Re: What Looper's Delight is (was Re: hardware sequencers)

["Doug Cox" <bickleypunk@pdq.net>]

Kim

Check your email.  I'm volunteering, but my development skills (and the 
code
set that I have to leverage) is all .ASP.

Does the server support .ASP?

Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: What Looper's Delight is (was Re: hardware sequencers)


> At 02:18 PM 10/1/2002, Bret wrote:
> >Kim,
> >Mea culpa, father Kim. Forgive me.
>
> ok, you are forgiven for the whole fragmenting thing. But not for calling
> me "father kim".
>
> >I did not mean to fragment the looping community, but simply to share
> >music files.  It is great to talk about music and looping, but hearing
> >examples is better yet, for me.
>
> yes, I think that would be a great feature to add to the LD site. Who can
> help put something like that together?
>
> >The theremin list I belong to used
> >Yahoo groups for temporary sharing of theremin recordings, and that
> >seemed to work well until a better server was established.  MP3.com
> >takes too long to approve new music to make it useful.
>
> I hate the idea of using those commercial operations to do stuff like
this.
> You have to subjugate yourself to whatever rules they decide to impose,
and
> you are at the mercy of their horrible reliability and service. At any
> moment they may decide it doesn't fit their business plan anymore and
> delete the whole thing. I much prefer the DIY route.
>
>
> >Looper's delight did not have an area to post music, so I used yahoo
> >groups as a location.  Sorry, I did not think to ask if you would add
> >such a section.
>
> Yes, and that is my point. People should be thinking that way! If this is
a
> home for the looping community, then people here should be considering 
>the
> opportunities they may have to improve it. Be an active participant in 
>the
> community, not just a passive viewer.
>
> And it also means more than just asking for a feature. If you really want
> to see it happen, help do some of the work!
>
>
> >Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought this idea was
> >discussed in past years and there was some space constraint on the ld
> >server.
>
> Long ago, that would have been true, but we moved to a new server a few
> years ago so there is much more disk space. There are still limits of
> course. I don't think it would make sense as a place for everybody to
> upload all their music and flog their albums. You can get your own site
for
> that. But it would be great to have a place where people can upload
> examples of different ideas and concepts.
>
> >What needs to happen in order to add an area to loopers delight to
> >allow uploading and sharing of music files?  If that can be done, then
> >I will use LD to post loop music, delete the yahoo group loopmusic, and
> >once again we will be defragmented and harmony can return :-)
>
> What needs to happen is we need to decide what such a section on LD would
> do, and how it might work. What would you like it to do? Probably it 
>would
> be restricted in some way such that only people subscribed to the list 
>can
> upload a file, but anybody can download it. What else?
>
> And then we need to find somebody who can help with any programming or 
>set
> up to make it become real. Probably there are already open source scripts
> out there that already do what we would want, or perhaps just need a
little
> modification. Or maybe somebody would want to build it all from scratch.
Is
> anybody interested in volunteering to help put this together?
>
> kim
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
> kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com
>