> -----Original Message----- > From: Deirdre Harvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 February 2007 12:32 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM? > > > Uh? Wow, pretty judgemental of someone who wants to listen to > radio shows at a time convenient to them. > > I hang around with a lot of music nerds, and I'm quite > partial to it myself (but don't need special rooms for my > records or forgo buying a clothes horse so I can spend more > money on music) and I can quite imagine them wanting to be > able to listen to a particular radio show, particularly one > that plays the "cool new tunes". > > They would only want to listen to it once, because then they > would go out and buy the stuff they thought was any cop on CD > or record. Because the music they care about is mostly made > by independent artists who they want to support by buying > their releases. > > I can't for the life of me see why listening to an online > copy of a radio show and not wanting to ever listen to it > again would make you someone for whom music is just "muzak". > Does that apply to listening to music on the radio? Is it > wrong to want to listen to something only once?
Think we kinda got our wires crossed here to an extent. It's not wrong to want to listen to stuff once - I do it a helluva lot when I'm previewing records to buy on record shops' sites, but I listen to the low-quality clips available (sometimes almost full versions, but usually just a couple of minutes long) - enough to get the flavour of a track before deciding whether I want to spend my money on my own permanent copy. I've usually found that those clips satiate my need to hear the track until I actually have it in my hand, and they make me want to buy it to hear the entire thing that bit more, too. I think if I had full length audio in decent quality of all the music I own, I wouldn't buy as much of it. However, I am quite a fervent fan of Drum & Bass (yes, sorry) so I'll always try and buy the records anyway, support the scene, etc... I have a rather obscene amount of records, of which I'm very proud. Timeshifted radio shows would be much more appropriate (imho) for more-specialist music shows like the Breezeblock or Dream Ticket. I think what I was on about was my objection to the majority of that commercial, generic pop music getting the same amount of coverage via on-demand replay as the more niche stuff already has, rather than an objection to the whole idea per se (I like the BBC's listen again service). (Maybe DRMed) versions of timeshifted general pop music programmes are, imo, a waste of time and resources. Programmes with good, informative content I'm fine with, just all seems a bit pointless to me, might as well go into Woolies and pick the latest Now compilation off the shelf. Stations like VR and el Beeb already have pretty good streaming services where you can almost guarantee to hear the same song more than once a day thanks to their playlisting. Well, maybe not so much VR, because don't they have that thing where you'll never hear the same song more than once in a day? I guess my comments reflected how I feel towards the pop music industry in general, and it all got jumbled up together - the vast majority of it's not worth a second listen, again in my humblest of opinions... Of course, I'm sure there's many people who'd gladly lay into me for slating pop music and proclaim it to be the polar opposite of dull and repetitive, but ho hum. Got to admit it's extremely well-produced though. So, er, yeah. Blimey, I'm lost now, I need a cup of tea :/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
