Janis Ian

Along the same lines as Courtney Love's article, but with a slightly different focus.

http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

YOU GO, GIRL!

That was a very well written article. I've always liked her music.

Maybe she wasn't so ugly "at seventeen" after all. Great article!

Can you imagine an empeg/rio central loaded up with all the songs in a shop, wired into a barcode reader and then mounted in a nice little stand in a shop.

Swipe any cd past it and you get to hear any song rom that album, would that rock or what !

I saw a similar system but it only had ten cds in it!

That's exactly the system a major store uses here in Switzerland. (Except maybe that its not a rio central or empeg).

You can grab any CD on sale there, put it under a barcode reader and start listening to the music on the attached headphones.

They must have an enormous mp3 server somewhere in the back, I imagine.

Marc

Excellently written article. Thanks for sharing that with us Tony. Let's hope the right people read & start to understand that filesharing is everybody's friend .

Borders in Cambridge has this, it has every CD in the shop in it as far as I can tell. Only problem is that there appears to be no way to listen to CD2 on double CD sets - only the first CD comes up when you scan it.

Strangely enough, I came up with this idea back in 1990 and even bought some barcode bits to prototype it for showing to record shops - but never got round to it. Then, in about '94, wired showed such a unit in their magazine and I swore a bit. My plan was to auto-update all stations via ISDN overnight, and it was also a cunning way of me getting pre-release copies of every CD ever released

Hugo

There's a player in my local ASDA, that had every CD stored that I could throw at it. It also runs linux, I came back a few days later and saw an error on it's little LCD display saying it could mount /dev/something or other!

At my college bookstore (a Barnes & Noble) I saw the system I wish was in every bookstore in the entire world (yes, I liked it).

They had about 4 listening stations with touchscreen monitors that were basically running the All Music Guide. They also had audio for almost every single album I tried. So not only did you get the sample music, but you got the greatest music database on the internet to go along with it. IMO, that's the best system you can have. I literally spent about an hour on it. It was sooo good.

Let's hope the right people read

Well, she said she got personal direct messages from the RIAA and the person who runs the Grammys. I assume she forwarded those people copies of her article, or they GOT forwarded since she did the namedropping.

So, we don't have to hope. The right people did read the article. But you can lead a horse to water...

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So, we don't have to hope. The right people did read the article. But you can lead a horse to water...

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Well, if you read this thread,
you can see that the people at Universal are apparently
sipping at the trough. I.e., they got the message, and
they are making an attempt at seeing if Janis is right.