Comments on: Big Music vs Digital Audio

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:46:09 +0000

If you do give timetrax your money and you ask for a refund, good luck getting it back. They took back the hardware that I bought and was *told* that I’d recieve a refund, but that was a month ago. I’ve sent emails every day to timetrax support and thier corp email asking about the open ticket. No response. Nothing, nada.

THANKS A LOT SCOTT!!!! HOPE YOUR ENJOYING MY MONEY!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 02:14:33 +0000

This is kind of a toss-up for me. I’m not really sure if the investment would be worth the end result. If I were to propperly set a system up to rip the music I’d need to drop $50 on the XM PCR, $10 a month for the music and like $100 for a mondo HD to store them all. I suppose that in the course of a month I could accumulate several gigs of music.

To be honest, I might have to get it simply because the Big Four wants it shut down and is afraid of it…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:48:41 +0000

I like your last two lines very funny!!!!!! Let ’s hope it stay’s a joke !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:05:16 +0000

“and will reduce the diversity of music available for broadcasting as the record companies have fewer resources to devote to new talent,”"

Diversity? People, myself included, just aren’t as aware of the indie scene as others would hope. But obviously, you don’t need to be on a label to produce something diverse.

Available for broadcasting? RIAA has just admitted to the companies using some form of radio-air-play scheme, most notably payola. They think only their material is useful for broadcasting, eh? Try letting the very many independent musicians have a shot at radio play. After that, some of these independent musicians may themselves be offered a contract from a label due to ‘discovery’. Not that I would know, but to many people, it seems like it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:53:08 +0000

I must confess that I have been a music fan-er- “thief” since MY DAD bought me my first Wards Airline reel-to-reel recorder and I used it to copy tunes off of KFQD-AM in Anchorage, Alaska. Later, when album oriented FM became popular, I graduated to stereo reel and compact cassette thievery–often abetted by the DJ’s themselves who would announce “Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon starts in two seconds.”
Today I own 1150 vinyl LP’s and 895 legally purchased CD’s. The only difference I see in today’s climate is the ease of performing this kind of sampling. (Heck, my old tapes sound better than a lot of squishy mp3’s I have heard) Meanwhile, the record industry has yet to come up with any definitive, truthful data indicating that this kind of activity has actually affected their bottom line.

Please don’t post my IP or email address as I don’t want my 84 year old father incarcerated for inducing me to commit piracy!