On 1/16/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. Where do you guys/gals go on line to buy music? >
Here's my favorite source for "eMusic": http://www.efolkmusic.org/ Perhaps it's because I play guitar in a fingerpicking style; (someone once told me that I play it more like a banjo!) I'm stuck with Windows XP for the moment (so I don't usually post here, but I do 'lurk'); so I'm using a pay-as-you-go music service called "Rhapsody" (since it's impossible to get in touch with Musicmatch.com when you need service). But Musicmatch has the number-one best Jukebox app for Windows, so it sort of sucks being stuck with the #2 OS, and the #2 music service! #3 if you count iTunes. If you like acoustic music, the best place IMHO to hear acoustic music, that comes from all around the world is at: http://www.hober.com/ They have (what would you call it?) a music "stream" that goes over RealPlayer G2, and I used to listen to Hober.com all the time when I was using Linux (I didn't even need to have broadband). The stream or whatever is very stable and they continuously make sure that everyone can get it (they ask that if you have any problems to Email them and let them know). You get to hear unusual things on Hober from time to time, such as didgeridoo recorded in the field, and even something I'd never heard of before called "Throat Music" which is, I think, hands-down the oddest thing that I have heard. Since then I've found more examples of throat music from different cultures, and they're all of different degrees of quality (that is, some of them you definitely wouldn't want to listen to for more than a few seconds!) But the best I ever heard was on Hober, and I don't remember where it was from; someday I'll probably write them and ask where it came from and who performed it. Anyway, Rhapsody isn't bad for buying music, but I've read that they use an odd format so that you need to use their software so it can query the Rhapsody servers to "validate" it. I haven't noticed any problems, but you might do some research before signing up for this kind of a music service (I've heard they're developing a Linux version of their jukebox software). It costs $8-something a month and I can listen to anything I want (except the Beatles, and others that are not within rhapsody's licensing arrangement). I could pay more to have the "privilege" to copy anything I want to a separate player (like an iPod or a Palm TX like I have right now). But if you want to burn a CD, you'll pay something like $0.79 or $0.99 cents per song. eFolkMusic.org is for anything that I cannot find on Rhapsody (often it's also a much better deal, too). And Hober.com is just *awesome*! Although... there are some folks I know who are just so "particular" (*cough*-narrow-*cough*) in their musical tastes, who claim they don't like Hober-- (well, this is the uh, 'nicest' way that I can express it... ;-) Whatever's the case, check it out anyway! If you don't like what's currently on; after a bit they'll change, and enter a whole different area of 'acoustical expression!' :-) -- --Mark Seven Smith USE THIS ADDRESS TO E-MAIL ME PERSONALLY: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
