Shifting From File Sharing To Stream Ripping?
from the is-that-really-happening? dept
MusicLover writes "As users continue to try fending off the ever more litigious music industry, some seem to have dropped P2P entirely, moving to Ripping instead. While they loose some control over what they are downloading, it's a untraceable way to download music (no way for the RIAA to track users or sue). With some of the more powerful software that's been coming out recently, stream ripping has become more main-stream. Some of the more well known software packages, like StationRipper, allow users to download several thousand songs on a daily basis. And, depending on how you read the law, it's 100% legal. How will the RIAA respond? As more users move to this type of technology to avoid the P2P lawsuits, how will the music industry respond?" Well, some of the comments are a bit misleading. It's not clear just how mainstream this technology really is, and it's certainly not nearly as user friendly for users as basic file sharing applications. The idea is that it records songs directly from streaming radio stations (though, right now, it looks like only certain kinds of streaming radio stations work with the software). Also, copying a song off the radio (which is this basically equivalent to) often involves a lower quality offering with songs cutting into each other, DJs talking over the music and other radio-related reasons why it's not the same as getting a full track.
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Rippers
good point here, on the songs you get aren't always 100% perfect, depending on the stream operator (some are, some are close, some are way off). if i end up with a song i just really have to have that's on the "way off" side of things, i usually use a P2P app to find it, or just edit the mp3 file (sitch the last and cur song together, or something like that)
i'm not sure about the ease of use - some of the newer ones are really simple to use. just click on the streams you want, it does it's thing. come back a couple of days later and you have a few thousand new tracks. 'course i admit i was initially confused - you gotta wait for a bit to actually have a complete song (hehe, i thought it was broken for the first few mins).
->jon w.
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tivo
I've heard of lots of problems with the beginning/end of songs being cut-off, so DJ's talking etc; which begs the question why don't these things rip to .WAVe so you can edit it without quality loss (I guess disk space is the answer)?
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guess the story has to come out sometime
for audio quality, i go for 128 and a above. 320 is nice but imo overkill. theres plenty of 190 and 128 on the shoutcast page...
why listen to streams that run commercials? id rather send the station owners money.
like dr yo internet radio.
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Never tried it
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Slashdot rippig off
Or maybe they just "ripped" the RSS stream.
How lame, I'm very dissappointed in /.
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Oh God ...
not the /. crowd ...
please,
I found this site as an alternative to the geek snobbery that goes on over there ...
For all the pissin' & moanin' we do ... Techdirt is still levels above /.
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A good variety of views on a variety of tekkie topics.
I won't put any of them down:
information comes in many flavors, most of them good.
Hopefully my minimal critical thinking skills allow sorting the gold from the pyrite. Maybe.
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