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MP3.com Hastily Re-launches -- But Will It Fly?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the maybe-if-it-sucks-less dept.

macdaddypunk writes "Today CNET Networks unveiled the service that has taken them five months to build: the new (but not-necessarily-improved) MP3.com. The site offers free downloads and a place to upload music, but it lacks the extra features of the original MP3.com, and it has a meager selection of barely 2,000 artists. The best part: their charts are literally random (songs are sorted by number of downloads, currently zero for all songs!). Smells like a hasty launch, perhaps rushed by last week's news that the original MP3.com archive (1.7 million songs) has been resurrected by another free MP3 download site, GarageBand.com."

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  1. The short answer? by Gay+Nigger · · Score: -1, Troll

    No. Because MP3.com is for gay niggers.

  2. It might fly for awhile. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But don't expect open source music to compete with RIAA-backed professional made music. If these guys were any good, they'd be getting sponsored too.

  3. easy hit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yay, another site that lets me play my music to people across the world in a crappy compressed format.

    man, i thought we would have a real digital audio revolution. where's all the 5.1 releases of commercial music instead of the degraded and sometimes not even stereo imitations we are being forced to pay almost as much as CD's for?

    - sweet jesus

  4. Re:Can't fly, all artst material is at garageband by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    and it sucks.

    IUMA.org is better, has better artists, and overall refuses to host any songs from anyone that is signed with anyone.

  5. Re:Indies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is the internet, there is nothing "local" about this.

    And there is a LOT more to music than American stuff, and all over the world the same problem exists: musicians trying to get their stuff out there. Big record labels and struggling indies
    are a problem all over the world. And that was the great thing about mp3.com: it wasn't American-centric, it had TONS of music from all over the world. Everytime a story about mp3.com comes up people start posting links to other mp3 websites. The problem with most of these websites is that they're mainly American, or at best Anglophone. The cool thing about mp3.com was that it let me explore music from all over the world, not just the same rehashed Anglo styles.