Tuesday
Jun162009
don't make the myspace mistake
Bruce Warila | Tue, June 16, 2009 I hate getting notes from bands that want me to check out their myspace page. The myspace music player is completely infuriating to use. Artists, please use bandcamp, soundcloud, music xray or anything that makes it easy for people within the industry to rapidly check out your songs.
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Reverbnation. They seem to have it all together in one place.
Nice to read this little post.I recently deleted my MySpace page after getting fed up with the poor performance of the player (random skipping, taking ages to play something). It seemed redundant now that I had most of my tunes up on Bandcamp and live sets on SoundCloud.
you're foolish to get rid of your myspace.
From Hypebot:
"...As of Wednesday morning almost 78% of Hypebot readers responding to an ongoing poll say that MySpace is still an essential part of their music social networking efforts. 26.2% say that MySpace still "rules music" and 51.6% say that using MySpace alongsaide Facebook and other sites is "essential". (Updated results may vary slightly.)"
a guy from a record label should use his real name.. (myspace employee?)
The Hypebot survey doesn't tell you much about anything, other than what artists think; a survey of 75 HypeBot readers is hardly scientific (I do love Hypebot, but the survey doesn't tell me much).. Myspace is the worst way to showcase your music. There are far better ways to feature your songs now (named above). Stay on MySpace if it helps you network with fans (which I doubt more and more each day). However, if you need to demo songs to someone in the industry, use something that loads fast and works reliably.
Thank you Bruce, I agree MySpace is irrelevant as the loading times are equivalent to that of a Windows 95 machine and for some reason the player sounds like 12 bit/18k to me (ok, I'm exaggerating) but the quality of the mp3's sound poor. I wonder how much compression goes on upon upload?
I agree, Myspace seems of yesteryear but its almost as if you have to keep one foot in it just because of the market they've established.
One year to go. October 24th 2010 is Quit MySpace Day.