Ah, this must be the "analogue hole" that all the DRM numpties go on about. Its fine to listen to music, but only if you can't actually hear anything in case it "escapes" via the analogue hole and someone else hears it who has not paid for it.
Interesting that you thing "re-broadcasting" can be done with a speaker.
Am I the only one thinking about Diane Keaton in Sleeper here ;-)
Revenue - royalties 562.1 Revenue non-royalties 9.1 Total revenue 571.2
Costs 65.4 Charitable Donations 1.3 Total Costs 66.7
Net distributable income 504.5
They are now using fingerprint technology (no idea of the details) to automate air-play detail collection.
They claim to be surveying pubs, clubs and other live music venues to get details of public performances.
I suppose they will have to start inspecting every KwikFit in the land as well.
There is a PRS "working order check" licence - sounds as if it might be usable by radio repair places - but I could not find details.
If we wish to consider logic ...
If I buy one CD and play it all day every day, one fee has been paid and what I am doing is perfectly acceptable.
If I buy two CDs and play them alternately, two fees paid. But I am still only getting the same play-hours as with one CD. Indeed, I might play the new CD just once and decide never to play it again.
If I buy a hundred CDs but only play one a day, I have paid hundred times the fee but only get a fraction of the play-hours.
There is virtually no relationship between the fees paid and the hours heard except at the extremes. Most people probably have quite a number of CDs and play them sometimes.
The PRS distributes fee income according to broadcast plays (and they do NOT include purported sound wave 'rebroadcasting' car radios in garages for this purpose) and live music surveys (and other factors). I wonder how much relationship there is between their number of listener-plays and reality? There is lots of music which is rarely broadcast but frequently listened to.
It is all very much rough justice.
BTW The PRS waive their charge for music in bona fide music therapy sessions.
That's what happens with Public Lending Right for books - but at least there is a per-author cap.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Rumm saying something like:
Over the years I have bought, at full price, many albums of music. Rather than sit down and laboriously rip them all to mp3, I have quite happily let someone else do the work and downloaded 'illegal' copies via Limewire or similar. As far as I'm concerned, my attitude is that I've already paid for the music once and that's enough. Bruce and his cohorts can go f*ck themselves.
It's hardly laborious. All you need is a copy of a freeware program called CDex. This will rip your CD to wavs of mp3s ( of chosen compression ). It even features a connection to a remote database which will automatically fill in your track titles etc. It takes about as long to rip one CD as it does to find and download a couple of tracks from Limewire - plus you can be assured you won't be trying to open any dodgy files.
Exact Audio Copy is another excellent ( and slightly better, I feel ) program that does much the same - and again it's freeware. I orefer to rip to wavs, and this program gives me better results.
Regards,
Maybe not very laborious if they are CDs (more tedious) - but GC might have been referring to vinyl.
Interestingly, I asked my friend who owns a guitar / amplification shop, and is a muso himself, what he knew about the way PRS funds were distributed to artists, and he pretty much said exactly what you are saying there, viz that the amounts paid are more a popularity contest, than directly related to actual airplays, based on the playlists that radio stations are obliged to submit.
He has a license from the PRS to use copyrighted music in his shop, which he does for demonstration purposes only. However, he freely admits - and bear in mind that he is a musician himself - that he does not agree that he
*should* have to have a license for the very limited use that he is making of this material, and that the main reason for having, and displaying said license, is as a show of solidarity with his fellow musicians.Arfa
A USB turntable and use of a programme called Audacity makes conversion from vinyl to mp3 extremely easy, if you've got another programme called Switch you can also alter the output file to another format should you want to. It only takes as long as playing the single/album...with the added Brucie of actually getting the chance to handle your vinyl again and read those messages scratched in the run-out grooves - usually good for a grin or two.
True. It's not so hard to do vinyl rips - just takes a bit longer ( obviously ), and unless the kit is good you might just as well make do with an mp3.
Regards,
In message , Stephen Howard writes
When the man said "albums", those of us of a certain age would assume he was talking about vinyl records
Perhaps. I have a fair few myself - but somehow the words 'albums', 'vinyl' and 'mp3' don't sit well together. Still, it's a good format for ringtones...
Regards,
Maxie, you had vinyl photographs? Fantastic!
I did not think a full blast radio was appropriate and I never suggested it was.
I am responsible for the lads professional development and I called in to watch him doing his hours so I could take the piss out of him as that hurt him more than cutting grass.
Adam
In article , geoff scribeth thus
And after all that argument here's an excellent download site all the classics you could ever want at very reasonable prices and much better to hear the original .. not someone's dodgy rip;))...
In message , tony sayer writes
nice one
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