MP3 dot com

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 7:13 am

Not sure how many of you even care but it appears MP3.com will be disappearing very soon. Bought out by CNET.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:56 pm

What does it mean in terms of bussiness and what does it mean for us as musicians?

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:14 am

Probably means nothing unless you were using their service.

I realize there are other file sharing services out there but MP3.com was one of the biggest and more popular sites. I know a lot of bands and artists posted their material there and used their CD duplication services.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:36 am

I wanted to do so too, but I found their service to be a bit complicated, perhaps cos their laws were different for people living abroad, I can’t tell, anyway, I just gave up on it.

Here, in the Latin world, by all means MP3.com was the most famous of all sites. Interesting would be to know which one will come to replace MP3.com.

Some have told me to have your own site is better than becoming a member of those special webs for music, on the other hand, there are those who swear by them… I think there are advantages and disadvantages.

Do you use any of them Krizrox?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 6:58 am

I never visited MP3 much (I have a low bandwidth connection), but the times I did this was almost always driven by a link like 'a ccouple of tunes with only this gear'.

Frequently this was triggered by an eBay offer, so googled the name and got such links either directly or by some crossref in the larger synth sites.

Most of that stuff was fun to hear and I found one or the other nugget that way - but it was absolutely clear that I would never have found it in MP3 directly. Like this one:
http://soundsofamber.free.fr/index3.htm

With your own site you can make this your method of attracting attention.
Just link to a word or phrase which might be frequently searched by your expected audience - in a musical context of course, or you might be received as spam.
There must be something in the item itself to cause attraction, (self)marketing is about phantasy, too.

cheers, Tom

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:31 am

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/34009.html

I hope they can save the music

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:41 am

On 2003-12-03 04:36, Nestor wrote:
I wanted to do so too, but I found their service to be a bit complicated, perhaps cos their laws were different for people living abroad, I can’t tell, anyway, I just gave up on it.

Here, in the Latin world, by all means MP3.com was the most famous of all sites. Interesting would be to know which one will come to replace MP3.com.

Some have told me to have your own site is better than becoming a member of those special webs for music, on the other hand, there are those who swear by them… I think there are advantages and disadvantages.

Do you use any of them Krizrox?

No, but my clients used MP3.com a lot.

At least here in the US, there is a stigma attached to these hi-profile music websites. MP3.com was perceived to be a good marketing strategy for up-and-coming artists to promote their CD's and music. I actually bought a CD from a band on MP3.com a while ago. So if I did it once, I'm sure others did too. It was a nice deal for artists that didn't want to deal with the duplication. MP3.com offered that service along with easy payment options. It's difficult to set up an ordering and CC payment scheme by yourself. You have to deal directly with the CC companies. You have to package and ship product. Ick. Better to let MP3.com or someone else do that stuff.

I would occasionally go on there and take a peek at some of the new bands posting music. Occasionally a few big names would post some of their music there (I remember downloading some Adrian Belew stuff).

You gotta kinda wonder what the technology will look like 10 years from now. I mean music distribution and the whole business model. Just seems like there's no real direction. The local music store concept will probably never really go away.

Personally? I still like to have something I can hold in my hand. I like professionally printed artwork and shiny jewel cases. But that's just me

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 2:06 am

the original man behind mp3.com, Michael Robertson is trying to get the whole "historical archive" of over a million songs put on to archive.org or something similar so they would be there for ever.

archive.org is probably the safest place ever to keep something online. It is supported by individuals, corporations and so on.

you can actually put your music there now if you want. its not a convenient page like mp3 had but your stuff WILL be saved.

"mp3.com is only 5 terrabytes, we add 40 terrabytes a month so its nothing much"

Cnet has bought the domain, not all the servers and so on from vivendi (or whoever runs it) so if you hear rumors about "mp3.com deleted" the files will still be there for a while.