Re: 1972 top 50 (KMET)
- From: Mysterious Mose <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:24:10 -0800 (PST)
Hi Tim,
I actually wrote a detailed reply to your message a couple of
nights ago, and hit send just before going to my New Year's
celebration, but somehow it got lost in the ether I guess because I
don't see it here now. I'll probably be more brief this time, but
hopefully still answer your questions.
As far as licensing goes, I am not directly involved in dealing
with ASCAP or BMI at this point, but I believe you are correct...they
do not care about the quality of the stream.
The high quality streams are only available to Demento Online Club
members because it's an incentive to join the club. It's the same
basic concept as only making the Basement Tapes CDs available to
Demento Society members. Club members ought to get advantages over
non-members. Doesn't that seem reasonable?
The decision to not allow individual purchases of high quality
streams was long before I was involved, so I don't know all the
reasons behind it, nor do I have the authority to change it. However,
I have gone ahead and brought this up for discussion within the
organization, so we'll see what happens.
As for hard drives, it's not as if we could just buy a single hard
drive and install it in a desktop machine connected to the internet
via DSL or cable modem, then run the site that way. That would not
work well. To get good performance from a web site of this nature you
either have to use shared hosting or a dedicated server in a "machine
room" with a direct internet connection.
We are currently doing the former, and are approaching the limit
of our disk space. I have proposed moving to another host and gaining
much more disk space, but I can't do that without approval. We'll see
what comes of that. Going the dedicated server route would be a
significant cost increase, unless you know something I don't about a
good deal on this.
In short, I hope I've answered your questions, and I hope you
realize that my job as webmaster does not give me authority to just do
anything I want. Also, changes will be implemented one by one over a
period of time, as making sweeping changes to a successful web site is
normally a bad idea.
MM
P.S. Response to the 1972 top 50 show has been quite good so far.
Tim Ryan wrote:
Hey Mo,.
Well, thanks, but can you please explain, on a cost basis, why I cannot
pick if I want the low or medium fidelity (128-44-M) stream. To hear
the improved quality stream, I would need to spend $16, where I should
be able to spend $4. If you don't see many takers, don't blame lack of
interest, blame lack of choice.
With the cost of server disk so low, I cannot see a cost basis for the
difference in price. With a space budget of 160 MB for each 2 hour
presentation, that is 128 MB + 32 MB for the two fidelity choices, all
1700 syndicated shows plus 300 radio or web specials would fit into
about 320 GB. I know that a consumer grade hard drive of that size
could cost around $180, or 9 cents a show. A pro server might be a
little bit more than that, but I doubt even 4 times that much. I would
think that royalties paid are the same, not matter the stream quality,
please confirm or deny that, if you would.
Thanks to Jeff and the others for getting this transfered to the digital
domain.
-Tim
"Mysterious Mose" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
Hey there everyone who thinks "it was better in the old
days"...
Check out the streaming page at drdemento.com...we have just
posted the FIRST EVER Dr. Demento year-end countdown, from December
31, 1972. This was live on KMET for four hours, so there are 50 songs
instead of 25. If you analyze the difference between the 1972 and
2007 countdowns, you will find only one song in common.
There have been many requests that we post more older shows, so we
are starting with this one. Its popularity will help us gauge how
much to invest in archive transfers on an ongoing basis. We are
hoping to do a lot more of this type of thing in the future, if we see
that the fans want it.
(Special thanks to Dave & Tony Woodward for their contribution to
the Demento Archives of one of the source tapes for this show.)
Enjoy!
MM
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