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MP3.com Archive Not Lost (1.7 Million Songs Saved)

Posted by timothy on from the greatly-exaggerated dept.

macdaddypunk writes "We all remember last December's grim news: MP3.com closed its doors, warning thousands of musicians that 'all your content will be deleted from our servers.' However, as the Wall Street Journal reports today, most of the original MP3.com archive was never deleted! Two companies, GarageBand and Trusonic, claiming to have a legitimate copy of the archive, are now enabling former MP3.com artists to visit www.MP3isBack.com and recover their MP3.com music, instantly re-generating their artist pages with just a few clicks. Trusonic, itself a Vivendi spin-out, focuses on licensing music to retailers for in-store airplay. GarageBand, like a HOTorNOT for music, offers free mp3 downloads and claims to host the definitive charts of independent music."

16 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. So what your saying is... by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that all your content is not belong to /dev/null? Sweet.

    1. Re:So what your saying is... by va3atc · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...that all your content is not belong to /dev/null? Sweet.

      Though I could swear some music these days come from /dev/urandom

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    2. Re:So what your saying is... by The+Munger · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, yes. But you have to pass it through a couple of filters, auto-pitch-tune it and slap a barely dressed teenager into a film clip.

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    3. Re:So what your saying is... by EvilNTUser · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Though I could swear some music these days come from /dev/urandom"

      Incorrect. /dev/urandom would provide too much variety.

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  2. More evidence..... by bizpile · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just goes to support theory that once you put something on the internet, it exists forever.

  3. Send in the RIAA lawyers in... by Cyno01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    3...2...

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  4. Bravo by LFS.Morpheus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to congratulate the author of this snippet on their ability to work in a link to HOT or NOT.

    HOT or NOT on slashdot. I never thought I'd see the day...

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  5. Re:Hrmm... by MachDelta · · Score: 4, Funny
    Perhaps I should RTFA...
    ..but that wasn't really supposed to be funny
    Hm. You just pulled a "You must be new here" on yourself, and got both posts modded up.
    Impressive!
  6. Attention RIAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    MP3's and they aint yours.

    Suck it. Suck it hard.

  7. a true geek . . . by lavaface · · Score: 4, Funny

    would've linked to this

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  8. I'm so glad! by bennomatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because there were at least five or ten good songs in that archive!

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  9. anyone... by hiroshi912681 · · Score: 4, Funny

    anyone got a bittorrent?

  10. Well it was back by KalvinB · · Score: 4, Funny

    before Slashdot got to it.

    Ben

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  11. Re:You mean these bands didn't keep a local copy? by burns210 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Ok, so I don't keep everything I post to usenet"

    Google did! Or they bought a copy of someone who did. When do we see a Google Indy Music Search? ;)

  12. I can just see it now by darkonc · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm waiting for the MPAA and MP3.COM to sue these 'pirates' for making independant musicians' music available to themselves.

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  13. Re:Wouldn't any half-serious musicians... by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 3, Funny

    "high-quality"? "CD quality"? "half-serious musicians"?

    You do realize that the article is about MP3.com, right?

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