Computer Learning

[lostcowboy]

P2P, Some of us know what it does and what it can be used for. Some of the programs like Napster are legal to download music now, but you have to pay to use them. If you want to find illegal music to download, to programs you can use are Winmx and Shareaza, Most of the other P2P programs have adware built into them.
Enough about downloading music files, what if you just want to hear Internet music, are there any P2P programs for that? Yep, some are illegal and some are not. Programs like Peercast and Shoutcast can be used to broadcast your mp3 files to people, if you keep count of all the people who hear your music and pay royalties on the music then it is legal to broadcast your music, if you go to a radio's stations web site and hear their music on the net that is what they are doing. It is fairly expensive for them to do this, but P2P can help, there is one company Abacast that has a P2P plug-in for windows media player 9 that can cut the costs, and it sounds pretty good.

But what if you really want people to hear your taste's in music, is there a legal way to do it? Yes there is, and it is called Mercora, the reason it is legal is that Mercora pays the royalties for you.
http://www.mercora.com/
http://www.mercora.com/download.asp


This is a chat program, and a music player, and broadcaster all in one. And the company pays the royalties. Right now they have links to the music that you hear on Amazon.
Right now I have only one big bitch with this program, setting up your music library is not as easy as it should be. Example when I set Winamp's library up I told it to look in My Music, and I was done. When I converted my Cd's to mp3's I used Real player to do it. It set them up like this (My Music\ACDC\Back in Black\(all the mp3's)). Every mp3 player I have tried so far will automatically search in the subdirectories, How ever Mercora does not search the sub directories at this time. When installing the program do not let it search your hard drive for Mp3's, it will find a lot that you don't want, Instead put all the mp3's that you want people to hear in one directory, and browse to that directory. You will be much happier.

PS: My name on there is lost_cowboy!