The Portland Mercury reports:
For many years, local libraries have allowed patrons to check out physical media—from vinyl LPs to eight tracks to cassettes to CDs—free of charge. Last month, Multnomah County Library launched the Library Music Project, an online platform that's continuing this legacy of accessibility by curating an online collection of albums from local artists [...]
Anyone can stream albums from more than 120 local artists on the Library Music Project's user-friendly website, but to make playlists or download songs, you must log in with a Multnomah County Library card. [...]
It's not totally uncharted territory—libraries in Madison, Wisconsin; Edmonton, Alberta; Nashville, Tennessee; and Seattle, Washington, all have similar programs in place.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @09:54PM (8 children)
I looked at the source of the Library Music Project home page. It loads musicat.js. At the Musicat site I found a blog post about this project that has more detail than the Portland Mercury article.
https://musicat.co/news/2018/6/22/behind-the-scenes-with-kady-ferris [musicat.co]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @10:04PM (6 children)
Also of note, the price for the software:
https://musicat.co/become-a-partner/ [musicat.co]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @10:51PM
Software wants to be Free as in Beer.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @11:07PM (3 children)
Ahson was his name. Known in his community for his rampant littering, his reputation was nonetheless excellent. Why would someone who was actually famous for littering have such a stellar reputation? There were many reasons for that.
A group of children was happily playing ball in a park on a sunny day. These children were living, breathing, and happy. And then Ahson arrived.
A group of women was chatting happily in an ordinary backyard. These women were living, breathing, and carefree. And then Ahson arrived.
A woman who had recently given birth to her baby was breastfeeding it on a public bench. This woman and her baby were living, breathing, and had bright futures ahead of them. And then Ahson arrived.
This great man, Ahson, generated garbage wherever he went. Instead of throwing it away, he left that wretched garbage to rot in place. But despite this, Ahson's reputation was excellent; it was because that garbage - that rotting, rancid garbage that he always left behind - fully understood men's rights.
Yes, those women, children, and babies all fully understood men's rights...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @11:15PM (2 children)
Another splendid tale. Have you a single tome of collected works? I wish to purchase your writings in a book and donate it to the library.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:28AM
That "Fuck Natalee Holloway" was Number 2 at Google for "Natalee Holloway" led Rusty Foster to receive a great many death threats.
BEHOLD! [archive.org]
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @04:19PM
Would you and the misogynist please get a room somewhere? Anywhere. Just so long as it's not here. Thanks ever so much!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:25AM
Librarians are always quite rigorously conscientious about copyright.
I expected they needed something like MUSICat so as to ensure their artists got their just rewards.
I'm going to send them my Creative Commons piano EP [soggywizards.com] so as to throw a wrench in their system.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday July 31 2018, @06:20AM
I took a quick glance at some of the links and, withhout turning on Javascript, was unable to find out what the technical side was about. Why not just stream with VLC or Icecast2 instead? Probably faster, easier, and cheaper.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @10:21PM (5 children)
That library's playlist has only white and Japanese artists. While I understand they want to promote area talent, how are they going to attract local pickaninnies if they don't have the music they listen to?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 30 2018, @10:27PM (4 children)
They'll just stream Kanye's music [youtube.com] on the library computers using YouTube and Spotify.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @11:01PM (3 children)
The library was the place where people went to read, but no longer. The library books are all stolen and the shelves are empty.
The library was the place where people went to use computers, but no longer. The library computers are in disrepair and the Wi-Fi coverage is pitiful.
Now the library is the place where people go to the bathroom. None of the private businesses in the area have public bathrooms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:08AM
If you have enough Indian immigrants you don't even need public toilets, as long as you have enough streets to shit on.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:23AM (1 child)
- Library: they have quite a good computer section.
There was a period of time when I would point out that fact to homeless people, then suggest they learn web design by hanging out at the library.
I stopped doing that when some perfectly healthy - at least as far as I could ascertain - guy protested that to work as a web designer would result in the loss of his disability benefits.
Since 1994, vast thundering herds of well-intentioned people have urged me to apply for disability. I refused at first with the explanation that "disability is a trap: once you get on disability you _can't_ get off" then later for the reason that "I want that scarce resource to go to those who really need it".
I whiled away three months in Washington's Western State Hospital For The Criminally Insane by coding my iOS App [warplife.com] in a notebook with a pencil.
Towards the end of my court-ordered inpatient admission I was informed that I would not be discharged until I had applied for Social Security Disability Insurance. That I don't regard my mental illness [warplife.com] as a disability fell on deaf ears.
But then the hospital's patient financial coordinator dropped a dime to the Social Security Administration to inquire as to whether I was eligible for disability given that I whiled away three months coding an iOS Apps on paper with a pencil:
"No." "Why not?" "Because he's _working_."
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:54AM
No the shelves aren't quite empty. There are books nobody wants, and for good reason. The public library collection includes books on subjects such as Flash and WiMAX, obsolete technologies from ten years ago.
A person, homeless or otherwise, would learn more by owning a smartphone than by wasting any time in a library.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:13AM (6 children)
But I don't go there a whole lot, and didn't even when I was homeless, because libraries are always so very _quiet_.
It happens that my older sister is a librarian. I'm going to suggest to her that her library should set aside a room where Head-Banging Rock And Roll is turned up to Eleven: Mutually Assured Destruction.
That would enable folks like me to focus more effectively on our studies.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:21AM (2 children)
I prefer the quiet time when the voices in my head are my study buddies. I have a 203 IQ you see, so only the voices are smart enough to carry on an intelligent debate with me.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:41AM (1 child)
Not much anyway.
No I have visual hallucinations [warplife.com] instead.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:54AM
Lay off the LSD, they will settle down after a while.
🌻🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:47AM (2 children)
Might I suggest: headphones... in one of the private study rooms.
Or, if this is like our library's books on tape streaming service, you can just stream to wherever in the world you happen to be, as long as you log in with your library card.
🌻🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:53AM
There isn't a pirate mirror yet? So lame.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:10AM
"Anyone can stream albums...but to make playlists or download songs, you must log in," says the summary.