#26 iHcpl- Everybody sing!

Our assignment, should we have chosen to accept it, was to look at social networking sites for music. Mostly this exercise just made me feel old, because I still haven't heard of half the artists listed. I looked around Projectplaylist.com, checked out the playlists of others, and was relieved to know that they at least had Sting on their website. I also looked for Queen, and for some reason the song Killer Queen kept coming up over and over again. Music has always been important, especially to young people, I shared 45's and record albums with my friends as a young person, now kids share music on the internet. Its a good thing. Also played around with Jamstudio.com, and discovered that I will never be a music composer. The site was a bit limited unless you paid to join, and it needed more instructions, but it was kind of fun. I won't be sharing my efforts with anyone though.

#25 iHcpl- Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a pirates life....

Now had I taken that song from an album and put it on another CD, that would be piracy, especially if I was selling it for profit. I did burn the two songs I bought from Amazon onto a CD, along with some other music I had, and it too is a fairly easy process once you get the hang of it. I suppose it is stealing, to copy an artist's work, and they get cut out of the financial profit as well as most of the engineers or writers, musicians, or anyone else who had a hand in the production of a music CD. But, CD's are very expensive, and while I do not condone people copying others efforts for enjoyment, I can see why they do it. If some kind of compromise could be made within the music industry, perhaps there would not be so much piracy. I wonder if the 10% copyright rule works the same way with music as it does with the written word?

#24 iHcpl- The hills are alive...

I downloaded a couple of songs off the internet, from Amazon actually, and routed them through my computer and onto my MP3 player. It was a fairly easy process, did not have to download any software, although it was offered and recommended. I looked at Napster, ITunes and one called Musicdownload.com which had almost no artists that I had ever heard of, and the couple that I did know, the songs chosen for free download where lousy. I can see where this could get to be a very expensive proposition and hobby if one chose to do it. I can also see why its so popular, because you can get the songs you want without paying the outrageous prices for an artist's whole album. No doubt, when there are songs that I want, I will continue the practice.