Re: [tuning] mp3.com

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

> Dan... perhaps you should spend more time in the "classical" and
"jazz" sections of the mp3.com website. You may enjoy them more...
At least it's an alternative to the big record company hegimony!!

Yes, my problem isn't with mp3.com per say. It's the mentality that
pay for play fosters; the endless, nauseating spamming and vacant
promotional drivel -- the "jazz" section! You've got to be kidding?
Try wading into the mp3.com jazz BB for a post or ten... Puke, barf,
die. Know your neighbors... admittedly, I have hooked up with some
very nice people through mp3.com, and at it's best I see it as a
potential forum somewhat akin to the old "hometaper" scene that setup
camp at Option magazine way back in the early '80s... but that
obviously wasn't my gripe. I know, you've got to take the good with
the bad! But it still makes me sick. The result of the PFP dynamic,
what it brings out in 99.9% of the folks who call mp3.com home, that
is a foul, foul thing.

Alright, I'll shut up now.

Dan

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:

and at it's best I see it as a
> potential forum somewhat akin to the old "hometaper" scene that
setup
> camp at Option magazine way back in the early '80s...

Dan,

I think your right about this. There is no filtering of the content
on MP3. It's all about making tons of dough - that's why anyone with
the ability to push the button an mp3 encoder can put their music out
there. MP3.COM makes their money from being able to advertise to you
when you visit - so they definately have a big business reason for
making it this kind of "all inclusive" thing. What's really cool to
me is how the microtonalists are using the service for their own
designs! Man, we need the exposure - what a great contrast it
provides to the hum drum content out there! Let's fill those pages
up!!!!

Jacky

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@C...> wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/12291

> Yes, my problem isn't with mp3.com per say. It's the mentality that
> pay for play fosters; the endless, nauseating spamming and vacant
> promotional drivel

Hi Dan...

I'm not certain I'm entirely understanding you. I have never
actually paid ANYTHING to mp3.com. The service is ENTIRELY FREE...
unless, that is, you object to the little banners on the Web pages.
They don't even FLASH or anything... They do also send a few
e-mails... but I have not found it all that intrusive... certainly
they send fewer of them than something like "PC Magazine."

The only thing a person has to be careful of is the copyrights... one
should hold the copyright of the material up there... or get
permission from one's publishers if they don't know about it's
availability on the mp3.com website. Then, of course, they will want
a "cut" of it, like on a regular "physical" record.

You can also MAKE money on the public visits to the Website. I have
made an impressive $1.50 through last months' visits, and I'm hoping
this impressive streak will continue :). With the DAM-- CDs... now
for this the publishers would CERTAINLY have to be appraised, mp3.com
assembles a CD from several of your tracks and sells it. People can,
and do, make good money on this.

Check out Jeff Harrington... he has made THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS from
his website. I'm not certain how he does it... but he has "radio
stations" all over the place.

Surely that would not be considered "PFP" in my humble opinion...

AND WHAT'S MORE... look what John Starrett has done with his
alternate tuning Tuning Punks site. It seems as though YOU have
benefited more from this than just about anybody. I would have no
knowledge of your interesting works if it weren't for the TUNING
PUNKS.... After all, you seem to have more pieces up there than just
about anybody! :) :)

If mp3.com is so bad, then I would like to know ANOTHER site that
enables people to host music in as wide and efficient a way...
BESIDES, mp3.com is an entirely, legitimate alternative to the big
monopolistic recording concerns... even the small monopolistic
recording concerns... That's why they ran after mp3.com with such a
vengence in the recent litigation... which I'm certain you have been
following.

I admit, I don't just browse through the pages at random... usually
the links have something that pertain to something I am interested
in... but given THAT caveat, the quality has been surprisingly
high...

At least that has been my experience...
_________________ _____ __ __ _
Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@egroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <josephpehrson@c...>
wrote:
>
the quality has been surprisingly
> high...
>
> At least that has been my experience...
> _________________ _____ __ __ _
> Joseph Pehrson

It is noteworthy that there is allot of fine East Indian Classical
music to be found out on MP3.com. Some very beautiful performances by
master musicians.

Jacky

Speaking of mp3.com, check out James Bohn's "The Compositional
Importance of 'Huh?'":

<http://www.umassd.edu/music/jbohn/huh.html>

ds