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November 07, 2004
Bandwidth
Today is the 10th anniverary of the WXYC webcast (the first-ever by a radio station), so this morning we made the commemorative Bandwidth compilation available for free download. You can download the individual mp3s via the links in the tracklisting, but why not just grab the whole thing with cover art and liner notes included? Casey Burns did an amazing job on the cover (pictured above), and the CD has a ton of great local music: Black Taj, Jett Rink, Work Clothes, Shark Quest, Etta Baker, Spectac & Median, Shallow Be Thy Name, Jacuzzi Brothers, Protean Spook, Hotel Motel, and I could go on and on.
If you use BitTorrent, you can download Bandwidth via this torrent file. It's funny...if I recall correctly, the name Bandwidth was chosen in large part because of its reference to the early challenges of online streaming and because of the whole "band" connotation....but now that we've stored all of these large music files on the ibiblio servers and enlisted their help in packaging the whole thing up as a bandwidth-saving torrent, the title is that much more appropriate.
The weekend's other big webcasting anniversary events were fun and insightful...luckily, both of them were recorded for posterity. I'll write more about them later on...or maybe once we make the sound files available online. Until then, consume Bandwidth and think back to the days when you were really cooking with gas if you merely had a SLIP/PPP connection.
Posted by Tim at November 7, 2004 07:43 PM