Tuesday, February 26, 2008

#26 sharing music

I looked at Project Playlist and searched for an indie band from Australia I liked, figuring this would be a good way to test the music available. Found seven entries for this band and was able to listen to some music. Went ahead and created an acct on Project Playlist. Found more songs for this group on imeem which was pretty neat. Tried myspace and didn't find any songs by this group even though I was looking in the music section of myspace. Of course, I did find an person with a myspace page by this name, which may have been done by the band but it was pretty empty. They haven't done anything with it.
Decided not to create music on jamstudio as there's enough bad music in the world already.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

sound #25

I found it really easy to burn my song to my CD. I do use CDs still in my car, although I can see that a MP3 player would be great, especially since my new car has a MP3 player jack. However, to find the time to download music might be difficult, especially since my husband and I share a computer. And he's always on it!

I think the marketplace will veer towards MP3 rather than CDs, but artists will have to get paid, and I have faith that the music business will figure all this out. It may be that more and more artists sell their music directly to the consumer from now on.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

sound #24 (ihcpl next generation)

Well, I looked around at napster, itunes and yahoo. I probably will go with itunes or yahoo as I like their prices. I like that itune is 99 cents a song as I'm not sure I would use enough to warrant the 12.95 a month for napster. I like that itunes has tutorials for beginners. Yahoo is only $6 a month and I might spend that much a month.
I did look at HCPL and I did look at the free download sites. Was successful in downloading a song to my office computer and then to the branch Zen Nano. But can see where I'd want to get songs from one of the paid sites to get my favorite artists and songs.
My favorite radio stations do have live music, but I already knew that. Just haven't taken advantage of it.