How about creating a link between Gnutella clients and a site like http://www.fairtunes.com so when we happen to have cd's of some artist or come across interesting mp3's from an artist, we can make a small donation without much hassle?

Say that, if I highlight a search result, there will be a link "search for [searchterm] at fairtunes" ?

What do you think?

I like it better than the LimeWire "buy" link that leads to a (unfortunately most of the times ineffective) search on amazon (with LW's affiliate code, so they get a little of a purchase).

Disclaimer:
1. No affiliation with fairtunes.
2. No experience using fairtunes, but visiting their site gave me a good feeling. (And no, a good feeling alone is not enough for serious business.)

Sounds good!

Morgwen

Willem? From GDF? Anyway... Yes, I was thinking of incorporating Fairunes in my client, although I need to work out the legal details about this thing first. I also mentioned this on #gnutelladev about two weeks ago.

-- Mike

Well, then I missed it.

I like the idea of "direct marketing" very much and to pay artists for their work (instead of feeding the music industry). I'm looking forward to such features.

/Moak

Yes you did *g*

The following link is what I think consumers should know when they buy a CD.

When I buy a CD, how much goes to the artist?

But please remember that I'm neither pro or anti MP3 sharing - I stand neutral on that (its good for artists that rely on commercial sales, its great for independent or unsigned bands).

Yes!

He visited us on #gnutelladev a few days ago!

Morgwen

Indeed, it's me, and I did just visit #gnutelladev. (I only wish it were on irc.openprojects.net instead, as there are many other open source/programming channels).

I thought I'd ask this question here, to get some feedback from the users instead of the client developers. Turns out they don't have an opinion on this, it seems... ;-)

Anyway, if I were to release a client, it will surely have www links: fairtunes, google, amazon, a lyrics database, ...

And it will have super-easy ID3 editing, because meta data is very important for features like grouping search results and a "look for similar music" thingie.

Standard file name formatting could help there too, btw.

Nevertheless, *don't* expect any release from me in the next months ok? :-)

There are IRC clients which provide different channels on different servers, e.g. kSirc for Linux, visit www.tucows.com for more. I did suggest "IRCnet" because it's a common European net with many users... also my favourite OpenGL and C++ developer channels are there. *g* Yeah, we can flip to another network anytime if we want.

/Moak