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Catching butterflies with copyright nets

Digital audio is the transmission and reception of sound as data. The dominance of digital audio has been assured for around a quarter of a century now, since the invention of the Compact Disc, although it has changed significantly in the last 10 years. From 2000 onwards, physical forms of digital media have become increasingly obsolete, as internet bandwidth (read more)

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NMC Recordings & State51's Greedbag

NMC Recordings carries out the recording and distribution of what it describes as 'the best of contemporary music' which, for want of a better term, we might call contemporary compositional music. To see the extent of their repertoire it is worth checking out their fantastic music map, full of music clips, meticulously researched background information and visualisations of composer, genre and other relationships.

Image: NMC Music Map made by AVCO.com http://avco.com
http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/musicmap

NMC uses the GreedBag audio e-commerce system operated by State51, the expert audio encoding company. It offers free samples to the web user and then paid downloads, including high quality FLAC files.

http://thestate51conspiracy.com/greedbag.html

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