Lately I've been enjoying Magnatune's wonderful array of music podcasts and thought I give a shout out to other SB owners.
These podcasts are arranged by music type, generally last about an hour, and sound good at 128 kb/s. There are 50 different music categories, including some obscure ones like "Lute", "Sitar", "Medieval", "Mozart", "Remix", etc. http://www.magnatune.com/podcasts/ If you put this URL in your Slimserver podcast list, you'll get a listing of the 4 most recent podcasts from each genre: http://magnatune.com/podcasts/xml/everything.xml All of Magnatune's music is available as a free stream, or can be purchased in lossy or lossless form. Albums are available for a suggested price of $8, though you can choose to pay more or as little as $5. The artist gets half of what the album sells for, and there's never any DRM. If you want to buy a physical CD, it costs $12.97, shipping is free, and you can download the album while you wait for the CD to arrive. Magnatune has a very fair and workable business model. They compensate the artists, they trust their customers, and they offer a lot of quality music. I've been aware of Magnatune for a while, but I didn't think the music would be any good - I was wrong. The big labels could learn a lot from this company. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24644 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
