[FA Worldmusic] Radio Promo with MP3s preference request

[Kutay Kugay]

For someone who still occasionally plays 78s, 45s and long plays on  
the air (and gets appreciation for them) and as a programmer I much  
prefer the CD format rather than mp3s (I don't like their sound  
quality either).
Liner notes, photos, detailed information for a world music program  
are critical for attentive listers, I find.

But as a small label producer I think it's urgent that the recording  
industry has to come to up with a viable way to produce and  
distribute music as an alternative to mass producing CDs. A very  
small number of CDs need to be produced for physical distribution but  
the major music distribution has to find an easy, high technical  
quality, affordable and widely accessible digital distribution with  
quality graphics.

Bear in mind that still a great number of countries around the world  
still uses cassette recordings.

Kutay

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Kutay Derin Kugay
Producer & Host of "Music of the World", Mondays 10 AM-Noon
Pacifica radio KPFA 94.1FM,
1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
510 848-6767
Listen at www.kpfa.org

Kutay Derin Kugay
7/8 Music Productions
Tel: 415 290-6682
Fax: 415 665-9466
www.seveneighths.com
music at seveneighths.com




On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:21 AM, columbia gypsy wrote:

> At 08:05 AM 4/19/2007, you wrote:
>> . There is also the factor of finding time to download a track,  
>> then burn it onto a CD. Radio is a hobby for me, and one for which  
>> I don't have nearly as much time as I'd like.
>
> It's good to keep in mind some people are still on dial-up. It  
> takes a LONG time to receive music files.
>
> I downloaded 5 tracks yesterday on my new dsl from the website of  
> the German band The Shanes so I could play one or 2 on the radio.  
> It took a while to do that and to burn the cd.  Now I have a CDR  
> with 5 tracks of the Shanes and one of Glittertind. The handwriting  
> and track info is messy and I dont have any info about The Shanes  
> on it. I could have bought the CD but I couldnt understand the  
> German on their website order blank.  Lot of good it did to do  
> German as my undergrad language!
>
> Several months ago I downloaded a free album by SKald from their  
> website. I liked that because it came in a package with the cover  
> art and liner notes. But it still took some time to burn the CD and  
> print out the notes.
>
> I think what bothers me most is trying to organize single tracks on  
> CDRs.
>
> In any case, I think you would really want to play a particular  
> artist on the air to do all this work...or you would be one of  
> those people who plays directly from computer files. It's a lot  
> easier to grab a cd....and to backlog your burning projects!
>
> judith kpsu pdx edu