Noah Roberts wrote: >On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:29:11 -0500, Allan Wind ><allan_wind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>On 2005-03-20T09:06:45-0800, Noah Roberts wrote: >> >> >>>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:11:09 +1000, Mark Constable <markc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Any chance of picking these up from anywhere else ? >>>> >>>> >>>Why? Unless you want to provide the hard drive space and the >>>bandwidth I don't think so. >>> >>> >>Not sure if Mark got back to you privately, but soundclick requires >>registration for download. I will pass on that too, but will be >>listening to your other tracks shortly. Thanks for sharing. >> >> >> > >No, he didn't. Well, two things. First, you can still listen if you >want. Second, imho that is pretty lame...like I said, unless you are >willing to provide the bandwidth and harddrive space for the same >price... > >Sound click is neither intrusive nor malevolent. They provide a >pretty decent service to the community for free. The only thing they >want is a login name. This is probably to save on bandwidth, > isn't it more likely that it is "probably" to do with advertising dollars? > those >unwilling to participate in the community don't get any. > by participating, i guess you mean "providing private information about yourself" and/or "wasting time needlessly" ... i mean, if you're posting a song to the list for comment, it should at least be freely accessible and *easy* to access - i.e. you should be able to click on alink from your mail client that will automatically bring up a "save to ..." box, not a registration page. >Many other >sites do the same thing; if they allowed downloads without an account >it would tripple the requirements of their systems...why the expense >for a bunch of dorks that don't want to be a part of what is going on? > > > well, it's just that there's more than Soundclick going on ... and soundclick seems to sort of suck. i went to download your song, then saw what was required, and realised i was a "dork". >I'm sorry, but when a company offers something free like soundclick >does it is pretty lame to complain about them wanting login accounts >to use it. Everyone else charges their artists or provide limited >space. Soundclick does neither. IMHO they deserve some kudo's for >that, not a bunch of complaining because they want login >accounts...that is just stupid and selfish. > > > those comments themselves are stupid and selfish. >No, I am proud to be an artist on soundclick's website. If you don't >like it you don't get to download my music. I am not going to let >that bother me too much. > > > hooray. shayne
