GarageBand.com discontinued

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Sam Page

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"GarageBand.com will be discontinued on June 30, 2010."

After spending hours setting up my account, reviewing 30 songs, etc., I discovered that message buried in an obscure place. MySpace owns GarageBand.com and the same message is buried on MySpace.

Are there any comparable websites where users review your music? It seemed like such a great model. I wonder what happened.
 
Sam Page said:
"GarageBand.com will be discontinued on June 30, 2010."

After spending hours setting up my account, reviewing 30 songs, etc., I discovered that message buried in an obscure place. MySpace owns GarageBand.com and the same message is buried on MySpace.

Are there any comparable websites where users review your music? It seemed like such a great model. I wonder what happened.
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Sony Acid has something similar, and you don't have to use just Acid to submit. The problem there is the opposite of the one I felt GB had.

In GB it seemed like people used the anonimity to trash everyone else's songs that were in the same category of music they posted in.

At the sony site everyone kisses your ass and tells you how great your songs are and expect you to do teh same- in this way everyone gets to be Number 1 in their respective genres for a couple of days.

Still It's better than nothing I guess and will give you somewhere to post your music.

Can't remember the exact name of the site but shouldn't be hard to find on a google search.
 
Garageband.com made their official announcement today. Here is the email sent to users:

Dear [user],

It’s been over ten years since we started helping discover independent music on the ol’ interwebs. Things have changed a lot since then. Most of those changes have been good and some of them have been bad. Some changes are just bitter-sweet.

It’s with this bitter-sweetness that we are announcing today that Garageband.com will be discontinued as of July 15th, 2010.

The landscape of how music is discovered and delivered has changed drastically over the last decade and we are proud to have been a huge part of that change — first with Garageband.com and then with iLike.com and beyond. Sadly, that landscape will not include Garageband.com anymore.

Link your account to iLike: (action required)
If you want to continue to make your music available for streaming or download on iLike.com and the iLike application on Facebook, please go to iLike.com and login with your Garageband username and password by July 15th, 2010. This will automatically link your account to iLike so we can port your music, profile photo, and biography to iLike.com.

Finally, if you have recently made a purchase on Garageband.com and would like a refund, please email refunds@iLike-inc.com to request a refund. Valid refund requests must be received no later than July 31st, 2010.

Sincerely,

The Garageband and iLike team
 
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