MP3s with commercials
from the someone-is-finally-thinking dept
Adding a five second commercial to the beginning of MP3s is the latest twist in this crazy free music world. This makes perfect sense to me and is something I will completely put up with in exchange for free music. There are simple solutions out there, folks, if people just calm down and think about it.
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MP3s with commercials
Changing Winamp's output settings to disk_write creates a .wav you can edit in whatever you want, from sndrec32.exe to CoolEdit. Remove the first 5 seconds, re-encode the mp3, the advertising is gone and you've got basically the same thing you could have ripped from the cd.
And what if I want to listen to a cd that flows together, like Radiohead's OK Computer. Now I have to listen to a 5 second commercial between tracks? I wouldn't stand for that, nobody would.
Record labels and execs refuse to face the fact that they can't stop mp3s and the FREE distribution of music over the internet. Software companies have realized it with open source becomming more and more popular. Until they face the facts, poor solutions will continue to be created that will never work in the real word.
-Greg
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