who email this address “into” its private beta

am I missing something here?

Beasley, ‘email’ was meant as a verb. send an email to techcrunch.com@musana.com for invite

FYI…deadpool tubesnow (a tc40 company)…just received this

The Tubes service will be going away as of Jan 31, 2008.

Any data/files you have on your computer will not be lost. However, the
ability to synchronize your data/files will go away.

All support services have been discontinued. Automated Knowledge Base
articles may remain available and you may find some help at
http://www.tubesnow.com/forums. However, you will not be receiving a response
from Tubes to submitted requests.

Thank you for participating in our beta program.

The Tubes Team

This message was sent by: Tubes Networks, One Liberty Square, Boston, MA 02109

Doesn’t sound like anything worth trying really.

please give me one at katalin.xtrem@gmail.com

Well, guys i’m uploading my music on musana at the moment and I also started listening to it and I must say, it’s dead easy, and i’m really thinking of moving my digital music from the anywhere/mediamaster likes to this.
It’s basically as cool as drag&drop&enjoy and there’s music all over the place at the office (must be careful with workmates though!).

It has this Apple sense of design and colours without the depressing lists of files.

So far so good, i can’t say there’s probably a few things there still working out (like there’s some English words to be found in the French version of the service) but it seems frictionless enough to me.

After trying it, I think its supercool.

I can really envisage the next features in this, but my online music anywhere really helps when out of my laptop and want to put my music on.

I have been struck with a business model idea and am unsure of who to go to with it. I was reading this and other articles on the current state of the music industry this morning and it had me asking the question, “How can the industry sell a creative work without holding post creation rights to a piece of work while still being paid decently/predictably?”

This is where I was hit with the ages old idea of commissioned work! Set up a user base of literally 10’s of millions who bid/commission pennies to dollars on each artist for each new song that the artist releases. Real time commissioning of individual works. The artist would hold no rights to the creative work once released via the system. The system would release the work under a creative commons type of license. All commissions minus a small set (non-percentage unless commission was under a certain amount) fee would go directly to the artist/creator. The creative work would automatically be added to any and all users automatic download queue who set a commissioning fee bid on that particular artist.

The artists would be able to view information on user base, real time price for a new commissioned work and more.

Users would be able to set how many songs per day, dollars/cents per day, songs per artist per day/week/month, etc they would be willing to commission. Each user would have to seed their account with some monies before they would be allowed to start commissioning works. Think of the bidding and commissioner selectable criteria along the Ad Sense style model.

After the release and commission payout of a work, it would be available free to any and all for download.

1.) Think of the artist making $75,000 per song based on 500,000 users bidding an average of .15 for that new unheard song. If an artist/creator releases one song a month at that rate… the artist makes $900k while the consumers pay out $1.80. Both the artist/creator and the consumer feel like they are on the greener side of the fence.

2.) Artists could collaborate on songs and still be each paid well! (this may also be one of the quagmires, may need to work out a percentage of individual commission based on popularity (commission fee current average) of each artist)

If you are a company or team that could pull this off contact me.

Jake Zebell at goog mail

Hi ! Im using it right now, and its really easy. Thanks tech crunch !

Jake- i couldnt really follow your description all that well, but for your own benefit, i would not publish your whole idea on a forum board like this. Believe me, I have no intention of taking your idea and wish you the best of luck, but you can’t trust that others won’t see your idea and want to profit from it.

As a suggestion, a website like elance.com could be beneficial for somebody like yourself. You can discover and commission web-designers to put your idea into motion. Also, there’s a good amount of websites out there that have somewhat related content to what I believe you are describing (amiestreet was the first one that came to mind, when I started reading your post)

Personally, I have partnered with two web designers i found through my own network and we have been excitedly working to bring it to fruition soon enough. Best wishes if you decide to pursue it!

“Musana is free, storage is unlimited and there are no advertisements”

Last time I checked, it cost money to send/receive/store files. How will this company survive?

Well, I’m going to give it a big thumbs down. For one, the uploading service features no way to upload folders at a time. Pain in the arse. Also, a lot of the songs didn’t show up. I submitted a few songs multiple times and they were never in the library. The mobile phone playing feature acts like it’s in, but I can’t find anywhere to actually… use it. Lastly, there’s no way to manually edit your library. Gracenote mislabelled some of my music and I’d like to fix it, and it comes with some songs in there that I just don’t want in my library. Let this one incubate a little longer before you jump in.

Ben

I think your problem might be due to not finding those songs in the Gracenote DB, that might become a challenge for Musana or at least something to work on.