Tuning In to DMusic

mrG — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:16:37 -0500

Bird-of-a-Feather Joe from Boycott the RIAA hips us to free-the-music distributor, stream broadcaster and fan forum site dmusic.com where you can find hours of new artist tracks and tasty tidbits like this diary excerpt from Robert Fripp:

The RIAA represents the interests of the majors.
The interests of the majors are contrary to the interests of artists.
The RIAA does not represent the interests of artists, and to suggest this is fundamentally dishonest.

I always liked Fripp. I even have a copy of Frippertronics around here somewhere. Now, wouldn't it be cool if Bob could still be recording next-door neighbour domestic fights and rolling out fresh soundscapes around them?

Working with the One-Tracks

DMusic is the same intent as my One-Track network, namely to work around the industry inequities Fripp notes, but our goal is not to be a centralized master repository of the music, only one node in a global network in the free exchange of the meta-data about the recordings. We would trade in the news originating from artist blogs and sites like DMusic, hooking sound sources to the audience by way of blogspace RSS/ping technologies.

So, for example, every time dmusic received (or approved or both) a new submission, the link and summary would go into their RSS, then that would be picked up by the OneTrack network hubs and begin propagating through the other hubs by mutual exchange avenues of RSS aggregators, filtered into genre, region or whatever by virtue and discretion of the aggregating site. Someone with an R&B/Soul personal interest might subscribe to the aggregated feed and thus this announcement of the new Lester Chambers track (fab!) would appear on that fan's website to be clicked on by their audience.

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Tuning In to DMusic

Working with the One-Tracks