marco: This is pretty cool. For those who didn’t know about it (I didn’t until tonight), there’s a music store called Live Downloads that carries legal copies of live shows, mostly from jam bands. I wanted a Widespread Panic show, 3 discs’ worth of music, and it’s offered in 128k MP3 for $11, FLAC (lossless) for $16, or CDs for $23. I opted for FLAC. It then popped up this Java-applet downloader and download all 987 MB of it as fast as my cable modem could handle. I’m impressed. That Java applet is nice.  Of course, bit torrent is kinda nicer (if your isp isn’t annoying).  As others have pointed out, etree is the classic site for this stuff.  For a while, archive.org has been pretty good as well.  There is/was furthurnet, a p2p app specifically for this stuff, but bit torrent is better (interesting fact, legal sharing of grateful dead shows is what brought bit torrent to initial fame). Of course, none of this can compare to trading tapes with some people and talking about great shows you’ve been to.  That really brings a music community together.

marco:

This is pretty cool. For those who didn’t know about it (I didn’t until tonight), there’s a music store called Live Downloads that carries legal copies of live shows, mostly from jam bands.

I wanted a Widespread Panic show, 3 discs’ worth of music, and it’s offered in 128k MP3 for $11, FLAC (lossless) for $16, or CDs for $23.

I opted for FLAC. It then popped up this Java-applet downloader and download all 987 MB of it as fast as my cable modem could handle.

I’m impressed.

That Java applet is nice.  Of course, bit torrent is kinda nicer (if your isp isn’t annoying).  As others have pointed out, etree is the classic site for this stuff.  For a while, archive.org has been pretty good as well.  There is/was furthurnet, a p2p app specifically for this stuff, but bit torrent is better (interesting fact, legal sharing of grateful dead shows is what brought bit torrent to initial fame).

Of course, none of this can compare to trading tapes with some people and talking about great shows you’ve been to.  That really brings a music community together.