Downloading Flying Music?

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:24:44 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"sean trost" wrote in message
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as for downloading music. I used to be partial to Kazaa lite. but am
leaning towards napster again or Itunes. As these sites actually
support the music biz. and 99 cents per song aint bad.
all the best

A buck per song is not bad? Are you nuts? That is as much or more than you
would pay for a factory made cd, even more, when you consider the cost of
the blank data disk.

It's only overpriced if you assume all the songs on a CD are of equal
value. Most are not. If you just want two or three great songs, spending
$1 each makes more sense than shelling out $15 for the three good songs and
12 awful ones. Makes even more sense if the three good songs happen to be
on different albums.

Of course, picking and choosing just a couple of songs from an album can
make you miss out on some unexpected gems. Often, my favorite song on a CD
is not the one I bought the album for.

The cost of the blank data disk is trivial on a per-song basis. I casually
collect LPs and tapes of old flying songs from the wars of the past
century, and have been copying them to my hard disk and burning compilation
CDs (gotta have SOMETHING to sing along with, on the way to the airport).
I can generally cram at least twenty of these on a single CD.


Ron "Stand to your glasses" Wanttaja

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:41:25 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

:The cost of the blank data disk is trivial on a per-song basis. I casually
:collect LPs and tapes of old flying songs from the wars of the past
:century, and have been copying them to my hard disk and burning compilation
:CDs (gotta have SOMETHING to sing along with, on the way to the airport).
:I can generally cram at least twenty of these on a single CD.

You gotta get an MP3 disk player. 10 hours of music on a disk. Last
time I was at Fry's (perhaps the only place on earth more evil than
Cap'n Zoom's office) they had one for $24.

I'd also like to take a stab at defending peer-to-peer. Shortly
before my father died he asked me to find the lyrics to a song he'd
loved as a kid -Abdul Abulbul Amir. I found the lyrics with Google in
a few seconds, opened Kazzaa, and found copies of 6 different
performances of it, spanning 50 years. None would have been available
at any price through the "legit" market. The author has been dead for
80 years - and it was stolen from him when he wrote it, in the 1870's.
No one owns the rights to it. But without a robust P2P network, I
never would have found it.