Inexpensive digital music TIP (was: Streaming My John Abercrombie Collection Now)

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

On 6 mar 2006, at 15.42, Kris Hartung wrote:

> Unfortunately not. I would have to upload all of the songs to my  
> server and stream them from there, which would take up a lot of my  
> server bandwidth. That's the nice thing about streaming to  
> Shoutcast....you just stream to the public from your own hard drive.


Aha, now I understand why the listening link doesn't work: you have  
to keep your Bois computer switched on and online. Stupid me thought  
the files were uploaded to Shoutcast because that's what I had to do  
when I put on two internet radio channels at Live365.com, and as I  
recall they were using the shoutcast protocol.

Anyway (look out - here comes a great tip...), besides searching iTMS  
podcasts, I just found a Russian site to buy music digitally for  
around USD 1.49 an album! That price is for files encoded at 192 kbps  
and if you go for 320 kbps ("CD fidelity") it's a little more  
expensive, but still cheap. For many years I have been wanting to  
digitize my old vinyl records but now I just bought many of them as  
320 kbps AAC files instead, saving the cost for the ripping,  
digitizing and encoding time as well as the cost for buying an analog  
turntable. Found no Abercrombie though, Kris ;-)  but lots of  
Garbarek and Laswell stuff.

I wonder how those ruskies can get away with selling music that  
inexpensive? MP3.com once got sued for a similar activity (digitally  
duplicating CD's they had bought, forgetting about the fact that  
buying a CD only gives you license for personal use of copy of the  
particular audio recording) and lost the case, so it can't be legal  
according to American law. But I guess Russia is not yet part of the  
US... ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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