you could try www.dmusic.com Maarten de Boer wrote: > Well, I was quite surprised by the thread that followed my initial mail > about the copy protected CD's. I have had a lot of thoughts about it, > but especially this comment by Brian Redfern triggered my imagination: > > >>product. I can find higher quality music being given away by the artist >>for free than its possible to find in all the archives of major labels > > > I'd like to agree, but personally, I have a hard time finding good music > for free. There is also a lot of, how shall i put it, lesser quality > music around, and I don't really know where to look. I find it already > very difficult to find something that I really like among known music or > publicly advertised/broadcasted music. How do you go to a record store > and pick a CD of an artist you don't know yet? By the cover? > > When I listen to new music (new as in new to me, not in age) it's > because friends whose musical taste i value tell me about it. Something > else I do is consulting www.allmusic.com, and follow the > related-artists/followers/influences links, and listen to the stuff with > high ratings. In theory, this method is okay, but I have found myself > more than once disagreeing with the ratings and sometimes even with the > related-artist linking. > > Now, what I would really like, is a website dedicated to free music, > that offers a search engine not unlike allmusic, but much more > "intelligent": keeping user profiles, matching user profiles with tastes > so it can make suggestions, an advanced rating system where users can > rate not only the music itself but also similarity to other artists, > etc. (RFC) > > Everybody has a different taste (well actually, a lot of people have the > same taste: none ;-), but i am sure some people have a taste similar to > mine. I'd like a computer system to find that out, and decide who my > "virtual" friend are that "tell" me about new music. Of course, it > should also include the obvious: Free mp3 downloads, links to the > artists, a way to donate money to the artists, and maybe even a peer to > peer network that only contains this free music. > > Where is this website ? :-) > > Maarten > > -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::. Musicians say No to RIAA Persecution and Prosecution of Music Lovers! Sign the petition at http://www.copyleftmedia.org.uk/justsayno/