How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 25/05/2006 17:28, M Holmes wrote:
 > If the worry is that folks will print them to CD and sell them then the
 > answer is that damn near anyone younger than 30 would rather download
 > than buy a CD.  Those oldsters that would rather have a CD could be
 > catered to by offering them copies by mail order or simply printing
 > easy-to-follow instructions of how to go from download to CD on their
 > own computer (I'll write them for free - it's what I do) and offering
 > the covers for print on the Hawkwind website.

On 25/05/2006 22:50, Jill Strobridge wrote:
> hmmm - but bear in mind that not everyone in the world is a super 
> computer user either in terms of understanding what the technology is 
> doing nor in the quality of their computers....

Reasonable queries.  Nonetheless, the present is here ;) and enough 
people are already comfortable with this stuff to make the model viable 
and successful.  I mean, clearly not everyone purchasing Grateful Dead 
concerts from 1972 is a 13-year-old hacker :)  But hit the downloads 
section of <http://gdstore.com/> and you'll find more GD concerts and 
studio albums than I can be arsed to count available to purchase as 
downloads (in 2 flavours of MP3 and, of course, FLAC).  You get PDF 
album covers too, which you can printout and slap into a jewel case 
if/when you burn your files to a CD.  And if, somehow, the process of 
purchasing a download defeats us, then we can still buy (much of) the 
material on physical discs that get sent in the snail mail, just like 
they've always been :)  Costs a bit more that way, but hey, producing 
discs and stuff costs money, so there you go.

There is no one selling pirated copies of the downloads (or discs) 
because there's no money in doing so.  It's much easier for fans to buy 
the music they want in the format of their choice directly from the 
legitimate source.  It's as simple as that.

> ok  I'm a pedant but surely it needs to be much harder than 
> just-a-click-away?  

No ... No it doesn't :)  Buying downloads is just like buying anything 
else online except that the final page, instead of saying "Thanks for 
your order; it will be posted to you" says "Thanks for your order; click 
to download." :)

Usually you have 48 hours to get your downloads, which should be enough 
for even 3 or 4 discs of FLACS at common broadband speeds. If there's a 
problem, you contact customer service and they sort it out (just like 
with Amazon or something), because the cost of pissing you off is much 
higher than the cost of giving you another 48 hours ;)

These questions are answered in things like the livedownloads FAQ: 
<http://www.livedownloads.com/faq.asp>.  (Bands with enough volume in 
download sales maintain their sites -- even the famously Napster-hating 
Metallica have <http://www.livemetallica.com/> -- but livedownloads.com 
is the biggest catch-all for everyone else.  It would be, I think, the 
sensible venue to start selling Hawkwind concert downloads at this time. 
No need to reinvent the wheel.)

Cheers,
Carl

ObLegitimatelyRecordedFreeDownload: "Hawkwind @ Roadburn 2006".  Getting 
into the last few tracks and still very rocking!  If the FLACs were 
available, Hawkwind would already have another 15 bucks in their pockets.

-- 
Carl Edlund Anderson
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