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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."

3 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Re:More evidence..... by osewa77 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Yes, but what about the original privacy policy, which was the reason why they said they could not pass the musicians' information to CNET?
    "We were told we could not buy the artists' music files and personal information because of the Vivendi privacy policy,"
    Do I some deception that needs to be exposed and rightly concemned?
  2. PureVolume by jeeryg_flashaccess · · Score: 5, Interesting

    PureVolume.com is a much better alternative to garageband and mp3.com. What I like most is how simple and clean each bands interface is. Check it out! http://www.purevolume.com

    Also, many of the artists on purevolume have, or had started with mp3.com.

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  3. Re:A consideration. by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The truth is 90% of the people can't tell 256k mp3 from the original cd track.

    http://wso.williams.edu/~jmaster/shnmp3/
    http:/ /www.geocities.com/altbinariessoundsmusiccla ssical/mp3test.html

    Google turns up plenty of listening tests. What good does SHN do through a $2 sound card DAC and 2 inch pc speakers?

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