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MTV Launches Music Video Site
An anonymous reader writes "MTV Music has just launched a website where they offer over 16,000 music videos — like YouTube, but with fewer notices and DMCA takedowns. They've also set up development tools for third parties to incorporate the content into their own creations. Users creating accounts at the site face other challenges, however, such as the six separate agreements and privacy statements that must be accepted via a single checkbox. Thankfully, at the time of writing the MTV Music website was making this process easier on its Firefox 3 visitors by automatically checking the accept box whenever any agreement is viewed."
I was thinking this was going to be really cool. If it was of a higher resolution than youtube, and all neatly organized it would be awesome. However It gets major negative points from me, as on the three video files I tried all i got was a "Copyrights prevent us from playing this file outside the U.S." Back to youtube for me.
Here's what a quick look on the site says:
Top Rated:
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Never Gonna Give You Up
By Rick Astley
ffs, /.
A good number of record companies have started releasing videos on Youtube. I can't cite this information because it's blocked at work, however they have many accounts created specifically by Universal Records, paramount, etc.
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
allmusic.com has a huge selection of videos, im guessing legally, as they are a huge site thats been around forever.
i haven't had it happen where I looked for a video and not found it there.
i bet they got more selection now than mtv will in 2 yrs.
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.
the fuck is a band like Morbid Angel stuffed in a "Rock" category? And no Burzum or Bathory videos? This suxs.
The new encoding isn't junk. It's MP4. Try changing the extension.
The game.
The specific "music videos" search engine link on allmusic.com is a bit screwy. If you click "Music Videos", use "Madonna" as a search term, and then click on the provided "Madonna" artist link, allmusic.com only calls up two videos, "Die Another Day", and "Human Nature".
OTH, if you don't click the videos link, and you just do a general artist search, the provided "Madonna" link calls up thirty Madonna videos rather than two (and eighteen Britney videos rather than three).
It's me. I have a talent for going straight to the one link on a site or the one function on a program that that doesn't work properly. :)
Eric Baird
I heard they had to form a committee to research what exactly music videos are and whether they are relevant to the company's core business.
It's actually worse than that. They paid a consultant $2 million so that he could, after months of research, tell them that their core business should be music television.
And no, I am not joking. I was in the meeting, trying not to piss myself laughing.
When faced with a problem, many web developers say "I know, I'll use JavaScript!".
Now they have two problems.