http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:52:13 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/11/19/094518.php#comment-2144 the quality of streamed music is inferior, due to software interaction and yes, it sucks badly on a dialup. topping that off, there's the fact that you can only sit in front of your computer and listen. There is no portability..... 2144@blogcritics.org Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:52:13 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/11/19/094518.php#comment-2143 Streaming is a pain and barely worth listening to if you're on a dialup connection. On a higher bandwidth connection, fidelity can be acceptable, especially if there aren't any damn "rebuffering" glitches. Of course, once the data stream is out of the Record Company's clutches, how do they propose to ensure it doesn't get copied? I know there's a utility for the Macintosh that will save streaming audio to disk. If there isn't a Windows equivalent yet, I imagine people will get to work on it as soon as they can stream the music they want to hear at an attractive price. Until then, well, we're still paying royalties to the RIAA on blank cassettes, right? (I wonder if there's an auditor somewhere that can tell us how much of that money has been distributed to the Artists? Ha!) 2143@blogcritics.org Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:20:32 EST