Something Voodoo Shilton has been doing for some while now is recording his concerts while he broadcasts them and the recording is uploaded to a server somewhere so buyers can download it very soon after the concert is over.
The technique is cool as he doesn't have to screw around trying to sell individual songs and people can easily get quite a few of his songs for a very reasonable cost. This isn't a commercial so you'll have to go to one of his shows for the details and the article is to maybe give you more of a reason to do that.
The recordings will be better than what you heard in the concert and here's why: when you transmit your audio stream into Second Life the 'audio quality' does not even reach even the lowest level of an MP3 file. Therefore the MP3 uploaded after the show will inevitably have better 'audio quality' or higher resolution than what you heard in the show. If it's AAC format then even better yet. AIFF is the raw original but that's a very large file at about 10 MB per minute so it's too big to distribute at current Internet speeds.
I'll talk to Voodoo about how he is doing this but it shouldn't be a terribly difficult thing as just about any audio stream software has the capability to save your music before it compresses it to send it over the Internet. You can take this file after the show, probably edit the blank ends of it off, and then save it in whatever format you like. Upload the result and then you only need to let customers where you put it so they can get their copies of it.
Another reason to buy a Voodoo Shilton concert recording specifically is that his shows aren't the same so any recording will be unique. If you had a collection of them over time then you would hear the evolution and that would be quite intriguing.
The technique is cool as he doesn't have to screw around trying to sell individual songs and people can easily get quite a few of his songs for a very reasonable cost. This isn't a commercial so you'll have to go to one of his shows for the details and the article is to maybe give you more of a reason to do that.
The recordings will be better than what you heard in the concert and here's why: when you transmit your audio stream into Second Life the 'audio quality' does not even reach even the lowest level of an MP3 file. Therefore the MP3 uploaded after the show will inevitably have better 'audio quality' or higher resolution than what you heard in the show. If it's AAC format then even better yet. AIFF is the raw original but that's a very large file at about 10 MB per minute so it's too big to distribute at current Internet speeds.
I'll talk to Voodoo about how he is doing this but it shouldn't be a terribly difficult thing as just about any audio stream software has the capability to save your music before it compresses it to send it over the Internet. You can take this file after the show, probably edit the blank ends of it off, and then save it in whatever format you like. Upload the result and then you only need to let customers where you put it so they can get their copies of it.
Another reason to buy a Voodoo Shilton concert recording specifically is that his shows aren't the same so any recording will be unique. If you had a collection of them over time then you would hear the evolution and that would be quite intriguing.
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