Want to download every Beatles track ever made, legally? [NRKbeta.no via BoingBoing]
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now if only I can figure out how to snip the Swedish Chef commentary off the beginning of each track.
børk! børk! børk!
@MalcoveMagnesia: For something helpfull ... I'm unsure if there is an editor for MP3's out there that will let you do it, but if you convert the MP3 to WAV format Windows has a built in WAV editor, and then you could just convert them back.
I might take the Beatles music if you paid me but no way for free
Great if you want to do a lot of work. And re-compressing already compressed audio...
I can hear the sound of audiosnobs (like me) around the world typing only somewhat vigourously.
Still, fun for what it's worth.
FTA: English summary
Some weeks ago, NRK - Norwegian Braodcasting - signed a deal with music rights holder organisation TONO in Norway. The new deal gives NRK right to publish podcasts of all previously broadcasted radio- and tv-programs that contains less then 70% music.
Podcast containing music may be up for four weeks, while our podcast without music stay up on our server forever.
One result of this deal, is that we now can publish "Vår daglige Beatles" - "Our Daily Beatles" in English - as a podcast.
In this series from 2001, journalists Finn Tokvam og Bård Ose tells the story of every single Beatles tracks ever made, chronologically. Each episode contains a 3 minute story about each track (sadly for our international visitors - in Norwegian) and the actual Beatles tune.
This is - as far as we know - the first time you can download the Beatles' music legally. Neither iTunes nor Amazon have The Beatles in their music stores.
The first episodes are already in the podcast, available from this RSS-feed:
At the time of writing, 14 episodes are in the feed. All 212 will be there by the end of January!
When RIAA breaks down your door, will you have time to explain how 40 songs of your 400,000 song library were obtained legally via a Norwegian podcast?
If you really want the stories behind the songs, A Hard Day's Write is a great book.
Oh, also today I came across an article that says the mysterious first chord of "A Hard Day's Night" has finally been solved: there's a piano in there, played by the "Fifth Beatle."
Norway? No thanks, smells like a lutefisk.