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MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem

Posted by kdawson on from the do-what-i-meem dept.

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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  1. Myspace is fast losing relevance by mcrbids · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The combination of crappy layouts, shoddy design, counter-intuitive interface, and juvenile audience are all working together to render Myspace irrelevant. I just checked my myspace page, apparently for the first time since May of this year.

    Nothing's changed...

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    1. Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance by DreamsAreOkToo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Slashdot should employ the use of a new filter. If you are posting anonymously, your post should be rejected if it contains any racial slurs or other obvious flaming.

    2. Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance by sznupi · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Accidentally banning "13375p3ak" is a plus in my book.

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    3. Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance by obarthelemy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The horrible thing is that, like IM and file formats, there's a strong network effect. There's a strong incentive for everyone to use the same site, pretty much regardless of specs, functionnality, reliability...

      Hopefully someone will come up with some kind of Social Web standard and filters, that will let us import/export content and contacts between sites, maybe set up front-ends on several sites but point them back to our own site...

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    4. Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance by rolfwind · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Sounds like the geocities of this decade.

  2. Re:who streams music? by Beelzebud · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You'd be surprised. I know a few people that use Pandora constantly, even though they have their own large mp3 collections. A couple of others I know that uses streaming music do it because they're not computer literate enough to rip their cd's to mp3 and set everything up properly.

  3. This Sucks by Conchobair · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work behind a firewall and I can't install or upload music files. This was my wonderful go to on a shitty day of work, that I could listen to anything from Nirvana to Ennio Morricone, from NWA to Neil Young.. for the love of god someone, do you have something that is just as good?

  4. Leave Pandora Alone! by cowtamer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really. Does the name not mean anything??? :)

    1. Re:Leave Pandora Alone! by zullnero · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Or else they are, and just don't care about the reference enough to bother replying. Doesn't seem like the kinda place for heated discussions about Greek myth.

  5. Yet another free business going bust by AcidPenguin9873 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Business charges $0 for its product, runs out of cash due to lack of viable revenue. Details at 11.

    Unless you're Google and can sell tons of ads, "free" is not going to survive.

    1. Re:Yet another free business going bust by drsquare · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Maybe $200 a month isn't a lot when you're actually paying for content. You know, like licencing all that music. Internet ad revenue is pitiful.

  6. Re:who streams music? by NoPantsJim · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hate listening to the radio, so for awhile I tended to miss out on most new stuff. A couple of times, my absolute favorite bands released a cd without me even knowing because I wasn't paying attention.

    Pandora fixed everything I hate about normal radio. Now I enter in all my stuff, and still get recommendations on new music. If I don't like a new song, I just skip it. Pandora has introduced me to many new bands which I love.

    And yes, I have a massive cd collection, all ripped to mp3 and carried on my iPhone, so streaming does make sense for people with a large collection.

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  7. Re:who streams music? by PhantomHarlock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hipster fight!

  8. Sweet by HisOmniscience · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This site was great for trying out artists after a Pandora suggestion. Guess I'll have to go back to torrents for trying out new artists.

    1. Re:Sweet by courtarro · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

  9. Too late for for me to be upset.. by dbcad7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had already dropped imeem in favor of Slacker.

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  10. Ever heard of the "lameness filter"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They've tried. It's called the lameness filter. Basically, it ends up banning people from posting example code while the trolls have their 100% alphanumeric ASCII art of goatse.

    So no, the filtering doesn't work very well.

  11. isn't that a bit sketchy? by Trepidity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Clearly MySpace+Imeem doesn't form a monopoly in the area, so I can see why there'd be no reason to block the purchase. But don't companies that purchase their competitors have to at least pretend to be doing it for some reason other than simply to shut down and thereby get rid of a competitor? If the sole reason for buying a competitor is to get rid of them, isn't that roughly equivalent to paying them to leave a particular market, which would be illegal?

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  12. Re:who streams music? by NoPantsJim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure I understand, what made you decide to turn this thread into some absurd superiority battle over who has more music? My initial post was trying to explain to someone else why streaming still makes sense in this day and age, and you turned it into a dick measuring contest. Go troll someone else.

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  13. Re:who streams music? by tagno25 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  14. Re:who streams music? by Rennt · · Score: 2, Informative

    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

  15. Re:who streams music? by dingen · · Score: 3, Funny

    For someone who has both Jesus and John Lennon in his signature, you sure seem cynical.

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