Music Holy Grail: Over 200K+ MP3.com files made downloadable
Jan 5, 2022 23:52:43 GMT
lammyvox, Arctic Circle System, and 2 more like this
Post by cody732195 on Jan 5, 2022 23:52:43 GMT
Hello there!
My name is Cody and I've always had interest in lost media, but never been one to hunt it out or get involved in searches, up until a few months ago, when a song by a band that I love was discovered that we thought was lost completely: Shiny Like Dirt by Ramsay Fiction (who some of the members would go on to form the Canadian act Marianas Trench). This left 2 songs off the EP MT fans knew the band had sold on MP3.com. I went ahead and asked the guy who found Shiny Like Dirt how he located the song, and he led me to these reddit posts:
old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/ovc8mc/holy_grail_found_over_1_tb_of_music_from_mp3com/
www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/plnu45/holy_grail_mp3com_1tb_treasure_finally/
So, with that knowledge, I went ahead and downloaded the text file, sifted through it with Command-F for Ramsay Fiction songs we knew existed, and located a track known as Don't Touch Me. This leaves PMS as the lone track off that CD that we don't have a copy of.
If anyone cares to hear the songs we found, here's YT links: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM16fWhfNT4 (Don't Touch Me) & www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K3GP3RO-mU (Shiny Like Dirt).
But what matters more than anything is the other music that's here. Roughly a terabyte of songs from old bands and indie artists that had been sitting in limbo since MP3.com was bought out in 2003 by CNET. I'm not sure what's here, but here's hoping these links can lead to some more discoveries (and maybe even locating PMS?).
Hope whoever reads this post has a great day, and happy hunting!
My name is Cody and I've always had interest in lost media, but never been one to hunt it out or get involved in searches, up until a few months ago, when a song by a band that I love was discovered that we thought was lost completely: Shiny Like Dirt by Ramsay Fiction (who some of the members would go on to form the Canadian act Marianas Trench). This left 2 songs off the EP MT fans knew the band had sold on MP3.com. I went ahead and asked the guy who found Shiny Like Dirt how he located the song, and he led me to these reddit posts:
old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/ovc8mc/holy_grail_found_over_1_tb_of_music_from_mp3com/
www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/plnu45/holy_grail_mp3com_1tb_treasure_finally/
So, with that knowledge, I went ahead and downloaded the text file, sifted through it with Command-F for Ramsay Fiction songs we knew existed, and located a track known as Don't Touch Me. This leaves PMS as the lone track off that CD that we don't have a copy of.
If anyone cares to hear the songs we found, here's YT links: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM16fWhfNT4 (Don't Touch Me) & www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K3GP3RO-mU (Shiny Like Dirt).
But what matters more than anything is the other music that's here. Roughly a terabyte of songs from old bands and indie artists that had been sitting in limbo since MP3.com was bought out in 2003 by CNET. I'm not sure what's here, but here's hoping these links can lead to some more discoveries (and maybe even locating PMS?).
Hope whoever reads this post has a great day, and happy hunting!
