Re: Recommended music

[Peter Keel]

* on the Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Henrik Summanen wrote:
> Well, it is not my mp3-hub :)
> 
> The music is absolutly for free LISTENING (m3u-format). 

There is no difference between "listening" and "downloading" apart
the fact that when you've gone trough the lengths of configuring your
player to automatically play, the files are downloaded into a 
temporary directory where they might get deleted at some point. Or
not, I bet you can find them either in /tmp or in the "temporary 
internet files" after you've "listened" to them. 

.m3u is only a playlist specifying which .mp3 to play and looks like this:
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/01-Quant%20La%20Doulce%20Jouvencelle%20(anon%20from%20Oxford%20Can.%20Misc.%20213)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/02-Vive%20Ma%20Dame%20(Robert%20Morton)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/03-Vas%20T'ent%20Souspir%20(Estienne%20Grossin)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/04-Le%20Souvenir%20De%20Vous%20Me%20Tue%20(lute)%20(Robert%20Morton)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/05-Le%20Souvenir%20De%20Vous%20Me%20Tue%20(Robert%20Morton)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/06-Hora%20Cridar%20Oyme%20(anon%20from%20the%20Mellon%20Chansonier)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/07-Humble%20Pitie%20(anon%20from%20Oxford%20Can.%20Misc.%20213)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/08-Dona%20Gentile%20(lute)%20(Guillaume%20Dufay)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/09-Se%20La%20Face%20Ay%20Pale%20(Guillaume%20Dufay)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/10-Pour%20Prison%20(Gilles%20Binchois)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/11-De%20Los%20Alamos%20Vengo%20Madre%20(Juan%20Vasquez)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/12-Adieu%20Ces%20Bons%20Vins%20De%20Lannoys%20(Guillaume%20Dufay)-Asteria.mp3
http://he3.magnatune.com/all/13-Ich%20Will%20Zu%20Land%20Ausreiten%20(Johannes%20Stahl)-Asteria.mp3

On Unix (which includes Linux and MacOS X), downloading the individual songs
is as easy as: 
$ for i in `cat hifi.m3u`; do wget $i; done

<very Off-Topic>

> Then, if you like the music, you can buy the files/cds.

If you like. But the copyright-holder has no rights to make you do that -- 
and has no rights to keep you from keeping the files. However, he has
rights from keeping you to make them public (apart from sharing them
with your friends -- the people in an peer-to-peer-network do not 
constitute "your friends", by the way).

</very Off-Topic>

Cheers
Seegras
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