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MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem
Conchobair was one of several users letting us know that Myspace has snapped up free music streaming site imeem. Visitors to the imeem site are being sent to a MySpace redirect page, which states that they are "working to migrate your imeem playlist to MySpace Music." Currently there is no way to access imeem music or playlists or to make use of imeem apps on Android or iPhone. The AP reports that the deal was done for less than $1M — not bad for 16M subscribers — noting that the music startup was running out of cash. PC Mag notes: "Last week it was announced that Apple had purchased Lala, and now MySpace snaps up imeem. Are Pandora and Rhapsody next?"
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There are a ton of sites that are much better than imeem, but the one i've really started to like is grooveshark.com. lots of people like last.fm or spotify, but grooveshark lets me listen to any song ondemand, without downloading an external app, which is a must for listening to music at work.
I had already dropped imeem in favor of Slacker.
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Try 80GB of "legal" music. In ~80GB (could be larger by now) I have ~4 months of never hearing the same song twice, unless you use "random" and then you hear the same song multiple times in a day.
Of course I am nowhere near "normal", I have a 1TB (SI) drive that is 91% full of ONLY anime in Japanese with English subtitles. I am also building a 6TB RAID6 network storage server.
You seem to have the wrong idea about how these services work. It's not YOUR music stored in the cloud. Its just a internet radio station.
Maybe this revision to the original statement will illustrate my point. "In this day and age, who the hell would even need/want to stream video? I'm glad I have all of my video on my hard drive." - It's non-nonsensical. It does not make sense.
As an Imeem user you have not "lost" anything except access to a cool service. Shit happens, but not to worry - there are other suppliers
I'll keep the suggestions flowing: I love last.fm for its ability to help me find (and listen to) new music. It even offers a dedicated client that doesn't require an open browser window all day.