Downloads: 1 cent a pop
p2pnet.net News:- There’s a new Russian file service called AllOFMP3.com apparently owned by a company called MediaServices.
As 11:30 am Pacific it was offering 1 mb of traffic for between one and two cents (Yep. .01 or .02 $US) a pop, depending on download type, with Diana Krall’s Girl In The Other Room, Prince’s Musicology and the Kill Bill, Vol 2 Soundtrack as the top three possibilities.
The catalogue contains thousands “of the best and rare musical albums of the last and current centuries,” promises the site, with “hundreds soundtracks to the most known films and computer games, a plenty of audiobooks, set of video clips. Every day on our site appear about 10 new albums of popular musicians and groups of various genres.”
And it’s all legal according to, “license # LS-3?-03-79 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society,” say AllOFMP3.com’s owners.
“Under the license terms, MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation ‘On Copyright and Related Rights’. All the materials are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further distribution, resale or broadcasting.”
That’s them
But then there’s you and as far as that goes, “Users are held liable for the use and distribution of the MediaServices site information materials according to local legislation.”
hmmmmm
Anyway, back to the service, you can preview of tracks/albums as downloadable files and/or online streaming audio and AllOFMP3.com also has ‘Online Encoding’ which allows users to get their music fixes whatever formats – MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis (OGG), MusePack (MPC) MPEG-4 (AAC) – they like.
And, promises AllOFMP3.com, users can also regulate quality through Online Encoding’s advanced sub-service called ‘Online Encoding EXclusive’ (OEEX) which alets people to encode lossless files in Monkey’s Audio, WMA 9 Lossless, FLAC and OptimFrog.
“Online Encoding Exclusive enables you also to encode music in formats MP3, WMA, OGG, etc, using the data of an original source – a compact disc,” it states
So why not offer pre-ripped mp3s a 192 kbps, say?
“Because we think that it is better to wait several minutes and get audio files of the quality you prefer, than to download files (already prepared by someone) with standard quality.”
And the Big Five recording labels say there’s no way to make downloading work for anyone – except them?
April 28th, 2004 at 11:33 pm
*Buys 500mb*
~graywind
April 29th, 2004 at 9:47 am
Well i gave them $10 and now I cant access their page! Scam??
April 29th, 2004 at 10:11 am
OK I take it back, this site works and its so freakin sweet! This is how online music sales should be!! Screw 99c per song BS.
April 29th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
There’s a nice review and some interesting interviews about this service at http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3info.htm
April 30th, 2004 at 1:20 pm
The site is down sometimes when its in heavy use, its definitely not a scam though. Been using it for 6 months +
April 30th, 2004 at 10:22 pm
yeah there’s also another russian site
club.mp3search.ru
I download all files there
November 25th, 2004 at 1:21 am
Does anyone really think that these sites are legal? One-by-one these sites’ claims have been proven false. Just ask Wayne Rosso.
These are really no different from the free download sites such as SimpleMP3s.com – except that they get to pocket more money.
There are many free music download sites, and some like SimpleMP3s.som have been around for several years. They make their money from popup advertising, and just like these pay-per-download sites, they are located in countries with weak copyright laws.
Any mainstream current-release album is available, and almost always before it is available in stores. Downloads from these sites are 100% safe – no one has ever been sued. And no fake files either.