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Greetings,

We here at CNET Download.com have been hard at work on our newest
endeavor: an effort to offer this community a place to feature its
music, similar to the old MP3.com. We thought we'd introduce
ourselves and provide a few answers.

My name is Aaron Newton, and along with the Download.com team,
I'll be working on this initiative. I was one of the original
founders of www.epitonic.com and have a great deal of online
music experience. I hope to bring you a music site that meets the
high expectations we all had for MP3.com when it first started.
In the coming months, I'll be sending out periodic e-mails to
bring you up to speed on our progress and to get feedback from
you about our ideas. Although the product we envision is similar
to MP3.com, it's going to be different in some ways. We hope to
bring you and our music audience the same level of service that
CNET has provided to games and software audiences.

I posted a similar message to this one on the MP3.com message
boards (http://forums.mp3.com) back before the holidays. In it, I
mentioned that we had planned on first launching a pre-
registration for our new service, with a fully functional public
beta to launch soon after. I'm now pleased to announce that we
will be initially offering artists more than simple pre-
registration.

When music.download.com launches in March of this year, artists
will be able to register, create an artist, enter songs and
artist data, upload MP3 files, and visit the resulting artist
page. We'll also be offering simple Download.com URLs that can be
used to direct users to your artist page. Yes, the first
iteration of music.download.com will feature a minimal set of
features, but we've made this choice intentionally so that we can
get your music back online as soon as possible. Following our
launch we'll be working hard to add more advanced features and
services that serve both the artist community and the listeners
interested in your music.

Thank you for your patience and your participation on the message
boards. We can't respond to every post, but we'll do our best to
address your concerns. We want to hear from you!

Finally, we'd like to answer a question many of you might have:
Why didn't we just buy all the MP3 files and software that the old
MP3.com had? The short answer is that CNET was not given the
opportunity to acquire these treasures. Although the transition may
be a bit painful in the short term, we ultimately see it as an
opportunity to build a more robust and current service for you and
your fans.


Aaron Newton
Product Manager
music.download.com

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