VitaminD wrote:precisely.GeckoYamori wrote:I also remember the "golden age" of mp3.com. All of these services inevitably seem to go through the same cycle. Eventually in some misguided pursuit of growth they seem more interested in catering to the traditional record labels, often at the expense of marginalizing the smaller indepenant one who originally came to define the site. And then their brand just slip into total irrelevance as their original userbase abandons them for greener pastures, and the kind of mainstream audience who listens to the artists from the big labels already have other outlets for that kind of consumption, so their service is now just pointless and superfluous.VitaminD wrote:I miss MP3.com in the late 90s. They had charts for various genres and thus sections for different genres. New songs could be found in their own list. Could create CDs for a % of sale price. Payola program for number of listens (I made almost 11 bucks -- which I subsequently never received by not cashing out apparently). And a featured songs list if you wanted to pay for listing.
One could also design their page to a degree.. it was neat.
I suspect most of that went into bandcamp.com when mp3c died.
too bad too.. I would really like to see a late 90s/early 2000s site like mp3c come around. The top40 charts were fun, and I found a lot of music I probably wouldn't have normally went for otherwise through the new songs list and just randomly clicking through genre categories.
There's no chance of any of those sites springing up again. I remember them all. Unfortunately napster made making the time/attention investment in unknown artists unfathomable to most consumers, and it was downhill from there. In general, people don't look for what they don't know, if they have options. Sad state of affairs. f**k piracy.
