[Novalug] music, classical -- and proprietary formats?

[Alan McConnell]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Dan Arico wrote:
> On Thu January 18 2007 1:07 pm, Beartooth wrote:
> >  	Two questions : what app do people like for playing music
> > CDs on a linux box (mine run FC6)? The ones I had configured have
> > somehow become inaudible since I used them last.
> >
> >  	Also, is there a good legal source of classical music --
> > Bach, Mozart, et al., from Monteverdi to John Eaton -- to
> > download from?
> 
> Here's a good place to start.
> 
> http://www.classiccat.net/
> 
> This one is free to listen to and you can download iso files for a 
> reasonable price.
	Thanks, Dan.  (Any day now I'm going hitch up speakers to my
	computer<g>).

In the meantime, this just in from the NY Times' Tech Columnist David
Pogue:  

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1. From the Desk of David Pogue: Ode to the R.I.A.A.
==========================================================

Ever since I phased out my career as a Broadway arranger and
conductor, I've tried to keep my toe in the showbiz world in
my own peculiar way: I write new, tech-industry lyrics to old
melodies.

Here's my very latest. It's a special tribute to the
R.I.A.A., the Recording Industry Association of America - the
organization of the record companies who've decided to fight
music piracy by filing lawsuits. It goes to the tune of the
Village People song "Y.M.C.A." Ready? Cue the disco drums!

"R.I.A.A."

Young man,
You were surfing along,
And then, young man,
You downloaded a song,
And then, dumb man,
Copied it to your 'Pod,
Then a phone call came to tell you:

    You've just been sued by the R.I.A.A.!
    You've just been sued by the R.I.A.A.!
    Their attorneys say, you committed a crime,
    And there'd better not be a next time!

    They've lost their minds at the R.I.A.A.!
    Justice is blind at the R.I.A.A....
   "You're depriving the bands! You are learning to steal,
    You can't do whatever you feel!"

Know what?
They're a lawsuit machine.
They say so what
If you're only thirteen?
And you know what?
They were equally mean
To an 80-year-old grandma!

CD
Sales have dropped every year,
They're not greedy-
They're just quaking with fear,
Yes, indeedy-
What if their end is near,
And we download all our music?

    They'd all freak out at the R.I.A.A.-
    No plastic discs from the R.I.A.A.!
    What a way to make friends! It's a plan that can't fail:
    Haul your customers off to jail!

    And who'll be next for the R.I.A.A.?
    What else is vexing the R.I.A.A.?
    Maybe whistling a tune? Maybe humming along?
    Maybe mocking them in a song-!

(The sound of jackboots bursting into the
room...handcuffs...muffled cries...a columnist being dragged
away... repeat and fade.)

                                 --------------------------(finish)

I'd say this is pretty remarkable from a man who, years ago, in private
E-mail to me, compared running Linux apps to speaking Swahili.  (Any
offense taken by any Swahili speakers on this E-list should be directed
at David Pogue, not me)

Best wishes,

Alan

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