Mike thanx for the heads up on Ampcast.com ....How depressing,...
by reading your reply it doesnt seem worth it in so many ways!!!

Hi all

as a further complication of this break-up of MP3.com, I have just received a letter from one of my friends who has had his work on the site for a long time. I recently told him that I had bought one of his CD's from there. This amazed him because he does not receive any money from them.
He now desperately needs to know how to REMOVE his work from the MP3 site.(He is in Russia and obviously did not know that the recent events vis a vis the demise of MP3.com will mean he will lose all the information anyway)
I thought that when I introduced this thread to the Forum, the owners of their work would know how to do this. Can anyone enlighten us?
cheers


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Eddie from Rotherham
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I don't think you guys are getting the point with Ampcast or the defunct MP3.com service. If you're waiting for people to drop in and buy your albums, good luck... maybe you'll get some hits, maybe not. The idea with OMD's (online music distributors), at least in my mind, is that you can put together albums of your personal library of music and then guide people to the site. For me, this is awesome - I have many finished albums of material that I simply cannot afford to press all into CD's - but I get requests for this album or that all of the time from people at my gigs. I probably sell about 1-5 CD's a month and yes, I have gotten royalty checks from MP3.com. That's enough to make the cost of the site worthwhile, and people can browse through my current and not-so-current instrumental piano albums, easy listening, country or pop albums at their leisure. Also I have a lot of relatives, freinds, and muso buddies who think they are entitled to free CD's - I can truthfully tell them I don't have any but they can order them from my OMD, thank you for asking. Lately I have been producing a good amount of commercial music beds and I plan on arranging into new albums for next year, and since Ampcast allows me to sell individual downloads of the songs then they could be used in commercial projects again. I even have some original latin and urban instrumental music from past projects that I can now polish for websale. And those little Reason and Motif ES diddlies I am constantly creating for no particular application except to familiarize myself with my programs and keyboards now have a future. It goes on and on...

No matter if Ampcast turns out to be a break-even, turn-profit or lose-dough proposition for me, it makes me feel like I'm doing something pro-active with my music to have my catalog hosted by an OMD. It beats sending out tapes to potential publishers and it shows my versatility and prolification to anyone who might have an interest. It's also a tax-deduction, and it's easy to order a few one-off's for myself to have available at gigs. Maybe I'll offer my own boxset, who knows? Mom wants one... as does my aunt, my wife's former college roommate, some distant cousins...

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The Following Announcement just received from
CNET about MP3.COM...........
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From:
To:
Subject: Important MP3.com Announcement
Date: 02 December 2003 08:56

A Message from CNET Networks, Inc. (CNET)

Please be advised that on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at
12:00PM PST the MP3.com website will no longer be
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CNET Networks, Inc. plans to introduce a new MP3 music
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We can't reveal more details quite yet, but we'd like to
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[Note: If you're currently a member of MP3.com, we recommend that you make backup copies of your songs and other content before December 2, the date on which VUNet USA has announced it will delete the artist files stored on its current MP3.com service.
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