracts
If Universal Music updates its circuitry and Warner & EMI hear us clearly fine by me *
* Yes, this was a reference to the lyrics of MC Lars' _Download This Song_ (one of my favorite indie's best songs); incidentally, I feel that the new independent models, although they're wonderful game-changers, add to the industry rather than completely replacing the traditional model.
To be fair, the actual producers are involved in making the music itself, from high-level creative direction to being involved on the ground level of writing the songs and playing the instruments, depending on the nature of the particular project. Their additional role in coordinating the recording session is closer to useful managerial organization than the marketing suits you seem to be lambasting. :P
_Executive_ producers, now that isn't a creative role.
"I don't personally use A, so why should I pay a cent of taxes for A" to some extent makes sense, to some extent is a subset of antitax mania. ( a matter of degree?)
Yet you probably like tax-funded activity B, and some fans of A probably feel the same way about B.
Nevertheless, mine and Tablizer's differing opinions on Ms. Germanotta aside, how to distribute the proceeds from such a scheme is a huge problem, something many others have also touched upon.
People will game the system, as they will any system with a notable reward involved, but common sense presumes it will be insulated from the "paper musician" stunts often joked about in such discussions
Being biased towards the mainstream music industry is a problem of the proposals put out by, well, the mainstream music industry, but I'm not sure if an anti-mainstream bias (the hipster mindset?) is the right answer either.
Nothing's perfect, but if done remotely well, such a scheme could be a great way around the P2P lawsuits and other excesses of copyright as pertaining to the music industry.
Looking at the Wikipedia pages his his albums, he often has a cowriter credit alongside hired-gun producers; thus I doubt how much he actually does - it may or may not mean something, but I don't care to do further research. :P
Some non-Canadian pop stars also appear to be in this category.
I'm personally not much of a fan of Rush or Arcade Fire, but I like some Enter The Haggis and Great Big Sea as a subset of my taste for Celtic/rock fusion music, so I'll add those to the list of good Canadian songwriters.
I just knew this was going to be a Lady Gaga joke when I was halfway through the first line.
Becoming so popular (which seems to be her goal more so than money for whatever reason) does entail goofy bells and whistles and mouthbreathing-moron-sheep fans, but that's not all there is. There's plenty of steak elsewhere in the world, but there's more steak under this sizzle than usual, although it's easy for the average person to lose track of
Even her popular stuff is often better and a lot more fun than a lot of the stuff out there on the mainstream, low bar though that may be. Nevertheless, she actually can sing quite nicely; I wish there was more of her better material and it showed up more often. Speechless, You And I, various acoustic renditions of her electronic hits, (I could go on and on)
I'll even obligatory-XKCD myself: http://xkcd.com/386/ :P