Complete Member's Music Listing Coming!

[Jeff Harrington]

The Complete NetNewMusic Player is in the Listen! Group Now.

[Ben.Harper]

I'm feeling a bit spun out looking at that long, long list and wondering how I'm going to start listening to all of it. It's pretty amazing.

[David Ocker]

I doubt you intended this to be possible, but with a couple of clicks in my download manager and 24 hours of patience with my pokey Earthlink DSL, I downloaded the entire set - except for about 15 tracks that it wouldn't find. Thirteen gigs' worth. (I estimate it's about a week of music.)

Why did I do this? I have no clue. I do have a penchant for collecting large blocks of music. I'll probably play them in shuffle mode for a while and then forget about them.

I'd say about half of the titles have an identifiable composer - either in the title or the MP3 tags. I find it lots easier to listen to unfamiliar music if I have no idea who the composer is. That's one of the reasons I listen to foreign radio stations: I can't understand the announcers.

The real question is - in all those tracks will I hear anything at all that will knock my socks off so much that I have to track down other pieces of that composer just to find out if he or she is a genius or simply got lucky once. I'm betting on "no". No "genius" No "getting lucky once". That's because I'm an old codger who really doesn't like much of anything these days. I am somewhat curious, however - musically, I mean.

David
http://mixedmeters.com

[Jeff Harrington]

Now why, exactly would someone like you doubt that. I'm curious, have you no idea about my intentions? ;-P

David Ocker said:

I doubt you intended this to be possible, but with a couple of clicks in my download manager and 24 hours of patience with my pokey Earthlink DSL, I downloaded the entire set - except for about 15 tracks that it wouldn't find. Thirteen gigs' worth. (I estimate it's about a week of music.)

[Steve Layton]

Being one who's listened to many, many of the tracks offered up here, I can tell you that there are quite a few amazingly wonderful pieces and performances here. Which ones, I'm not saying; that's for each person to discover. The idea that somebody has to be in Groves or Baker's, or be released on DG or even Albany to be pronounced worthy is just ridiculous in this day. In the end it's our own ear that has to guide us -- and some truly active seeking and listening -- but the reward can be big.

I will tell everybody: ALWAYS make the tiny effort to both file-label and I.D. tag your MP3s. You never know who it's going to reach or affect, and what new connections or possibilities might arise if only someone knows what the hell it was they just heard!


David Ocker said:

I doubt you intended this to be possible, but with a couple of clicks in my download manager and 24 hours of patience with my pokey Earthlink DSL, I downloaded the entire set - except for about 15 tracks that it wouldn't find. Thirteen gigs' worth. (I estimate it's about a week of music.)

Why did I do this? I have no clue. I do have a penchant for collecting large blocks of music. I'll probably play them in shuffle mode for a while and then forget about them.

I'd say about half of the titles have an identifiable composer - either in the title or the MP3 tags. I find it lots easier to listen to unfamiliar music if I have no idea who the composer is. That's one of the reasons I listen to foreign radio stations: I can't understand the announcers.

The real question is - in all those tracks will I hear anything at all that will knock my socks off so much that I have to track down other pieces of that composer just to find out if he or she is a genius or simply got lucky once. I'm betting on "no". No "genius" No "getting lucky once". That's because I'm an old codger who really doesn't like much of anything these days. I am somewhat curious, however - musically, I mean.

David
http://mixedmeters.com

[David Ocker]

Steve Layton said:

... The idea that somebody has to be in Groves or Baker's, or be released on DG or even Albany to be pronounced worthy is just ridiculous in this day.

Steve, I hope that's not what you think I said - because it's not what I said or what I meant or what I believe.

Let me try again.

Given my bad attitude about "new" music - or whatever we care to call the music pertaining to this particular site, Net New Music - I will be very surprised to find anything I care to listen to repeatedly or a composer whose other works I will pursue. This would include my own pieces, if there were any in the list (there aren't) and if I were not me.

[Steve Layton]

Aww David, turn that frown upside down! You don't want to end up like Marvin:


David Ocker said:

Steve Layton said:

... The idea that somebody has to be in Groves or Baker's, or be released on DG or even Albany to be pronounced worthy is just ridiculous in this day.

Steve, I hope that's not what you think I said - because it's not what I said or what I meant or what I believe.

Let me try again.

Given my bad attitude about "new" music - or whatever we care to call the music pertaining to this particular site, Net New Music - I will be very surprised to find anything I care to listen to repeatedly or a composer whose other works I will pursue. This would include my own pieces, if there were any in the list (there aren't) and if I were not me.

[David Ocker]

Thanks for that Steve. Hitchhikers Guide is has been one of my guiding lights for decades. And Marvin is one of my favorite characters (second only to Oolong Coloophid). Well, not the Marvin in the movie - he's just "okay".

As Marvin says: "Please don't try to engage my enthusiasm, because I haven't got one."

If you want to let me really bring you down, I suggest you read this: http://mixedmeters.com/2007/12/30-second-spots-flight-of-rhino.html - scroll down to my grumpy musical manifesto.

[adam kondor]

What an interesting idea : a new anonymous culture! no copyright, no artistic ego! I'd enjoy it...

Steve Layton said:

I will tell everybody: ALWAYS make the tiny effort to both file-label and I.D. tag your MP3s.

[David Ocker]

Greg - dial-up, huh? That would drive me nuts. ("Some say this has already happened.")

Movie Marvin is not nearly as bad as Movie Zaphod's second head. I'm sure they saved millions of dollars by not having to CGI the second head into every scene - but the story lost a lot without it.

"If I had two heads like you Zaphod, I could have hours of fun banging them together."

[Jeff Harrington]

A new listing is available without the Hash (sigh...) and without the weird characters. Also, any URL's that are not valid, (spaces, usually) were taken out. My parser couldn't handle it and maybe I'll try to fix that at some point, but at some point validity is a good thing!

Complete Listing of all NetNewMusic MP3's

And even more important, this time I kept the data! Hehe...

Enjoy!

[Jens Mügge]

Hi Jeff,

good hard work! I checked the music player settings here - no link that someone can download mp3 files. In this list you can grab now each mp3 with a simple click (in German: Ziel speichern unter - is it in English "target save under") You don't like the free livewired jukebox which I recommended you here. Without the livewired promotion link you see here a music list - also with some other features - for example to see who added this song to her or his playlist.

[Jeff Harrington]

Yeah, Jens, I'm just cheap and I'd rather learn how to do something, it's like something that never goes away once you figure it out - a personal code base. Thanks for recommending me that. BTW, send me an email if you want me to crawl your site. No way was it two months work though, like that guy said. More like 3/4 day work!

Jens Mügge said:

Hi Jeff,

good hard work! I checked the music player settings here - no link that someone can download mp3 files. In this list you can grab now each mp3 with a simple click (in German: Ziel speichern unter - is it in English "target save under") You don't like the free livewired jukebox which I recommended you here. Without the livewired promotion link you see here a music list - also with some other features - for example to see who added this song to her or his playlist.