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MP3.com Removes "High-Bandwidth" Streams

Posted by Hemos on from the what's-the-future dept.

mshiltonj writes "I noticed today that mp3.com no longer offers high-bandwidth streams for its genres or stations, although it looks like artists' playlists and individual songs are available in high bandwidth. mp3.com has lots and lots of free music that was free and legal to listen to online, and a good number of my "music bookmarks" were on mp3.com. I'll live (I've still got my favorite stream), but I don't think it's a good sign. Is streaming music doomed to die, not because of RIAA litigation, but because of expensive bandwidth costs?" I don't think bandwidth will be the determining cost - that's a price that has been falling and will continue to fall. But are things like iTunes store the future, or is it streaming?

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  1. Summary: by swordboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Company cuts cost in down economy.

    Wow!

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  2. Summary of your Summary: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Bankrupt

  3. Is broadband doomed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    P2P under attack...high bandwidth streams no longer available...Windows Product Activation...everyone would be back on 56k modems if it wasn't for pr0n!

  4. Why Slashdot it again??? by jkrise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's mp3.com removing High-bandwidth streams, and now we go and slashdot it to oblivion! What next? We get 128kBps AAC from mp3.com??

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  5. uh... by MacJedi · · Score: 3, Funny
    The website is called MP3 DOT COM! If they don't stream mp3s, then who will?!!

    /joeyo

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  6. Not anymore... by JF · · Score: 2, Funny

    > I've still got my favorite stream

    Great idea, post a link to a 150-listener station on /.

    Now I'll have to listen to crappy music until it goes off the front page and I can get the stream back! ;)

  7. Re:And you call yourselves nerds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Somewhere, I can hear the sound of an RIAA member's servers crying for mommy.

    (Yes, RIAA member. mp3.com==vivendi universal==RIAA member).