From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #314 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, November 24 1998 Volume 03 : Number 314 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: All Dolby roads lead to Alloy [Lem Bingley ] Re: Alloy: All Dolby roads lead to Alloy ["I T Admin @ Govt Office North ] Alloy: BostonSundayGlobe11/22 - internet music publishing article [RThurF] Alloy: very off topic book question! [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:39:37 +0000 From: Lem Bingley Subject: Alloy: All Dolby roads lead to Alloy What a very small world it is. Here at Ziff-Davis, my desk is adjacent to a much more untidy desk inhabited by media celebrity Rupert Goodwins (UK residents may have seen him commenting on Dixon's near-monopoly on high-street PC sales on the BBC's Six O'Clock News last week). Rupert, I discovered recently, is a closet Dolby fan. It must be a pretty well stocked closet, as he seems to know more about the man and his work than than I do. Anyway, we talked about Dolby rarities a couple of week ago and it transpired that Rupert used to own a copy of Live Wireless. Only this video departed his posession when he broke up with an old girlfriend. Having briefly considered a custody battle with his ex, Rupe decided he would turn to the Internet for help, and put a note on the Noticeboard part of Cix (Cix being a sort of mini-AOL-type thing here in the UK) asking if anyone had a copy of Live Wireless to rent/sell. Rupert got precisely two replies. One was someone saying "You want to contact Lem Bingley, he'll have a copy." (I don't). The other was a very generous offer from our own Mr Neal Leacy! The precise nature of which I won't go into because of copyright law. Like I said. Small world. Well I thought it was funny. Lem ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:15:31 +0000 From: "I T Admin @ Govt Office North West" Subject: Re: Alloy: All Dolby roads lead to Alloy At 10:39 23/11/98 +0000, Lem wrote: > > >Here at Ziff-Davis, my desk is adjacent to a much more untidy desk >inhabited by media celebrity Rupert Goodwins (UK residents may have seen >him commenting on Dixon's near-monopoly on high-street PC sales on the >BBC's Six O'Clock News last week). > Six o'clock!!! He was on the breakfast edition as well (and probably Newsnight, but I don't watch that). I hope he was being paid per session shown, i.e. including a fee for repeats. > >Rupert got precisely two replies. > Let me guess, one from Algie Pug, and one from Ting Ling (it's an in joke for readers of Rupert Bear). >One was someone saying "You want to contact Lem Bingley, he'll have a >copy." (I don't). > Who was responsible for that reply then? I don't know anyone on Cix or else they're keeping it quiet. >The other was a very generous offer from our own Mr Neal Leacy! The precise >nature of which I won't go into because of copyright law. > So, he's still alive and well and living in Wiltshire. >Like I said. Small world. Small. And FLAT!!! > >Well I thought it was funny. > Yes, but you've done research into sonar in shallow waters. There's nowt so queer as folk. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:15:47 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: BostonSundayGlobe11/22 - internet music publishing article There is an article about the future of music on the internet in this past Sunday's Boston Globe (page F1, page F7). I'll quote out a small part of the article... '(Liquid Audio spokesman Bill Woods) sees the change as good news for artists, who can now gain public exposure faster and cheaper than ever. "They don't have to go into the studio for six months and come back with 72 minutes of music," he says. Instead, a little-known independent band, or a superstar outfit like REM, could record just one song and sell it to all comers. 'Good for the band, perhaps, but disasterous for the record company. "It's a potential way to lose vast amounts of money," says (Warner Bros.' spokesman Bob) Merlis. "We have to record an entire album to produce a viable product." Singles alone won't bring in enough revenue, he says. Besides, Merlis warns of a sharp decline in the quality of music, as artists stop designing complete albums with a unified theme and just begin banging out hot-selling pop tunes.' I thought this last part was a very peculiar thing to say, given what I know about the music industry, as opposed to the probable creative goals of the recording artist. Not that there won't still be some schlock to wade through... but of course if it's really crap, people won't buy it. And even if they did, at least it would have been the consumer's choice. This is all warming up to be very interesting. There was also some info in this article about a device called Rio (by Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc) which records MP3 files off the hard drive, and then can be taken anywhere for listening, like a Walkman. I was hoping that Headspace would be mentioned, but instead a company called Liquid Audio Inc. in Redwood City got a mention as producing the 'best-known of these secure Internet music systems' when it comes to artistic control of the final product & built-in encryption features. Listen to me tossing this jargon around, I sound almost like an old pro :) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:50:14 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: very off topic book question! A while ago we were discussing books, and someone posted a web site address for hard-to-find books. Does anyone still have that address by chance? I'm helping a friend look for a book that's probably way out of print (the mass & office of the church, containing text & music notation in the original Latin!) and have had no luck on eBay this evening. Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #314 ***************************