I'm willing to give this a try. What I want to set up here is a song club...sort of like a book club where people would share a book and describe why they like it and would recommend someone else to read it. In this case, we would share a song and describe why we like it, listen to it often, etc. In the case of legality, quality will be seriously subsidized, and the files must expire.
Here's what I propose:
- weekly or bi-weekly (so you share a new song every week or two weeks)
- songs must be in mp3 or wma format for compatability (no aac, vorbis, musepack) at a bitrate between 32-80kbps
- links to the song must expire when the week is over and a new one starts (this would work perfectly with yousendit's 7-day policy and a weekly song club otherwise you have to delete the file yourself)
- optional links to places to buy a cd or official copy, cover art, etc.
If you would like to test these settings there are many ways to get a song in the required bitrate range. The easiest is to go CBR 32, 56, 64, 80. If you want VBR encodings for mp3, LAME's -V8 or -V9 switch will work perfectly. For WMA VBR, q 10 or 25 will get bitrates in this range.
Thoughts?
