SXSW Offers Free 240 Song Download Sampler
"Music fans don’t have to be in Austin, Texas, to hear hundreds of new songs from the South by Southwest music festival," reports Wired.com
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.
"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…"
"We wouldn’t have been able to do this without using BitTorrent, because this is such a huge file and it would have taxed our bandwidth resources beyond our capabilities," said David Rose, webmaster of the SXSW site."
"For the bands, providing a free MP3 of their music is optional. Of the more than 1,350 bands scheduled to play the festival, 758 offered an MP3. The songs can also be downloaded individually from the conference website."
Read the full Wired.com article here.
Download the SXSW file here.
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Recently, BitTorrent was used to distribute hundreds of music files legally, wrote Wired. Garage bands and indie rockers benefit. BitTorrent has garnered quite a lot of press, lately. Over the last few months, several Torrent sites including Suprnova a…
BitTorrent Used to Distribute Indie Music to Festival Goers
Recently, BitTorrent was used to distribute hundreds of music files legally, wrote Wired. Garage bands and indie rockers benefit. BitTorrent has garnered quite a lot of press, lately. Over the last few months, several Torrent sites including Suprnova a…
BitTorrent Used to Distribute Indie Music to Festival Goers
Recently, BitTorrent was used to distribute hundreds of music files legally, wrote Wired. Garage bands and indie rockers benefit. BitTorrent has garnered quite a lot of press, lately. Over the last few months, several Torrent sites including Suprnova a…
BitTorrent Used to Distribute Indie Music to Festival Goers
Recently, BitTorrent was used to distribute hundreds of music files legally, wrote Wired. Garage bands and indie rockers benefit. BitTorrent has garnered quite a lot of press, lately. Over the last few months, several Torrent sites including Suprnova a…
BitTorrent Used to Distribute Indie Music to Festival Goers
Recently, BitTorrent was used to distribute hundreds of music files legally, wrote Wired. Garage bands and indie rockers benefit. BitTorrent has garnered quite a lot of press, lately. Over the last few months, several Torrent sites including Suprnova a…
BitTorrent Used to Distribute Indie Music to Festival Goers
Recently, BitTorrent was used to distribute hundreds of music files legally, wrote Wired. Garage bands and indie rockers benefit. BitTorrent has garnered quite a lot of press, lately. Over the last few months, several Torrent sites including Suprnova a…
BitTorrent Used to Distribute Indie Music to Festival Goers
Recently, BitTorrent was used to distribute hundreds of music files legally, wrote Wired. Garage bands and indie rockers benefit. BitTorrent has garnered quite a lot of press, lately. Over the last few months, several Torrent sites including Suprnova a…
thanks for sharing the news. Well , i have een looking for this kind of sites for a long time and finally found one
A downloads of the SXSW music is available on several websites in zip format, cutting download time from 24 hours to about 10 minutes.
http://www.racingwithgiants.com/SXSW_2008/SXSW_2008.html
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/01/sxsw_2008_downl.html