By Terry Simpkins
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
LIS and Music Day, October 12, 2009