RTP-area local music and culture

["Tim Flaherty" <mrdorkesq AT gmail.com>]

Bryk,  

Didn't you release something on my friend Dave's zunior.com?  I was
wondering how that was? Also have you (or anyone else here) downloaded
anything from zunior? How about e-music?

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:ch-scene-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bryk
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:51 PM
> To: RTP-area local music and culture
> Subject: Re: Did Ruckus Kill Schoolkids?
> 
> On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:00 PM, chapelhillguitarist AT hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Why do people bother with iTunes at all?  (Different subject I know
> > but related).  My ears cringe everytime I listen to a friend's music
> > dowloaded from iTunes.
> >
> > Until iTunes offers uncompressed, full resolution 44k or 48k WAV or
> > equivalent, discerning adult music lovers won't touch it.
> 
> 
> To reiterate what Jim said, what you put on the iPod is your choice.
> no one is FORCING you to buy from the iTunes Music Store (which is now
> just the "iTunes Store" as they no-doubt migrate away from the music
> that made them to focus on Movie Rentals and TV Show sales...) just as
> no one is FORCING you to buy Apple's hardware.
> 
> I _really_ bit the bullet/drank the koolaid/fought the seether and
> chose to encode everything with Apple Lossless, which occupies half
> the space while sounding every bit as good/bad as Red Book CDs (to me
> at least) when played back on my iPod Classic or the 3 Macs of varying
> vintage strewn around the house.  it seems stupid to me to encode MP3
> or any other lossy format, hard drive size being applicable to moore's
> law and all... when we have 100TB desktop drives and 100GB flash
> drives in another year or two. the only reason I don't just encode
> from CD straight-to-AIFF is because AIFF files don't retain all those
> meta tags (and why the hell not?)
> 
> while i certainly miss carrying hundreds of vinyl records with me
> while i walk the dog, I'm one of these freaks that actually likes
> having 80 gigs of CD-quality music, movies and tv shows that can be
> directly injected into my car stereo or TV set (at least until the
> Swedish government eventually caves in and shuts down the piratbyrån)
> 
> i've bought about ten albums off of ITMS, and all of those were by
> either by friends who didn't want to/couldn't afford to press CDs, or
> cult records that were so ridiculously out of print I didn't care
> about possessing a 5-inch aluminum disc of them.
> 
> all I can say is, despite all their socio-cultural marketing and
> greenwashing, Apple is still a big evil manufacturing corporation like
> any other. but in my experience, their products tend to work better
> for my purposes than anything else. it's the people like ch-guitarist
> who hate Apple... they REALLY hate Apple. it's almost irrational.
> 
> oh yeah, back to the topic... anyone know anyone who has some Ruckus
> stats?
> 
> I'm probably breaking my TOS on this, but one Ruckus stream of Bull
> City's "Ford Ranger All-American" netted Urban Myth exactly...
> $0.00900 (our digital distributor takes their cut from that.) which
> basically means I'll be buying dinner for Mr. Brantley next time we go
> out :-"
> 
> in the old days, that might have been a 99¢ single sale.  Modern life
> is rubbish.
> 
> >
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