Community weekly poll: How do you acquire most of your MP3s?
- 8/15/05 4:47 PM
How do you acquire most of your MP3s?
by Marc Bennett - 8/15/05 4:47 PM
How do you acquire most of your MP3s?
From an online subscription service (which one?)
From a pay-per-download service (which one?)
From a P2P client (is it legal?)
I rip them from CDs that I own (tell us more)
Other (tell us more)
I don't have MP3s (why not?)
don't use MP3
by mittens - 8/16/05 3:30 PM In reply to: How do you acquire most of your MP3s? by Marc Bennett
Downloading music seems cool, but often the quality is less than what we've come to expect, and it's a lot like downloading 'free' books online. The author, the musician, gets utterly nothing for all those millions of records and books that people now own.
If I were a musician I'd be furious.
If we're willing to listen, we should be willing to pay for the privilege of doing so, i.e., buy the damn CD.
Feeling is mutual
by pkm1967 - 8/16/05 4:00 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensI agree with you 110%!!!
grateful dead
by lemue - 8/16/05 4:07 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensused to let us record at their concerts. After the groups make their first million they shouldn't worry about losing a couple of bucks. I use my cd's.
RE:don't use MP3
by waperry - 8/16/05 4:39 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensActually, when purchased from a "legal" download site, an MP3 sale records more income for an artist than does a CD sale. The "manufacturing" cost is much less. The real "pirates" in the music business are RIAA.
good point..
by tha_FLiP - 8/16/05 5:09 PM In reply to: RE:don't use MP3 by waperrybest thing would probably be to just download whatever you want from any p2p and then just put some money in an envelope and mail it to the artist..
That way you'd make sure they really get the money, not some capitalist record company :\
Likewise
by DFN23 - 8/16/05 5:00 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensSound quality of MP3 files is horrible! I download music very rarely, and then only to see if it's worth buying in a better format.
I Buy my MP3's
by cattluvver - 8/16/05 5:03 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensI think it's a really bad idea to assume that everyone using mp3's are getting them with illegal P2P spyware.. er, I mean software. I love that I don't have to buy a whole CD when I only love four songs! I got to MSN or elsewhere and PAY for the four mp3's. Four bucks is much cheaper then over $15.00 for a CD that more then half would be skipped.
I love, love being able to make playlists, putting them on my mp3 player and not having skips.
Everyone who uses them are not CROOKS!
I get a month of downloads for the price your paying
by jeep4x4enthusiast - 8/17/05 9:20 AM In reply to: I Buy my MP3's by cattluvverYou pay 4dollars for 4 tracks, but for less than 5 bucks a month, I download as much music as I possibly can. Its allowed me to discover so many artists I would never have experimented with if I was purchasing CD's.
Some music I know people want to own, but with my subscription I'm able to buy tracks for 79cents, or album for 7.99.
No matter what your favorite format, for less than 60 dollars a year (about the cost of 4 CDs), you can still use your favorite way to aquire MP3s, and use this also.
But once you get started, I dont see how economically you would be able to justify using anything else. Unless you illegally aquire musice. And once again at this cost, why would u even take that chance.
I rotate about a Gig of new music in and out of my portable player every two weeks.
Downloading the mp3 (or not) format is cheaper
by PatrickM - 8/16/05 5:36 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensHi,
actually, mp3 quality may vary according to the way the original "raw" sound (usually a .wav format) is converted.
The proprietary format mp3 can have, for example, near quality as a CD, or even be sound "transparent" to it.
I'm not sure, but i think editors deliver us the best possible quality in that format.
Yes, this at a lower cost than makings "physical" CDs with all the processes around it.
It's much cheaper for us because it is also cheaper for the producers.
As we commonly hear, more money should be distributed to the musiciens/composers themselves.
About the sound quality again: if quality is absolutely required, online editors/distributors could use the .ogg format as another option.
It is a free, excellent quality standard for our ear's pleasure, as digital sound.
Anyway, some will always swear by analogic sound...
The other side of the coin...
by bren384 - 8/16/05 7:32 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensWhile I agree, if you listen to it often enough to warrant keeping a copy around, (and the means are available), pay for it. The other side of the coin that gets overlooked a lot of the time by people that assume that musicians are just out to make a buck with the music they put out on MP3 is that sometimes people are just getting started, or just want more airplay or really, for whatever reason, they *want* people to have access to their music for free. Not every musician is a star performer that everyone's grandmother has heard of. There are even, in fact, people who play and record just for fun. Especially now that you don't have to record to tape, and it doesn't necessarily cost a fortune to get your music out. So perhaps some of you folks out there with the paramilitary attitudes towards music sharing need to lighten up. As long as you've got the proper permissions, and you're covering whatever costs you are being asked to cover, I think music sharing is fine, and in general, MP3 can be a fine format to use to share in. It's compact, the sound is decent(OK, so you might not want to record the London Symphony Orchestra at 64Mbps, but set up correctly it works fine.) and its a free format to record in.
One other note to 'mittens': not everything on you hear is available on CD. The virtual cornucopiea of relaxing electronica that puts me to sleep at night, as well as the other dance and trance music that is available on the net is a royal PITA to get ahold of unless you are into the dance/trance/rave scene, which, as a 34 year old with 2 kids, I am not.
Gotta agree...
by thunder - 8/16/05 9:29 PM In reply to: The other side of the coin... by bren384If you're in your 30's but are still hip even with a mortgage, it's difficult to try and find the time to research and review so many cool styles of music. I love the electronica/trance scene, but often find it hard to track down artists (or even remember all of them). Digital's the way to go, but you still have to burn your own CDs if you want to share - anyone heard of any flash mp3 boom boxes yet?
I Second that
by LionsMike - 8/16/05 7:51 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensWhy is everyone sucked in by useless new fad technology. I bet some people pay over a hundred dollars for their MP3 players. FOR WHAT?
Turn on the radio and endure the adds.
Why?
by anthrogirl - 8/17/05 11:42 AM In reply to: I Second that by LionsMikeFor me it isn't 'useless' technology. I can't hear most of the music I like on the radio, even in New York- early European music isn't played often here. Robert Johnson doesn't get a lot of play. It hard for me to get a lot of the country stars from the 50s on the radio, too.
Why should I listen to WQXR, the NY Times station that has a gigantic library, play Bach over and over when I want to hear Buxdehude? And when I do want to hear Bach on the subway, the bus, or in a plane, I can do so. I can't listen to the radio in the subway. I can't swap music with friends from off the radio, either.
I use Ogg Vorbis format which has a lower loss-rate than MP3. Because of it I can listen to radio the way it was when I was a kid in the late 60s, becuase I can have various genres of music play in any order I or the player chooses. I haven't herd a decent radio station that usrprised me in ages, but I'm continually surprised by the combinations I get on my Karma, and I can add more when I want. And with new artists, it can be near impossible for them to get airplay. No longer do I just have to listen to the big classical orchestras or mainstream pop- I can listen to gothabilly (you can't hear that on the radio), small but exquisite Eastern European quartets, or music that's over a century old, and I can take it with me, put it in my handbag, and go anywhere with it.
Try doing that with a radio. There are even player for scuba divers.
Legal in Canada
by jgd - 8/16/05 8:18 PM In reply to: don't use MP3 by mittensI agree 100% that it's not right to download music off the net but in Canada, there is a tax on recordable items such as DVDs and CDs thus making it legal to download music. Since there is that tax, Canadian ARE, in sorts, paying for the right to download music.
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