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

Posted by timothy on Monday April 19, 2004 @03:46PM 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."

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The Catch by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-19 15:56 · Score: 5, Informative

The songs that TruSonic/GarageBand have are only the ones that were included in TruSonic's broadcasting program. If you didn't opt-in, your songs are gone (or at least, TruSonic just doesn't have them). Also, it was already known a while ago that TruSonic still had these songs, it's just that now the authors are able to access them again.
Re:GarageBand? Apple (tm)? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-19 16:30 · Score: 5, Informative

Apple licensed the name from Garageband.com. No lawsuit. Don't worry.