Social Music Sites an issue?

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As you can read from the earlier post, you can see that Imeem is out. My post today is today is to speak about the issues users come acrooss when using social music sites. The top 3 issues are as follows.

Firstly: Tracks Played Counter, this is when the play counter on your profile suddenly drops a lot of plays, although all the scrobbled tracks are still in your charts. This is a display glitch which will correct itself within 24 hours, you haven't actually lost any scrobbles! So dont worry.


Next :Radio Page, the video advertisement that flashes before the radio starts can cause some browsers to crash for example, Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 2, and Safari 3/4. This is a major problem for most internet users use these 3 browsers.

Third :Adding Tracks to Playlists, when trying to add a track to your playlist using the "Add a track" option on your playlist's page, it may not find any tracks at all. This causes alot of irritance with the users. For those who are planning to switch to Last.fm please think again. The issues that pop-up with social music sites.

Take care Guys! catch you'll in my next post. =)

Imeem No More!

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Hello hello I'm back for my weekly post and this week we're going to be talking about music sites!

Topic for today : No more Imeem!!



Before heading to the topic, here's a little history on Imeem -

Imeem was founded in 2003 with the concept of free, advertising supported music model for online music which allowed users to legally upload, stream and share music. Imeem was the first ever online music site to secure licenses from all four major music labels in the United States. It claimed to have had 16 million users worldwide!

What happened??? -

It shut down! My condolences for all Imeem user's - no one was notified therefore there goes all the play list down the drain!

The reason -

Apparently Imeem's full-track-playback licenses expired as a result of its inability to keep up with licensing payments and there was also a lawsuit in the process with a huge sum that Imeem was not able to pay!



What happened to the company?? -

MySpace Music - a joint venture between MySpace and music labels acquired a deal to buy "certain assets" from the pioneers of online music site. The entire Imeem service has been removed from the web and their Iphone Apps no longer works. The imeem.com domain now redirects to MySpace music and embedded songs on your blogs and social network sites no longer load.

All hope is not gone!

GOOD NEWS for Imeem users! A few Imeem high ranking employee's have signed on to Myspace Music and is in the working to maybe transfer Imeem's play list over to MySpace music! =D

I just checked out MySpace music and it's looking not too bad, pretty interesting i would say. Here's the link for you to check it out! http://music.myspace.com/



Now that there is no more Imeem but only MySpace music, if Facebook dies off, I think MySpace is a pretty good option as it has both a social network site and also a music site. What do you think? Should we start a MySpace phenomenon here in Malaysia?

(Reference : www.wired.com)