Music Taste

RTM: Let me start by saying, I like pop.

lol @ those with perspectives absolute.

Once upon a time I did d/l in an unauthorized fashion, but I have gone to great lengths to replace those with legit copies. Recently, I purchased the entire "50 First Dates" soundtrack for 1 song, as an example. There are some mp3's that I have recorded myself from television, radio, and other sources - they are not available commercially, to my knowledge, and I don't redistribute them in any fashion. I'm don't understand this to be illegal...(?) It seems quite the same as recording a show on your VCR, to watch later.

nonononono, but you don't just like pop. It's when people say they just like one genre



Just because something is there in front of you and is not for sale, does not mean you can have it. This principle extends to music, video, software food, cars, houses and animals (even the really cute ones) amongst other things. Thats the way I see it.

Really? So If I was to write a piece of code (just as an example most people here can relate to), It is available for anyone with a computer to see (it's on my site), but I choose not to make this code available to buy. Does this mean anyone can then use this code for their own personal use - as long as they are not redistributing it? Interesting (scampers off to find a site run by dm to steal all his coding mwahahahahahahah )

If you look at my previous post you would notice that I actually have more legit tracks on cd than anyone has posted as their playlist number. I'm not saying that all people will large playlist got them illeagally, and I'm not saying that it isn't possible to have a large, legit playlist, but I'm willing to bet more people with mp3's are d/l ing than not.

I'm not attacking anyone I'm just curious.

the pop thing: all in good fun

Actually, I would say yes. When I look at someone's website, the client-side code/HTML is cached on my hard-drive. I personally look at that kind of stuff all the time, I learn from it, some times I save it places other than my cache if I intend to do a more thorough analisys later. When I go to apply those lessons, I don't cut and paste, I re-write it from scratch (It's almost never exactly what I want anyway.)

well thats not the same thing now is it. If you had gone and rewritten the music from memory and rerecorded it.....

I'm not sure what the law is on copying music from the telly if it is not available for sale. I can't see that it isn't protected by copyright though.

well they'd have to come confiscate my VCR ,then. My wife has many illegal copies of Oprah, Days of our Lives and Dr. Phil.

actually thats an interesting point. I'm sure in the UK we have a thing where you are allowed to record stuff off the telly but you have to erase the tape after one year.

They do come and check up y'know


As I said I don't know what the legality is - I do know that anything you create gets copyright by default but I know copyright law is hazy at best.

I'm still not attacking anyone, but I am curious about the other people's playlists.

Oh yes, I think it's a very legitimate question. I know many people like myself who have put the effort into getting their collections up to snuff. Like you indicated, these laws have fuzzy edges and their applications aren't always apparent.

Yeah I know what you mean, the only reason I don't have any mp3's ripped from my CD's is because I have a stupidly expensive Hi FI in the same room as my computer so there's no point. This HI FI is also the main reason I don't d/l and keep mp3 files.

I'm not critisising anyone - from time to time I download music (to try before I buy) or films (usually in the time between I have seen them at the cinema and the time they get released on DVD). This is 100% illeagal, but I always try to buy "proper" copies or delete the file asap. Thats my justification of it, which is no justification at all.

ok, Im gonna be the oddball here it seems. I like:

Phil Collins: i have every one of his CDs
Smooth Jazz: Saxaphones just slay me
70's and 80's music: Im into the oldies I have no idea why
R&B: by artists like Usher, Mariah Carey, Whitney Housten, Alicia Keys (wish she would date me ), Eve, and so forth. I do like Nelly though

first off let me start by saying... if I d/l songs it is completely legal

however, the only songs I have downloaded are ones that I have heard off the radio.

all my other songs were either purchased by me, or one of my friends (this argument was bound to start sometime right? )


one means of justification:

I have a group of about 8 friends that share music this way, and although the artist does not get the funds he/she/it deserves, in retrospect, there is only 2-3 songs that anybody wants on a cd anyways...

so if 8 people wat 2 songs, that is 16 songs... so we go buy a 16 song album.

My top five bands:

Tori Amos
Nine Inch Nails
Alkaline Trio
Brand New
Pink Floyd

dM, proud to see you still have my song in your playlist, how cool!

Alan: Good to see you!!! Yup, still got it. I have another one of your tracks, too. It due for rotation into the playlist soon.

Yeah, I've been gone for a while, not so much free time anymore. Remember those GUI's I was designing for the orchestral software? Well, that company flew me from Chi-Town to Seattle for a job interview and a chance to do some intern work learning how to program their software... so things have been busy, but going very good!

I hope to get a chance to visit more here, as you guys are a really great resource...

I download music a bit (not as much as others) but that's when I hear a song somewhere and just want to listen to it. Alot of the music I downloaded, I have the song legaly and/or later bought a legal copy, I just don't want to fire up a music listening device and just to hear one song, when I could just have it on my computer (I don't ahve an mp3 player)

The music I like is pretty braud, anything from Bob Dylan (what I am listening to right now) to fleetwood Mac, to nirvana, to led zeppelin, to queen, to annie lennox, to neil young, plus so much more.

My favorite,
I would have to say the sound of african drums would have to be the favorite. I like ladysmith. I used to be into blues and rock but ive found african drumming is awesome.