From: owner-orbital-digest@lists.xmission.com (orbital-digest) To: orbital-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: orbital-digest V2 #345 Reply-To: orbital-digest Sender: owner-orbital-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-orbital-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-NoArchive: yes orbital-digest Saturday, July 1 2000 Volume 02 : Number 345 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:49:54 PDT From: "Aronne Merrelli" Subject: (orbital) mp3com stuff >Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 05:01:37 +0000 >From: Brendan Byrd/SineSwiper >Subject: Re: (orbital) re: Courtney's rant. > >JL Jones wrote: > > > > Well, thank you very much for your kind words > > to those of us who have posted stuff on mp3.com > > at least its a place to hear stuff that you wouldnt > > get a chance to hear either through the mass > > media outlets etc..... > > > > If we're all doing crap, so be it.... > > its a forum for people expressing themselves to be heard > > which is a good thing in my book... > >In defense of Aronne, I don't think he meant that 100% of MP3.com was crap. >It's just that it's finding a needle in a haystack, which is probably true. > I >go by a rule that works rather well: 99% of everything is crap. > >A few years ago, I was really into computer MOD/S3M/XM/IT music. At work, >I had >a good connection, and I downloaded the entire year's worth of the Hornet >Archive. Since anybody and his brother could upload any damn song he >wanted, a >great majority of the songs sucked ass. Yes, there were good songs among >them, >and yes, they kicked ass, but you really have to search for them. > >So, it's not that your music sucks, but how to seperate your music (if it >is >indeed good) from the mountain of shit in the MP3.com collection. > >(And if I had the DSL come in, I could actually download stuff from >MP3.com, but >this Earthlink connection sucks my late granddaddy's nutz!) > Uh, yeah, what he said :-) Seriously though, I didn't mean offense to people who use mp3.com ... I obviously didn't explain my point well. What Brendan said is pretty spot-on, but let me say a couple more things. I did not mean that _everything_ on mp3.com is crap. But I think a very large percentage of it is - I won't make up a number, but its alot. And I think most other people think this as well. So in and of itself mp3.com is useless by itself, because I don't see that many people just randomly downloading tracks... its just too frustrating (remembering something like 90-95 % of all internet users are still on modems) Even if people do randomly download stuff, there are soooooo many groups/musicians there now that how many random 'hits' are you going to get? The stuff that I have found on mp3com that I really like was all stuff that other people recommended, or people who promoted themselves some other way first. (BTW here are a few good ones off the top of my head - kettel, lightspeed - "she is following", some stuff by Twine, and of course the Transmat mp3's) Regards, Aronne ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info orbital" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email orbital@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Orbital discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?orbital ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:25:47 +0000 From: Brendan Byrd/SineSwiper Subject: (orbital) ML-to-forum bridge... Because I'm either damned crazy or spend too much time coding or both, I decided to work on that ML-to-forum bridge for my RPGBoard script. Well, I finally finished it today, and it's working great so far. I'm pretty excited about this thing because of its implications. You could use it as web interface to the mailing list, an archive to search through previous messages (for the latecomers to the ML), or to give users a choice of which format to use. In any case, I'm going to be using this ML to test out the threaded mode functions of the bridge. I've limited the forum-to-ML portion to myself only, so that nobody tries to spam this list. (Of course, that's easily done by spamming the e-mail addy.) You can view the archive at: http://www.ResonatorSoft.com/software/rpgboard/orbital/ Hopefully, it will be able to accommodate replies and thread them correctly. That's what I'm testing. Steve, if you want some kind of system like this, e-mail me. (Ok, now who's da man? :) - -- Brendan Byrd AKA SineSwiper (SineSwiper@ResonatorSoft.com) Computer techie, Perl hacker, and all-purpose Internet guru Resonator Software (http://www.ResonatorSoft.com/) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info orbital" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email orbital@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Orbital discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?orbital ------------------------------ End of orbital-digest V2 #345 *****************************