Dana Olson wrote:
On 3/10/06, Cesare Marilungo <cesare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dana Olson wrote:
On 3/10/06, Carlo Capocasa <capocasa@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I think that you have presented a couple valid points. This motion, however,
is something that will be only as successful as community wants it to be.
FWIW, we could talk about incorporating your idea into the Linuxaudio.org
mission as long as the two remain within the same scope. This way we the two
could mutually benefit and in the long-run through exposure encourage others
to adopt similar (or preferably same) strategy.
Sup Ico! I would absolutely LOVE to integrate this one with
linuxaudio.org. The more integrated the more powerful. This thing will
be, as all free movements, a matter of network effects. The more sites
with the free music logo and working the free music way, the better! The
more support, the better! Thanks!
Carlo
Let's get started! I am ready... Are you?
My design skills suck, and I can't even do SVG stuff in Inkscape or
whatever, so there goes my idea of using SVG, oh well. I'll do a
hi-res idea in Gimp... My skills are crap, as I said, but I think we
should indeed have a competition and have votes of some kind to see
what everyone thinks about each submission.
BTW,
Digg for music would be cool! I don't know that Digg's source is
available, but it sure would be easily adaptable, I think. We'd still
need a big host for it though.
Dana
Dana,
I don't believe that emphasizing the ogg choice is as important. Yes,
ogg quality is superior but there are a lot of devices that can't play ogg.
To provide both is enough effort.
FLAC will be the obvious choice in just a few years, or months.
Think about this: If I want to print a cd, let's say the minimum
quantity (500 copies), the costs are around 800$ for the bare bone jewel
box. Here in Italy (and nothing is cheap here ATM) I can have a hosting
service for 30 euros/year with unlimited space. Or you can host your
music on archive.org and such for free. So, what are we talking about?
You can provide mp3s, oggs and FLACs of your whole discography.
And anyway, to say we're different because we use ogg and putting a logo
on our website is just a marketing trick. These are the kind of tricks
that big media use to brainwash people. I don't want to be a part of this.
c.
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www.cesaremarilungo.com
Okay, so stick to MP3 and other patent-encumbered formats if you like.
The world doesn't need open formats I guess.
I haven't said so, Dana.
I just said that I wouldn't market my music as better just because I
provide only the ogg files.
Isn't FLAC an open format also?
Can you compile the ogg library on Windows? And Pure Data? And can you
compile Ardour on MacOS X?
Aren't Windows and Os X patent-encumbered?
I'm so thankful that my 5 years old iBook (the hd is so small I can't
make it dual boot with gnu/linux) can be used as an hard disk recording
system with jack, Ardour, ecasound (which is great, btw).
c.
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www.cesaremarilungo.com
