Grateful Dead MP3 29
Vertigo1 writes
"The Grateful Dead are releasing their next album in
MP3 Format"
Not surprising considering they actually encourage bootlegging.
But more importantly, another group (albeit a somewhat defunct
one) hobbing on the bandwagon. A little bit more intertia
to help push the industry towards the inevitable.
A nice prelude (Score:1)
Me thinks... (Score:1)
And who says the Dead are defunct?
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Inertia works (Score:1)
The larger and more popular the body of legally distributable MP3s are, the harder it is for the RIAA and other organizations to fight the movement. I would call this inertia.
Hope (Score:1)
Methinks that bands who have already cashed in and have as much money as they're likely to need (Bowie, the Dead) are going to lead the way in making mp3 a more popular "legit" format.
Personally, I think it'd be cool if this all pans out in the bands having to tour more and make their money that way. I'm sick of bands showing up once every two years for a two-month tour of six major cities to promote a new album and raking it in through record sales.
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Three questions (Score:1)
Why is it illegitimate for bands to derive income from recordings?
I'm sick of bands showing up once every two years for a two-month tour of six major cities to promote a new album and raking it in through record sales.
The bands that tour like this constitute 0.0001% of bands. What about the rest?
How is your band doing?
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Endorsements are good! (Score:1)
Since Garcia died I'm sure it won't be that great, but their name will likely propel this news into the mainstream!
This might change the minds of a few that think the RIAA is right to create a non-existant need, and prop up a dying industry, after all how can you think of thge Dead as the evil bad guy.
Lots of Dead MP3s available now, too (Score:1)
lovely music icon :) (Score:1)
need spell-check? (Score:1)
Now i know why people do that first-post crap, there are few things as depressing as seeing an empty slashdot comment page...
bonus track, _not_ album (Score:1)
This is a _bonus track_ being released, not an album. And of course its not the Grateful Dead, which no longer exist, it is The Other Ones, a great band consisting of some former GD members and friends. As has been mentioned already there is an active MP3 trading scene for Grateful Dead music and the music of other taper friendly bands. Its the natural progression from using the net to distribute lists of tapes to trade to actually trading the music over the net. One more way to put the post office out of business.
not really new news (Score:1)
I went to two Other Ones shows last year (Camden and the first one at Mountain View) and thought they were quite good -- and I was at over 200 shows over the years.
By the by, one of the June 1986 shows at the Greek Theatre at Berkeley plays a role in Cliff Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg." He was a modest sysadmin at LBL, toiling away trying to track down the wily Pre-Cambrian Cracker D00dz (turned out they were from Chaos in Germany) when he heard the band playing outside his window and went down to listen to the show in Strawberry Meadow . . . No kernel hacker he! (They were all in the pit zooming along with Playin' in the Band).
When Jerry died that era had already been on the wane for some time. I think the band made the right decision to gracefully exit before another ABEND. I had already been drifting away from all of that for some time, nowadays I spin house, Detroit techno and the odd bit of old skool jungle. But I do recommend The Other Ones, those were nice shows last year.
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Other Bands Have Offered MP3's From Their CD's (Score:1)
http://www.daybytheriver.com/samples.html
Rio capacity (Score:1)
According to Diamond Multimedia web site, the $200 Rio only holds 32 megs in flash rom.
At 128 Kbits/sec, the MPEG 1 Layer 3 compression rate most widely used out there, that's just over 1/2 an hour of music, not an hour.
Do the math:
128Kbits per second = 16K bytes per second
= 960K bytes per minute
= 57600K bytes per hour
= 67200K bytes per 70 minutes
Note that the Linux utilities can't yet access add-on flash ROM, which is about an extra $100 for 32 more MBs.
Nitpicking =) (Score:1)
I think you mean a little more force... Inertia is the physical, erm, force, to prevent you from moving, or keep you from stopping. So if the industry is to say, change directions, you would apply more force to act on the mass, which is displayed as inertia...
=)
I'm a geek...
Of course, I could be wrong too...
Twinkie
need spell-check? (Score:1)
They're too old to be doing much hopping.