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Tuesday, 08 March 2005 |
SXSW's
Torrent of Free Tunes
Wired News -
USA
Music fans don't have to be in Austin, Texas, to hear hundreds of new songs from
the South by Southwest music festival.
For many years, SXSW, as it's known, has provided on its website a library of
free MP3s of bands participating in the conference. This year, the festival is
making it even easier to listen by providing a huge BitTorrent file (2.6 GB) of
more than 750 songs. The songs can be downloaded for free using the BitTorrent
peer-to-peer file-sharing application.
For added convenience, the music is integrated with a new application called
CitizenPod. Instead of carrying around the schedule of SXSW bands and venues as
a dog-eared brochure, festival-goers can download the lineup electronically and
transfer it to an iPod.
At the festival, which starts next week, fans can search for shows by time,
venue, genre or band name, and then listen to a full-quality MP3 of the band to
see if they're any good.
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