MYSPACE SUCKS! what's the best alternative for musicians?

craftycurate · Post by **craftycurate** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:21 am

12ax7heaven wrote:I agree with the Virb suggestion. Easy to use and not nearly as hard on the eyes as myspace.

I can't find a way to upload music to Virb - is this possible?

kaffein · Post by **kaffein** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:37 am

Music Tab, add album.

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:51 am

Why not build your own site, then use myspace, facebook, etc. etc. to promote and drive traffic to your own thing.

kaffein · Post by **kaffein** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:06 am

You can, but it's really not necessary for everyone...
Web space maybe yes, a custom site? Not entirely.

I decided to make a site and do all the other networking sites, but for my other band I just bought the domain and since my domain service charges for domain forwarding I just made a php redirect.

So when you goto the page it just goes directly to the myspace page, or whatever I want it to go to. With the php redirect it's instant, and you never see the original page.

craftycurate · Post by **craftycurate** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:56 am

kaffein wrote:Music Tab, add album.

Hmmm ... I don't have an Add Album button ... only "Dashboard", "Playlists" and a couple of others. The "Music" button at the top of the screen just brings up the general music section.

sxezskoz · Post by **sxezskoz** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:36 am

i used to be a fan of imeem.com but they got really slow and ad-filled in the past year. all this talk of virb has tickled my interest...

+1 for last.fm

Corn Swabler · Post by **Corn Swabler** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:57 am

www.pleasebemyfakefriend.com

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:58 am

what's the best thing to edit your myspace page with, i'm so behind, what are the extra cool kids using these days?

jah4life · Post by **jah4life** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:47 am

EgAD wrote:what's the best thing to edit your myspace page with, i'm so behind, what are the extra cool kids using these days?

that's another shitty thing about myspace: some people have their page so decked out with sloppy codes, videos, animated gifs, etc., that they slow my computer to a grinding halt, at times even crashing my browser.

that said, i like the more simple editors; I used Thomas' Myspace Editor (google it). But I like simple layouts, nothing too flashy. The REALLY nice pages are definitely not created by your run-of-the-mill free myspace profile editors, but by someone who knows what they're doing (not me).

Anyone else know of a good, simple, reliable page editor?

esky · Post by **esky** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:38 am

What about http://soundcloud.com/...? Supported by the abletons...

rob lee · Post by **rob lee** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:42 am

esky wrote:What about http://soundcloud.com/...? Supported by the abletons...

just checked that out...you can't use it or register until you have an invite whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean

rob

esky · Post by **esky** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:58 am

rob lee wrote:
esky wrote:What about http://soundcloud.com/...? Supported by the abletons...
just checked that out...you can't use it or register until you have an invite whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean
rob

Ok, the site is still a beta version i think, so you need someone who's already a member to invite you to become a new member.

frahnque · Post by **frahnque** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:55 am

+1 on

http://www.last.fm
and
http://www.virb.com

Somehow I feel Last.FM to be extra appealing, maybe because it's been around for so long and there's still nearly no sight of stat's/friend-whoring like on MySpace (atleast I haven't had more than one try so far).

xzusa8ky · Post by **xzusa8ky** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:42 am

Fuck Myspace!

Amateure shit!

brom · Post by **brom** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:38 am

I'd use Facebook with Last.FM and iLike linked to it. You need to create a personal account, then from there you can create a page for you act, where you can post pics, gigs, videos, tunes etc and people can become your "fan".

I also use Myspace. Hell, use them all if you want the best exposure.

Facebook seems to have the largest and fastest growing network and any idiot can use it.