Should probably put this in my history department. I want multiple departments for each message. Online + Music + Live + History.

The Internet Archive are well on the way to having every Greatful Dead show ever recorded available on the net for free in lossless (and lossy for bandwidth/carefactor limited) format. If only a band I actually liked would do this. There are a few fan based sites like this for bands such as Pearl Jam that allow fan taping and trading, but nothing as official as using the Internet Archives bandwidth. I'd love to be involved in a process like this for Faith No More. Something with a solid start and a solid end.

A Copyfighter's Musings writes about the major problems with Sony corp's technology. The comments on the post (to do with constantly crippling their tech to make the entertainment/music part of Sony happy) quickly point out that people have been complaining about Sony's insanity since early 2000 and nothing has changed. In fact it has got much worse.

Just found out yesterday that the new PSX handheld plays music but only in ATRAC, Sony's compression format or WAV files. No MP3, no OGG, not even Windows Media Audio. Bloody stupid. I don't understand why these people don't just allow easy upgrades of their systems. Why can't I just write a Real Media player for my handheld device? The more I can use it, the more likely I am to buy one.

I guess I'm a minority.

For the last five years I've wanted an easier way to transfer the music data from my Minidisc. I like MiniDisc and I've constantly held up the case for Minidisc when people have bagged it. I thought Sony's NetMD would do it with their flashy ads saying "64 times transfer speed!" but turns out that was only copying data to the minidisc, not from it. Technology has caught up enough now that it's not hard to buy hardware that would record what I want in uncompressed WAV format and save me hundreds of hours of effort for similar prices to Minidisc. So Sony have stuffed it really. I won't be going Minidisc if I ever buy something else for recording my bands gigs/jams.