Play MPE

This week I was invited to Join PLAY MPE , basically a system of Media Delivery which allows Record Companies to send Media to Radio Stations, Music Reviewers... and now Bloggers apparently. Why'd they choose me? My other blog Adventures in Sound seems to have caught the eye of a promotional company, which is great (Someone reads me yay!). I've always wanted to be sent free music, free in the form of CD's which can make me look impressive.

CD's seem to be causing a bit of a Problem for me now though, I dont really have the Space for them and making the media jump from the CD to my iPod is becoming a bit of a pain. So, the MP3 being sent through email is quite good. The bad thing is the download, what happens if, I do download this song to listen to and its crap. Thats happened a couple of times. Hitting Delete is easy enough but I do have a finite download limit per month, its an impressive finite limit, but finite none the less.

So, this Play MPE system... they set you up with an account after you sign up and they asses your details and whether you should be approved (yeah I had to prove why they should send me music for free) and then you download a Prog which has all the new releases from Record Companies and you go through listen and if you like them you add them to your profile. From there you've either got the choice of Burning them to CD, or exporting them to itunes as MP3's. They're fairly high quality, like 192 stereo quality, and I'm not sure whether they've got DRM on them or not, but they even populate with Pictures. So I have some new music to Listen to.

My only complaint at this system is that while I have a wide and varied music collection, currently my other blog essentially focus's on one type of music. Music which is not found very often in main stream collections and isnt released by Australian Labels very often. So whilst i've been looking through the latest music releases I'm also thinking 'This is mostly crap, I dont like any of it". The long held opinion I've held that music seems to be heading in a downhill direction is only being cemented by this particular application. Out of about 100 tracks I listened to maybe 20 and took about 8 and right now, listening to them I think I might keep 4 and write about 1. 1 from 100. Are they good odds? You tell me. I'm getting De Ja Vue here, the next lot of track to hit your radio are going to be earbleeding shite. Have fun, i think i prefer silence!