HI, I want to take the time to thanks the 5 people who responded to me so far, either through the list or privately. So far everyone thought it was an interesting/good idea, and so far not a single person said what they would pay for a service like this. If indeed this means that the market is 5 people who won't pay then that would be disappointing! I look forward to hearing more ideas on this subject. I do indeed have access to bandwidth and could get this set up rather quickly in a manual mode, but I need hundreds of subscribers to even begin to have this make sense as a business. If it's a bad idea, for whatever reason (data security, not enough broadband users, something else) please speak up. I have no personal investment in this. Just an interest in promoting musical collaboration and safer/happier computing. With best regards, Mark On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:46:08 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Imagine a web site where you can pay a small monthly fee. At this > site you can primarily do three things: > > 1) Post mp3's (et all formats) and then let people download them. You > have your own 'page' (whatever that ends up meaning) to say things > about the tunes, etc. > > 2) You get unlimited data storage for audio projects. The site would > keep up to 1GB on line (i.e. - on hard drives) at all times and would > store anything else on DVD+RW so that you can download it within 24 > hours. Uploads and downloads could be automated so that you request it > and it happens in the background. Offline storage is unlimited. If > you'll bother to upload it then the site will keep it on a hard drive > or DVD for you. You can control what is kept online vs. off-line at > any time. > > 3) You can set up collaboration groups to share audio. As an Ardour > user you might want to have another Ardour user do a guitar track for > you. (hint hint) ;-) You'd specify what audio tracks from your archive > another user can have copies of and the site would get it to them. > > In general the above features would come for a low monthly fee. > Streaming of mp3s is unlimited until it becomes 'burdensome' at which > time the system either limits access to certain tracks or charges you > some more money based on a choice you make ahead of time. 'Burdensome' > is probably defined by how much you're using vs. other people and how > taxed the system and connectivity is. > > Obviously you need broadband access to make the storage part of > real value. What would people pay for a service like this. How many > Linux users are out there to take advantage of this? (Not that it > needs to be limited to Linux...) > > What price makes this compelling? <$3/month? <$5? <$10? > > All comments appreciated. Respond to the list or to me privately. > > Thanks, > Mark >
