By TOM BOWSER
The "Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more", so much more. It's all FREE, that's no charge to you my friend.
Lots of music, I mean, LOTS OF MUSIC! A wondrous variety. Digitized vinyl albums and other audio you probably won't find anywhere else at this time.
The sound quality of the music I've downloaded and streamed seems better than the free services of most BIG NAME online services. The sound quality of some of the digitized vinyl album collections is often surprisingly good.
CONS:
- Searching and finding what you want can be an exercise in patience.
- I wonder if the musicians, artists and other creatives are being appropriately compensated?
For those of you who have not "been", I suggest you haul your ass over to the Internet Archive and get you some before it's all gone.
For your edification and a quick quality test I present David McCallum's song "The Edge" from his Vinyl LP Album entitled "Music: A Bit More of Me" which was released in 1967 by Capital Records. My wife and I dig the groovy 1960's era vibe.
Who knew that David McCallum, the guy who played the chief medical examiner, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on the American TV series NCIS, was also a talented musician?
I downloaded the song "The Edge" as an .MP3 file from the Internet Archive. What do you think about the sound quality? How does it compare to the sound quality of the same song available on other online services?