Music Service

[radiookc]

What are you guys doing for music? Where are you getting it?? One of the expenses that I have had has been
in the music end of things. My format is not one that is serviced by TM Century so that is not a option for me.

Have you run across and deals on MP3's on the web for older catalog stuff? Please post away. I have some holes to
fill and a limited budget.

Thanks!


Chris
www.radiookc.com

[V.Riley]

Well I started out with my own collection, but quickly discovered that that was just not enough.  I've used services like MusicMatch, and then Amazon.com.  However, sometimes you can find the ones you are wanting for great prices at used book/CD shops and garage sales.  In my case, what TM Century has to offer, I pretty much already have in my collection. 

Vincent Riley
Program Director
America's First 80s Station
http://www.star1079.com

[radiookc]

Thanks Vincent!

I tried to get a subscription to PlayMPE and it said I was approved
and never heard anything back from them.

Chris
www.radiookc.com

[nitnitr]

Thanks Vincent!

I tried to get a subscription to PlayMPE and it said I was approved
and never heard anything back from them.

Chris
www.radiookc.com

If it was approved, and they gave you a login password, then it it best to go to the record companies and ask them to add you to their PlayMPE station list. Hopefully they will do so, and you will get the latest releases from those companies.

[radiobop]

We made the concious decision to own a hard copy of everything we play...preferably on CD.  Radio Bop has about 96% of all songs charting on the Billboard Top 40 from July 1955-December 1965 of which 95% is from CD and 5% from digitized records.  Radio Bop 60s including the Top 30 charting from 01/01/60 through 12/31/69 is 99% off CD with about 80% coming from CDs acquired for Radio Bop.  ROOTSofROCK.US is 90% CD and the rest mostly off digitized 78s.  60% of the music came from new CDs and 40% from used CDs off Amazon, ebay and the few remaining used record stores we have visited everywhere we've traveled.  For ROOTSofROCK.US, a surprising amount of the music came from CDs found at Half Price Books which has a lot of stuff from the 40s and early 50s not to mention a lot of classical, folk and Americana if you are into that.

Total investment in music is approaching (gasp!) 10k...it hurts to spend 20 bucks on a CD to get one song but you do what you have to do...

[rickityone]

In contrast to RadioBop we are getting rid of all of our hard copy music, CD's and LP's. We have culled through all the music and extracted everything we can. As the music is streamed from computers, once loaded in, and backed up (we have two computers and regular "time machine" back up we can't figure any good reason to hold onto the discs.

We buy most of our music from itunes, emusic and amazon.com - we also download music from artists that have offered music to play and that we like. After seven years the library encompasses 24,000 titles - including id's and liners.

It's my opinion the CD's are as dead as LP's and cassettes.

rickity
www.gulchradio.com

[radiobop]

Four good reasons for holding onto the original discs:

1. To satisfy and prove legal ownership
2. Backup protection for digitized copies
3. In the future, we most likely will redigitize the entire library at a higher bitrate maybe more than once to take advantage of advancing technologies
4. Liner notes for us are an invaluable source of historical content

[gunterm]

I like TM Centry/Jones however be very careful when buying older music because they sometimes use heavy noise reduction on the cuts and I HATE that.

[rickityone]

Four good reasons for holding onto the original discs:

1. To satisfy and prove legal ownership
2. Backup protection for digitized copies
3. In the future, we most likely will redigitize the entire library at a higher bitrate maybe more than once to take advantage of advancing technologies
4. Liner notes for us are an invaluable source of historical content

I'm not sure how this quote thing works, but - yes those are all good reasons, I accept that. In the spirit of sharing ideas -

Consider, when buying from itunes and amazon you get receipts which can be saved digitally or hard copy, I prefer digital. As for changing technologies, which is what we are talking about, yes, that would be a good thing, but with such huge libraries as I am sure we both have, very daunting. Currently we purchase and download at a higher bit rate than that which we stream at.

Liner notes - another good reason to save, but I might suggest that a great source of artist info is available via www.allmusic.com - check it out. Amazon and Apple both provide artist notes and Apple is now sending liner notes and art if you buy an album from them in .pdf form.

But mainly for us it's the matter of space.

Rock on Radio Bopper - your stations are great!

Rickity
www.gulchradio.com