Music Librarians

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Thoughts about Ch. 7 from The Future of the Music Business

Gordon writes about using music in the background of a DVD on page 106 and I wonder if the same rules apply to say televised Ballroom competitions (on PBS) (for example see Tony Dolovani and Elena Grineko’s Rumba?

It’s interesting that Gordon talks about ringtones in this book, especially now that if you have iTunes, you can make your own ringtone (p. 106). There are also other programs out there for free that will make your own ringtone… the problem is getting it to your phone. P.S. I hate ring-backs. Most annoying thing ever. Just let me hear the phone ringing! (p. 106)

The rest of the chapter looks at licensing for video games (and their soundtracks), ringtones, and music on websites.

What is interesting to me is that there are lots of websites that have midis playing on them but I highly doubt they got the copyright stuff out of the way… Policing this stuff is just so hard because there are so many people!

Chapter 8

Gordon writes that the case against Grokster was similar to that of a VCR. It is very interesting to me in that the music companies were going after companies, yet the motion picture industry was not going after people recording stuff off the TV on to VHS or nowadays, DVRing programs. (120)

The rest of the chapter includes two interviews about the “crises” that the music industry is in

Introduction and Chapter 1 from A Manual for the performance Library by Russ Girsberger

I found this statement interesting: “Performance librarians are first and foremost musicians” (1). I don’t know if that’s true nowadays and if it needs to be true. I feel that there are probably plenty of people who aren’t musicians (for a multitude of reasons) but could be performance librarians. It problems helps a lot of to know what Girsberger discusses under education but I don’t think it is a catch-all for what is needed.

The rest of this chapter looks at what goes into being a performance librarian. It is interesting to note about that most music librarians should have a much more intimate knowledge of music or be a musician themselves to help with their job.

Website reviews:

Digidesign Protools

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm

Good website, probably won’t ever have a need for their tools but one thing I didn’t like about their website? It has a semi-black background. So incredibly hard to read!

Adobe Audition
http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/

Looks like an excellent program and Adobe does make great stuff

Apple Garage Band
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

Interesting name for a product but okay… It’s really hard to judge this products by their website without actually using the product…

Steinberg Cubase
http://www.steinberg.net/983+M52087573ab0.html

Says that the file isn’t there plus it’s in German and as much as I would like to, I can’t read it

Cakewalk
http://www.cakewalk.com/

Immediately I’m completely turned off by the black background, although this one is better than the first one because the text is on a white background. Looks like lots of different programs

Music Notation Software -
Finale
http://www.codamusic.com/

I’ve used this program before and it’s quite fun. Also if you’re a movie, buff, this is what Piper Perabo’s character uses in Coyote Ugly

Audio editing software that I use in the archives is Audacity, which according to their website the program can

·         Record Live Audio

·         Convert Tapes into digital recordings or CDs (which is what I’m doing in the archives, we convert them into .wav)

·         Edit Ogg Vorbis, mp3, wav, or AIFF sound files

·         Cut, Copy, splice, or mix sounds together

·         Change the speed or pitch of a recording             

Source

It’s also free at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/