Etienne,

This sounds excellent, and very exciting! Hmmm, wish I had more content to
justify a beta account... Looking forward to it,
Paul

>Gentlemen,
>
>A new Ambisonia site is coming very soon (around 1 month). I would
>like to ask everyone to 'hold' any new pieces they have to publish,
>and wait for the new site to come up.
>
>The new site will be open in beta mode (to uploaders) for around 3
>months before going live to the general public.
>
>The new site nails many things that the old site is bad at:
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>- An Uploader application makes it very easy to upload.
>- All files are transcoded to 5.1 immediately
>- All files are available as streaming directly from the browser
>immediately (in 5.1, and therefore by headphones)
>- The site is hosted on a commercial server in the US (fast, stable, etc.).
>
>... and many more improvements.
>
>The new site will introduce 2 business models that will allow it to be
>sustainable and grow.
>
>Uploads will no longer be free, there will be a nominal monthly
>subscription cost for uploads. I am still finalising this but likely I
>will do something like each account has 3 free uploads ... then you
>need to pay a bit to keep uploading (it wont be much, its just to pay
>for the bandwidth). Ofcourse, the beta testers will be given free
>unlimited accounts (for the beta period).
>
>During the 3 beta months, I will be building in the 'patron' model,
>that will encourage the public to 'tip' any downloads they feel
>deserves reward. This is the second business model which aims,
>essentially, at pumping some cash back to the content producers.
>
>Any questions, please ask away ...
>
>Etienne
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