HULK SMASH
What?
Can they provide free mosquito ringtones?
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D-R-M? What does that mean?
Mosquito rocks on.
oops, Impeach His Ass! Oh, and his Ass's Ass, too!!!
Done. Ruined. Mucked.
Do they have K-Fed? If they ain't got K-Fed, I'm a-stayin' in bed.
I use eMusic, and it rocks. I second Atrios.
Intriguing.
And if you say I Atrios reccomended you, he gets 50 free songs.
D-R-M? What does that mean?
means you can only keep the song for as long as you subscribe to the servce.
and eMusic is compatible with iPods.
And if you say I Atrios reccomended you, he gets 50 free songs.
Do we get to recommend them?
Do they have K-Fed? If they ain't got K-Fed, I'm a-stayin' in bed.
Thers
What a piece of work HE is!
DRM = Digital Rights Management. It's what prevents you from copying/playing/burning the downloaded song however you want.
For instance, songs downloaded from iTunes are in a protected AAC format that can only be played on iPod's and burned to CD within iTunes thanks to their DRM called FairPlay:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay
Good morning : )
R2K
means you can only keep the song for as long as you subscribe to the servce.
Can you burn it to a CD?
Do we get to recommend them?
NYMary
I'll bite, what do you want Atrios to listen to?
I bought the whole Stan Ridgeway and Lenye Lovich cds from eMusic -- they lack a lot of big names, but way eclectic selections.
Can they provide free mosquito ringtones?,/i>
Fuck mosquito. How about Mansquito?
Can you burn it to a CD?
NYMary
I've never tried a DRM service, but with eMusic, yes you keep the songs, you can burn the songs.
and they have all of Loreena McKinnit's stuff!
Fuck mosquito. How about Mansquito?
Supreme Commander Thor
looks up at the camera in the cieling and shakes fist
MANSQUITO!!!!!!!
eMusic sounds interesting.
For instance, songs downloaded from iTunes are in a protected AAC format that can only be played on iPod's and burned to CD within iTunes thanks to their DRM called FairPlay
I lump Apple in with Sony with this silly crap. My SO has an iPod Nano and iTunes keeps trying to take over our PC.
looks up at the camera in the cieling and shakes fist
MANSQUITO!!!!!!!
Don't forget Lady Mansquito . . . or would that be Dr. Ladysquito?
;..friday cat boxing!
http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos...d/
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bonne journée, à ce soir
eMusic is teh shizzle. As a jazz fan, downloading 7 and 8-minute tracks for 25 cents each is very cool, and yes, they can be burned to CD, ironically enough through ITunes on my laptop. Excellent value.
EMusic is terrific -- not only is there a massive indie catalog that lets you check out a song or two from any number of bands you've always wanted to hear, but it's easy to cancel anytime, and the site saves all your info and preferences in case you ever sign up again. (I just rejoined after maybe six months off.) Highly recommended!
OT.
The Repuke playbook...
brought to you by Bob Ney.
The ultra-liberal colors of Ohio's 18th District Democrat Congressional candidate Zack Space keep shining through. At the same time as he was campaigning with failed Presidential candidate and avowed Second Amendment opponent John Kerry in Ohio last week, Zack continued his outreach efforts to the national liberal and gay rights establishment by giving a lengthy radio interview on the liberal Air America network with one of the country's leading gay rights advocates, Rachel Maddow. Interestingly, a major financial sponsor of Air America is MoveOn.org , the same liberal organization based in Washington D.C., which Space purports to have no connection with, but which has been funding negative soft-money attacks against Congressman Bob Ney.
Maddow, who lives in New York City with her "partner," questioned Space about a variety of issues popular with the national liberal establishment while acknowledging at one point that she uses a different name when dressed "in drag." But perhaps the most interesting aspect of her interview with Space came at the end with a stunning admission by Space that he doesn't sense "social issues" are still "hot button" issues."
Why do they care so much about what people do in their bedrooms?
Why not get music at the source?
Steam Powered Studio
My friend used to work for the previous incarnation of eMusic.
So I'm cool. Or something.
I'll stick with Soulseek personally 
K-Fed: Another success story from America's trailer parks. From the people who brought you Kid Rock and Britney herownself.
Ciao, Batties.
Nepal Maoists begin peace talks
The Nepalese government and Maoist rebels have begun peace talks in the capital, Kathmandu to resolve the 10-year-old insurgency.
It is the first time in three years that the sides are meeting.
Hopes for peace have been raised since a new multi-party government took power in Nepal last month after weeks of street protests against King Gyanendra.
Thirteen thousand people have died in Nepal during the decade-long insurgency which has also hit the economy.
;..friday cat boxing!
My kitties love their boxes too.
What is it about cats and boxes?
"The government has gone beyond its obligations under Rule 16 to produce additional materials from the Office of Vice President, Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department that relate generally to Mr. Wilson’s trip. Defendant is entitled to no more."
jules |
Patrick Fitzgerald, prosecutes entitlement without rendering prejudice.
On that note, Timmeh is talking of his role in Scootahgate(CSpam).
REPEAT FROM BELOW:
It is my opinion that bringing up the smears on Gore and Clinton the press is only hurting itself. It only reminds America of the fascist rule and stolen elections.
Here we are, two years after the Diebold 2004 steal and they have the audacity to pull these kinds of punches.
Conyers and Waxman had better get their vote scandal records together and hit the road with it again!
they lack a lot of big names, but way eclectic selections.
Can I look at the catalogue before committing? I didn't see a link.
Also, Napster now claims it's free. So why am I still being charged $10 /month?
K-Fed: Another success story from America's trailer parks. From the people who brought you Kid Rock and Britney herownself.
Meander
Kid Rock and K-Fed:
Two critters HIGH on my list of "NOT if YOU were the LAST male on earth!"
Why do they worry so much about what people do in their bedrooms?
Because they are desperately afraid that you're having more fun in there than they are in their own bedroom.
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Gorgeous Friday Cat Blogging
K-Fed: Another success story from America's trailer parks. From the people who brought you Kid Rock and Britney herownself.
It's unfortunate that the one thing about K-Fed that works is his sperm.
emusic carries some of the most extensive catalogs of older forms of jazz, blues and folk. Check out the JSP and Fantasy collections - Carter Family, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Rodgers, many more. Look for the collection "It's Hotter in Hawaii" for a different take on Tin Pan Alley tunes.
And that's today's word.
seems like as good a time as any to ask this:
anybody know a good program i can use to 'juice' some of my mp3s? i like to mix a lot of older stuff with newer stuff when i burn cds and most older material doesn't have the same kind of bass as recent material. i'd like to boost the bass a bit so the mix is smooter.
i have a mac and a pc, so i open to software for either.
thanks.
"Yes, you could actually make someone invisible as long as someone wears a cloak made of this material," said Patanjali Parimi, a Northeastern University physicist and design engineer at Chelton Microwave Corp. in Bolton, Mass.
Oh boy. A new toy for the DoD.
smalfish, terrorist |
Opus Dei's next project. Magical threads for magical cloacks. How many Billions will Rumsfeld's subsidiaries get from this project paper?
Why do they care so much about what people do in their bedrooms?
HoneyBearKelly??
Because so little goes on in their own?
I cannot recommend Soulseek enough, great little music download programme and its free!
It's unfortunate that the one thing about K-Fed that works is his sperm.
Supreme Commander Thor
And he's doing his best to aid to world overpopulation..........singlehandedly!
DRM is actually a made-up vague concept, like WMD. There is no such thing as "digital rights" except in the feverish minds of greedy music and movie executives. And by "rights" they mean theirs and not yours, the consumer.
The whole point of DRM is to prevent consumers from using what they purchase any way they want to. To revert to the car analogy, imagine if the big car companies sold you a car but you were not allowed to replace the stereo or add an after-market remote starter or even work on the engine yourself.
There are plenty of laws against distributing bootleg copies of music, thus the idea of DRM is not necessary. It is an anti-consumer effort by corporations. I guess they've run out of ways to screw the artists so now they've turned to the listeners.
Can I look at the catalogue before committing? I didn't see a link.
try that
sorry - to ADD TO world overpopulation
Empty nest box turtles.
Blair attack 'morally justified'
look at it this way: Greg Ginn's been ripping us off with exorbitant cd prices for almost two decades now. with eMusic, you can get whatever Minutemen records you want without having to pay $17 for 'em. it's a good deal, for sure.
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holy crap, that snippet approached the critical mass of talking points. if they had squeezed in a clenis reference it would have collapsed into a singularity so dense that logic itself could not escape.
I don't see how iTunes has DRM, then. I can do anything I want with the songs I download from iTunes. I've burned a bunch discs from my playlist.
I must be missing just what DRM does.
I'll stick with Soulseek personally
Moonbootica, Buffy Geek
My daughter uses that.
Great system.
buy a song from iTunes and you can only play it on three (maybe five?) different PC's. I think there's also a limit to how many times you can burn it to a disc. Once you do burn it, though, you can rip the song back to mp3 with whatever program you like, and then use it however you see fit.
OH COOL! eMusic has the Horrorpops!
Downloding THAT when I get home, I betcha!
Dixie Chicks and their super band scorched a live rendeition of Not Ready to Make Nice on ABC live this morning. Scorched, hotter than midsummer's day hot.
I signed up for 50 free downloads when an emusic trial was bundled with the latest version of winamp. Anyway, once I got in I only had 25 free downloads. What gives?
I figured if they were going to mess up something like that in the trial period when they were trying to woo me as a customer, I wasn't going to give them a chance to mess up when I was a paid subscriber.
Too bad, because they have some great jazz from the Pablo label.
Inasmuch as FairPLay (Apple's version of DRM) allows you to burn the content in a nearly unlimited manner (specific playlists, but not songs, are limited to a specific number of burns to CD) allows burning to CD, which removes the DRM, anything downloaded from iTunes can, with some easy, and legal, manipulation, be used on any digital audio player.
Furthermore, it is not the case that if you stop paying for iTunes you lose your songs when the subscription ends, since iTunes is simply not a subscription service.
eMusic is great. Unless you don't download anything for a period of time and your credit card continues to be billed for that period of time.
This is not the case with iTunes since you pay on a per song or per album basis and there are no recurring charges.
Finally, the iTunes library is simply much, much larger than the eMusic library.
None of this is meant to disparage eMusic, but it's a different beast from iTunes.
For those who like classical music, emusic has most of the Naxos catalogue, a lot of BIS, ASV (most of the Lindsays string quartet albums) and Harmonia Mundi. You need more than the 40 downloads for 9.99 each month just to get all the releases available on emusic that are recommended by Gramophone Magazine. The big drawback? Every track from a less than one minute recitative from an opera to a long 1st movement from a Brahms piece counts exactly the same; there is no whole album price as there is on iTunes
anybody know a good program i can use to 'juice' some of my mp3s?
iVolume may help with that.
i missed the chicks on gma. hopefully someone got it.
they often have free stuff that dosn't even require regestration
for instance they recently had some recordings from SxSW for free, but I think that expired
BY the way, while burning to a CD may be a "step" and an additional cost. You should nonetheless backup all the music you download to physical media anyway.
Hard. Drives. Die. All of them, eventually.
Of course, all of us are backing up our data anyway, right?
thanks puppethead.
Does something like iVolume exist for WinAmp?
Of course, if your too cheap to buy music, there's always the free stuff.
Lettuce : Of course, all of us are backing up our data anyway, right?
Uh-huh. Yeah. Right.
Oh boy.
I don't see how iTunes has DRM, then. I can do anything I want with the songs I download from iTunes. I've burned a bunch discs from my playlist.
Apple's FairPlay DRM is actually one of the least onerous in use (compare to Sony's rootkitting [infecting] of machines or Napster's you-lose-everything-when-you-stop-paying approach).
With Apple's DRM you can listen to your song on up to five computers that have been authorized. Non-authorized computers are unable to listen to the songs, even via iTunes music sharing.
You can burn the songs to as many CDs as you like, but Apple restricts you to three burns of any playlist with DRM content. If you make a new playlist or change the contents you can keep burning.
Once burned, you can re-rip as an unprotected song. Burning and ripping your iTunes purchased music does degrade the quality, which is the only real drawback to the process. This is why people like JHymn, but unfortunately it hasn't been upgraded for iTunes 6 yet.
yah, I have nothing against apple's DRM except that given how innocuous it is the people its most likely to screw are the people who are unfamiliar such things even exist.
It's mostly pointless, which shows how idiotic the labels are
Thanks for the call out to eMusic, Atrios. My company orchestrated a promo between eMusic and Hollywood Video.
If you want a different back-door in to eMusic (and would like to help good ole Bailey's company out) log on to www.emusic.com/hollywoodvideo for 25 free downloads.
eMusic is good people.
Stay away from the live Bob Marley, the quality is horrible.
eMusic is great for old jazz-they have the Fantasy/Prestige libraries (early Miles Davis, Coltrane plus everything by Creedence Clearwater Revival), plus all the cool indie stuff on Matador (like Laura Cantrell or the New Pornographers) is available.
None of the big labels are on it (EMI, SONY/BMG, UNIVERSAL, WARNERS) but the price is right. Too bad it changed from a few years ago, when they had UNLIMITED downloads (which is how I got lots of cool expensive stuff like Stax/Volt boxsets and a 12 CD set of Wes Montgomery).
Got an Mac? Try Acquisition. 
# Convince the rest of the class that the instructor is not the stupidest fucking person they've ever met.
Guess Tommy Franks won't be invited to be a guest lecturer.
I third or fourth the recommendation. Much of my music purchased in the last two years is from emusic, and it's worked out wonderfully. Two notes: the basic 25 cents a track means that you can buy, for example, "Lenny Bruce at Berkeley" for 25 cents, even though it's 78 minutes long--because the whole thing is one track. OTOH, Bach's French suites is 39 tracks, so it's $9.75. Overall it averages out, but be aware that you have to get used to this approach, as some things seem underpriced and others overpriced in comparison. Also, and this is very cool, some items are actually released on emusic the same day that the CD hits stores, such as the most recent Richard Thompson release. If you don't need liner notes, it's the way to go.
I've used emusic for almost a year. although it is a subscription service, you own the songs free and clear. If you stop paying the songs are still there and will play forever. They are straight mp3 with no copy protection whatever. They will play on any mp3 player, ipod, creative, sony you name it. If your drive crashes or you accidently delete a file, you long in and redownload everything you have ever bought. The files are also much higher bitrate than itunes or the others. They are variable bitrate averageing around 200 kbps as opposed to 128 kpbs offered by most other services. They have overa million songs and include stuff in many genres including rock, classical, jazz and a lot of international stuff. They are not the only service that offers non-drm music though. Also check out Magnatune.com, mp3tunes.com, audiolunchbox.com and karmadownload.com. They all sell high bitrate mp3 with no drm. There is no reason to ever buy any music from a drm service and support the RIAA. There is lots of great music out there. Listen to some podcasts and check out new music and then buy some from these services to support the musicians.
I tried Emusic and it is as good as described above, and the best thing, if you're concerned about trying it: I had NO problem cancelling after the 14 days and my card was not charged.
eMusic rules. No DRM (clean as a wistle mp3, cheap, indies stuff. But crappy look)
I should know. I run an indie music blog.
shameless plug. visit my blog!
http://www.another-record.com/squashed/
Another legal download service without DRM is http://afropopshop.org/ This is the CD and download service connected with Afropop Worldwide, which is a radio show of world music. All tracks are $.99 each, but they have a bundle that I think is $15 for 20 tracks.
In addition to being good on just being unprotected mp3's, they are also making a point of treating musicians well.
from their site: Through our digital network, independent artists are able to sell directly to you. Our artists earn an 'equal exchange' revenue share. When they sell you their music as downloads, they keep half the money from each sale and they avoid the high costs of manufacturing, marketing and distributing their music on CDs.
All of the music in our catalog is licensed from independent artists or small, independent labels. Our 'equal exchange' model in allows independent artists to earn 50% of all music download sales.
E-music is unreachable behind a lot of schhol-and-office firewalls, probably because of their peculiar download manager software using the 'wrong' packet type or file extension.
It's da bomb at home though, worth it just for the Archiv/Harmonia Mundi early music stuff.
Well you guys are breaking down my resistance. Maybe I'll give them a month.
p.s. Nice blog squashed! http://www.another-record.com/squashed/
Here's an idea: buy actual CDs. They're just as cheap as MP3s if you shop around (Daedalus Books, etc.), they're on a storage medium that's far more robust that any CD you can make at home (they're stamped, not burned), they come with pretty booklets with photos and stuff, and -- here's the kicker -- you're getting 10 TIMES the sonic information of a typical MP3.
eMusic is brilliant--they've got the business model that major labels will eventually arrive at after years of fighting against music on the internets in the courts and Congress.
Great selection of world music, too.
emusic rocks. get your 50 free songs and see, then cancel if you don't like it.
i cringe at having to pay for anything on the internet, but even i pay the $9.99/mo. for 40 songs from emusic. that's like $3 bucks per album. for anyone with a broad taste in indie music, you are sure to find lots you want.
emusic is also great because it's all indie- so major label payola pap doesn't crowd out the smaller players. great engine for discovery, too. and tracks are only .25 each instead of .99 or more.
The really good one is magnatune.com -- you can download mp3's of individual tracks for free, and pay for FLAC or WAV versions, full-CD downloads etc. It's mostly stuff that you've never heard of, but carefully selected (it's not a dumping ground) and most of what's there is pretty good.
Check out my now-retired record label on eMusic, Baraka Foundation (dub, drum n' bass, spoken word, electronic, Bill Laswell, Umar Bin Hassan, etc.)
We were the first nationally distributed label to sign an electronic distribution deal, back when eMusic just started and were called "GoodNoise".
Pretty good if you like classical, since they seem to have huge selection from Naxos--one of the more adventurous labels today.
Well color me impressed. I didn't realize your music taste ever touched on artists under the age of 40 outside of the classic rock hellhole.
Emusic is indeed a good service. Any place that lets you grab the entire Emperor Norton back catalogs can't be bad at all.
http://last.fm is good too, but a bit different. It's a streaming rather than a download service. You can listen for free (with on-page ads) to the subscribers with the nearest taste to you, based on the songs you've listened to. If you pay (about $3/mo, IIRC) you can listen to all of the songs you've listened to like a jukebox or radio play list, though only in a random order. You can also search for and tag, and whilst they are playing skip or ban songs to build up a profile of your musical taste. It's essentially a personalised radio station with no DJs.
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