Rock On, Dude!: 2 Free (and Legal!) Live Music Concert Sites

LIS and Music Day, October 12, 2009

Rock On, Dude!: 
naughty naughty!
What NOT to Do...
torrent sites
eMule/KAD networks
for shame!
&
A Brief Intro to fRee 
(and leGal) 
Music On The 'Net
Everybody Does it, but...
(some legal content, some not)
http://songza.fm
http://www.imeem.com/
http://www.seeqpod.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
(Another) brief Digression...
 file types
lossy
lossless
sound quality is lost
nice, tiny file sizes (ca. 10% of WAV)
AAC
MP3
Ogg Vorbis
MusePack
no loss of sound quality - CD or better!
larger file sizes (ca. 40-50% of WAV)
FLAC
APE (Monkey Audio)
Shorten
WavPak
comparison 
chart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_codecs
but first... a Digression
downloads
streaming
we're talkin' compression, here
but usually still sounds pretty good
Not only LEGAL
but pretty cooL too...
Wolfgang's Vault
focus on rock, some country, jazz, etc.
live concerts (not on CD!)
name (national) bands
professional recordings
FREE FREE FREE to stream (MP3)
some available for DL ($$) (MP3, FLAC)
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com
Live Music Archive (aka, etree) (part of Internet Archive)
focus on jam-band, bluegrass, some jazz
live concerts (not on CD!)
name (national), regional, local bands
mostly audience recordings
FREE FREE FREE to DL or stream (FLAC, OGG, MP3)
no $$ needed - bands give permission
http://www.archive.org/details/etree
and, by the way, don't forget...
http://go.middlebury.edu/muslib
Thank You!
Legal streaming Sites
(now we're on to somethin')
pick an artist you like
create your own "radio station"
streaming only
ad-supported

http://www.last.fm/
http://www.pandora.com/
"MP3 Blogs"
tsk, tsk
&
MySpace
band
sites
http://www.myspace.com/theagentkquartet
searches
searches
searches
&
http://www.radio-locator.com/
Good 'Ol
Radio