Adopt A Format

One last thought, on a positive note, about how to present your microtonal music to the denizens of the web. How is this for a strategy to encourage adoption of newer codecs (ogg/vorbis used just as an example)?

1. Post your music files (maybe in a nice table format) both in a full version encoded with ogg/vorbis and a 30-second or 1-minute excperpt in mp3.

2. Speak to your visitors:

"I firmly believe the ogg/vorbis format has musical and practical benefits that I simply can't ignore; I use it to encode my music, and I urge everyone to support it. However, I don't want to leave anyone out inadvertently, so I've included a small taste of each piece as an mp3 - if you really like the music you'll have the incentive to download a player/plugin so you can hear the entire piece in fuller fidelity; if it doesn't rock your world, at least you gave it a shot, and maybe something else down the road will let you consider ogg/vorbis as your format of choice - as I have."

3. Be sure to have information available for the users on where to get the stuff (players, etc). Gene does a pretty good job of this on his music page, but bear in mind the more options you have, and for more platforms, the more your visitors will take kindly to your offerings. This strategy also carries the burden of *you* making sure your links are current and that you are periodically seeking out developments in the players and codecs.

This would seem to solve both sides of the question (ubiquity vs quality), and gives the additional benefit of showing to the listener just how good that newer format is.

Cheers,
Jon

This was a nice post, Jon. Good ideas!

-Aaron

On Friday 24 September 2004 03:53 pm, Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:
> One last thought, on a positive note, about how to present your microtonal
> music to the denizens of the web. How is this for a strategy to encourage
> adoption of newer codecs (ogg/vorbis used just as an example)?
>
> 1. Post your music files (maybe in a nice table format) both in a full
> version encoded with ogg/vorbis and a 30-second or 1-minute excperpt in
> mp3.
>
> 2. Speak to your visitors:
>
> "I firmly believe the ogg/vorbis format has musical and practical
> benefits that I simply can't ignore; I use it to encode my music, and I
> urge everyone to support it. However, I don't want to leave anyone out
> inadvertently, so I've included a small taste of each piece as an mp3 - if
> you really like the music you'll have the incentive to download a
> player/plugin so you can hear the entire piece in fuller fidelity; if it
> doesn't rock your world, at least you gave it a shot, and maybe something
> else down the road will let you consider ogg/vorbis as your format of
> choice - as I have."
>
> 3. Be sure to have information available for the users on where to get the
> stuff (players, etc). Gene does a pretty good job of this on his music
> page, but bear in mind the more options you have, and for more platforms,
> the more your visitors will take kindly to your offerings. This strategy
> also carries the burden of *you* making sure your links are current and
> that you are periodically seeking out developments in the players and
> codecs.
>
> This would seem to solve both sides of the question (ubiquity vs quality),
> and gives the additional benefit of showing to the listener just how good
> that newer format is.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
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Aaron Krister Johnson
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