Topic: The Roots Music Listening Room

[Slack]

Here is an interesting link passed on by a member.  These are on demand MP3s. Billed as:

Vintage Race Music
Blues & Gospel from the 20s - 40s

nearly 1,600 MP3s recorded at 32 kb/s

Sorted by Artist and Title
 
http://juneberry78s.com/bluessounds/BluesByArtist&Title.htm

Cool.

[Roscoe]

THANKS!!! Thsi is a very cool thing. Roscoe

[onewent]

...wow! ...that's amazing   
...thanks for the info...

[moedecker]

Thankyou very much, I have a lot of listening to do, my favorite stuff, wonderful!!! 

[outfidel]

Wow, great site! I was looking for a copy of Willie Walker's "South Carolina Rag", and they have it.

[Sweet Bone Willie]

I've been listening to the downloads on this site for the last couple of days without any problems.  Then today when I tried to open a song title from my computer at work I got a pop up stating that it (the MP3) was password protected and asking me for the password.  I thought maybe my network at work had something to do with that but now that I try to click on the above link from my home computer I can't even get on the site without getting the same pop up telling me I need a password to open the web page!  What the dillyo?  Is this happening to anyone else?

Slack, can you look into this?

[Stuart]

You're not alone, SBW. I get the same message. User overload perhaps? Maybe an e-mail to the site is in order.

[boots]

Had it myself earlier. Will try again.

[Slack]

Looks like he password protected the folder.  My guess is the same as Stuarts - too many downloaders.

[Stuart]

I sent an e-mail requesting an User-id password to:

norms78s@yahoo.com

Norm sent me my user-id and password which both work and requested that I limit my downloads to 30 per day out of consideration for others. I guess that it was the site's new found popularity that led to password protection being required.

[moedecker]

How can I get the password and user-ID too?  I'm blocked from the site myself myself.

[Stuart]

E-mail your request for an user-id and password to:

norms78s@yahoo.com

It worked for me.

[Sweet Bone Willie]

Thanks Suart, sent him an e mail yesterday and got my password today.

[Slack]

Here is a note I received from Norm -- let us all try to limit our downloads so this great resource stays around.

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The above is your userid and password for the 1920s
Blues & Gospel pages of the Roots Music Listening
Room.  In consideration of others please don't
download more than 30 MP3s during a 24 hour period.

I'm allowed 10 Gig a day of Bandwidth which should
allow about 15,000 downloads of 600k MP3s, if my math
is correct.  From my web stats a few people were doing
about a gig a day each and I was close to the limit.
That's why I password protected it and am asking
people to only do about 30 each day.   

Even though the MP3s are at a low bit rate some people
just want to load up their ipods but probably never
listen to 90% of what they downloaded.

I am getting a lot more requests for IDs and Passwords
than I expected.  If it gets too bothersome I'll open
it back up and caution people to not abuse the
downloading.  Worse case I'll reduce the Blues and
Gospel back to about 75 tracks like I originally had.

Your WeenieCampbell website is great.  I was thrilled
to learn from your website about the recently discover
Son House Paramount.

Hope you find some items you haven't heard before.

Best wishes,         Norm

[whigski3]

Just thinking...

Would it be practical or desirable for people to create "mirror" sites containing the mp3s?  Through such duplication, we could enjoy  the fact that they would always be available and reduce the bandwidth at juneberry78s.com.   

Or instead, perhaps a cd containing the mp3s could be sold to help defray costs at both of the deserving websites?

-Bill