Uhhh, that (the tabbed bleep page that never times out during
playback) was
like "privileged" information Andrew.
One of the best kept secret on the interweb I'd have thought.
Why don't we, in future, try and keep it that little bit of a
secret. Not
so that it can be utilised towards any nefarious purpose, like stream
ripping or whatever - simply let's think of it as our own secret
little
oasis of freely streamed playback on demand.
It could potentially be very damaging to bleep, the artists and
thus the
consumer if this was to become publicised widely. That which is one
of the
sites great advantages (ability to preview audio at any point of
the actual
track) could in the end become it's achilles heal. Just think about
it...
All the best fella,
bp
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Beatport can be flaky for me, lost items in the crate a few times
etc... The best part of bleep.com for me is how (in safari in my
case) when you preview a track, just create a new tab and read the
news or something, and the track will play with no fade-out until you
click back on the bleep tab. Great for certain tracks that you want
to hear in full (pedantically).
It flaked on me only once, I think in the first week of its life, so
I think it's definitely the benchmark.
On 01/12/2006, at 6:07 AM, Graham Miller wrote:
my problem with beatport is that the preview quality is atrocious.
you can't tell if the production of the actual recording is any
good and that deters me from buying any digital downloads. i think
this is especially shortsighted when you consider that in the idiom
of electronic dance music the production IS the music.
i'm really hooked on bleep.com. the preview system they have there
is perfect. you see the entire track as a waveform and can shuttle
instantly anywhere in the track, with really decent preview audio
quality that plays for about 20 seconds before fading to silence.
it's also a beautiful website done by the geniuses at kleber.net.
g.
Anyway I buy the releases I like, in part because I do want to
support
artists. But note that beyond that, a digital download from beatport
is normally of higher quality, especially since I usually buy WAV
rather than mp3 for instance. So all ethics aside, there is, in
fact,
good incentive for a discriminating consumer to buy legal digital
copies of files.
~David
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