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Mixtape / Webradio (again)

Looking for alternatives for my dismantled “radio” (well, it was more of a mixtape, really) I found 8tracks. It’s a website for publishing mp3-mixtapes. For that to be legal they need to put some limitations on it, so you won’t see the playlist, you won’t be able to jump to a certain song (though you can skip a limited number of songs), and when you want to listen to it twice the playlist will be shuffled. In short, they do everything to make it impossible for you to hear a given song.

But that’s okay, because it lets them, under US law, be recognized as a “webradio”, which means that it’s completely legal. So I present to you now a mixtape (not CC-licensed) of my favorite powerful metal songs (I won’t say powermetal, because it’s hard to define and the songs would break the definition anyway): http://8tracks.com/unhold/powerful-metal.

Enjoy!

Unholde Radio / Opentape: Ode an die Freude

Experimenting with what this blog has to offer, or rather, what I can make it offer, I tried uploading Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode an die Freude” (German for “ode to joy”) onto an opentape installation (actually it’s just an excerpt from the fourth movement of his 9th – and last – symphony).

It seems to have succeeded, but the embedded player won’t load the MP3, probably 15 MB are too much for it. But I couldn’t bring myself to cut it under 11 minutes…

So, if you want to listen to “Ode an die Freude” and, possibly – later – more music, tune in: Unholde Radio.

This MP3 file (and those I might upload later) is actually licensed under a Creatice Commons license, so as long as I don’t charge you for listening to my “Radio” it’s perfectly legal.

That is, if I give credit, of course, so here (and on my credits page) goes:

Excerpt from “Symphony No 9 in D Minor Op. 125: Presto”

Performed by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

From the album Beethoven – Opferlied and Symphony Number 9