death of myspace?
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hello sulstrut,do you guys think it will happen, is it happening?can you name one feature added to myspace since r.m. bought it that had any sort of value?speak on it.
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it feels like the electronic music scene has almost abandoned it and moved on to bandcamp, soundcloud, twitter, blogs etc. etc. will the same thing start to happen within the hiphop sphere?
It's still a decent site for checking out new music. The music player is tolerable and a band/artist's myspace page always pops up in Google searches. So I still use it for research when I put together shows. But Facebook is where I do promotion (it's where everyone is for half their day).
that being said, myspace player sounds so terrible that people won't bother ripping peoples tunes and playing them out from there. whereas its a common thing for people to post a new tune on soundcloud, someone rips it and passes it around. so fade ins - fade outs and mantronix siren required.
yeah good point, i must admit ive always downloaded shit of peoples myspaces and soundclouds etc. (grab from temporary internet files folders or w/ dl applications) good enough for ipod action, and nice to get current stuff and peoples beats that might not get released.
Be aware that Soundcloud compresses streams down to 128 kbps. Downloads can be at a higher bitrate but streams are 128 kbps. 128 kbps sounds like shit to me, but it is still better than Myspace.
I used to buy a lot of music advertising on Myspace but for the last 18 months the response just hasn't been there. MS seems to be dying whereas Facebook is a site where I spend a fair chunk of my clients' marketing money and where usually I get a great return. In fact Google and Facebook are the only two spends I always include when planning artist campaigns. I never buy Myspace unless the label or promoter insists. These days not many do.
i'm presuming that you buy the music and support the artists actual released work. i'd like to see a interface built into soundcloud where you could donate to people whose work you enjoyed, or some sort of interface where you could subscribe to an artist and get exclusive stuff that they uploaded in return for a fee.
dunno how reliable these are, but this was a mindmelter for me. thats fucking daily traffic! which would include their mail service, and stating the obvious here.. but mail could be the most traffic generating thing around, imagine the amount of people checking their mail 24/7 on there.
i got a mail last week from soundcloud where they celebrated that they reached 1 000 000 users... i guess thats it then, would probably make soundcloud bigger than myspace allready?
yeah, goes without sayin.. im not that aware of your work or aliases etc. but i think i own some shit you've been involved with. big fan of the blog.
id easily jump on the train of paying for more exclusives on soundcloud. i hope that happens.
timing couldnt have been better, thanks RAJ and everyone else involved.
SNL called it "the abandoned amusement park of the internet," which I think is hitting the nail right on the head.
ha! so true
It's pathetic to see (as referenced in the video Quo posted) them trying to incorporate elements of Facebook and Twitter (too little too late) but even getting that completely ass backwards. They put a frickin' character limit on the status updates. Why? So they'll resemble Twitter updates? Twitter only has a character limit because it's essentially a text message based service. Myspace operates on the grown ass internet. Let a man finish a grown ass sentence!
...ABOUT THE GHOST OF HIS TIRED ASS ELECTRO BAND! !!!!!
Get cho popcorn ready
I can't count how many people I've heard say they'd like myspace to become a music/band-only site.
(paging Asprin...)
wow...
Yeah ... you'd lose the ability to directly market to "fans" within the site, but that ability is all but gone anyway now that everyone has jumped over to Facebook. They should just forget all of the built-in updates and bulletins because noone is there to read them. They should shift the focus to improving the music player and calendar tools (they still have one of the better calendars for bands) and just integrate with Twitter and Facebook for promotion.