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Not infinite, there's only 29816 items in the list ;) But seriously, really awesome! Thanks for this :)
They just have to keep adding new items faster than you can listen to them!
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...
It's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
As so many query whether the Lyrics were understood in the 1920's I got a friend to check BBC archive and the record was never broadcast on the radio, indicting deep problems, and a note still exists that it was banned for sexual innuendo. So the double entendre was fully noticed as soon as the disk came out. It however sold well!! There was a market for such disks, many dance bands did them, notably Bill Cotton. Harry Roy was noted as having a wicked sense of fun, he loved playing prank versions of songs. You have to appreciate that the English audiences loved such lyrics and jokes, Max Miller made a whole career on such comic material.
Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite? ... use of archive.org? I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity. What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own se…
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...
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!
Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite? ... use of archive.org? I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity. What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own se…
Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite? ... use of archive.org? I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity. What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own se…
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?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123888
Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite? ... use of archive.org? I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity. What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own se…
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?
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...
It's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite? ... use of archive.org? I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity. What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own se…
donations are a fine thing, so is discovery, anything that helps to surface quality will long term perhaps help the archive prove its worth and ensure a positive attitude towards their endeavours.