Jonathan coulton downloads

The MP3 format makes music files much smaller, but you lose some amount of quality along the way. This may or may not matter to you depending on your ears, headphones, etc. I don't think you're under any obligation to let people trade. When George Lucas comes out with a new "improved" version of Star Wars, he doesn't let people trade in their old one.

I agree with Spiff, unless they just bought them or something. Anyone who was really concerned about the quality probably got CD's directly anyhow. Opps that post got eaten by the post eating machine.

I love flac. I have bought a handful of flac albums from other bands in the past. The best thing about flac is I know I am getting the same thing as if I bought the album in the store, but no album! That is very generous of you to offer a trade, but you have to live too. I'm perfectly happy with my mp3 ones, but if I decided I wanted the spiffy FLAC versions, I wouldn't complain about having to buy them. Actually, since the MP3s at least most of them were available for free download, I would say in this case that the "product" was supporting JoCo.

I am of the opinion that in general, the product in question is the song, not the file in a particular format, unless you regard the act of ripping a CD to be producing a new product. You're indeed generous, JoCo, but you're entitled to something for your efforts. It's not like you deliberately held back the better format just so you could sell as many MP3s as possible first. No one ever offered me free CDs when my cassette tapes went out of style.

Thanks for taking the time to do this! In a few weeks or months, I'd be interested in hearing whether more than three or so people actually bought FLACs from you. I'm going to go become one of them right now.. Just a message for Jonathon here, wanna say well done for creating the great ending song for Portal. It does, however, play if converted to.

Apple fanboys will be happy to know that the new Mac operating system has added support for FLAC files, so anybody that upgrades their Mac can now play them using iTunes. Richard - those files were encoded from bit masters, so some flac decoders don't play them right. I've corrected the problem in the files that are up there, so try downloading again let me know if you can't. Sorry about that What a guy!!!

I don't want Flac, not sure what Flac is but sweet of you to offer your new format, your swapping and your time I think for the few people who have the means, it would be awesome if they bought them again I am not too proud to work for a living — if you have an opportunity please let me know. Erm, well, weddings. Let me guess, you want me to play Skullcrusher Mountain during the ceremony?

From the Songs page , click on the info button to get the lyrics. I also use Ableton Live, Apple Soundtrack and Garageband for loopy things and other digital manipulation. Drums are frequently from either the Reel Drums collection or Discrete Drums. The studio room itself has these items in it:.

I know, I know. The same Creative Commons license gives you that right too. Yes please. Really, no need to ask permission, just go make that thing. If you want to know more about how Creative Commons works, check out the site.

Yes you can, in a number of ways. And you should keep in mind that you are part of this experiment too. But I depend on your donations and purchases to make the whole thing work. Even a small amount helps. Not to make you feel all guilty and everything. Just be relaxed about it, and do what you think is fair. Yes…as a fox maybe! Things have really changed in the music industry over the last few years. This is all part of the experiment. I believe it can work, but we all need to adjust our thinking about the relationship between artists and fans — the RIAA thinks that music listeners are criminals and that music should be locked up and protected.

I disagree. I think there are times when free music and file sharing can greatly benefit an artist. Thing a Week is my forced-march approach to writing and recording. Starting September I posted a new song every Friday for a year in an effort to keep the creative juices flowing and to prove to myself that I could actually create on a schedule.

New Thing a Week songs were and still are published as a podcast. You can subscribe in iTunes or any other podcast subscription software and get them all for free. And of course they are all out on CD now in their original order and state of completion.