CNet to Launch Indie Music Service

MacRumors · Nov 26, 2003, 03:24 PM

CNet announced that they would be launching a free service for independent musicians online.

The news comes in the wake of CNet's acquisition of MP3.com.

While the current MP3.com content will be cleared, CNet plans on relaunching a similar service next year with free storage space, uploads and downloads for artists. The new service is said to be modeled under their popular Downloads.com service, while MP3.com will be relaunched as a information service for digital music.

Wonder Boy · Nov 26, 2003, 03:27 PM

sounds cool.

whfsdude · Nov 26, 2003, 03:50 PM

Sounds real cool

No if they only allow high quality downloads :-/

LegionCSUF · Nov 26, 2003, 03:59 PM

This is what people hoped would happen when it was announced MP3.com would be scrapped.

This could be a good thing. MP3.com had gotten to the point of near unusability. Browsing by genres had gotten almost pointless, as overly ambitious songwriters would label a song "experimental" if they used a 7th chord in it, or "metal" if they used a distorted electric guitar, etc.

I like the idea of a site that anyone can make music and post it to. At the same time, I want browsing features that implement some quality control. Perhaps based on a user rating scale or something.

And no more "we list popular artists in our database, and just show pictures of them, or stream (but no downloady!) one song!" crap. I go to MP3.com's page now and I see Linkin Park. And a gigantic ad for Rolling Stone, news on David Bowie, and a lot of other stuff that clearly misses the whole point of the website. CNet hopefully will learn from these mistakes and will not try to be an "all in one music portal".

beerguy · Nov 26, 2003, 04:04 PM

I guess this explains why all of CNET's recent player reviews have been trashing the iPod.

sXe · Nov 26, 2003, 04:50 PM

this is good. my friends and i have been worry about this for days on end now, and we have been trying to find alternative sources to use. but this is good news. now we can just wait a bit and then use the C|Net service, even thought it'll probably suck just as bad.

Spades · Nov 26, 2003, 05:28 PM

No big surprise here. CNet plans on starting a service. Therefore, they buy out the competition, dump its content, then launch their own service and junk the old domain name. At least this time, the domain name is too valuable to junk. So they're just going to point it to mostly useless information.

magicmusic · Nov 26, 2003, 05:41 PM

I know that the idea looks like computershopper. There is a guy insite macbitter who promotes macs.

Masao[RY] · Nov 26, 2003, 05:45 PM

"However, a company representative said the revamped site would not compete with music download services such as Napster. Instead, the company plans to turn MP3.com into a source of information for digital music."
-Earlier Announcement (Cnet.com, November 14, 2003)

So I'm guessing from that statement they aren't going to compete against iTunes either, which in my opinion is good. Lets hope they just revamp the site and still allow artists to post their music online like they could in the past. I used to love the site, but I started getting tired of the lack of new content and in the past few weeks I've completely ignored it :-/

jcraig · Nov 26, 2003, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sXe
this is good. my friends and i have been worry about this for days on end now, and we have been trying to find alternative sources to use. but this is good news. now we can just wait a bit and then use the C|Net service, even thought it'll probably suck just as bad.

Ever check out IUMA? This is a good source for unsigned indie bands of all genres. Better than mp3.com ever was IMO.

billyboy · Nov 26, 2003, 06:40 PM

iTunes is supposed to be getting good Indie bands on board. How much does it cost to get a track in the right format for uploading to iTunes?

I'm just wondering, what is the advantage for an Indie band sending a good track to CNet for free distributuion rather than getting a good track on iTunes for sale?

TomSmithMacEd · Nov 26, 2003, 07:20 PM

I think that would be an awsome service. I am in a bunch of different bands that people wouldn't call mainstream. If we could get our music out there. MMM good stuff.

Richter · Nov 26, 2003, 08:32 PM

http://www.garageband.com

ITR 81 · Nov 26, 2003, 10:07 PM

It would piss me off is someone just bought out my service and deleted my stuff without giving me option of storing it so I could put it back on.

Sounds like iTunes Indi band program will be better because atleast then when you sell a song you get money for it. I hope they release that app for it so folks can turn their music in easier. I know they are suppose to be offering it to all small labels.

maka · Nov 27, 2003, 04:33 AM

Listing a program in Download.com used to be free but it's not anymore, so will it be really free to list mp3s in their new service? or will they allow if for a limited time and then ask for money?

I don't really trust them...

magicmusic · 03:41 AM

Thank you for submitting your email. (...classified)

SeaFox · Nov 27, 2003, 12:18 PM

Why is c|net throwing out all that mp3.com content?

Their new service is for indie bands, mp3.com was for indie bands. Obviously c|net wants to launch their music store with as much music as possible. So why not keep all the mp3.com bands and tracks and add their own stuff?

There are some of us who like some of those groups hosted on mp3.com.

maka · Nov 27, 2003, 01:06 PM

Better this than keeping all the content... Some bands won't want CNet to get their personal information

Maybe they should ask first, to see if some want to stay, but it's quite a hassle, so this way no personal infomation is sold to CNet (which I'm glad for)

kono · Nov 27, 2003, 10:07 PM

I hope CNET understands how good the group of people they have inheritated from MP3.com IS. So far they have not done that great a job in communicating. I mean, most of the people at MP3.com are getting their information from sites like this. Thants not good. I am not sure why they would buy MP3.com if it not FOR the people. The management of MP3.com has a history of getting the most out of it's people by treating them right. Let's just hope that CNET does the same.

ddbean · Nov 30, 2003, 01:07 PM

As someone who controls a band's content on MP3, I'm very interested in this topic. Today I received the following email. Does anyone know about AudioStreet.net? I'm a little concerned because none of their links work except the one to collect people's email, and they are planning on using MScrap .NET passport services.

QUOTE:
As you know, Mp3.com will be shutting down their service
as of December 2nd 2003. If you are one of the many bands that depends
on them for music hosting, this will most likely affect the way you get
your music out to the masses on the web.

I am contacting you to inform you of a new service that will serve as a
DIRECT REPLACEMENT of Mp3.com. This new service is aimed to offer you,
the original users of mp3.com, the same exact features and
functionality you have become accustomed to. This will include free audio hosting,
platinum membership plans, artist charts, artist promotion, mp3
downloads, streaming music, and much more. We also have new features planned
including a classifieds section, a pay-per-download service to sell your
music, and a artist storefront to sell your merchandise.

This new service is currently in the final stages of testing and will
be launched in the first quarter of 2004. It is being built with the
latest Microsoft .Net technology to insure that the new site is FAST &
Secure.

We are urging anyone that would like to be notified of the official
launch to head on over to http://www.audiostreet.net and signup to receive
our preview.

We look forward to serving your Audio Hostings and Artist Needs.

- AudioStreet.net

/QUOTE

SeaFox · Dec 1, 2003, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ddbean
As someone who controls a band's content on MP3, I'm very interested in this topic. Today I received the following email. Does anyone know about AudioStreet.net? I'm a little concerned because none of their links work except the one to collect people's email, and they are planning on using MScrap .NET passport services.

I heard somewhere that some group wants to save the music content from mp3.com, but I don't know if this is them.

I keep meaning to go dig into the topic more. But I can't remember where I originally heard it. Part of me thiks it was on MacCentral, but then I also think it might have been a blurb on CNN, but I've also been on Slashdot some lately.

SeaFox · Dec 1, 2003, 02:50 AM

Okay, I found something, sort of.

http://www.geeknik.net/?journal,261

Not my origial source, but it came up on Google.

I seemed to remember it being someone who was just going to host the content, not necessarily start a new music service, that's why the whole audiostreet.net thing didn't sound like what I'd heard.

Audiostreet might be another interest trying to sign up all mp3.com's old artists before they make other plans to host their own music elsewhere, or donate it to Archive. I don't mean "donate". Well maybe I do. I don't have any information about how the music was to be accessable if hosted by Archive so the whole direction the individual was going in my his offer is beyond me.

Nov 26, 2003, 03:24 PM	#1
MacRumors macrumors bot Join Date: Apr 2001	CNet to Launch Indie Music Service CNet announced that they would be launching a free service for independent musicians online. The news comes in the wake of CNet's acquisition of MP3.com. While the current MP3.com content will be cleared, CNet plans on relaunching a similar service next year with free storage space, uploads and downloads for artists. The new service is said to be modeled under their popular Downloads.com service, while MP3.com will be relaunched as a information service for digital music.

Nov 26, 2003, 03:27 PM	#2
Wonder Boy macrumors 6502a Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: South Windsor, CT	sounds cool. __________________ girls are pretty.

Nov 26, 2003, 03:50 PM	#3
whfsdude macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Washington DC USA	Sounds real cool No if they only allow high quality downloads :-/ __________________ My Sites:DigitalRunDown<>HappyLittleThings<>Woot Industries

Nov 26, 2003, 04:04 PM	#5
beerguy macrumors regular Join Date: Aug 2003	I guess this explains why all of CNET's recent player reviews have been trashing the iPod. __________________ -- This signature left intentionally blank.

Nov 26, 2003, 05:45 PM	#9
Masao[RY] macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2003	re: Spades "However, a company representative said the revamped site would not compete with music download services such as Napster. Instead, the company plans to turn MP3.com into a source of information for digital music." -Earlier Announcement (Cnet.com, November 14, 2003) So I'm guessing from that statement they aren't going to compete against iTunes either, which in my opinion is good. Lets hope they just revamp the site and still allow artists to post their music online like they could in the past. I used to love the site, but I started getting tired of the lack of new content and in the past few weeks I've completely ignored it :-/

Nov 26, 2003, 03:59 PM	#4
LegionCSUF macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Fresno, CA	This is what people hoped would happen when it was announced MP3.com would be scrapped. This could be a good thing. MP3.com had gotten to the point of near unusability. Browsing by genres had gotten almost pointless, as overly ambitious songwriters would label a song "experimental" if they used a 7th chord in it, or "metal" if they used a distorted electric guitar, etc. I like the idea of a site that anyone can make music and post it to. At the same time, I want browsing features that implement some quality control. Perhaps based on a user rating scale or something. And no more "we list popular artists in our database, and just show pictures of them, or stream (but no downloady!) one song!" crap. I go to MP3.com's page now and I see Linkin Park. And a gigantic ad for Rolling Stone, news on David Bowie, and a lot of other stuff that clearly misses the whole point of the website. CNet hopefully will learn from these mistakes and will not try to be an "all in one music portal".

Nov 26, 2003, 04:50 PM	#6
sXe macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2003	this is good. my friends and i have been worry about this for days on end now, and we have been trying to find alternative sources to use. but this is good news. now we can just wait a bit and then use the C\|Net service, even thought it'll probably suck just as bad.

Nov 26, 2003, 05:28 PM	#7
Spades macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2003	No big surprise here. CNet plans on starting a service. Therefore, they buy out the competition, dump its content, then launch their own service and junk the old domain name. At least this time, the domain name is too valuable to junk. So they're just going to point it to mostly useless information.

Nov 26, 2003, 05:41 PM	#8
magicmusic macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2003	I know that the idea looks like computershopper. There is a guy insite macbitter who promotes macs.

Nov 26, 2003, 06:40 PM	#11
billyboy macrumors 65816 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In my head	iTunes is supposed to be getting good Indie bands on board. How much does it cost to get a track in the right format for uploading to iTunes? I'm just wondering, what is the advantage for an Indie band sending a good track to CNet for free distributuion rather than getting a good track on iTunes for sale?

Nov 26, 2003, 07:20 PM	#12
TomSmithMacEd macrumors 6502 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Fargo, ND	I think that would be an awsome service. I am in a bunch of different bands that people wouldn't call mainstream. If we could get our music out there. MMM good stuff. __________________ Erik Myxter Erik.Myxter@sendit.nodak.edu aim: thinlayorofpole http://www.xanga.com/erikmyxter Looking for a powerbook.

Nov 26, 2003, 08:32 PM	#13
Richter macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: FL	http://www.garageband.com

Nov 26, 2003, 10:07 PM	#14
ITR 81 macrumors 65816 Join Date: Oct 2003	It would piss me off is someone just bought out my service and deleted my stuff without giving me option of storing it so I could put it back on. Sounds like iTunes Indi band program will be better because atleast then when you sell a song you get money for it. I hope they release that app for it so folks can turn their music in easier. I know they are suppose to be offering it to all small labels.

Nov 27, 2003, 04:33 AM	#15
maka macrumors regular Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Madrid (Spain)	really free? Listing a program in Download.com used to be free but it's not anymore, so will it be really free to list mp3s in their new service? or will they allow if for a limited time and then ask for money? I don't really trust them... __________________ maka (http://george.makasoft.net) "The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken..." Tom Robbins "Jitterbug Perfume"

Nov 27, 2003, 04:38 AM	#16
magicmusic macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2003	Thank you for submitting your email. (...classified) Last edited by magicmusic : Nov 28, 2003 at 03:41 AM.

Nov 27, 2003, 12:18 PM	#17
SeaFox macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Somewhere Else	Throwing away content Why is c\|net throwing out all that mp3.com content? Their new service is for indie bands, mp3.com was for indie bands. Obviously c\|net wants to launch their music store with as much music as possible. So why not keep all the mp3.com bands and tracks and add their own stuff? There are some of us who like some of those groups hosted on mp3.com. __________________ "In the room was the last person on Earth. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door..."

Nov 27, 2003, 01:06 PM	#18
maka macrumors regular Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Madrid (Spain)	Better this than keeping all the content... Some bands won't want CNet to get their personal information Maybe they should ask first, to see if some want to stay, but it's quite a hassle, so this way no personal infomation is sold to CNet (which I'm glad for) __________________ maka (http://george.makasoft.net) "The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken..." Tom Robbins "Jitterbug Perfume"

Nov 27, 2003, 10:07 PM	#19
kono macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2003	i hope CNET knows what they have I hope CNET understands how good the group of people they have inheritated from MP3.com IS. So far they have not done that great a job in communicating. I mean, most of the people at MP3.com are getting their information from sites like this. Thants not good. I am not sure why they would buy MP3.com if it not FOR the people. The management of MP3.com has a history of getting the most out of it's people by treating them right. Let's just hope that CNET does the same.

Nov 30, 2003, 01:07 PM	#20
ddbean macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA	AudioStreet.net? As someone who controls a band's content on MP3, I'm very interested in this topic. Today I received the following email. Does anyone know about AudioStreet.net? I'm a little concerned because none of their links work except the one to collect people's email, and they are planning on using MScrap .NET passport services. QUOTE: As you know, Mp3.com will be shutting down their service as of December 2nd 2003. If you are one of the many bands that depends on them for music hosting, this will most likely affect the way you get your music out to the masses on the web. I am contacting you to inform you of a new service that will serve as a DIRECT REPLACEMENT of Mp3.com. This new service is aimed to offer you, the original users of mp3.com, the same exact features and functionality you have become accustomed to. This will include free audio hosting, platinum membership plans, artist charts, artist promotion, mp3 downloads, streaming music, and much more. We also have new features planned including a classifieds section, a pay-per-download service to sell your music, and a artist storefront to sell your merchandise. This new service is currently in the final stages of testing and will be launched in the first quarter of 2004. It is being built with the latest Microsoft .Net technology to insure that the new site is FAST & Secure. We are urging anyone that would like to be notified of the official launch to head on over to http://www.audiostreet.net and signup to receive our preview. We look forward to serving your Audio Hostings and Artist Needs. - AudioStreet.net /QUOTE __________________ ************************ [2008] Drobo 2TB [2006] 17" MBP [2005] 1st gen Mac Mini [2003] 1st gen Dual 2.0 Ghz G5

Dec 1, 2003, 02:50 AM	#22
SeaFox macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Somewhere Else	Okay, I found something, sort of. http://www.geeknik.net/?journal,261 Not my origial source, but it came up on Google. I seemed to remember it being someone who was just going to host the content, not necessarily start a new music service, that's why the whole audiostreet.net thing didn't sound like what I'd heard. Audiostreet might be another interest trying to sign up all mp3.com's old artists before they make other plans to host their own music elsewhere, or donate it to Archive. I don't mean "donate". Well maybe I do. I don't have any information about how the music was to be accessable if hosted by Archive so the whole direction the individual was going in my his offer is beyond me. __________________ "In the room was the last person on Earth. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door..."

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