[Dixielandjazz] Spotify and Red Hot Jazz

[Ulf Jagfors]

Dear Bill
 
Thanks for your info.

Perhaps that will, at least partly, solve the problem for Marek and other
interested list mates.
If someone in Israel, USA or any other not listed countries have success
connecting to Spotify, please let me know. I guaranty that you will not be
disappointed with the vast content of OKOM music both old, revival and
contemporary material.

It is a pity that Red Hot Jazz from time to time have functional problem and
also seems to be out of service for Mac users. The Real Audio codec might be
one of the problem here, as always with all type of propriety systems like
MAC. MP3 is more flexible with many sources for codecs. That leads to the
question what will happened with the site when the current owner no longer
can maintain the site. This fantastic source of OKOM music should continue
also for the next decades to come. But who can and will take up the
challenge to do so.

For those not interested. I am sorry for this long thread but at least for
me Red Hot Jazz and today Spotify are the prime life lines when searching
for early and revival jazz recordings. I have perhaps been to eager to share
my views.

Ulf Jagfors (pron.Yeagforce)
Stockholm

-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Från: Bill Haesler [mailto:bhaesler at bigpond.net.au] 
Skickat: den 1 maj 2011 01:37
Till: Ulf Jagfors; Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Ämne: Spotify

Ulf Jagfors wrote [in part]:
> There are sites to which you can access fooling the local foreign country
net services to think you are in that particular country.

Dear Ulf,
It would seem that Spotify is available in Australia.
But only for Windows users.
    http://www.zdnet.com.au/downloads/windows/spotify_sw-10857177.htm
We dedicated Mac people miss out once again.
But no prizes for guessing why on this particular one.
However, I found a link that details how to use Spotify if you live in the
US or other countries.
 
http://crenk.com/how-to-use-spotify-if-your-based-in-usa-or-other-countries/
Slight thread change.
Unfortunately, my access to music on the Red Hot Jazz site is still
currently unavailable.
Notwithstanding some kind off-list assistance from listmate Andy Ling.
I assume it has something to do with a recent upgrade by someone.
I had a similar problem with <wmv> links last year, but solved that one by
installing VLC and dragging the problem <wmv> to it.
I've also found a way to get animated <gif> files to work on my Mac, but the
music link to redhotjazz.com still eludes me.
I certainly miss it as a research tool.
Very kind regards,
Bill.