Re: RMMGA CD?

Leonardo wrote:

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Ty Ford wrote:

Jim, or whoever,

What's going on with it?

Thanks,

Ty Ford


I don't know exactly, but I think for practical reasons this should
be the last hard copy, snail mail CD

Some folks spoke up, at the the start of the project for a
downloadble album, but were overruled.

That was a coons age ago in tech time, the back end would be even
easier now. Download the audio and graphic files, burn the CD, print
the paper and slap it all into a jewel case if that's what you want.
If folks don't have high speed or are unable to download for other
reasons, I'm sure some people would volunteer to do it and then send
off the CD by mail.
If there hasn't been a financial commitment to the replicator, one
might even consider converting the current project to a download to
relieve the burden on Bill C. and others.

Just a thought.


LA


As long as there are covers (the majority I would think), there are licensing fees to consider.

Ed

I'm talking about the back end.... how the finished product is
distributed.
LA

Len, distribution is what the copyright laws are mostly concerned about. We pay for a predetermined number of copies. That's all we are legally allowed to distribute. There is no way to control downloading, unless you want to start a company like iTunes.


I don't believe that's true. The file bundle can be managed by third parties that can limit the number of paid downloads to specified amount.



LA


I was involved in this, er... uh... discussion at least once... and it was quite enough. (grin!) I think there is a lot more to it than it seems like there ought to be. There may well be new circumstances and available services. If you work out the details and present it to the group, I'm sure people would give it a fair listen. That said, I think that one of the things that make these things attractive (to some), is that pro-grade pressing and packaging.



Non-existant "pro-grade pressing and packaging" of tunes, a substantial portion of which were probably recorded by amateurs in homes studios verses downloads??


The whole notion of a glass mastering and distributing a 500 rmmga cd run is itself archaic. Get with the times.


Some of us are very happy with the archaic CD process.

I have all the previous sets, and I can take them out and play them to friends, play them in my car, lots of things that I like to do.


Right, you play them in your car, discman, boombox...convert for mp3 player, all which makes it critical that the music comes off a cd pressed from a glass master? I don't get it. Archivability is the only good reason I can think to have a CD produced in this manner. If you're not listening to the CD with audiophile gear, you're not hearing all of it anyway so what is the point?

If you feel there is something too newfangled about the web as a file source, so be it.

LA

I do play them on my sound system too, and for that reason would not find mp3 acceptable. I don't really like mp3 on my computer, but sometimes there is no choice.

I don't own am mp3 player.

MJRB
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