RIAA kills youtube-mp3.org

[tedmich]

https://consumerist.com/2017/09/05/p...ustry-lawsuit/

My favorite non-profit site is finally killed, Music companies sued them in 2016, then Google started blocking them and now the RIAA and UK equivalent BPI filed suit and have taken over the sight.

I cannot tell you how many wonderful old songs that are unavailable ANYWHERE I have downloaded through this site (for several reasons) but now I will find another way,

and post it here

[rjb]

My favorite non-profit site is finally killed,

Noooooooooooooo!

[bob p]

there are people who still listen to .mp3 files?!?

why go lossy when you can go lossless?

[rjb]

there are people who still listen to .mp3 files?!?

It's good enough for learning tunes fast.

Like when your sister in NJ wants you to accompany her friend singing a Whitney Houston song at her wedding ceremony, and he emails you sheet music in "his" key of Bb, with piano backup that makes no musical sense, so you rip the tune which was recorded in E, with amorphous jangly guitar chords with high E&B note drones, and pop it into Audacity and transpose it first down half an octave, then up half an octave, trying to find a way to approximate the feel without either a baritone guitar or a ukulele......

[potatofarmer]

why go lossy when you can go lossless?

Smaller file size, greater portability. Fidelity is a laudable goal, but I've heard some great music on cassette tape. I eventually bought the same albums on CD but somehow the songwriting didn't get any better between the two formats. When I backup CDs, I do so in FLAC via EAC, but I'm closing in on 1.5 TB of music and tripling or quadrupling that size for a largely inaudible (if mathematically undeniable) increase in fidelity seems silly.

Then again, my TV is small and most things I watch are in 480p. :P

When I really like an album, I generally purchase it on vinyl, and then it goes on The Good System(tm) but 90% of my listening is done in the car, and the compression algorithm is far from the weakest link in that chain.

[Enzo]

there are people who still listen to .mp3 files?!?

why go lossy when you can go lossless?

There are people who still eat at McDonalds??? WHy eat crap when you can have a good meal?

[g1]

Maybe more work but this is how I do it.

Ant Video Downloader (add on for firefox, chrome, or IE). Downloads as FLV
Then I convert the FLV to MP3 using Any Video Converter.

[bob p]

i think it's ironic that people here will fuss over tube amps, refusing to play SS gear, and then listen to music on mp3.

[bob p]

by any chance are you mp3 users also running windows based computers?

[The Dude]

If I'm listening for the sake of enjoyment, it's hard to tolerate MP3's. rjb makes a valid point, though. I often use MP3's for learning songs. I do quite a few fill in gigs and I'm not going to go purchase media for a one time thing, especially if it's something I don't even like. They are certainly good enough for learning songs and readily available..........until now?

[Gnobuddy]

...her friend singing a Whitney Houston song at her wedding ceremony, and he emails you sheet music in "his" key of Bb, with piano backup that makes no musical sense

For a minute there, I was wondering how come I know your sister's friend.

Then I realized that, though the "piano backup that makes no musical sense" bit sounds very familiar, I don't know any dudes who sing Whitney Houston songs.

-Gnobuddy

[rjb]

...I don't know any dudes who sing Whitney Houston songs.

Well, you know those NYC metro area "theater people"... or maybe you don't.
-rb

PS - When sung half an octave below the recording, it kinda stops being a Whitney Houston song.

[Leo_Gnardo]

I don't know any dudes who sing Whitney Houston songs.

Well I did get a couple rides in Whitney's limo... That was back in 1994, in LA, one trip was out to a desert radio station near Palm Springs. My, don't that make me posh! No we didn't listen to any of her songs. Nor did we sing any.

[Enzo]

Was Kevin Costner with her?

[Gnobuddy]

Was Kevin Costner with her?

I doubt it, he was probably too busy admiring himself in a large mirror.

Real-life security guards have to be willing to play second-fiddle, to put their employer's life above their own, to be self-sacrificial. Those aren't exactly the characteristics of the typically self-obsessed, narcissistic people who claw their way to acting stardom.

-Gnobuddy