I’ve been tossing this idea around since the whole myspace redesign a little while back and I’ve decided to go ahead and set it in stone.
Decree: ninebullets.net will no longer link to bands’ MySpace pages at the end of the posts.
Why? Two words and a number: 30 second samples.
On a personal basis, MySpace outlived its usefulness for me damned near a year ago and I deleted my profile, but I was willing to concede that is was a necessary promotion tool for bands and a necessary evil for people checking out bands. Well, that all changed when they went to 30 second samples instead of full songs. Now I feel that it’s essentially useless to both bands and curious fans. So from now on, if a band has a Bandcamp profile I’ll link to that, if not I’ll just link to their Facebook profile.
Any thoughts/support/arguments for/against this decree?
Completely unrelated and yet…totally awesome mp3′s:
Autopsy IV
Part time blogger. Full time hater.
I just deleted my myspace account a couple of days ago after not having used it for over a year. Myspace was great at first and I discovered a LOT of great music that way, but it’s horrible now, I get headaches just thinking about watching a profile. And now that most bands are on fb anyway. I don’t think myspace will make it for very long. I fully agree with this decision.
Totally support you on this. I just did a search for my old band. I got the videos and 30 second clips in the initial search results. When I clicked on the artists name, all I got was a list of songs! I had to additionally click on “artists” to get to the profile the band set up.
Myspace is a horrible site and I’m proud to say I’ve deleted every profile I once had there (one of them just now). The only thing I see people use it for these days is to repeat what they are saying on Facebook and Twitter.
Are you sure about the 30 second clips? I was streaming Joshua Black Wilkins new record from his myspace when I surfed over here and the songs are playing full length. I checked a few other bands and they playing the entire song as well. I do agree that Myspace has gone down hill.
At first. I was only finding the 30 second clips on profiles of major label bands but the past few weeks I stumbled on it on some smaller bands. I’m not sure what the criteria is or if it’s a gradual roll out.
Myspace is really smart to be messing up the only thing that they managed to still be useful for a little while just at the time that facebook has added all the features needed to make it really good for hosting a band’s stuff.
not.
agreed — myspace served as a valuable band/fan resource several years ago but is utter shite now….and just have to say the Waifs are excellent and that “london still” tracks kills it for me every time!
might want to also look in to if they have a purevolume.com page
I hate the new myspace. It sucks dick. And it doesn’t even do that well. As a musician I had to waste time reformatting my page to fit their changeover. Just such a bummer.
Myself and everyone I know use bandcamp and facebook mostly. But facebook for bands sorta blows too. Guess we’ll have to wait for th next big website to blow up.