MP3.com Artist Announcement

seraph · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:53 pm Post subject: MP3.com Artist Announcement

received by email:
MP3.com Artist Announcement

CNET Networks, Inc announced today that it has acquired certain
assets of MP3.com, Inc.

Please be advised that on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 12:00
PM PST the MP3.com website will no longer be accessible in
its current form.

Following a transition period, CNET Networks, Inc. plans to
introduce new and enhanced artist services. If you would
like to receive email updates on these new services and
notification when they are available, as well as an invitation
to their special artists-only preview, please sign up here.
http://click.mp3.com/c/n_015913294/t_d9OW/u_mp3.cnet.com/artist.html

Your personal information, music, images, related content or
other information will not be transferred to CNET Networks,
Inc. or any other third party.

MP3.com's content administration tools will remain available
until the site is redirected on December 2, 2003. Please
note, however, that promptly following the removal of the
MP3.com website, all content will be deleted from our servers
and all previously submitted tapes, CD-ROMs and other media
in our possession will be destroyed. We recommend that you
make alternative content hosting arrangements as soon as
practicable.

Please remember to update or remove all links and references
to the URL www.mp3.com. Additionally if you would like a
historical record of your page, we recommend that you capture
screen shots of the page as well as your artist statistics
pages since they will no longer be available once the site
goes offline.

MP3.com stopped collecting monthly fees for Gold and Platinum
Artist Service subscriptions as of November 3, 2003. For any
monthly Gold or Platinum Artist Service subscription fees
MP3.com received during the period beginning October 13, 2003
and ending November 2, 2003, MP3.com will be issuing a refund
that will be prorated to reflect a termination of the
subscription as of November 2, 2003. For any previously paid
annual Gold and Platinum subscription fees MP3.com has received
during 2003, MP3.com will be issuing a refund that will be
prorated to reflect a termination of the subscription as of
November 2, 2003. Any artists who subscribed to the Platinum
or Gold Artist Service after November 2, 2003 will receive a
full refund of any fees paid.

If you subscribe to any other MP3.com services, you will receive
separate email messages with specific information about refunds
and service availability.

Participants in the truSONIC Business Music Service program
will be receiving an email update about the process for their
continued participation in that program.

All content uploads will cease immediately. Approvals of
previously uploaded content will continue through Friday,
November 14, 2003.

CDs will be available for purchase through Monday, November
17, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST.

MP3.com will perform a final artist accounting and check
distribution on or around December 1, 2003. Any artist account
with a balance of at least $25.00 will qualify to receive a
payment in the final artist accounting (reduced from the usual
requirement of $50.00). Payment of CD royalties will be included
in the final artist accounting. If you anticipate a payment,
please verify and update your artist account and contact
information no later than November 20, 2003. Click here for
help updating your contact information.
http://click.mp3.com/c/n_015913294/t_d9OX/u_help/help/article/general_update.html

Please be sure to check the Sophie message board and System
Service Report (SSR) for further updates.
http://click.mp3.com/c/n_015913294/t_d9OY/u_msg/artistforums/listnews/?category_id=3009
http://click.mp3.com/c/n_015913294/t_d9OZ/u_eginform/ssr/index.pl?t=2

On behalf of all of us at MP3.com we thank you for your patronage
and continued support. It has been a privilege to host one of the
largest and most diverse collections of music in the world. MP3.com
wishes to express its sincere thanks to each of you for making our
website an important part of your musical journey. We wish you
continued success.

Sincerely,
MP3.com

P.S. Remember that in order to receive email updates on CNET's
new artist services, you should sign up here today.
http://click.mp3.com/c/n_015913294/t_d9O0/u_mp3.cnet.com/artist.html

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. do you think they will cremate the audio files?

seraph · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 3:40 am Post subject:

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

It will be like the Death Star and Alderan. Evacuate your village, don't give them the pleasure.

Cyx

seraph · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 4:41 am Post subject:

Cyx
I read this stuff on your profile:

mosc · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 9:39 am Post subject:

egw · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 10:13 am Post subject:

This will undoubtedly be the largest destruction of creative information in a single day in human history. CNET joins the ranks of megacorps that pursue only $$$ and care nothing about art or the destruction of humanity that results from their actions.

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 10:18 am Post subject:

Should we propose the instigation of a day of sorrow? A wake? A party?

mosc · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 10:23 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 10:28 am Post subject:

egw · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 10:29 am Post subject:

I'm sure that if we measured it in bits of information, there's much more at mp3.com than there was in the library at Alexandria!
However, that ancient event was obviously a huge loss to the development of human endeavor and civilization.
Anyway I think the analogy is a valid one.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

The saddest thing for me will be the loss of those late night "digs" into mp3.com, hunting and searching hours on end for cool music. If I ran across someone with triple-digit listens, I may listen, double digit and I absolutely listened.

Single digit and I would call friends over to watch me listen.

I dont think I ever listened to anyone with 5-digits or higher. Ever. I'll admit to a quad or 2, maybe.

I'll miss that. I doubt IUMA is so robust with regards to available music. Oh vell, ze beat goez on...

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 10:37 pm Post subject:

Yes, in some respects MP3.com was a goldmine of esoteric and nice stuff.

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject:

MP3.com did change the look and feel of the place in order to hopefully earn a few bucks in order to pay the bills. I cannot blame the Vivendi dudes for doing that. i havent checked out IUMA yet. Will do.. soon.BTW: I saw they had this "no uploads today notice"

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Absolutely. Thank Poseidon I collected alot of the music I liked from there. I had amassed a few hundred songs, I think. Alot of great stuff. My MP3 account went live on January 27th of '03 if I recall, and when I gutted it, I had a grand total of 224 listens.

Cyx

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:38 am Post subject:

I did the same: I extracted all the essential passages and portions of myself from mp3.com, doing so I deprived it of my vital content and force: I disemboweled it

Shocked

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Awesome.

I wouldn't give them the pleasure of the couple of nanoseconds it would take to wipe my presence off of there. That's MINE

Cyx

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:30 am Post subject:

I have uploaded a couple of pieces to soundclick. Anyone has any experience with them?

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:40 am Post subject:

Looks cool. Can you put <a href= tags on the urls?

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:05 am Post subject:

Do not talk geekian to me, will ya?
Express yourself in p-l-a-i-n e-n-g-l-i-s-h. please Very Happy

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:10 am Post subject:

....as in making the urls to seraph.it and electro-music.com clickable?

da that with a

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:37 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:39 am Post subject:

nah.. rather..

I guess it proves that my Apple Extended keyboard is in a subversibve mood.

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:40 am Post subject:

try with smoke signals

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:42 am Post subject:

Funny are we? Very Happy

Do you have yet another track ready? Soon?

I suggest we go kill another thread now. Someone put up a "james last revival" notice over in the schmooze department. See you there?