[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Nov 19 23:03:52 EST 2007
I don't want to do injustice to your lengthy essay, but just one peeve,
then what I believe is your core point.
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 21:42 -0500, Greg London wrote:
> Every radio station currently out there is making
> some kind of profit from their operations.
Absolutely not! Discover community radio. It is the only radio that
exists (for me). One newish station that I'll mention one because they
are pretty free culture and free software aware is
http://www.kruufm.com/ but there are many.
> So you delegate. You try to find radio stations
> or music reviewers that you trust. You try to ask
> friends and get a sense for the ones who like the
> same sort of music you like.
>
> That doesn't scale well at all.
> Call it non-fungible or whatever.
> Or crack a joke about it if you'd rather.
> But it doesn't work well the more music you add.
But it *has* worked well for me.
There are people whose taste is close enough (and superior) to mine that
nearly everything they pick is wonderful.
Fortunately a good number of these people are djs/airshifters at
community radio stations. Tuning into their shows is bliss.
Some run record labels. Every record they put out is a godsend.
Finally, with enough samples, collaborative filtering works. When I was
a paid Last.fm subscriber (I'm not now because it is crack, will rejoin
if they allow filtering on license in stations, which is my dream tool),
"my" station, based on collaborative filtering, would regularly play
stuff I had never heard or that I hadn't heard in many years (long
before I started logging listens there), and much of that stuff was
mindblowingly awesome.
Now the tastemakers that work for me don't work for a lot of people.
But I'm sure that they exist for anyone who cares about music. And
collaborative filtering should work for anyone.
Now I haven't found a free music tastemaker that is right on target for
me (though some of the shows and podcasts that exist and some that are
no longer have been pretty good) and there is no good collaborative
filtering mechanism for free music (I believe Jamendo says they use one
to make recommendations, but I don't think they have nearly enough music
or listeners yet to make it work well), but these are not pipe dreams.
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