April 27, 2009 at 10:42Music: network deposits
The Pirate Bay trial and its results are an occasion to think about other ways to get content. Speaking of music, the easiest way is to buy it in iTunes. This method has a significant drawback - it naturally limits the consumption of music. The need to pay for each track leads to thoughts about whether it is needed. There are other options that do not lead to such restrictions. This is either services where you can listen to and download music for free, or subscription services where a one-time fee is paid, which does not depend on the number of songs played. Even if it is economically not entirely profitable, there is no element of psychological pressure: you know that after listening to another track you will not pay extra money - and in this sense you are free, although you are forced to pay money for this freedom. Recently, the number of services that the first that the second type began to increase. Below is a brief overview of several of these services, based on the notes of the author and his colleagues in the publicationRformer
Last.fm
Last.fm - the most famous of the services in question - needs no introduction. However, now, to use it fully, you must pay three euros per month. For three euros there is the opportunity to listen to the radio. This means that you can listen to the stream of music files in a particular style or similar to the records of your favorite artist. However, there is no way to regulate this stream and order a specific song or even a specific artist.
Pros: relative cheapness (3 euros per month), educational function (listening to the radio, you will learn new artists in your favorite style), sociality.
Cons: the service has become paid, without adding new features. Listen to what you want at the moment is impossible.
Reformer:Last.fm makes the free version worthless .
Spotify
Spotify has no last drawback. In it you can listen to what you want - and immediately. It is possible to listen to radio by genre or by year (for example, ask only for funk and reggae - and only for the eighties). The Spotify catalog contains all the records of Universal and Warner Music - and with the help of the search you can listen to any artist, any album, any song - as long as they are released on these majors. There is a free version (while listening is interrupted every 20 minutes by advertising) and paid - there are no such restrictions. Unfortunately, in Russia free is not available.
Pros: a lot of music that you can listen to without any restrictions. Having one account, you can listen from multiple computers (not simultaneously). A giant media collection is always available - if only the Internet.
Cons: high cost (10 euros per month or 100 per year). There are no other labels - what came out on EMI and Sony will not work. Russian performers on majors were published very little - with them, too, a bummer. Unlike Last.fm, the system does not issue recommendations. Nothing can be downloaded. You can’t listen to the player - the application in which Spotify works only exists for desktop Macs and Windu - nothing will come out of Linux either.
Reformer: record companies hit ruble piracy .
Yota Media
Yota Media- WiMax provider directory, currently numbering 629412 songs. In its device, it is similar to Spotify - only without an application, everything works right in the browser. You can listen completely without limits.
Pros: for now, free. Our performers come across. Cross-platform and no need for additional software
Cons: as in Spotify there is no flexible tag system. A dozen genres - that's all. While it is in beta, everything is fine. As soon as the beta comes out, ridiculous restrictions may appear, advertising, anything. Until you cover it, you can safely use it.
Reformer: Yota media services are open to all comers .
Jamendo
jamendo- A very famous and middle-aged project, which recently appeared Russian-language interface. Unlike the previous ones, it does not provide any desktop application or a special browser window with which you can navigate this collection. Only the web interface, the search - by artist, genre and tag - and many hours (there are more than 18,000 full albums only, and there are also separate songs) of high-quality music released under various Creative Commons licenses. You will not find famous performers here - but you can learn many new names in your favorite genre.
Pros: free. Good tag system. Many new names that sound fresh and high quality. Everything can be downloaded or listened to online.
Cons: if you are familiar with the genre only superficially, it will not be easy: you will not find luminaries here.
Telnews: Jamendo - How can a singer make money with free music ?
Kroogi
Kroogi is a Russian crowdfunding experiment. Its creator Miroslav Sarbaev worked in the same Napster. So this is a very old and respected pirate. Everything is legal in Kroogi: performers upload their songs, users download and discuss, form interest circles. At the same time, downloading the album, you can make an arbitrary donation (generally speaking, musicians have the opportunity to limit it from the bottom). The musicians in Kroogi are predominantly Russian - Tequilajazz, Aquarium, Rada and Ternovnik.
Pros: free, but you can mark the artist you like with a donation. You can find a community of like-minded people with similar tastes. Music can be downloaded in high enough quality.
Cons: mostly domestic musicians. Not too diverse yet.
Telnews: Kroogi - a social network will help artists earn money .
In addition to already functioning projects, there are also very young ones. Nothing is clear with them yet - so far only the skeleton of functionality has been outlined. It’s too early to talk about the pros and cons.
Free frog
free frog- a very ambitious project. So far in words. It was made by the people who created Mp3Search.ru - and it is claimed that a million dollars was spent on it. It’s still not clear what - the website consists of an under-processed Dolphin CMS with glitches falling out in different places, and from the stars in it you can find only the Demo group. The highlight of the project: users can both exchange free content with each other and sell paid content (music, photos, even texts). Of course, it is formally required to have rights to such activities.
Reformer: Free Frog - Russian MySpace .
LoudCloud.fm
LoudCloud.fm- A social network in which different artists can upload their music, and users can rate and comment on it. There is a system of separation by genre and tag. Content is filtered, which allows us to hope for its quality. So far, however, the groups are laid out unknown and, to put it carefully, different.
Reformer: LoudCloud is a social platform for music lovers .
SoundCloud
SoundCloud- A service where musicians can upload music. It would seem that just music hosting. It cannot be considered as an independent service - however, the word Cloud in the name is not accidental. This is a convenient framework with which you can create social communities. The player through which files uploaded to SoundCloud are played can be embedded in any web page. He also allows commenting on an arbitrary moment in the track. In addition, the musician, uploading the file to the sound cloud, can provide it with a link to the video, a link for free download or for purchase and indicate under which license the content is distributed - standard Copyright, any modern Creative Commons or “No rights reserved”.
Reformer: SoundCloud is a universal network for musicians .
Mooozone
Moozone is the latest service to be covered in today's review. It is different from everyone else. In spirit it is almost p2p. Here, not the performers share the files with the listeners, but the listeners with each other - it is alleged that they are legal. How so? The fact is that when a user uploads a track and decides who can listen to it, the track becomes available, but only partially. At the same time, only one person can listen to the laid-out audio file, it is shown to everyone else as inaccessible until the listening is finished. Thus, only one person listens to music at the same time and there are chances (while this is not clear) that the requirements of the law are satisfied. Although it’s clear that in fact one “extra” copy is created: no one controls whether the downloaded file was deleted from its hard drive.
Reformer: Moozone teaches sharing in a new way .
The problems of torrent trackers make you look at the world wider. Someone is ready for one hundred euros a year to receive all the music of the leading labels on Spotify. Others are ready to delve into the Jamendo deposits and learn new things. And for someone, it's enough to follow your favorite artist in Kroogi. Life is richer than boring music stores with rows of identical discs on one side and torrents on the other.
Last.fm
Last.fm - the most famous of the services in question - needs no introduction. However, now, to use it fully, you must pay three euros per month. For three euros there is the opportunity to listen to the radio. This means that you can listen to the stream of music files in a particular style or similar to the records of your favorite artist. However, there is no way to regulate this stream and order a specific song or even a specific artist.
Pros: relative cheapness (3 euros per month), educational function (listening to the radio, you will learn new artists in your favorite style), sociality.
Cons: the service has become paid, without adding new features. Listen to what you want at the moment is impossible.
Reformer:Last.fm makes the free version worthless .
Spotify
Spotify has no last drawback. In it you can listen to what you want - and immediately. It is possible to listen to radio by genre or by year (for example, ask only for funk and reggae - and only for the eighties). The Spotify catalog contains all the records of Universal and Warner Music - and with the help of the search you can listen to any artist, any album, any song - as long as they are released on these majors. There is a free version (while listening is interrupted every 20 minutes by advertising) and paid - there are no such restrictions. Unfortunately, in Russia free is not available.
Pros: a lot of music that you can listen to without any restrictions. Having one account, you can listen from multiple computers (not simultaneously). A giant media collection is always available - if only the Internet.
Cons: high cost (10 euros per month or 100 per year). There are no other labels - what came out on EMI and Sony will not work. Russian performers on majors were published very little - with them, too, a bummer. Unlike Last.fm, the system does not issue recommendations. Nothing can be downloaded. You can’t listen to the player - the application in which Spotify works only exists for desktop Macs and Windu - nothing will come out of Linux either.
Reformer: record companies hit ruble piracy .
Yota Media
Yota Media- WiMax provider directory, currently numbering 629412 songs. In its device, it is similar to Spotify - only without an application, everything works right in the browser. You can listen completely without limits.
Pros: for now, free. Our performers come across. Cross-platform and no need for additional software
Cons: as in Spotify there is no flexible tag system. A dozen genres - that's all. While it is in beta, everything is fine. As soon as the beta comes out, ridiculous restrictions may appear, advertising, anything. Until you cover it, you can safely use it.
Reformer: Yota media services are open to all comers .
Jamendo
jamendo- A very famous and middle-aged project, which recently appeared Russian-language interface. Unlike the previous ones, it does not provide any desktop application or a special browser window with which you can navigate this collection. Only the web interface, the search - by artist, genre and tag - and many hours (there are more than 18,000 full albums only, and there are also separate songs) of high-quality music released under various Creative Commons licenses. You will not find famous performers here - but you can learn many new names in your favorite genre.
Pros: free. Good tag system. Many new names that sound fresh and high quality. Everything can be downloaded or listened to online.
Cons: if you are familiar with the genre only superficially, it will not be easy: you will not find luminaries here.
Telnews: Jamendo - How can a singer make money with free music ?
Kroogi
Kroogi is a Russian crowdfunding experiment. Its creator Miroslav Sarbaev worked in the same Napster. So this is a very old and respected pirate. Everything is legal in Kroogi: performers upload their songs, users download and discuss, form interest circles. At the same time, downloading the album, you can make an arbitrary donation (generally speaking, musicians have the opportunity to limit it from the bottom). The musicians in Kroogi are predominantly Russian - Tequilajazz, Aquarium, Rada and Ternovnik.
Pros: free, but you can mark the artist you like with a donation. You can find a community of like-minded people with similar tastes. Music can be downloaded in high enough quality.
Cons: mostly domestic musicians. Not too diverse yet.
Telnews: Kroogi - a social network will help artists earn money .
In addition to already functioning projects, there are also very young ones. Nothing is clear with them yet - so far only the skeleton of functionality has been outlined. It’s too early to talk about the pros and cons.
Free frog
free frog- a very ambitious project. So far in words. It was made by the people who created Mp3Search.ru - and it is claimed that a million dollars was spent on it. It’s still not clear what - the website consists of an under-processed Dolphin CMS with glitches falling out in different places, and from the stars in it you can find only the Demo group. The highlight of the project: users can both exchange free content with each other and sell paid content (music, photos, even texts). Of course, it is formally required to have rights to such activities.
Reformer: Free Frog - Russian MySpace .
LoudCloud.fm
LoudCloud.fm- A social network in which different artists can upload their music, and users can rate and comment on it. There is a system of separation by genre and tag. Content is filtered, which allows us to hope for its quality. So far, however, the groups are laid out unknown and, to put it carefully, different.
Reformer: LoudCloud is a social platform for music lovers .
SoundCloud
SoundCloud- A service where musicians can upload music. It would seem that just music hosting. It cannot be considered as an independent service - however, the word Cloud in the name is not accidental. This is a convenient framework with which you can create social communities. The player through which files uploaded to SoundCloud are played can be embedded in any web page. He also allows commenting on an arbitrary moment in the track. In addition, the musician, uploading the file to the sound cloud, can provide it with a link to the video, a link for free download or for purchase and indicate under which license the content is distributed - standard Copyright, any modern Creative Commons or “No rights reserved”.
Reformer: SoundCloud is a universal network for musicians .
Mooozone
Moozone is the latest service to be covered in today's review. It is different from everyone else. In spirit it is almost p2p. Here, not the performers share the files with the listeners, but the listeners with each other - it is alleged that they are legal. How so? The fact is that when a user uploads a track and decides who can listen to it, the track becomes available, but only partially. At the same time, only one person can listen to the laid-out audio file, it is shown to everyone else as inaccessible until the listening is finished. Thus, only one person listens to music at the same time and there are chances (while this is not clear) that the requirements of the law are satisfied. Although it’s clear that in fact one “extra” copy is created: no one controls whether the downloaded file was deleted from its hard drive.
Reformer: Moozone teaches sharing in a new way .
The problems of torrent trackers make you look at the world wider. Someone is ready for one hundred euros a year to receive all the music of the leading labels on Spotify. Others are ready to delve into the Jamendo deposits and learn new things. And for someone, it's enough to follow your favorite artist in Kroogi. Life is richer than boring music stores with rows of identical discs on one side and torrents on the other.