Say goodbye to MP3.COM....

mp3.com bought by cnn, not taking userdata

[kwasher]

Well, mp3.com has now been bought by CNET.

I was an EARLY user of mp3.com. What started out as a site for independent musicians to display their music, and was bought out by the music industry and turned into a site for commercial music/musicians, is now being revamped by CNET. They will NOT be importing any user data they say, which apparently means all of the independent musicians still there (who have NOT been getting ANY service from support anyway) will be gone. Sigh. It was fun while it lasted.

[changed it to reflect cnet instead of cnn]

[edited by: kwasher at 7:28 pm (utc) on Nov. 14, 2003]

[bcolflesh]

I think you mean CNET.

[kwasher]

Yeah, you are right. All those C places look the same to me (smile).

[HughMungus]

I wonder what they paid for it. I just read an article stating, specifically, that they're NOT going to launch a paid music service. If so, why buy it at all?

[dgriesbeck]

That's just sad. That's a real sign of the times, when independent musicians can hardly find a home on the web that isn't somehow tied into a corporation.

[kanetrain]

Cd baby just keeps getting better and better eh? I read an article stating that CD baby was working to provide all of their customers songs on itunes.

[HughMungus]

That's just sad. That's a real sign of the times, when independent musicians can hardly find a home on the web that isn't somehow tied into a corporation.

It is. But it's expensive to do. Cheap as hell and easy to do on a small scale but it simply doesn't scale for large numbers of users (the cost in bandwidth per ad displayed is much higher than other forms of content, not to mention the labor costs in such an operation). Someone also mentioned the Internet Underground Music Archive yesterday. That appears to be not updated anymore, too (e.g., the top 40 lists don't work, the copyright says 1991, etc.).

I have an idea for how to make such things work. Maybe I'll implement it. Hmm...