Xeni Tech on NPR: Changing view of downloading music:
Xeni Jardin: For today’s edition of the NPR program “Day to Day,” I report on how the popularity of online file-sharing sevices has affected the way music fans find, distribute and listen to music. I speak with artists Michael Donaldson (aka Q-Burns Abstract Message) and David Byrne, and random folks buying tunes and movies at a record store in Hollywood. The short version? It seems that for many music-lovers, “consuming habits” involve some combination of purchased hard goods (CDs, DVDs, vinyl); paid downloads; and “illicit” P2P or other unpaid forms of tune-sharing. Those complex behaviors may explain in part why some studies show that music sales are up in spite of the fact that P2P use is still high, and growing.
Link to archived audio for this segment, Link to more archived “Xeni Tech” segments on NPR’s Day to Day.
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Following up on my previous post about ID3 tags, I decided to seek out those podcasts that needed a little nudge in helping me keep my iTunes folders sorted out.
Earthwatch Radio fell into the category of offering some help versus just unsubscribing.
Earthwatch Radio is produced by staff and students at the Sea Grant Institute and the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We cover a wide range of subjects that concern science and the environment and give special attention to global climate change, the Great Lakes and the oceans.
Now we’ve got artist and album, too. Great work guys.
Subscribe to the feed.
In the background One Night In Bangkok from the mix “One Night In Bangkok” by Dj Shadow
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First it was all the podcasts consuming the final, precious, few gigs of space on my music library drive. Simple solution was to go from 120 gig to a 250 gig Lacie drive . Solved that problem.
Now my iTunes library is a mess with sloppy ID3 tags. There was a point it was pretty clean…
It’s the last mile between the podcaster and some disk space on the users end, and even to that little device we take with us.
Are all these podcasts without proper tags really worth the time of listening and tagging them, or just deleting?
In the background [____-__-__] Ninja Tune All Stars via the Breezeblock
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