{"id":1316,"date":"2005-10-26T06:08:02","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T10:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2005-10-26T06:08:02","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T10:08:02","slug":"honest-downloading-wins-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Honest downloading wins one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the States, but the dominant classical CD label in England is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naxos.com\/mainsite\/default.asp\">Naxos,<\/a> who more or less invented the paperback CD here &#8212; costs &pound;5.00 and made by Lithuanians. I bought quite a lot of them when I was trying to educate myself, but later decided they weren&#8217;t often good value for money. None the less, they have been a huge and deserved success, and have probably done a lot to force other labels to bring out their paperback lines (Sony Classics, and so on).<\/p>\n\n<p>This morning it was announced that the whole Naxos catalogue is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\">Emusic.<\/a> this matters not just because it&#8217;s downloadable, but because they are actually selling the music. Though you pay by subscription, which gives a fixed number of downloads a month, the music comes in high-quality <span class=\"caps\">MP3, <\/span>without <span class=\"caps\">DRM<\/span>; once you have it you may store it as you like, legally and technologically.<\/p>\n\n<p>Mind you, if you&#8217;re just looking for a bit of Schumann, stream <a href=\"http:\/\/magnatune.com\/artists\/albums\/mccawley-schumann2\/hifi.m3u\">this.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about the States, but the dominant classical CD label in England is Naxos, who more or less invented the paperback CD here &#8212; costs &pound;5.00 and made by Lithuanians. I bought quite a lot of them when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}