>From: steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: [SLUG] DRM free music
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:47:32 -0400
>
>From Jon Lech Johansen's BLOG (of libcss fame) re: where do you get DRM
>free
>music:
>
>"Audiobubble Music Store http://www.theaudiobubble.com/
>February 16th, 2006 at 2:05 am
>I received an email from the Audiobubble team about their online music
>store.
>
>"Audiobubble isn’t your average online music store.
>It began in early 2005, when two musicians, Shaun Russell and Tom Chambers,
>decided to create a music service that was fair to artists and fair to
>customers. Tired of puny 30 second previews, lack of customer trust and
>lack
>of freedom for the artist, they created the Audiobubble concept.
>We don’t use DRM because we know it isn’t consumer friendly. Shame that
>Napster, iTunes and other online music giants can’t wake up to this fact.
>Audiobubble is about freedom. Join the revolution!
>
>"I signed up for an account and was listening to previews in no time under
>Ubuntu Linux. The only information asked for during signup was email,
>username and password.
>
>"Payment is handled through PayPal, so if you don’t have a PayPal account
>and
>refuse to sign up for one you’re out of luck.
>
>"Other online stores that sell music files without DRM: Magnatune, Bleep,
>Mindawn, Audio Lunchbox.
>
>--
>
>Steve Szmidt
It's too bad that Audiobubble does not provide music in patent-free audio
formats like Ogg Vorbis or FLAC. Besides the additional freedom that these
other formats provide, there is a technical advantage as well. MP3 cannot
handle gapless tracks and its method for storing metadata (ID v2/3) is not
as flexible (e.g. there can only be 1 artist field).
-Jonathon
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