AlloffMp3.org: Great DJ resource

Update: Alloffmp3.org songs are only 192 Kbs, too low quality for most DJs.

After reading this review below, I searched alloffmp3.org for a few obscure artists and I was amazed at the depth of their selection. There is content on alloffmp3.org that cannot be found anywhere else. I received this comment in response to an earlier post and I'm reposting it in its entirety.

DJ Ross Lloyd (UK) said...

Hi there, I was looking around for some mp3s and found them on alloffmp3.org. I signed up paid my money and when I tried to download it came back with an error saying there was a problem. My immediate thought was that I had be swizzed.

HOWEVER, I later received an email from the service saying there had indeed been a problem and that all had been resolved.

In the meantime I had found your blog while I was looking to see if anyone else was sharing my experiences.

So I logged back in and true to their word the service was up and running so I was happy.

About the service. I am a club DJ and am alway on the look out for the latest tunes and i have been absolutely blown away by what I have found on this site.

Tunes that I can't buy anywhere online or sometimes find in the shops. Even things which to my knowledge are only knocking around on vinyl. This sounds like a blatant advert (which it most definitely is not) but last night I was like a kid in candy shop and managed to find about 85% of all the sought after tracks I have been looking for over the last month.

The search facility is pretty crappy and browsing is not really much of an option. If you know the artists you are looking for, or the exact name of the track you want then this site is great.

They also have a few lists of the latest UK and US charts etc but these don't really demonstrate the depth of what the site seems to have available.

I did find a couple of links which seemed not to work and the interface can get a bit hung up 'encoding' these files but this happened twice out of about 15 downloads.

The listening interface works well and they have adopted a fast-forwarding approach in the sample which will play about 10 seconds fast forward a bit, play some more and so on. This is very helpful, I am always a bit frustrated when the 30 second sample you get on some other site seems to miss out the best or worst parts of the music.

So over all: not that user friendly, found downloads a bit slow, they seem to max out at about 50kbps on my system. I am used to 100-200kbps on some other sites.

This site is all about its content and having used a lot of the mp3 sites I am very happy to have found this one which seems to cater for my particular (non mainstream) tastes really rather well.