MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

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MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 22, 2003 @03:01AM from the bit-bucket-in-the-sky dept.

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."

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There ARE other "hippie" options for music by Amsterdam+Vallon · 2003-11-22 03:12 · Score: 5, Informative

I'm a self-proclaimed hippie as well, people. What self-respecting young man ISN'T in favor of independence and free love these days?

Anyway, what I really wanted to scribe here is that iRATE 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.

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Hmmm.... by mrscorpio · 2003-11-22 03:14 · Score: 3, Informative

Also see here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/34143.html

Chris
Not true by tritone · 2003-11-22 03:23 · Score: 4, Informative

According to The Register, the contents of MP3.com will be hosted at archive.org
1. Re:Not true by squiggleslash · 2003-11-22 03:35 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  No, it is true (unless something changes.) Archive.org have offered to host the archive. Vivendi Universal hasn't accepted the offer.
  
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Yes, ampfea.org does it right. by Andy_R · 2003-11-22 03:36 · Score: 5, Informative

Run by geeky music makers for the benefit of the music community, ampfea.org is free (although donations of cash or bandwidth are solicited). There are spam-free mailing lists for musicians (and a new-music for download annoucement only list for the non-musicians) there as well as a stack of leigitmate freely shared MP3s, and audio samples for making your own music. Baset of all, it's a really nice community, we have real-world meet-ups occasionally.

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... or IUMA by keli · 2003-11-22 04:05 · Score: 3, Informative

The Internet Underground Music Archive 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... by saddino · 2003-11-22 04:18 · Score: 3, Informative

Yes, someone has. It's called ZeBOX. Donations accepted from artists in exchange for hosting mp3s and videos. However, here is no profit sharing because there is no fee to download.
iRATE won't help by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-22 04:56 · Score: 3, Informative

iRATE does not host any music; it downloads them from other sites. One of them is mp3.com $ 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