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good point.

This is a little bit of progress — if we’re not willing to give it a sniff and send them a few constructive comments about it, then what incentive to they have to keep making more progress?

besides, whats the big deal exactly? i mean i dont listen to plies personally but ive got friends who do and i doubt theyd be discouraged by having a sprint logo where the album cover should be. id understand if they were putting something to track the files on people’s computers, then id be pissed off but theyre not doing that it seems. this is the smartest thing any record label has done of late and embraced p2p rather than trying to shutting it down. they make the money they’re supposedly “losing” and some people get some free files

@Joe
Thanks for the dipshit.

moo, who doesn’t care about .exe’s but would not like to see commercial abuse of the album-art-tag, because that would affect more than one os. (ergo: using tags would be much more intelligent, reaching some more people. and: does an ipod open .exe-files? i doubt that.)

[brain off]

Look closer! Mininova offers comments:

http://www.mininova.org/com/614774

Isohunt doesn’t, I agree on that. Therefore I usually snatch my torrents on sites allowing comments. I don’t use “unmoderated” networks exactly for this reason, no comments. But users of Limewire etc. might get the fake files, right. In that case the shouldn’t complain, there are plenty alternatives to avoid these fakes.

I say presumably because the only way for it to show up on an ipod or cell phone would for it to be in the album art

i.e., it will NOT have to be a .exe file.

therefore, you sir can kindly get off my nuts, thanks

All 177k tracks on my computer have embedded album art, and not 1 of them pops up on my screen when I play it.
In order to see the album art I need to actually open the file in an application that is aware of that art.
And if I don’t like the art, I can change it or completely remove it.

They must be planning to use exe files, as that would be the only way to pop up an advertisement when the track is played.

Also, they plan to release 16 million tracks, I am assume since no artist in history has made 16 million songs, that this is 16 millions of the same song or songs. Ask yourself something, how exactly do they plan to only release 16 million?
Once its released thats its, there is no turning back, that is what their whole bitch fest is about, you release a track and millions of people have it. They have no control over who downloads it.

Jesus people, use your fucking brains.
It obviously going to be loaded with spyware.

the other guy is right, it doesn’t have to be a .exe to embed an album cover or anything else into an mp3

@Noby

no every torrent site does not allow for comments, go and look at isohunt or mininova, 2 of the most popular torrent sites, and also, p2p doesn’t just mean torrent, programs like limewire and ares would also probably be flooded, I don’t know about you, but I get most of my singles from other p2p networks that aren’t bittorrent

correct me, if i am wrong but as far as i know, it is possible to embed cover art into a mp3-file (via non-conform id-tag).

“And how would people know whether it had adverts on it or not until after they downloaded it?”

Err, maybe be reading something called “comment”? Last time I had a look, every torrentsite (holds true for some EDK sites too) featured something like that, where users could drop some lines about the content linked and quality thereof.