Music & Sound

A question for you

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• Saturday 9th February 2008

I’m sure you’re somewhat put off by those bogus “poll” questions that show up on people’s blogs, asking for your opinion on who-knows-what-kind-of-crap (Hillary/Obama, Chevy/Ford, instant this/instant that). The people who use them seem to think it gives a light dusting of “community” and “interactivity” to what strikes me as anonymous, meaningless interchange.

So here I am, stepping up to ask something truly meaningful.

If you check down the homepage, you’ll see that I had a radio show from July – September of 2007 on WFMU (the links to listen to the archives are in the other post.) The files on the WFMU site are low-quality, non-downloadable audio, used to keep costs down and keep bandwidth from eating up the station.

I’d like to offer superior hi-rez copies of the entire season (17 shows) as a package ($10.00 US, probably). However, as I sit here on a cold, rainy Saturday in suburban New Jersey, listening to the cats snore, I have a few questions you might be able to help me answer:

1) Does anyone want these in the first place?

2) Would you be more interested in a physical product (2 or 3 data DVD’s, probably) or a download? This may turn out to be academic, because the download storage/bandwidth costs might be prohibitive. This means I’d have to add postage and packaging costs to the 10-spot, but DVD’s are light, and I’d use a cheap padded envelope.

3) In either case (assuming you answered #1 in the affirmative), would you have a preferred format? I’d be able to provide the files in Apple Lossless (M4A), 320K MP3, WAV, or FLAC.

If you feel like writing back, I’d appreciate it. Use the e-mail link on the right, and put ***radio*** in the subject header, so I can corral the answers smoovly in the new mail program.

And just to add some significant demographic data to your answer, please send the names of your pets. I could care less about your income level or education.

Thanks.