Today like most days I got added as a “friend” by a band on mySpace. Surprisingly the band was quite good and some of their tracks were available to download from their mySpace page, great!

When I clicked on the download track link the mp3 actually gets streamed in your browser using quicktime. It is not possible to right click the download link and “Save File As” because the mySpace media-player is flash based. What is the point of offering a download
link if your not going to provide a proper download?

The amount of bands using mySpace is quite staggering now days, it seems that every new band that comes out has a mySpace page, some don’t even bother with separate website. mySpace has multi-millions of dollars behind it and must have hundred of developers, the mind boggles why they can’t sort this, especially when one of the sites main appeal is supposed to be the music.

Now I sure the mySpace download feature used to work, interestingly I received a newsletter from mySpace the other day promoting their new Music Store. Conspiracy theorists will probably claim they’ve sabotaged the free downloads on purpose so people pay for music in the store. Well it certainly doesn’t entice me to buy anything from them, if they can’t offer downloads correctly imagine what they might do with your credit card information!

# Pete Graham

So there’s been some banter on this blog about the “Mac vs PC” advert spoofs over on YouTube. I’ve watched a few of them and this Wii VS PS3 spoof is current favorite. Enjoy!

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