Legal Streaming vs Illegal Downloading


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Legal Streaming vs Illegal Downloading

Henszey
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Jan 28, 2004, 1:54 AM

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A lot of my friends download music. I tend to be one who listens to the radio to get my music fix. Recently I decided to write a program that would make it simple and easy to stream music on your computer. You can see what I am talking about here http://www.henszey.planetubh.com After showing it to a few of my friends they have stopped downloading music and started just streaming the stations that they like, they never even realized that there were a lot of high quality internet stations out there. What I am wondering is how many people realize that they can stream music for free? The other thing is, in the older version of my program it could download the stream and save it to individual files. The thing is, it’s a legal way to download mp3s. At least I think it is :/ Well you can record the radio to a tape and use it for personal purposes. I don’t see why you can’t save music from a stream as long as you use the music for private purposes.

If you want to save music from a stream check out the Streamripper project http://streamripper.sourceforge.net The only thing is, it some times has problems saving each song to an individual file with out cutting off parts of one song and adding them to another. Like 1-5seconds off, doesn’t sound that bad, but it can get kind of annoying unless the songs are played back in the same order that you recorded them. My project Streamer http://www.henszey.planetubh.com Was originally my attempt to do what Streamripper does. I started it before I knew about Streamripper and was able to get my files saved with 4-8seconds off. I used the same techniques that Streamripper does so there still isnt a perfect way to seperate each song. You could possibly save it all as one large file and then manually cut out each song.

Anyway I was also wondering how many people that have broadband and are just looking for something to listen to while they are on their computers would use my program. Sure there are plenty of other programs that will play the same streams (winamp, foobar2000). But what I was trying to go for with my program was just something that you could quickly pick a station to listen to and leave it to play and not have to bother with it. If you have any constructive criticism to leave about my program be sure to either leave it on the forum here or my site.

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todd@wdlenterprises.net

Feb 21, 2004, 6:48 PM

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Just wanted to offer compliments to whomever created this little streamer. Simple, clean, easy and functional. It does what you ask of it, what a concept. I just about never stream music or download and have no familiarity with the various applications (real, media, winamp and so on). All I want to do is get a little background music while I work. Trust me, if you are like me looking at some of these other aplications without ever having tried to stream it before it is an exercise in frustration. everything from error messages to subscription requests to questions about this or that to guessing what the icons mean... "shut up already and play some damn music" is all I have to say. As my blood pressure decreases, thanks again for a great little streamer.

Todd

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Feb 25, 2004, 2:13 AM

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>> The thing is, it’s a legal way to download mp3s. At least I think it is : <<

It depends a bit on where you are. In Canada it is perfectly legal to download or record for personal use. If you upload or distribute in any other way, that IS illegal.

John F

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