Comments on: The Bandwidth Blues

by: felipe

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:13:13 -0700

I writting from chile. Sorry nick. Every week i look for new songs. I dont understand the problem, but i cant believe that kind of people exist.
I hope that your page start running again very soon.
I dont know what im going to do to find new songs.
Good bye

by: mr dennis

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:40:35 -0700

Hey Nick! Two things for ya:

1. I heard a Modest Mouse song on the radio. It was quite good. I’m glad you introduced it to me first; otherwise I might have just dismissed it as more stuff that radio stations try to push.

2. To solve your bandwidth problem: try having limited access (only certain IPs or perhaps a login -- quite a pain, but something to save you $$) to your download page. People can email you (so you can create a login for them or add their IP address to a list of acceptable IPs) if they’re serious about downloading the song. Would that solve the problem?

I read that netiquette stuff. Quite interesting. Good ish to know.

by: Kim

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:30:54 -0700

Sorry about posting on here; you don’t know me but recently I found your site and (thanks to you)a bunch of really great music that I’m now listening to (downloaded to my computer in my music file, of course) over and over.

That being said, I was wondering if you were still going to even post the band and title of the song (minus the file) or if you were just quitting altogether. It’d be a huge loss if you just stopped altogether =\

Thanks alot!

-Kim

by: Jaclyn

Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:06:25 -0700

I agree with “mr dennis.” Restricting exactly who can download your songs could help. I am a big fan of your music selections, and they have broadened my tastes so much. I would be sad to see the site go down.

by: Orb

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:03:01 -0700

hey NICK!
this is Orb. I am sitting up in Washington State University this summer and have been looking through your posting finally...you really had a good thing going...sorry that it didn’t work out. You got me into Notwist! I hope the job is going well and such. Later on man,
Orb

by: henry

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:29:08 -0700

i’ve been trawling the ‘net for the postal service’s ‘the district sleeps alone’ and the only site that still has it (or DID have it) was YOURS!

if you could please link me up with it, i’d be eternally grateful!

many thanks in advance,
- Henry

by: Ola Tillberg

Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:43:28 -0700

Hi Nick.
Just found your page for the first time and I think I understand your problem. I found “you” while searching for the Fleetwood Mac song “Rattlesnake Shake” wich led me to you. Since I´m here I might as well humbly ask if you could mail it to me, not for me to download (that if you have it as an mp3 file of course) at the address above.
Please...
//Ola Tillberg-Stockholm-Sweden

by: tadow

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:53:30 -0700

Did you ever stop to think that you are costing these artists money every time one of their songs is downloaded from your site? I wonder how much you owe in royalties? I’m sure it’s more than the cost of your new G5.

by: John

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:31:44 -0800

You can disable left click and force people to download the file by right clicking and saving it to their HD. Also you could provide it in a different format such as streaming flash which will/should generate 304s.