[kwlug-disc] YouTube for audio

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Yes, many people do that. There are all sorts of playlists on Youtube for
music and what not.

But, wouldn't the bandwidth usage be much more that way than (say) a plain
MP3?

For elections stuff, what Raul says is fine. Everyone knows what Youtube is.

For Music, not so much ...

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Raul Suarez <rarsa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Have you thought of Youtube itself?
>
> You can create a "video" with a still picture of the candidate as
> background.
>
> Raul Suarez
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> --- On Wed, 10/6/10, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> > From: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>
> > Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] YouTube for audio
> > To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> > Received: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 11:22 PM
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:32:58PM
> > -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> > > You'll probably want to set up an account at Jamendo
> > and upload the
> > > music you've composed/performed there: http://jamendo.com/en/upload
> > >
> > As I said to Bob in person, this is not music. It is
> > intended to be
> > audio for these all-candidates meetings.
> >
> > Are there any other suggestions? I am not sure we are going
> > to be able
> > to self-host. archive.org is probably the leading
> > candidate. I would
> > be highly interest in hearing of others (or if you want to
> > offer some
> > high-bandwidth hosting that will kill your bandwidth, that
> > would be
> > cool too.)
> >
> > But since this is political material (and will consist of
> > audio of
> > other people) I am concerned about which licence to use,
> > and I am
> > concerned about the material being on the Internet
> > forever[0].
> >
> > I would like people to download an entire audio stream, and
> > be able to
> > share it if they want on faster sites than archive.org .
> > But I imagine
> > that the candidates might rebel at allowing derivative
> > works, since
> > then people can make mash-ups of their answers and (more
> > importantly)
> > take those answers out of context.
> >
> > I am tempted to say that the highly-restrictive Creative
> > Commons
> > licence with no derivative works, noncommercial usage only
> > and
> > attribution would be the best. I am not sure what the
> > noncommercial
> > buys you, though.
> >
> > If I self-hosted then I would probably leave the audio
> > files up on the
> > Internet until the election, and then take them down. My
> > goal here is
> > to give people who don't attend these meetings information
> > they can
> > use to make a choice on October 25, not necessarily to
> > provide a
> > historical archive of all-candidates debates.
> >
> > I also do not know what the lag time will be for material
> > posted to
> > archive.org . Is it measurable in days? Weeks? Hours?
> >
> > Experiences and/or advice would be welcome. Uploading
> > multimedia is
> > totally new to me.
> >
> > - Paul
> >
> >
> > [0] Yes, once anything gets on the internet it is
> > supposedly out in
> > the world forever. Try reminding me of that when I am
> > looking for a
> > resource that was hosted on a single host that has gone
> > down, and
> > where every other source just points to the original.
> >
> > --
> > http://pnijjar.freeshell.org - Now with Waterloo
> > election info
> >
> > All-candidates meetings Oct 12, 13, 19 at Queen Street
> > Commons; see
> > http://www.theworkingcentre.org/pub/2010/2010-10-allcandidates.pdf
> >
> >
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