From: owner-digital-music-digest@smoe.org (digital-music-digest) To: digital-music-digest@smoe.org Subject: digital-music-digest V2 #3 Reply-To: digital-music@smoe.org Sender: owner-digital-music-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-digital-music-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk digital-music-digest Monday, July 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: The DIY approach ["Gary Sedgwick" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:01:00 +0100 From: "Gary Sedgwick" Subject: RE: The DIY approach Hi all, Ross's mail was very accurate in pointing out that I haven't laid down the ground rules! To be honest, I'm pretty new to organising e-mail lists, and haven't had a chance to put together a decent FAQ or similar yet. The introductory mail I sent out a week or two ago should explain most of the ground rules. Really, there aren't that many... I'm setting up a new site for unsigned bands and artists, and want to get as many involved from the outset - so that it develops into a site where such bands and artists feel completely at home and have a great deal of freedom over their respective sub-sites. And that's really all there is to it at this stage... I set this list up for the purpose of bouncing around ideas and finding out what people would like to see such a site doing (and not doing!). Thanks for the comments regarding MP3s etc. I want to check that it is the case that most bands and artists with web access have a basic knowledge in converting to MP3, etc. This will likely be on of the fundamental requirements for being on the site, and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't scare too many people off. By the way, I'm *not* looking (at the moment) for volunteers to convert DATs into MP3s etc. All I'm asking from everyone here is ideas and comments on how the site should work and look. If you'd like to be involved more, please contact me privately. It's also interesting the mention of collaboration with other musicians. That is very indicative of what this site will be all about - making new music. Maybe we could have a collaboration section of the site, where you can advertise what you would like to do, get in touch with others who would be interested, and also have details of any collaborations so far? With this site, anything goes, and there isn't any restriction on what can be done except for the time required by the people running it. The more ideas like this I receive, the more will be up and running on the site from the outset. That is what this list is all about! Thanks Ross, and keep 'em coming. Gary - -----Original Message----- From: owner-digital-music@smoe.org [mailto:owner-digital-music@smoe.org]On Behalf Of overbury@cn.ca Sent: 29 June 2000 02:47 To: digital-music list Subject: Re: The DIY approach > > Okay, so no-one's posted anything... I can't speak for the others, but I was waiting for some more definition of what we were about. At least I thought I was. Did you lay out the ground rules already, and did I forget? > > I'm hoping to spark off some interest with this question. How many of you > would feel comfortable with uploading text / graphics / audio / video > directly to a web page? I guess the real question is, are you in a position > to create graphics / audio / video files from your own material, or would > you want to send out a CD / DAT / photos etc. and have the site managers do > it for you? I hope to be making *.WAVs soon, and have no problem converting to MP3 and uploading them myself to a web page. I might upload some pictures too, I guess, but I have no plans for video. > > We're hoping to have this site as much DIY as possible - that way, we don't > get bogged down with scanning photos / converting CDs to MP3s, etc., and > artists have the ability to put up whatever content they want onto their > site. You can get MP3 converters for free off the internet. I've got one. Most people with a computer should have what they need to convert CDs to MP3. DAT conversion requires hardware. Maybe we could pool resources to provide services of that type? I can't help with DAT conversion myself, because I've got no SPDIF input on my soundcard. One thing that interests me is the possibility of collaboration with other feg musicians. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ End of digital-music-digest V2 #3 *********************************