MetaTalk posts tagged with streaming

Hey, that's my song!

unSane — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:21:22 -0800

Mefi Music appearing automatically and streaming from Hype Machine -- what's the deal? Recently our band's facebook page got a like and a comment from someone who heard our stuff on Hype Machine / Hypem. I was curious to know how we got on there as I'd never posted anything. So I did a search for Sportswriters, and it turns out that the site aggregates all the posts I've done to MeFi Music. Searches for other Mefi musicians seem to throw up the same result. The site indexes by the MP3 'artist' tag rather than the Mefi handle, so you need to search for 'Josh Millard' rather than 'cortex', for example. If you look at the results for a particular song it consists of various links back to music.mefi, and the post itself, which is fair enough. But there is a play button which streams the track without you having to visit music.mefi or the post itself. I'm not sure in my case that I'm actually complaining about this as Hype Machine is a fairly decent site with a well thought out interface and active users who really do listen to music. As a user I like it. Plus, they have reasonably generous and direct linkbacks to the source. In short, it doesn't set off my scuzzometer, but the streaming thing seems a bit hinky, no? What are they doing technically (making a local copy and streaming it, presumably)? How do we feel about this? At the least music.mefi folks should be aware that anything they post is likely to be reflected by, and streamable on, Hype Machine.

Question regarding extensive Grooveshark-quoting of a composer's oeuvre

Rory Marinich — Sat, 21 May 2011 10:39:51 -0800

Is it considered kosher to make a post on the blue that relies heavily on Grooveshark songs? Or is that as much a no-no as posts that provide links to torrents and unauthorized downloads? Grooveshark only streams songs, rather than providing people with downloads, so does that make it as OK as YouTube? I want to make an FPP about Mike Oldfield's music that's not Tubular Bells, because Oldfield is my all-time favorite composer and his non-Tubular Bells work is utterly fantastic. (Also because Oldfield gives some fascinating and sort-of-wonky interviews.) But because a significant amount of his work is too long to fit on YouTube, Grooveshark is the only place where you can find his music online. In particular, his piece Amarok is exactly 60 minutes long, and very difficult to snippet (it was deliberately composed to be unsnippetable), and I think it's Oldfield's best work, so I'd want to include a link to it. And the only place it's readily available is Grooveshark. So would it be okay to link to that, considering it's just a stream? I did a search to see if Grooveshark's used a lot on the blue, but only two posts have, and one of those was my own. Neither one led to an in-thread discussion of Groovesharking, so it's been allowed before; still, I'm uncertain about using Grooveshark as a primary web site, so I want to see what other users/the mods think before composing a long, Grooveshark-y post.

Internet Phoenix'd the Radio Star

humannaire — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:02:20 -0800

Is there a radio station of Mefi Music? A stream station, that is. But that's my question. I want to listen to Mefi Music while I am busy. Is there an option?

Change to Music format?

chococat — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:55:53 -0800

Just wondering if there's been any change to the format of the streaming versions of the songs uploaded to Music. Lately they seem extra-specially compressed sounding to me, so I was wondering if it's something on my end. Not bitchin', just wonderin'.

Streaming music problem

jacquilynne — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:41:37 -0800

Music: Feature or Bug? When I try streaming a song from the front page, as soon as I scroll past it or flip to a different browser tab, it stops playing. If I load the song's individual page and stream it from there, it contines to play until I close it (even as I type this MeTa post in another tab, for example).