Comments on: Welcome to MySpace Records

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:53:31 +0000

Well bands will then realise how little the will make through downloads without proper promotion and a good infrastructure behind them, the indies will die leaving the mainstream to even more pop crap with big bucks, no promtion for great new bands, then most bands will jack it in when they realise they have made about &1000 in a year – honestly this bad for music, trust me, it only serves the “indipendent musos, who will never make a living from music and treat it like a hobbie without realising

By: Bizy

Bizy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:34:30 +0000

Rumours say that AlloPass (http://www.en.allopass.com) may become their micropayment solution provider. I would have thought that Snocap would have provided an integrated solution themselves?!

By: Lee Jordan

Lee Jordan — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:27:39 +0000

The CD is king, I don't want digital downloads, even though I have several DAP players and MP3 is usually how I listen to music. I simply do not wish to pay for thin air which is then restricted to a few listening environments. It's as simple as that and no amount of cool new service will woo me in.

I'm so saddened that in this age of digital music the Audio DVD was never given the chance to flourish.

By: Pete Nicely

Pete Nicely — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:24:51 +0000

Don't be so quick to generalize "MySpace Friends." I enjoy being plugged into Wilco, Dylan and the Submarines. Gives every band a fan club and lowers the nerd barrier to being in a fan club.

Say it loud and proud: Goodbye, labels. Goodbye, RIAA.

More on my blog about the major media missing the glory of this story.

By: annie

annie — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:32:35 +0000

"DRM will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. MP3s are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - DRM or MySpace. iTunes is all right, but it's disciples are thick and ordinary. "

On a more serious note… MySpace is such complete trash that only the lowest common denominator or the under 25s will bother using, visiting or buying from it.

Being a "friend" on MySpace does not make you a friend, it makes you a groupie, a hanger-on, a sycophant if you like.

By: bruce

bruce — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:14:08 +0000

Thanks for the link to mytuneslive.com!

I don't know why someone has not thought of this idea earlier. I can upload my own mp3 files, and listen to it at work or anywhere, putit on myspace or my blog! Its brilliant! ANd no DRM crap

Why do the record companies always make things hard for us consumers?!?!

By: loggin

loggin — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:42:43 +0000

Woo-hoo music without drm I’m in just bcos!, lol, DRM has been the one reason why I haven’t yet purchased a track online as I play on multiple devices (pc,laptop,phone and car) and the workaround of buring the track to cd then back as unprotected mp3 is wasteful and just adds to the already overflowing landfills. This alone should be good enough reason to outlaw DRM.

By: david hyman

david hyman — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:42:10 +0000

i think it's a brilliant move. mp3 with no drm is the only choice for an itunes competitor. it plays on the ipod! who else has the clout to push the labels into opening up more content for mp3? itunes will sell a lot of the hit singles on a new album but what about the other tracks? why haven't they opened these up yet to emusic and other non-drm providers? anything they make on this is gravy. you know why? fear. and the guys who can push it open are myspace.

i'm very impressed with this move. clearly some smart people at the helm at fox.

-david hyman

By: BC

BC — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:23:09 +0000

This moves the bar. There are a lot of things moving the bar these days in favor of the independent musicians out there. Each time the bar moves, there's another couple of hundred bands out there with real talent that finds that they can hold off on the "record deal" a bit longer.

Ultimately, the major labels are going to have to pay bigger dollars for artist acquisition, and they will have a shrinking market base.

By: jsaltz

jsaltz — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:30:44 +0000

This could be an abomination. Or not. Who knows?

By: marie

marie — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:41:34 +0000

This is a great idea. Mytuneslive.com wanted to do this, but never got the funding i dont think. Mytuneslive is like myspace, excfept you can upload whateve mp3 files you want.

By: award tour

award tour — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:30:31 +0000

myspace + snocap…

News coming from almost every blog that myspace will soon be bands the ability to sell their music on their myspace page. The music can be previewed, purchased, and downloaded through a flash app that gets added to your myspace.

The app was develop…

By: SG

SG — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:06:43 +0000

DRM is not a threat, it is a reality. Anybody who has still not gotten it is living in the Halo which has ended a few years ago.
Nothing is for free. Linux (one wishes), music on MP3, etc… Nothing. If people are downloading such things and getting away then they need to thank their lucky angels. But don’t count on them.
Let’s face the facts here. If we force the economy to give out things for free then we will hurt ourselves in the long run (perhaps not long enough now). So let’s just get the facts straight. People need to be paid to generate content and business need to be paid for delivering them

By: Jon Bischke

Jon Bischke — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:59:28 +0000

One more nail in the coffin that is being built for this crazy thing we call DRM. My gosh, the landscape for music is changing quickly! (e.g., the Universal announcement, this, etc.)

By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:10:52 +0000

"This isn’t a challenger to iTunes because the songs will be unrestricted MP3s, therefore leaving out the DRM-obsessed major labels."

Well, DeWolfe says that it will challenge iTunes - yes, he's hyping it up, but the aim is to add copy-protected songs from major labels in the near future (Snocap's technology is capable of that).

Anyway, thanks for the linky love - appreciated. :)

By: qasim

qasim — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:39:09 +0000

I wonder if by then they’ll actually have a site that is stable and doesn’t crash on its users when doing routine tasks, like adding friends to their profile, like now… Surely a lot of people serious about selling their tunes online, including indie artists, are doubtful of the ability for myspace to become an organised and trustworthy (from a platform stability standpoint)place for people to shop for tunes…