[TriLUG] Music Files (and a small rant)

[Ian Meyer]

I rather like that at any time, I *can* listen to any one of my  
songs, and don't have to keep paying for the privilege of doing so.

So when you consider that I'm likely to keep moving my music on with  
me to new computers and such, and it will be listenable for, say, 60  
years until I die...and that I'll need internet access to be able to  
listen to it... so we have cost for internet service (we'll call it  
just $20/month, even though it'll be a while before broadband is that  
cheap here), plus another round $7 for yahoo's music service. don't  
forget the few hundred bucks i'll need to spend every couple years to  
keep an up-to-date windows PC to listen to the streams on, and that I  
can't listen to them in my car, on my iPod, in my cd player...

and its not worth it.


~ian

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On May 25, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Robert Ryals wrote:

> Mark Freeze wrote:
>>> But any failure would not result in irrecoverable loss, but  
>>> rather in a
>>> cost-to-replace loss.
>>>
>> I would consider trying to re-download over 4500 unique songs at a
>> price of .99 each almost irrecoverable.  I don't' have the $4500 to
>> recover them, nor the time to download them one by one. For the
>> un-Napsterish files - ripping all or part of over 1200 CD's takes an
>> unimaginable amount of time.
>>
>>
> .99 each if you're using iTunes, cheaper if you subscribe to some  
> of the other services and and just listen to the streams.  How  
> often do you actually listen to each of the 4500 songs ?
>
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