Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] [OT] an "intelligent" website for free music?
From: iriXx (m_AT_iriXx.org)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 12:09:12 EEST
you could try www.dmusic.com
Maarten de Boer wrote:
> Well, I was quite surprised by the thread that followed my initial mail
> about the copy protected CD's. I have had a lot of thoughts about it,
> but especially this comment by Brian Redfern triggered my imagination:
>
>
>>product. I can find higher quality music being given away by the artist
>>for free than its possible to find in all the archives of major labels
>
>
> I'd like to agree, but personally, I have a hard time finding good music
> for free. There is also a lot of, how shall i put it, lesser quality
> music around, and I don't really know where to look. I find it already
> very difficult to find something that I really like among known music or
> publicly advertised/broadcasted music. How do you go to a record store
> and pick a CD of an artist you don't know yet? By the cover?
>
> When I listen to new music (new as in new to me, not in age) it's
> because friends whose musical taste i value tell me about it. Something
> else I do is consulting www.allmusic.com, and follow the
> related-artists/followers/influences links, and listen to the stuff with
> high ratings. In theory, this method is okay, but I have found myself
> more than once disagreeing with the ratings and sometimes even with the
> related-artist linking.
>
> Now, what I would really like, is a website dedicated to free music,
> that offers a search engine not unlike allmusic, but much more
> "intelligent": keeping user profiles, matching user profiles with tastes
> so it can make suggestions, an advanced rating system where users can
> rate not only the music itself but also similarity to other artists,
> etc. (RFC)
>
> Everybody has a different taste (well actually, a lot of people have the
> same taste: none ;-), but i am sure some people have a taste similar to
> mine. I'd like a computer system to find that out, and decide who my
> "virtual" friend are that "tell" me about new music. Of course, it
> should also include the obvious: Free mp3 downloads, links to the
> artists, a way to donate money to the artists, and maybe even a peer to
> peer network that only contains this free music.
>
> Where is this website ? :-)
>
> Maarten
>
>
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