CNet to Launch Indie Music Service

sounds cool.

Sounds real cool :)

No if they only allow high quality downloads :-/

This is what people hoped would happen when it was announced MP3.com would be scrapped.

This could be a good thing. MP3.com had gotten to the point of near unusability. Browsing by genres had gotten almost pointless, as overly ambitious songwriters would label a song "experimental" if they used a 7th chord in it, or "metal" if they used a distorted electric guitar, etc.

I like the idea of a site that anyone can make music and post it to. At the same time, I want browsing features that implement some quality control. Perhaps based on a user rating scale or something.

And no more "we list popular artists in our database, and just show pictures of them, or stream (but no downloady!) one song!" crap. I go to MP3.com's page now and I see Linkin Park. And a gigantic ad for Rolling Stone, news on David Bowie, and a lot of other stuff that clearly misses the whole point of the website. CNet hopefully will learn from these mistakes and will not try to be an "all in one music portal".

I guess this explains why all of CNET's recent player reviews have been trashing the iPod.

this is good. my friends and i have been worry about this for days on end now, and we have been trying to find alternative sources to use. but this is good news. now we can just wait a bit and then use the C|Net service, even thought it'll probably suck just as bad.

No big surprise here. CNet plans on starting a service. Therefore, they buy out the competition, dump its content, then launch their own service and junk the old domain name. At least this time, the domain name is too valuable to junk. So they're just going to point it to mostly useless information.

I know that the idea looks like computershopper. There is a guy insite macbitter who promotes macs.

"However, a company representative said the revamped site would not compete with music download services such as Napster. Instead, the company plans to turn MP3.com into a source of information for digital music."
-Earlier Announcement (Cnet.com, November 14, 2003)

So I'm guessing from that statement they aren't going to compete against iTunes either, which in my opinion is good. Lets hope they just revamp the site and still allow artists to post their music online like they could in the past. I used to love the site, but I started getting tired of the lack of new content and in the past few weeks I've completely ignored it :-/

Originally posted by sXe
this is good. my friends and i have been worry about this for days on end now, and we have been trying to find alternative sources to use. but this is good news. now we can just wait a bit and then use the C|Net service, even thought it'll probably suck just as bad.

Ever check out IUMA? This is a good source for unsigned indie bands of all genres. Better than mp3.com ever was IMO.

iTunes is supposed to be getting good Indie bands on board. How much does it cost to get a track in the right format for uploading to iTunes?

I'm just wondering, what is the advantage for an Indie band sending a good track to CNet for free distributuion rather than getting a good track on iTunes for sale?