On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:20:05 -0700, "Lumpy"
<lumpy@digitalcartography.com> wrote:

hey lumpy one .......  do you do
any ripping of shoutcast mp3 streams..

Uh, whatever that means, apparently no, I don't.


Lumpy

10 - 4   

most of the pro musicians that I know have  ginormous
reference music  libraries. ( tho not all of them do ) 

 thought , as a music pro ,  you might  be one of those
music collectors as well.   if that was the case, I wondered 
what genre you collect .  

nowadays , since the music IRCs were closed down , most people get
their " free " music ( for their collections ) from the huge free web
based streaming music  industry that has sprung up to take the place
of the missing IRC free  music channels. 

for me , I was kinda stuck in the oldies rock - blues genre  ( for
decades ) until this  streaming music thing started up and  I
discovered that I liked a couple of  entirely new additional  genre of
music , one  that didn't even exist a few years ago.  I've suddenly
started  kinda liking some of the " focused " genre  of  afro -
caribbean music   ( the westin hotels theme  " unwind "  for  example
)   and ambient chill.   there are astonishingly creative new
musicians that one would not have access to if it weren't for the
advent of web based   free streaming  MP3s.  that , and many of  the
dozens of newly created  spun off genres  are simply amazing !   

the way the music industry is  unfolding and expanding ( due mostly to
the  availability of global broadband web  )  is almost  overwhelming.
I'm really glad I got to experience this phenomena in my  own lifetime
!