Where are our mp3?

Citanul wrote: M@X wrote: The Streaming system will improve with time , thanks for your patience guys ! List of coming features: Random playlist by genre, bands ( radio like ) Stream only new mp3 added Create a playlist Share your playlist Stream While you navigate through site ... Please post any suggestions One suggestion is to actually get this thing to work properly.  I decided to try it out, so I went to the Marillion page.  Ten minutes later, I'm still waiting for the playlist to load.  So I'm definitely not in favour of this new approach

I agree... it dosent work properly as it is... also many ppl including myself that uses thiis site rely on dialup... using dialup to stream means that the down load speed is not able to allow you to play the song as it... You listen to a 20 second segment after about a 30-60 second download, and then the sequence begins again... Most of the prog bands i like (as well as the kraut rock) are from the more mainstream arena (u know... Pink floyd, Hawkwind, Yes, et al) and i want to hear what the more obscure bands sound like.  I do not have the money to get broadband, or to buy albums 'blind' solely upon the introductory explanation of the bands music, and the reviews on the albums themselves (different ppl have different opinions).  Because of this, i would like to listen to some music, even if it only one song, so that i can decide whether to part with my hard earned money to get such a treasure.  These mp3s have already possessed me to have bands like can and gentle giant in my cd collection, something that would not have happened otherwise.

Sure the improvements will make it a bit better for some ppl to listen to the music (see above... what IS going to happen to us dial up ppl), but its not the same, and it appears to be due to corproate greed.

Besides, I thought this site was meant to promote progressive music and the artists that perform them, NOT the record companies that have made it quite clear that the short term 'buck' is more important than the music they produce.  Also, with their behaviour with charging some ppl over having recorded music, why give them respect... Of course if the artist protests, then fair enough.  But all of the complaints that I have heard (except the famous one where mettallica sued napster) have been due to companies... I want progarchives to continue, as it has brought greater attention to the music, but how do i know what i am buying. 

Not   happy!!!

 

M@X wrote: The Streaming system will improve with time , thanks for your patience guys ! List of coming features: Random playlist by genre, bands ( radio like ) Stream only new mp3 added Create a playlist Share your playlist Stream While you navigate through site ... Please post any suggestions

One suggestion is to actually get this thing to work properly.  I decided to try it out, so I went to the Marillion page.  Ten minutes later, I'm still waiting for the playlist to load.  So I'm definitely not in favour of this new approach

Revan wrote: FragileDT wrote: It's not the end of the world. Just buy a CD you really want that's all. You're complaining about streaming FULL length songs? That's fine to sample a band and that's all we need. Ok man, you live in United States, am i wrong? ok, i live in the world's ass, Argentina. The only way to get rare albums is buying in the internet, and that makes it four times more expensive. So what shall i do? the answer is very simple: Download.

Yes but than surely you wouldn't be using ProgArchives as your primary
downloading source I'm assuming.

The Streaming system will improve with time , thanks for your patience guys !

List of coming features:

• Random playlist by genre, bands ( radio like )
• Stream only new mp3 added
• Create a playlist
• Share your playlist
• Stream While you navigate through site
• ...

Please post any suggestions

Garion81 wrote: The Ryan wrote: The Miracle wrote: Streaming isn't too bad... If you like it, buy it. If you don't then you don't want it anyway. Streaming is, de facto, "too" bad. There iis no way for anyone to skip to a certain point (time) in any given song. I cannot critically analyze something over progarchives.com before I buy it now. Also many people desire to save an mp3 or two onto their computer for whatever reason... can't anymore though. Thanks streamers. Well if it is between that and closing the site down?   God, I would hate to be without PA.

Okay mister five stars, you are right about keeping PA up, even if it means streaming/not downloading. But have you ever seen streamers that let you seek to a certain time in the song? That would solve my problem I just cried about entirely, except not being able to save. I can deal with that. As of now I'm annoyed.

i have a lot of stuff i downloaded a year ago from here, but i've not got anything that's been added in the last year :(

i prefer the mp3s to be honest. i also think that if you're gonna stream the music now, rather than let people download, you should make a 'progarchives' radio - where people can see ALL songs available on the site on 1 page and play what they want without having to browse artist pages

plus, isn't this new way gonna vastly increase the sites bandwidth...?

edit:

also, can you make the stream player show you how far through the song you are?

Edited by richeym

Aw man, I love the mp3's...

Good thing I downloaded all I could when I found them!  I have lots...ooooo.

 

krusty wrote: Tony R wrote: krusty wrote: The thing is you can stream from Amazon, Tower or HMv... Not full tracks though! I'm listening to the Genesis streams now.At least you can play all the tracks instantly without downloading! Well technically you still are downloading the those tracks... you just no longer have the option of listening to them anywhere else. BTW, I noticed in your sig you were playing Courtney Pine so your not all bad...

Devotion?

I have a personally signed copy of that album

The Miracle wrote: Streaming isn't too bad... If you like it, buy it. If you don't then you don't want it anyway.

You forget some little inconvenient with some people... Not all the world has money to buy everything they want! If i buy al the albums i like i'd become poor.

transend wrote: I certainly have downloaded MANY songs from here and put them on CDs to listen to and ended up buying many CDs by artists I did not know after hearing the songs and getting to like the music. I would hope that could happen again, in our tight knit community it is important to protect our musicians rights, I agree, but I, for one, am very happy to allow our music to be downloaded, if it helps people to get to know us and like our music. We are all here to discuss our favorites and dislikes and DISCOVER our next favorites, I would love to see that continue.

I just made a poll up on that very issue here:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12566& amp;PN=1

 

I think the record companies need to know this especially the second level ones that cater to prog music.  This site is their friend not their enemy.