The Association of Micro Labels Internet Broadcast License will be a license that grants Internet broadcasters a royalty free permission to broadcast music over the Internet, provided that certain conditions are met. The license abbreviated AMLIBL and pronounced a-meal-able, will be a legal agreement for the exchange of services between two groups who really need each other in this age of homogenized mega-music.
The Micro-labels need exposure that they can not get on corporate radio stations. Internet broadcasters, on the other hand, need to have music available that they can play without threat of legal action from the RIAA. This is why a marriage between these two groups is a necessity. The AMLIBL license is a way for the micro-labels spell out what they expect from Internet broadcasters.
The the terms of AMLIBL will be written such a way that compliance will be easy for the broadcasters. The terms will mostly concern giving the listener a way to find the music for purchase. The basic idea is,"if compliance is so easy then why would anyone want to fight it?". Even though AMLIBL will be reviewed by lawyers its function is to serve as a code of ethics and not a legal battering ram.
The AMLIBL license will be written in such a way that anyone who owns the copyright to an audio work can grant Internet broadcasters the right to broadcast that work under the terms of AMLIBL. The Copyright holder would then provide a URL for the listeners to be directed to.
For more information on the proposed AMLIBL license please see the website http://www.io.com/~sfeil/proofread/.
I am trying to compile a persuasive argument that I can take to copyright holders to show them why there needs to be a license that allows for the broadcast of material over the Internet.
I have posted my un-proofread introduction as a response to this message.
I am only presenting this argument to copyright holders who are friendly to the idea of Internet radio. I will not be waisting my time with a copyright holder that feels that CARP is a good thing.
At this time I am mainly targeting micro-labels that hold the rights to 10 - 40 titles. I am targeting these labels because, they want greater exposure and they know Internet radio can give it to them.
These arguments are designed to show the copyright holder that it is in there best interest to help in the creation of a license that will allow for the distribution of there material in return for broadcasters providing listeners with information on how the music can be purchased. There is no license at this time, I need to convince them that one should be formed, and that they are the ones that should help form it.
This license will be written in such a way that any artist can apply it to there work.
The reason I need your help as a proof reader is that, I have a life-long affliction that makes it difficult for me to catch errors in my own writing. During my time in High school, I consistently scored high in reading comprehension, this placed me at a college comprehension level during my sophomore year at High school. At the same time my score for English composition was at the bottom of the class. This affliction has made it difficult for me to distinguish words such collage from college in my own composition. This can lead to embarrassing mistakes that cause people to assume I am a dumb ass. Well, I was able to earn a bachelors degree in physics to spite my affliction. So that should prove that I'm not a dumb ass I just have a hard time writing. I have been using spell checkers sense 1984 and they have helped, but they do not catch every type of error.
If you are interested in helping the cause please see my web page
Hell, there Microsoft, why don't they just pre-install the grass root, letters public officials. Just like they have pre-installed icons to sign you up for MSN when you buy your computer, they could put a icon on there that prints out a letter with your name on to mail to your senator.
Laptop maybe the best way to go.
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I was thinking of a similar recording project recording birds sounds, then analyzing the results with a program such as Praat http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/paul/praat.html or Gipos http://www.ipo.tue.nl/ipo/gipos/ . I bought a mini-disk, but took it back because it does not have digital output. After doing some research I determined that mini-disks do not have digital out, because there the manufactures are afraid to be implicated in music piracy. MP3 is a lossy compression method that will degrade the sound quality slightly. The question is will it effect the analysis of your data.
Taking all this into consideration I believe that your best bet would to simply use a laptop (many of which can work when closed), to do your recording. I found an old IBM Thinkpad 486/75MHz (sales on E-bay for $200) that can to simple real-time hard drive recording. A 1G hard drive could hold 4 hours or more of mono sound depending on the sample rate. There also embedded device "mother boards" that run Linux which are about 3" X 3".
I installed a striped down version of Linux/GNU to setup a no-frills text based computer that can handle the job. Using the lap-tops internal ADC (analog to digital converter) will pickup some electronic noise from inside the computer. But I was able to keep this to a minimum by using an external amplified microphone. The best thing would be to use an external ADC which connects to a USB port that sells for $300.
As far a recording software that works on Linux, you are pretty limited. I was able to hack together a script that utilized "arecord" (a CLI program produced by the ALSA project). My real project is to create a GPL program which I call Manauton, which stands for manual and autonomous recording. This program would determine when to save a sound to disk using some sort of trigger. The trigger could be a manual button press or it could be a sound trigger, hence manual or autonomous. The program also uses caching so the sound just prior to the trigger can be captured.
If you are interested in my Manauton project feel free to e-mail me.
Deja is an advertiser supported service just like commercial TV. No matter who you look at it, You can not get away the fact. They will put in as much advertisement as they feel they can get away with! That's just "the American way". When they started business about five years ago as Deja News, they were the good guys, just a bunch of nerds, (like everyone else who read Usenet) who wanted to create a searchable data base and archive of Usenet post. When I read there mission statement, it was along the lines of wanting to make the best Usenet database on earth, advertising was just the way to pay bills and salaries. But gradually they were "bough out" by the advertisers who paid there bills and turned into a service to ram advertising down the users throat. One thing that has allowed this to happen is there monopoly status (whether real or perceived) as being THE Usenet search engine. If you've got two TV stations and one starts cranking up the advertising you can change the channel, If you only have one station then your S.O.L., well for us that one station is Deja!
Since Deja is so well entrenched, I believe that it is economically infeasible to start another advertiser supported Usenet archiving search engine, to compete with Deja. I think the only you can create an alternative to Deja is to start a user supported service. A service where Users pay the bills! In this type of service only a business that listens to it users stays in business. Or too put it this way, if you don't like the service of your local broadcast television station you complain, if you don't like your ISP you complain. I bet on average the ISP listens allot better to users than television station. Television stations listen to advertisers well.
I believe that it is posable to start a user supported Usenet archiving search engine. I am a computer professional who uses Usenet for my personal and professional use. I am willing to pay between $5 and $10 per month for an advertising free premium service. I would expect to receive users friendly features such as the ability to download whole threads at a time, along with others.
So is anyone willing to take me up on the offer? Or at least we can start a new Usenet group alt.deja.sucks to discuss alternatives to Deja.
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The Association of Micro Labels Internet Broadcast License will be a license that grants Internet broadcasters a royalty free permission to broadcast music over the Internet, provided that certain conditions are met. The license abbreviated AMLIBL and pronounced a-meal-able, will be a legal agreement for the exchange of services between two groups who really need each other in this age of homogenized mega-music.
,"if compliance is so easy then why would anyone want to fight it?". Even though AMLIBL will be reviewed by lawyers its function is to serve as a code of ethics and not a legal battering ram.
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The Micro-labels need exposure that they can not get on corporate radio stations. Internet broadcasters, on the other hand, need to have music available that they can play without threat of legal action from the RIAA. This is why a marriage between these two groups is a necessity. The AMLIBL license is a way for the micro-labels spell out what they expect from Internet broadcasters.
The the terms of AMLIBL will be written such a way that compliance will be easy for the broadcasters. The terms will mostly concern giving the listener a way to find the music for purchase. The basic idea is
The AMLIBL license will be written in such a way that anyone who owns the copyright to an audio work can grant Internet broadcasters the right to broadcast that work under the terms of AMLIBL. The Copyright holder would then provide a URL for the listeners to be directed to.
For more information on the proposed AMLIBL license please see the website http://www.io.com/~sfeil/proofread/
I am trying to compile a persuasive argument that I can take to copyright holders to show them why there needs to be a license that allows for the broadcast of material over the Internet.
I have posted my un-proofread introduction as a response to this message.
I am only presenting this argument to copyright holders who are friendly to the idea of Internet radio. I will not be waisting my time with a copyright holder that feels that CARP is a good thing.
At this time I am mainly targeting micro-labels that hold the rights to 10 - 40 titles. I am targeting these labels because, they want greater exposure and they know Internet radio can give it to them.
These arguments are designed to show the copyright holder that it is in there best interest to help in the creation of a license that will allow for the distribution of there material in return for broadcasters providing listeners with information on how the music can be purchased. There is no license at this time, I need to convince them that one should be formed, and that they are the ones that should help form it.
This license will be written in such a way that any artist can apply it to there work.
The reason I need your help as a proof reader is that, I have a life-long affliction that makes it difficult for me to catch errors in my own writing. During my time in High school, I consistently scored high in reading comprehension, this placed me at a college comprehension level during my sophomore year at High school. At the same time my score for English composition was at the bottom of the class. This affliction has made it difficult for me to distinguish words such collage from college in my own composition. This can lead to embarrassing mistakes that cause people to assume I am a dumb ass. Well, I was able to earn a bachelors degree in physics to spite my affliction. So that should prove that I'm not a dumb ass I just have a hard time writing. I have been using spell checkers sense 1984 and they have helped, but they do not catch every type of error.
If you are interested in helping the cause please see my web page
http://www.io.com/~sfeil/proofread/
Slashdot refuses article that my cast OSDN sponsor in a bad light
If this story in not accepted how long will it be before Slashdot is just as bad as Microsoft?
Hell, there Microsoft, why don't they just pre-install the grass root, letters public officials. Just like they have pre-installed icons to sign you up for MSN when you buy your computer, they could put a icon on there that prints out a letter with your name on to mail to your senator.
Taking all this into consideration I believe that your best bet would to simply use a laptop (many of which can work when closed), to do your recording. I found an old IBM Thinkpad 486/75MHz (sales on E-bay for $200) that can to simple real-time hard drive recording. A 1G hard drive could hold 4 hours or more of mono sound depending on the sample rate. There also embedded device "mother boards" that run Linux which are about 3" X 3".
I installed a striped down version of Linux/GNU to setup a no-frills text based computer that can handle the job. Using the lap-tops internal ADC (analog to digital converter) will pickup some electronic noise from inside the computer. But I was able to keep this to a minimum by using an external amplified microphone. The best thing would be to use an external ADC which connects to a USB port that sells for $300.
As far a recording software that works on Linux, you are pretty limited. I was able to hack together a script that utilized "arecord" (a CLI program produced by the ALSA project). My real project is to create a GPL program which I call Manauton, which stands for manual and autonomous recording. This program would determine when to save a sound to disk using some sort of trigger. The trigger could be a manual button press or it could be a sound trigger, hence manual or autonomous. The program also uses caching so the sound just prior to the trigger can be captured.
If you are interested in my Manauton project feel free to e-mail me.
Since Deja is so well entrenched, I believe that it is economically infeasible to start another advertiser supported Usenet archiving search engine, to compete with Deja. I think the only you can create an alternative to Deja is to start a user supported service. A service where Users pay the bills! In this type of service only a business that listens to it users stays in business. Or too put it this way, if you don't like the service of your local broadcast television station you complain, if you don't like your ISP you complain. I bet on average the ISP listens allot better to users than television station. Television stations listen to advertisers well.
I believe that it is posable to start a user supported Usenet archiving search engine. I am a computer professional who uses Usenet for my personal and professional use. I am willing to pay between $5 and $10 per month for an advertising free premium service. I would expect to receive users friendly features such as the ability to download whole threads at a time, along with others.
So is anyone willing to take me up on the offer? Or at least we can start a new Usenet group alt.deja.sucks to discuss alternatives to Deja.