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| DJ Pete |
(May 15, 2001) dotmusic.com -- MP3-swapping network Napster, hurrying to transform itself from dreaded renegade into a legitimate legal part of the music business, seems to be nearing launch of its paid-for subscription service.
The company has issued an invitation to users on the front page of its site saying "...Be the first to preview the new membership service. If you're interested in being chosen as a beta tester, provide us with your email address. More information to follow soon." Reports suggest that initial testing of the new system will begin in the next month, with the final fee-paying network launching towards the start of July.
Built in collaboration with German media mogul Bertelsmann (owner of BMG Records, home to Dido and Christina Aguilera), the forthcoming membership service is believed to be Napster's last chance of staying alive. Under fire from the major labels and a potentially long-running court case, the music-trading firm has been forced to install filters which prevent unauthorized tracks from being downloaded. Now even independent bands who want their songs to be traded are finding their music inadvertently filtered out due to a phenomenon Napster calls "overblocking".
Recent research shows that Napster's usership is dwindling: to retain its crown as the Web's most talked-about music application Napster needs to get its paying technology up and running as quickly as possible.
But it's not all smooth sailing; Napster's latest update, designed to mesh with audio fingerprinting software which will recognize songs in order to divvy up royalties between artists and labels, has drawn criticism from hardcore fans. "...I for one am shocked," says one Napster messageboard user, nicknamed 'Napsterpnunk0', "that such a serious, ambitious company would create such a worthless piece of garbage." |
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| breakdown |
lol
i think we can all give up on napster by now
theres enuf other resources for that =p |
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| DRM |
| good point well made infin. I dont use it anymore as i can find all i need at audiogalaxy even if it is a little slow 4 me. |
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| Eugene |
For the last month I haven't been able to use Napster at ALL. No matter what I type it returns 0 results, period.
BTW, what is Audiogalaxy? Is it like Napster? |
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| goodnet |
audiogalaxy is a music-swapping service, simaler to napster.
You can check it out at:
www.audiogalaxy.com
you need thier software to download music you find on thier search. |
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| breakdown |
| audiogalaxy to me is probably the best.. coz it seems to have every damn track.. even tho sometimes unavailable.. it'll automatically download it when it comes online =p |
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| DisBejS |
its so funny how everyone LOVED napster when it was at its peak and now everyone is saying napster sux, and napster is doing this and dat, napster..
i mean i can understand why napster is closing down because the government is a bitch and artists care more about $$$ then the love of the music (backstreet,metallica.. etc etc)
napster opened people like me to WORLDWIDE music, not jus commercialized recycled garbage that gets overplayed in the US.. dutch trance, german techno, UK progressive... jus everything and united the whole trance scene as one
in mah opinion, napster was ing great and nobody should complain cuz u guys got more then what u wanted from napster |
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| breakdown |
beta.. i heard that the beta is gonna have bugs in it!!!
find outt!! |
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| TrAnCe CoNtRoL |
| yeah notice how you never saw any of the trance dj's complaining about ppl d/l music, only the greedy rock artists who dont care about what they make anymore, its how much damn money they get out of it. its sad, but they will never stop illegal mp3 downloading. if they do then thats a joke, and a slap in their face. no matter how many programs they shut down, there will always be 10 more waiting in the wings. |
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| luckystrike |
| quote: | Originally posted by TrAnCe CoNtRoL
yeah notice how you never saw any of the trance dj's complaining about ppl d/l music, only the greedy rock artists who dont care about what they make anymore, its how much damn money they get out of it. its sad, but they will never stop illegal mp3 downloading. if they do then thats a joke, and a slap in their face. no matter how many programs they shut down, there will always be 10 more waiting in the wings. |
totally agree with you!!!
BTW audiogalaxy is nice but nothing like napster...
napster was much much better!
i hear something about a program named audiognome - is she good? |
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| Linx_da_cat |
| yeah...the other day i searched for the world 'remix' and 'paul' and results came up....hmm...what's up with that? last time i did that i got no matches found. i thought they were filtered. |
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| The Greek |
| lynx napster does that sometimes it might result in nothing one time around and the next a huge list..anyway audiogalaxy is really good i think and ive been using it since the beginning when i still used ftp and i had not even heard of napster..i think we all gotta appreciate all the direct download programs out there cause ftp was a bitch..napster WAS good but napster now suks thats the plain truth |
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