Re: [ARSCLIST] MP3 bit rates and usage factors for Web pages

["Marie Azile O'Connell" <marie.oconnell@xxxxxxx>]

Hi there -

This is an issue I have struggled with for sometime, and I have conducted
several tests at home using a programme I have called Audio Commander.  With
this I have been able to record ANY audio I have come across and the quality is
very good as an end product. It worries me that entire interviews and/or music
clips are put onto the world wide web and are able to be recorded, used and/or
distributed without proper copyright restrictions.

Afterall, these oral histories, music collections, radio broadcasts, etc do
actually belong to someone, or some institution.  My instinct has been to give
a very short excerpt of audio, with text, but to keep out the 'prized' part of
the audio that the person really wants.  If they want it badly enough, then
they will have to get in touch with the company, University and pay for it!

Cheers

Marie O'Connell
Sound Archivist/Sound Engineer/Sound Consultant
Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage
University of Southern Mississippi
Phone: 601-266-6514
Mobile: 601-329-6911





Quoting Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx:

> In a message dated 11/30/2005 4:01:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> ArcLists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> (2) Do you have any restrictions about stream-only vs. download or stream?
> ***********
> 
> As a user I will plead for download.  Streaming just doesn't work very well 
> with slow dialup or intermittent cable connections. I finally had to resort
> to 
> Total Recorder to make the BBC archive feeds listenable.  
> 
> Of course many feel that streaming is mandatory for copyright protection, 
> which I don't understand from a technical viewpoint since it forces me to
> make a 
> copy to listen to! On my system (XP) if you click on a downloadable link, 
> Media Player plays it, but a copy appears only in the Temporary Internet
> File, 
> which most people don't know how to access anyway.
> 
> Mike Csontos
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Csontos
>