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Is it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?
by veltas 5y ago
Is it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?
- brian_herman 5y agoI agree, I don't think this is a impolite usage of Internet Archive's resources. I think they would love it. Though I also agree that putting a donation link to the source is also a good idea.
- tkgally 5y agoA couple of years ago, I created a simple “Donate to the Internet Archive” logo for a site I made using IA resources. It links to the IA’s donation page. Anyone is welcome to use the logo on their own sites: http://gally.net/jatsi/index.html http://gally.net/jatsi/index.html
- westcort 5y agoVery nice--added!
- westcort 5y agoAgreed--and added! Thank you!
- DinkMeeker 5y agoWell, you could certainly just download from archive.org for the first-time usage of any particular song and then cache them from there. Like being your own CDN.
- westcort 5y agoThis is a good idea. I did this with about 38,000 books in the public domain and hosted and indexed the text files on the page so I could do quick full text searches of all of them: https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html. Interestingly, it is not nearly as good as a RegEx search of a directory of the same content, revealing some inconsistencies in their search algorithm (at least for custom search engines).