MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed 354
WCityMike writes "Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNet. However, they're not selling the approximately one million songs on the archive. (recorded by over 250,000 artists) Instead, they're simply destroying it as of December 3. MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs."
There ARE other "hippie" options for music (Score:5, Informative)
Anyway, what I really wanted to scribe here is that iRATE [sourceforge.net] is an amazing new program. You can learn and meet new artists through their music, and it's entirely Free as in an STD (-;
I recently found that after being disappointed with MP3.com, and I must say that I love it so much that I had a dream about it last night that I would wake up and only have the damn OMNIMEDIA radio crap stations playing Pinkin Lark and crap like that (which encourages violence, mind you).
Again, please support iRATE -- it's SourceForge code, it's Open-Source (~95%), it's made by Americans and Europeans, and it's really cool and a great replacement for MP3.com.
Hmmm.... (Score:4, Informative)
Chris
Not true (Score:4, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, ampfea.org does it right. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:mp3.org? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Permission needed? I don't think so. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:wow... (Score:1, Informative)
... or IUMA (Score:3, Informative)
The Internet Underground Music Archive [iuma.org] has a similar concept to mp3.com... and they even predate mp3.com by several years.
I remember downloading a few .au files from them in early 1995.... on an SGI pizza box... ahhh nostalgia.
Re:Has anyone started a non-profit... (Score:4, Informative)
if you're a true hippie (Score:3, Informative)
1nad1 Internet (Score:3, Informative)
iRATE won't help (Score:3, Informative)
$ cat trackdatabase.xml | perl -pe 's/></>\n</g' | wc -l
140
$ cat trackdatabase.xml | perl -pe 's/></>\n</g' | fgrep mp3.com | wc -l
37
So, 26% of the tracks I have on iRATE came from mp3.com
Have you visited epitonic? (Score:3, Informative)
Not quite the same as mp3.com as it hosts mp3s of bands who are already signed, but I've found quite a few bands I'd never have heard of otherwise
Re:PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLE ALERT (Score:2, Informative)
As far as my own tastes go, they were shaped in the 80s by electronic bands from Europe and the UK and in general I tend to seek out artists that have little exposure because *I* don't like the bland pap that the music biz tried to push.
Re:I'm not so sure... (Score:3, Informative)
I'll just take a moment to plug ampedOut [ampedout.net], my favorite station. Tune in Friday nights for "Dopamine," which is their live show.
Re:their property, their decision (Score:3, Informative)
I used to ask them once a month about it, and I'd get a standard response saying they'd answer my question in 4-6 business days. After a year of this, it switched to "you need to pay us for us to answer your question".
Then they cut off the covers of CDs and put an mp3 add on the cover unless you paid them to release the CDs with your cover. Man, mp3.com is crap. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap. But I kept our songs up because we've been giving them away for free anyway.
In fact, if anyone wants them, follow the link in my sig and distribute them through kazaa or something. Free songs from a Star Trek punk rock band.
I appreciate some of what mp3 does, but I'll whine about them at a moment's notice.