I got a gift! And I have a question about Music from the Cube...

[liz_marcs]

Awwwww, [Poll #962089][Poll #962089]That should do it. If you have any additional comments, feel free to make them below.

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Eh. The Vox MP3 streamer is good, but I'm not overly happy with it. There's no way to make the tracks automatically load one after the other. I put reviews up on my Vox and I put streaming tracks there, but it's more for my benefit than anyone else's.

As for F-locking the Music from the Cube posts here, like I said I'm not too in love with that option (it was the first option I considered). But my FList is, uhn, already overwhelming at the moment. Plus, there's the whole "ceiling" issue on the number of friends a personal LJ can have. A community doesn't have the limit.

I've looked around at the other filesharing comms on LJ (and I'm a member of a few), and they all seem to operate the same way. The comm is locked down to friends only, there are disclaimers on the user page, and FAQs.

Also, I'm thinking that strength-in-numbers might work in my favor. If the filesharing comms get dinged, they'll be dinged en masse, or there'll be some warning from LJ/Six Apart to stop doing it. At that point, it would just be a matter of deleting the comm. Sure, copies might be on a server somewhere, but at least it would be "gone" from the Internet for all intents and purposes.

I've been looking at this issue off-and-on for a year (in fact, I had considered moving the reviews off this LJ when I started doing them more than a year ago), but lately links to the reviews been showing up in the damnedest places. I haven't gotten in any trouble or anything like that, but I figure it's a matter of time.

I'm not in love with doing a fileshare comm (maintenance alone is making me unhappy), but right now it's the best option given the uncertain legal environment on streaming in the U.S. right now (yes, they're going after streaming, too).