1. Who would have predicted this? A price war between two Russian music services: MP3Search, which uses a middling bitrate for 10 cents per track, and AllofMP3, which in which the user chooses bitrate and music is sold by the megabyte. I have found that AllofMP3 generally comes in at 5-6 cents per track, encoding at 192k fixed.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Brad Hill

2. I am very,very impressed with the quality of the site and the range of music available! It would be nice,please,if you could include albums by 'Al Stewart' as in UK we are very interested in his music and he has released about 11 albums.

Sincerely,


Alan Walton

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Alan Walton

3. They're offline/down at this moment. Did they quit?

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by RR

4. I hope they won't never come up again 'cause their policy is fraud! I realized that I gave away 20 bucks for nothing in return. The connection to MP3Search.ru has totally failed.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dimebag

5. I'm pretty upset about the site going down. allofmp3.com is pretty good, but they cater more to the pop crowd & I have slightly more obscure tastes. mp3search.ru always had what i was looking 4. Also, I had over $20 in my account... grrrr!

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by CLS

6. Over the last few months I have spent over $100 on Mp3Search and I have been very impressed. The first album I downloaded was Eminem: The Eminem Show which had a missing track but other than that I have never had any problems with them.
Also, if you read the news they said they would be down until December 23rd at the latest

~ Ryan

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Ryan

7. I find it a shame that a little more info has not been provided in this article. Please can we all try to include descriptions for acronyms such DRM(Digital Radio Mondiale), this little extra info helps greatly for all readers with limited knowledge of codec’s and related organisations

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"Museekster.com has interviewed one of the people behind MP3Search.ru, a controversial website selling music for $0.10a track, without DRM."
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To assist those like myself I have provided a copy of some information describing DRM:

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"...units of quantity of the information..."
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Maybe someone could help explain the above in a sensible fashion, especially as there are “a lot of beginners in the Internet, and they do not understand”.

My thoughts are thus; an mp3 is a compression type used to compress a data file. The resulting data has a ‘size’ of which can be measured in MB(Megabytes). Some sites charge for the quantity of MB’s that are downloaded So for example, 1MB’s worth of data download could cost 10 pence, one MP3 could be 0.5MB in size and therefore two MP3 tracks could be downloaded for 10 pence.

I may be way out with this but I’m sure someone can put me straight if I am.

Richard

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Richard

8. Richard. My apoligies as I edited out the information you posted regarding Digital Radio Mondiale as this is not the DRM described in post. DRM, in this case, stands for Digital Rights Management. These are the technologies used to limit the number of CD burns you can make of tracks purchased through digial music stores like iTunes or Napster. Additionally, DRM prevents you from sharing files since new users cannot open the files without having paid for them. My apologies for any confusion.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by David

9. For $30 I've dowmloaded all the albums I've sort of wanted, but not enough to buy them from mp3search.ru. Seems to work out at about 99c per CD. Join and download whist they argue whether it's legal. Reliable, fast dowload with ASDL, huge range and cheap. The best $30 I've spent in a long time.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Harvey

10. I'm considering buying some music from http://www.mp3search.ru/

Is the site secure? I don't want to get scammed

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Matthew

11. Mathew, I have been downloading from mp3search.ru for some time now and have not had any problems. I feel the site is very secure and you don't get scammed. I have turned many people on to this site....I think it's great.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Connie

12. I have been using the site for a few months now, and i've downloaded $40 worth. But when i went to log on today, the site just won't come up? Anyone have a clue what is going on?

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Nicole

13. I was a customer of mp3search.ru --- wonderful site, 10 cents a song, and for some reason I cannot log back in??? Can anyone help me please? I still have money in my account, and songs that I wanted downloaded. -some kind of a "guard" is coming up saying that it is a spoof site, when clearly, I have used it over and over .... anyone???

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Amanda

14. I have been using the site for a few days now and i have purchased credit and only used a small portion. But when i try to log on today the site just won't come up, all other web sites come up except mp3search.com.ru, please help

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Briony

15. I have been using the site for a few days now, i have a reasonable amount of credit left, when i went to visit the site today it does not come up. All other web sites are coming up except this one. Any help? I see a few comments viewing the same problem.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Briony

16. This problem is clear for russian music lovers only. It's "Crazy stuff" for the others.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by BuyPiercing

17. Does anyone know the number of song titles available there are on www.mp3search.ru?
thanks!!

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc

18. I signed up today and put $30.00 credit, worked great had excellent selection, but now I cannot get the sight to load, all other websites work fine. Makes me think its a scam

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Chris

19. seems that it goes down from time to time. it's not loading for me either, but people said it's happened before, so i'm not too worried.

when it was up though, i was downloading music like crazy. good deal yes

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by sean

20. mp3search.ru is not a scam site. Do not be afraid to spend money there. Sure, it won't load from time to time, but it's a minor nuisance I'm willing to put up with. I have spent $140 over the last few months and with that $140 I will end up getting around 200 albums because with every purchase you get free additional downloads. I love the site and I am going to take full advantage of it while I can. I don't feel sorry for the poor millionaire musicians and record execs.

Posted at 4:23AM on Dec 19th 2005 by illiniCHL