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Re:Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright ... by veltas on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:27AM (#28456627)
Is it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?
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Re:Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright ... by brian_herman on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:46AM (#28456873)
I agree, I don't think this is a impolite usage of Internet Archive's resources. I think they would love it. Though I also agree that putting a donation link to the source is also a good idea.
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Re:Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright ... by tkgally on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:15AM (#28457323)
A couple of years ago, I created a simple “Donate to the Internet Archive” logo for a site I made using IA resources. It links to the IA’s donation page. Anyone is welcome to use the logo on their own sites:

http://gally.net/jatsi/index.html

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Re:Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright ... by westcort on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:50AM (#28457900)
Very nice--added!
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Re:Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright ... by westcort on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:16AM (#28457328)
Agreed--and added! Thank you!
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Re:Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright ... by DinkMeeker on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:11AM (#28457270)
Well, you could certainly just download from archive.org for the first-time usage of any particular song and then cache them from there. Like being your own CDN.
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Re:Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright ... by westcort on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:53AM (#28457953)
This is a good idea. I did this with about 38,000 books in the public domain and hosted and indexed the text files on the page so I could do quick full text searches of all of them: https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html. Interestingly, it is not nearly as good as a RegEx search of a directory of the same content, revealing some inconsistencies in their search algorithm (at least for custom search engines).
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