Because FLAC files occupy more space and require more bandwidth to download than Ogg files, they represent a considerably higher cost of resources.

Gordon said that Mindawn sees about a 10 to 1 difference between the size of FLAC and Ogg files.

Files purchased through Mindawn are free of DRM, so they have no such restrictions. The Mindawn Web site features a broad number of categories to choose from, though Gordon admits that not every category has been populated.įiles protected by DRM technology have restrictions on how many times they can be burned to a CD as part of a playlist, how many computers they can be played on or which portable digital music players they can used with. While many of the 1,000 or so tracks now featured on the service are progressive rock artists and labels - including content from his own label - Gordon said that Mindawn sports an expanding library of music from other genres as well - everything from religious music to pop, adult contemporary and more. “We submitted the paperwork and never heard back,” said Gordon. Gordon also notes that he tried unsuccessfully to get his own label signed to iTunes, when Apple began negotiating with independent record labels. We’re in the middle of a paradigm shift that’s as important as when we went to CDs from vinyl.”

A guy with a synthesizer and a sequencer can create his own music that sounds really good, upload it and sell it. “It’s also really amazing what artists can do at home now. “I got really irritated by how artists were being treated, and I really love progressive rock,” Gordon told MacCentral. Gordon also owns an independent progressive rock music label called ProgRock Records and an Internet radio station called, so it was a logical progression for him to create a digital music download service. Mindawn is the brainchild of Shawn Gordon, a musician and programmer who founded, a software developer best known for creating embedded applications that run on Sharp’s Linux-based Zaurus handheld computers.

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