Re: [gnomoradio-devel] iRATE radio

[Jim Garrison]

Anthony,

I am well aware of your project, and although I have not used it, I have
to say that I am a supporter based on philosophical grounds, of course. 
When we announced Gnomoradio, we were not aware of its existence. 
Still, Gnomoradio had existed for a long time before the announcement
(it had existed as a music player since 2000, and we had been "building
the cathedral" so to say for a while before we officially released our
goals.

I too think it would be a good idea to work together as much as
possible.  Although our implementations are very different, there are at
least a few things in common where we can most definitely work together:
rating mechanisms, metadata, and mutual philosophical support.  Our
rating mechanism is not very good right now, but I am working on a new
system.  I am interested to look into how you handle this.

Gnomoradio also has the ability to download songs that do not have RDF
descriptions since the 0.14 release.  Maybe we could even create a
shared catalog of this type of content, but it seems that you have
already done the burden of the work here :)

Let me know what you think.

Jim

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 21:58, Anthony Jones wrote:
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> Guys,
> 
> I am the founder of a similar project to yours called iRATE radio. It appears 
> that both your project and ours aim to solve the same problem. Namely that we 
> want to be able to listen to free and legal music without interference from 
> the RIAA. Free radio on the Internet without the need for streaming.
> 
> Clearly our projects both have a different focus. You use P2P distribution of 
> CC licensed music whereas we use web sites such as magnatune.com and iuma.com 
> to distribute music directly via regular HTTP. We avoid P2P for political 
> rather than technical reasons.
> 
> I'm not sure whether you were aware of the iRATE radio project when you 
> started your project. iRATE radio started about six months ahead of 
> Gnomoradio.
> 
> The reason I am sending this email is that I think it could be mutually 
> benefician for our projects to work together to a certain degree. Perhaps we 
> could aim for certain levels of protocol standardisation. Perhaps also 
> certain levels of interoperability, for example it may be desirable to 
> produce a client application which is capable of downloading music from both 
> iRATE radio and Gnomoradio.
> 
> Anthony
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