[headphonica] Fwd: Android app

[Douglas Whitfield]

Ok, let's go with a forward line doesn't constitute a derivative.  I took out my part of the conversation as well because I didn't think it added anything, and they can't really license my writing. :)

If you have questions about Headphonica, Android, their proposed Android app or anything else related to Creative Commons, I'll be happy to discuss and/or send out my part of the conversation with them.  You can find Headphonica at http://identi.ca/headphonica and you can see some discussions I've had with them by checking them out there.

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From: Headphonica Inc. <headp...@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:52
Subject: Re: Android app
To: Douglas Whitfield <whit...@opensourceplayground.org>

yes, due to authenticity it's cool to take this in its entirety.
let's say this email is licensed under CC-BY-ND [ND for details not being mixed up], ok?
:)

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:07, Headphonica Inc. <headp...@gmx.net> wrote:

Douglas!
sorry for being so slow with replying - that doesn't mean that we're not interested, but that we're a bit slow, sometimes. ["we" is clemens, tommy & martin from headphonica - actually it's me, martin, writing here]
so, thanks a lot for offering your help with an andriod-app - we appreciate this very much!
the thing is: (at the moment) we're not using those shmart-phones ourself and we're not very good in programming/coding, so we can't be that helpful with creating the app itself. obviously it would be a good idea to put out a call - we could also announce this on identica.
i had a look at that android-market to find out what's offered there and i was surprised of what's going on there...
considering a kind of radio or easy downloading it could maybe be both. i think of what notheen [a cc-based webradio] does in their livestream: http://www.notheen.com/ > lots of the tracks they're playing have a link ("+") in the playlist from where you're directed to the netlabels site.
maybe it would be useful to stream the music in *.ogg (~128kbps) and maybe we should make a testing if it's better for gapless streaming to host the files on headphonica.com or on archive.org then.
i also made a small series of tests with re-compressing ogg-files from the mp3s (mp3 in 320kbps to ogg in 128kbps) which all sound a bit odd, but it might sound ok on a phone...

ok, so far.
please get in touch with any concerns/ideas/whatsoever, ok?
and thanks once more for offering help!
many greetings from hedaphonica,
martin [+tommy + clemens]

p.s.: about the netlabels/cc-labels-movement > i attached a scientific study (i think it was sociology) about so called "netlabels" from 2008 - you can find more information about that here: http://phlow-magazine.com/feature/1076-netlabel-research-numbers-results-paper
and last week i've been to a congress in berlin (a2n - alltogethernow) where one of those netaudio/cc-experts told that there are somewhat about 5,000 to 10,000 (in words: betweeen five- and tenthousand) netlabels releasing music under creative commons.
you'll find out that this is a movement which is very elaborated/strong in europe, especially in germany... proof: compare the english wikipedia-site about netlabels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel with the german version http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel