Just a couple of points.
James posted this thread here and a load of other places because I posted a link to my site on the lgdp facebook page and he started ranting about sharing for free so I posted a list of the mixes I know he has and that he keeps to himself.He then proceeded to lose the plot.He wrote "Only to find some fucker" he knew my name was Tony then but chose not use it,would have made it all a bit easier for those detectives amongst you
Sites that sell mixes nicked etc....
We have never stolen any mixes ,never been lucky enough to find a bag of them under a tree.We have bought ,traded and downloaded from the internet every mix we have
We are not selling the mixes they are not ours to sell ,if you go to the site and add a mix and go to the cart you will see £0.00 beside each mix.We are charging for our time to create and post the disc anywhere in the world.
The FAQ's and a fe other bits and bobs were only hastily made up as the people we were paying to do the code needed an amount of words so they could finish this part of the design.My wife did most of it and a lot has to change
As for hosting the mixes ,we do if we make any money from this venture at all hope to buy a server and put the mixes up on that ,the first company that popped up in google search was rackspace and thats from £670 a month for two 300gb drives,everything after that is mail us for a quote .We are currently looking at around 3TB of mixes or more.
The only bearing I can see our site having for anyone on the forums etc. is hopefully reference.Check out Michael Kilkie
Michael Kilkie .We added the samples today ,all mixes have the bitrate,length and size underneath them128kbps - 00:45:18 43Mb - 44.1 kHz
The samples are all taken from 16 minutes to 16 minutes 30 so hopefully you can go and A. see if its the mix your looking for or B. the same mix as you have but longer/shorter/higher bitrate etc.If its better than ours we would love to trade and everyone wins.
We are mainly aiming our site at people who dont use the forums etc as we all do.They have the right to come on the net and pick a bunch of mixes and that be the end of it.There is no rule that says you have to participate in it all.We will be sharing our mixes through the forums/torrents ect but in fairness its going to be a couple of months before we can do that as I have limited spare time and the site is taking that all at the moment.Saying this Im currently putting some up on mediafire for someone
We have spent an awful lot of money on our site (2 grand in the last month alone),we hope to be able to do an update and finish it off in a couple of months time ,this will probably cost at least another grand.We have to upgrade our hosting to about 15gb as we need mp3 and ogg samples so all browsers can support the samples so thats going to be another cost.We have the site monthly hosting,postage (worldwide !!) ,paypal ,blank dvds which we print ,sleeves,envelopes,paypal fees,back up system ,sundries and our time to write the discs prepare them and drive to the post office amongst others.
I have a hard job "too fucking hard"
and I wont be giving it up for a long time yet,not from this anyway.
We have talked to the Performing rights people amongst others about having a licence ,they can sort us one out for playing mixes through the site but as for anything else they would be at a loss.They said it would be a nightmare to even try and find who has the rights for each track on mix as most of the artists never held them,the small record labels were gobbled up by bigger ones and so on.
One last point .I have a 50 mile plus drive each way to work each day and one of the joys I have is listening to music in the car , I was listening to Boy George at Moneypennies on Friday and that is not a piece of art not by a long way
Think it will have to be Hernan again monday
