Cormac Tobin's two and a half cents.alchemist_9327May 30 2007, 18:59:17 UTC
Cormac here, who stumbled upon your blog... and since you used a real picture of you I know its you, Candle ! Hi there !
I have mixed feelings about filesharing and such. In the 80's early 90's I made a lot of mix tapes for people, and they for me. It was a way as you noted to introduce music, but it never stopped me from purchasing the legit tape ( and later CD ) this was in part because of the sound quality issue. In the modern age, when burning a CD is easier, and the sound quality is better and all the above issues you pointed out came upon us, I was even more reluctant to start burning stuff willy nilly ... only with rare exceptions do I burn entire CDs for people they have to have done stuff like saved my life or something major. Copy guards can be broken, and spyware I think is an evil thing for the companies to do. I end up policing myself on the issue. If I want to give an entire album to someone I buy them an additional copy. I don't burn it.
The only mix collections I make nowadays come as part of my multimedia extravaganzas, which include mostly photos from Pennsic Wars and mostly medieval music... those are sent out to people in my circle.
I do not yet own an Ipod, and I am very much behind the times on this. One thing is I am getting old and can remember learning the Great American Songbook on reel to reel tape, and I remember the end of the days of the LP as the primary music medium. But secondly, I am not impressed with the idea of them. The more Mp3s you have, I believe, and you may correct me, the worse off your sound quality is going to be, and secondly, it is essentially a mini hard drive, and as I know hard drives crash so even if I had one I'd still collect CDs, and or use backups so that I wouldn't lose my entire music collection if my Ipod crashed.
I have mixed feelings about filesharing and such. In the 80's early 90's I made a lot of mix tapes for people, and they for me. It was a way as you noted to introduce music, but it never stopped me from purchasing the legit tape ( and later CD ) this was in part because of the sound quality issue. In the modern age, when burning a CD is easier, and the sound quality is better and all the above issues you pointed out came upon us, I was even more reluctant to start burning stuff willy nilly ... only with rare exceptions do I burn entire CDs for people they have to have done stuff like saved my life or something major. Copy guards can be broken, and spyware I think is an evil thing for the companies to do. I end up policing myself on the issue. If I want to give an entire album to someone I buy them an additional copy. I don't burn it.
The only mix collections I make nowadays come as part of my multimedia extravaganzas, which include mostly photos from Pennsic Wars and mostly medieval music... those are sent out to people in my circle.
I do not yet own an Ipod, and I am very much behind the times on this. One thing is I am getting old and can remember learning the Great American Songbook on reel to reel tape, and I remember the end of the days of the LP as the primary music medium. But secondly, I am not impressed with the idea of them. The more Mp3s you have, I believe, and you may correct me, the worse off your sound quality is going to be, and secondly, it is essentially a mini hard drive, and as I know hard drives crash so even if I had one I'd still collect CDs, and or use backups so that I wouldn't lose my entire music collection if my Ipod crashed.
Reply
Leave a comment