I have just added a ton of free Russian Music Sites to my Squidoo Lens. In addition to the slightly more legitimate Russian sites that charge, there are a lot of these free mp3 download sites that, I guess, sell advertising to stay in business. I'm not sure how much longer they'll last...
I added them without investigating each and every site, so some of them might not work and might not even be free. I found about most of them from a post on a Russian blog. If you use them, please comment on the lens or forum. And if you find any good sites, then please add them (if they aren't already there) to my plexo (digg-like-thing) on my lens. Most of the sites are only in Russian and are hard to navigate. I'm not sure if they're in fact better options to torrents, file-sharing, etc. Help me find the useful ones.
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
What's the deal with Xrost
To load money onto Allofmp3.com, it used to be:
1) Go to http://www.xrost.biz and put money on a card
2) Go to http://account.allofmp3.com/pays/payments.shtml?action=step2&via=xrost
Login and Deposit.
But this message has been up on Xrost.biz for much longer than 48 hours:
" Dear valued customer,
As part of our ongoing effort to improve the payment platform, we will be performing a scheduled server maintenance. The payment option at our site will be restored in 48 hours.
Sincerely, Xrost Team "
Without Xrost, it's hard to load money onto Allofmp3. There are plenty of other Russian Mp3 sites that allow you can use a credit card, but I hope they return.
Anyone know what's going on?
1) Go to http://www.xrost.biz and put money on a card
2) Go to http://account.allofmp3.com/pays/payments.shtml?action=step2&via=xrost
Login and Deposit.
But this message has been up on Xrost.biz for much longer than 48 hours:
" Dear valued customer,
As part of our ongoing effort to improve the payment platform, we will be performing a scheduled server maintenance. The payment option at our site will be restored in 48 hours.
Sincerely, Xrost Team "
Without Xrost, it's hard to load money onto Allofmp3. There are plenty of other Russian Mp3 sites that allow you can use a credit card, but I hope they return.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Russian Tycoon to make AllofMp3.com Legal
AllofMp3.com is by far the most popular Russian Mp3 Site and also has by far faced the most scrutiny. Although their legal status is ambiguous, they offer a wonderful product—DRM free music files in almost any format and of almost any quality.
From Electronista,
"Online music store AllOfMP3 maybe subverted through a corporate buyout, according to a report today by the research firm Music Ally. The analysts indicate that an as yet unnamed "influential and wealthy" Russian tycoon has been pursuing the direct download shop and intends to legitimize its often questionable licensing scheme by taking control of the company. The businessman is working on behalf of music labels and publishers that believe AllOfMP3's extremely low-priced downloads skirt the edges of its home territory's law, Music Ally's researchers claim. If successful, the takeover would be followed by new licensing deals obtained directly from the labels themselves."
Since they already have a sophisticated infrastructure for selling music files in place, AllofMp3 could turn into a nice indie music store, but its sketchy past might make getting any licensing deals awfully hard. I find it hard to believe that AllofMp3.com will be able negotiate a deal with the RIAA, who has sued them for 1.65 trillion in America. If they go "legal", Allofmp3.com will probably only sell music from independent labels (unless they too want money for music Allofmp3 has sold).
From Electronista,
"Online music store AllOfMP3 maybe subverted through a corporate buyout, according to a report today by the research firm Music Ally. The analysts indicate that an as yet unnamed "influential and wealthy" Russian tycoon has been pursuing the direct download shop and intends to legitimize its often questionable licensing scheme by taking control of the company. The businessman is working on behalf of music labels and publishers that believe AllOfMP3's extremely low-priced downloads skirt the edges of its home territory's law, Music Ally's researchers claim. If successful, the takeover would be followed by new licensing deals obtained directly from the labels themselves."
Since they already have a sophisticated infrastructure for selling music files in place, AllofMp3 could turn into a nice indie music store, but its sketchy past might make getting any licensing deals awfully hard. I find it hard to believe that AllofMp3.com will be able negotiate a deal with the RIAA, who has sued them for 1.65 trillion in America. If they go "legal", Allofmp3.com will probably only sell music from independent labels (unless they too want money for music Allofmp3 has sold).
How to stop music "stealing" ?
Long ago here's how it happened. Buy an album, put it in, and groove to your new treat. And as your sitting on that comfy sofa, listening to those booming speakers unleash fresh tunes, you skim the liner notes. It's simple, a standard music junkie experience.
And now with online music stores, what do we have? The same experience. Some, such as iTunes, are even beginning to offer digital music booklets, a newer version of liner notes. But why stop there?
1) Online music stores can attach almost everything they want to downloads. Album or song purchases should be attached to tour schedules, artist stories and biographies, videos, games, screensavers, drawings, desktop backgrounds, coupons, anything of interest.
2) Songs files can be made for more than listening. Fans like to interact with their music. What if you could download a song file, and then sing karaoke with it, play the guitar solo from it in Guitar Hero, dance to it in DDR, create your own music video for it, remix it and resell your reproductions. All of these abilities in a single interface.
If an album offered more attachments and interactivity in a hard to reproduce environment, than fans would gravitate from "stealing" towards the superior product. Many people who download newly released movies still go to theaters for the experience—it's better.
The record companies can improve the music experience or they can spend their time catching clueless teenagers. Which do you think deserves more emphasis?
And now with online music stores, what do we have? The same experience. Some, such as iTunes, are even beginning to offer digital music booklets, a newer version of liner notes. But why stop there?
1) Online music stores can attach almost everything they want to downloads. Album or song purchases should be attached to tour schedules, artist stories and biographies, videos, games, screensavers, drawings, desktop backgrounds, coupons, anything of interest.
2) Songs files can be made for more than listening. Fans like to interact with their music. What if you could download a song file, and then sing karaoke with it, play the guitar solo from it in Guitar Hero, dance to it in DDR, create your own music video for it, remix it and resell your reproductions. All of these abilities in a single interface.
If an album offered more attachments and interactivity in a hard to reproduce environment, than fans would gravitate from "stealing" towards the superior product. Many people who download newly released movies still go to theaters for the experience—it's better.
The record companies can improve the music experience or they can spend their time catching clueless teenagers. Which do you think deserves more emphasis?
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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.