Com2Kid's Journal: Why I really miss MP3.com

It wasn't because of the pirated music storage, hell, when MP3.com was in business I didn't own a single pirated mp3, and all of your shmucks who just used the site to store pirated copies of your RIAA approved craped out wanna be music should be ashamed of yourselves.

I miss the site because it was a central meeting place for many different types independent music.

You know how hard it is to find Midieval Music now? (about the only genre I could stand for years and years). Insanely hard, rare as heck, mp3.com represented a single place to get all you could ever need. Entire companies were founded because mp3.com provided a place to for customers to get information about music, which they could then purchase from vendors. (yes yes yes mp3.com was SUPPOSED to be the vendor, but you see the CDs you purchased from the site where just burned copies of the 128kbit streams that were available for download This was momentously stupid, mp3.com should have kept the original .wav files of all submitted songs around just for the sole purpose of making CDs!)

Any ways, mp3.com recognized nearly EVERY single possible genre of music. When I first came to the site the Medieval music section was bare with very few submissions (I do believe I went through the whole of them in a night or two), but over the years it prospered and grew, as more and more bands found out that they indeed did have a place to exist, at mp3.com.

Then, thumbing his nose at this huge community founded around all these different musical genres, the president of the site went and offered users the ability to upload their RIAA crap to the site.

Because, apparently, you know, independent music isn't REAL music, oh noooo, you just HAD to have RIAA crud illegally flooding the site.

Freaking genius idea there arse hole. Thanks for spoiling something good cuz you didn't have faith in your own artists. Fucktard.

Edit: And for something a bit more recent;

Lomov really kicks ass. :) Weird stuff.

I miss it, too.

[Frodo Crockett]

It was also a great place to find electronic music of all types. I still have a folder full of stuff from MP3.com, but I haven't been able to find any of the artists since MP3.com shut down.

Very well put

[iminplaya]

Are their any big music sites that refuse RIAA material out there at all? Any chance of them becoming what you're looking for? Any chance of any of them becoming big enough to aquire a well rounded library? One stop shopping is so nice, but if it's not possible to do it the normal way on a single site, can a search engine dig up what you need and put it on a single page for you? Eventually could the listed sites coalesce into a single site? Only to be sold, and you'd have to start over again?

Re:Very well put

[Com2Kid]

There are many many attempts to remake mp3.com, not a single one has the genres, nor the community, that I am looking for.

mp3.com was not easy to find stuff on (finding a single good artist could mean four or five hours of searching through genre listings, and even then you had to do it every few months as new artists could appear at any time), but at least it was there.

Re:Very well put

[iminplaya]

Didn't mp3.com form up kind of sponteneously? Trying to create one on purpose would probably be doomed, and anything as successful as mp3.com was will probably always get bought out, and if that fails, somebody trying to compete will try to have it shut down. Man, we really need true P2P...with search bots. This could aid a "distributed" mp3.com like service. Let's just make sure to filter out anything coming from the IP cartels.

Re:Very well put

[Com2Kid]

MP3 had a very solid management hierarchy behind it, /. seems to particularly love the guy who founded it (I cannot recall his name right now).

That and having the domain name "mp3.com" kind of helps. (how I found it, I was wondering what these MP3 things were so. . . . :) )

Re:Very well put

[iminplaya]

/. seems to particularly love the guy who founded it (I cannot recall his name right now).

That's ok. We don't use names around here anymore. You can just call him "that mp3.com guy". :-)