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Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by tkgally »

brian_herman wrote: post #66
veltas wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?

I agree, I don't think this is a impolite usage of Internet Archive's resources. I think they would love it. Though I also agree that putting a donation link to the source is also a good idea.

A couple of years ago, I created a simple “Donate to the Internet Archive” logo for a site I made using IA resources. It links to the IA’s donation page. Anyone is welcome to use the logo on their own sites:

http://gally.net/jatsi/index.html

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by westcort »

brian_herman wrote: post #66
veltas wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?

I agree, I don't think this is a impolite usage of Internet Archive's resources. I think they would love it. Though I also agree that putting a donation link to the source is also a good idea.

Agreed--and added! Thank you!

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by westcort »

tkgally wrote: post #71
brian_herman wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, I don't think this is a impolite usage of Internet Archive's resources. I think they would love it. Though I also agree that putting a donation link to the source is also a good idea.

A couple of years ago, I created a simple “Donate to the Internet Archive” logo for a site I made using IA resources. It links to the IA’s donation page. Anyone is welcome to use the logo on their own sites: http://gally.net/jatsi/index.html

Very nice--added!

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by westcort »

DinkMeeker wrote: post #68
veltas wrote: post #65

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Is it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?

Well, you could certainly just download from archive.org for the first-time usage of any particular song and then cache them from there. Like being your own CDN.

This is a good idea. I did this with about 38,000 books in the public domain and hosted and indexed the text files on the page so I could do quick full text searches of all of them: https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html. Interestingly, it is not nearly as good as a RegEx search of a directory of the same content, revealing some inconsistencies in their search algorithm (at least for custom search engines).

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by joshstrange »

wizardforhire wrote: post #59
m12k wrote: post #54

You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically. [1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...

Small aside, all those songs in fallout are not satire nor new. They're authentic pieces from the forties and early fifties.

Mostly yes but a few were made for the game [0].

[0] https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_soundtrack#Diamond... (Search for "2015" to find them)

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by meristohm »

nwatson wrote: post #6

Unfortunately I'll probably be dead by the time the Joe Frank catalog drops out of copyright: https://www.joefrank.com/ The most interesting radio from around the '90s from KCRW (NPR).

Blindboy Boatclub, Irish artist formerly of The Rubberbandits, credits Joe Frank as an influence on his podcast style, tracing it back to Samuel Beckett as a potential influence on Joe Frank, who taught Ira Glass of This American Life, and may also have been inspiration for Chris Morris of Blue Jam and Brass Eye, programs that Blindboy experienced as a youth.

(Shoutout to spaced repetition with Anki for helping me remember all this. It was one of my cloze cards to help me get back into using Anki and I didn’t expect to actually reference it)

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by SyzygistSix »

wazoox wrote: post #44
westcort wrote: post #38

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That is a good one! You were lucky!

So far I didn't hit skip once, I'm surprised by the overall quality! I've had nice Cuban music, nice classical music, songs from various countries (Sweden, etc), some jazz and rock 'n roll, etc. And sound quality is generally pretty good or even excellent.

I've heard record crackle but you'd get that playing the record anyway. "Cleaning up" music is often unnecessary.

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by westcort »

jrexilius wrote: post #64
subpixel wrote: post #56

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You just need to listen to more WKHR! (wkhr.org) It’s a radio station in a Cleveland high school with octogenarian djs playing 78s!

Thanks for this! Really enjoying the music and DJs.

So cool! This could be a great model for keeping this kind of music and style of DJing going.

Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works

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Post by westcort »

meristohm wrote: post #76
nwatson wrote: post #6

Unfortunately I'll probably be dead by the time the Joe Frank catalog drops out of copyright: https://www.joefrank.com/ The most interesting radio from around the '90s from KCRW (NPR).

Blindboy Boatclub, Irish artist formerly of The Rubberbandits, credits Joe Frank as an influence on his podcast style, tracing it back to Samuel Beckett as a potential influence on Joe Frank, who taught Ira Glass of This American Life, and may also have been inspiration for Chris Morris of Blue Jam and Brass Eye, programs that Blindboy experienced as a youth. (Shoutout to spaced repetition with Anki for helping me re…

I will take a look at that artist too. Anki is a great tool. I have tried to do something like that with languages, like Japanese: https://www.locserendipity.com/jp/Japanese.html and am working on voice simulators based on phonemes not dependent on APIs. It is not that easy to do. This English one based on my voice doesn't sound that great: https://www.locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html
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