[NewMusic] Fwd: For *your name here*

[Ron Lettuce]

Been there, done that...my band used to do that back in 97-98, I don't even remember what the website was, but we never got more than $10 to $15 a month...it was a way for bands to get a couple of extra $$, till it turned out to be a non-viable business model. I'm glad to see that it's back though, I guess if you have subscriptions paying for the service, then there's a revenue stream, however, I have a hard time believing that anyone nowadays would allow a single subscriber to "hand out" more than their monthly membership costs...


lettuce




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From: Travis Johns <electric.tokyo at gmail.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:26:32 AM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Fwd: For *your name here*

by the same logic, a ten second track would bring in 6 cents per
minute, and $3.60 an hour. For a 7 hour infinite repeat playlist,
you'd be looking at $25. If you have a spare beige box running the
playlist 24x7, the daily turnaround would be $86.40. On a year-long
level, the payout would be approx. 31k  - off of one single track
playing on an infinite repeat on a cheap computer. There's no way that
Rhapsody would allow that. But who knows - having recently been
provided a glimpse at some of the inner workings of the dot com world,
mistakes and loopholes are pretty abundant, so who knows - maybe they
never accounted for something like this and there's still a couple
spaces available onboard the gravy train before they wise up to a
security update...

either way, please let us know how your experiment turns out!


On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Daryl Shawn <highhorse at mhorse.com> wrote:
> Hehe...I'm testing this scheme right now as I have a Rhapsody account,
> plus a couple of albums on their service. I created a playlist
> consisting of one of my one-minute tunes, and every night I let that
> playlist simply repeat while I sleep. I get one cent per listen, so
> theoretically I'm making three or four bucks each night. Assuming my
> scheme works (wonder if there's a limit per IP?) - I don't see the
> statements until about two months after a play - I'll actually make a
> nice bit of cash.
>
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
>
>> Some subscription services pay a fraction of a cent per listen - if
>> you can write a script that would keep the track on an infinite repeat
>> at some site, and did that to just enough tracks, provided you have
>> the liscense to the track itself, and a whole lot of tracks at that,
>> these plays would eventually add up. In that light, its kind of like
>> that thing they did in Office Space, but different.
>
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