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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Universal Music cuts CD price |
| Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:52:56 -0500 |
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Todd Rundgren (during his TR-1 phase) was talking about doing this -
creating a
computer program where you could "remix" his music in any way you wanted to. I
used to have a program called "Mixmaster" that allowed you to remix a
dance/rap
track with different drum and bass loops. Fun but more of a game than anything
else.
BTW look all the "mash-up" remixes that are online. I think companies are
reluctant to release "accapella" mixes for the fear of thier artists being
mated with another companies artist. Just heard a bizzare mating of Michael
Jackson's "Dont Stop Til You Get Enough" with the Beach Boys "California
Girls".
Billy
At 11:38 AM 9/4/03 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Stop worrying about the formats and start changing the
>> >*MUSIC*.
>
>Actually, there is a format which I'm still hoping to see someday,
>and am curious if would ever be done (or if anyone would want to do
>it). That is, I want a format which would provide me the music in
>the original multi-track format, so that I could mix the music, and
>create a CD that sounds the way I want it to sound. No more of
>having people hating the way that some producer decided it should be
>sound.
>
>Now, that would be a lot of data for a single album to fit even on a
>single DVD. However, in order to do the mixing, you would need to
>do it on a computer anyway, and so you wouldn't care if it required
>several disks, as it would be transferred to a hard drive anyway.
>
>And, now here's the possible incentive for music companies. Since
>this theoretical multi track format disk(s) is not meant to be played
>on a CD type of player, but instead would be meant to be used by a
>single computer, that I'm sure there is a way to make it that such
>files could only be accessed on the computer it's licensed for, just
>as some software is configured so that it will only run on a single
>computer, and can't be installed on another computer (at least
>easily) without calling the company back for another key.
>
>Would there be a demand for something like this? Would companies
>ever allow it to be done? Someone could come up with a better mix
>than the official CD, which of course the companies wouldn't want to
>happen. And, of course, there are probably artists that wouldn't
>want that allowed either. But it's a sort of dream I've always had,
>so maybe someday?
>
>Mark
>
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio
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