Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Music Factory

On Wed, 15 Mar, 2006 at 08:30PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju spake thus: I think it comes down to a question that was discussed earlier on the list: why do we make music? All of us are pretty much in favour of CC-style licenses, so we're not doing it for money. The two main reasons seemed to be: 1. you feel the urge, you have something in your head, you want to express yourself 2. you want people to hear your music, it's satisfying to know people like your output, you enjoy listening to music and want to give soemthing back All of us appear to have both reasons, with varying epmphasis one each one. The problem is, your Free Music Factory idea doesn't really scratch either of those itches very well. Reason 1 is obviously at odds with it. Reason 2 I think doesn't fit the factory plan because if you're after pure emulation it's not really *your* music. You might as well just turn on the radio. This isn't really meant as a flame and I'd hate to be seen as trying to squash creative thinking. On the other hand, I'm not a fan of the idea and I'm just adding my opinion to the pot. Hmm. I missed the CD announcement and can't find it. I have to say it sounds a lot more interesting than this project, though. Maybe if you tried to work out why, you could feed it into the project. By reasoning through your doubts, you could actually make the CD idea into something better rather than just asserting that it "sucks". On a completely unrelated note, things "sucking" is one of my favourite Americanisms. Why is sucking bad? I can think of many contexts in which suction is important, useful and even, dare I say it, pleasurable :) James -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)