Re: Best of Music Studio

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Kirk Mitchell <kmitchel@nyx.net> wrote:

>aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
>: US$50.00 
>
>: shareware, public domain, and freeware 
>
>>Time In A Bottle is a two-disc CD-ROM compilation.
>
>It's categorized, alphabetized, and has great descriptions of the files.
>Lots of files.  Tens of thousands of files.  Apple II files.  All in one
>place.
>
>If that's not worth $50 to you, then by all means, find, download and
>organize those tens of thousands of files yourself.  B-{)

    Granted, but the person who started the message thread isn't interested 
in the GEnie Apple II archive, he's simply looking to get ahold of what
amounts to a 3.5 floppy disk filled with _public domain_ song files for a
_long-dead and forgotten_ (in the mainstream world at least) computer
platform. And for what purpose? To promote awareness and nostalgia for
the forgotten machine.

    Considering those bunch of Music Studio songs are in the public domain
(which means you can freely copy, distribute and even modify) couldn't
someone with them offer to send them over? It rather bothers me that when
there are actually people STILL interested in the Apple II series, they get
responses of "if you don't buy product x/y/z, we'll thumb our noses at you!".
I'm not trying to downplay the value of "Time in a Bottle" (I think it is
worth paying for) just that what he wants is something unrelated.
 
    That said, I happen to have a diskette with 109 Music Studio IIgs songs
I'd be happy to share. They're pretty below average I remember, just plain
MIDI conversions. The most interesting Music Studio songs were those by
Gene Koh that got published on early SoftDisk G-S issues. Also worth a 
look at, some songs that used custom wavebank files. There's a rendition
of "Every Breath You Take" that sounded beyond what you'd typically
expect out of Music Studio. 

Mitchell Spector