Ah man, no more cdnow.com? :(

[polypterus]

That was a great resource to look up song titles, albums, labels, songwriters, publishing info, etc. I never bought anything from there, but damn I used it just about every day. Damn. It redirects to Amazon now, which has no info about albums other than track listings.

dc

 

[SludgeFactory]

what happened to them? That was pretty sudden.

Go to allmusic.com, I'm pretty sure that's where cdnow got all their track listings and information anyway.

 

[0roo0roo]

hahahah sad. well i never shopped there either.

 

[serialb]

Originally posted by: dougcio
That was a great resource to look up song titles, albums, labels, songwriters, publishing info, etc. I never bought anything from there, but damn I used it just about every day. Damn. It redirects to Amazon now, which has no info about albums other than track listings.

dc

I use their site to seek for track info too.

 

[deftron]

That sucks .. I used to use them to get a samples of songs. They had a lot more than Amazon.


Plus they had cool biographies on most artists, and good "related artists" links

Also, their "Essentials Lists" were very helpful.


Damn. really sucks.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: dougcio
That was a great resource to look up song titles, albums, labels, songwriters, publishing info, etc. I never bought anything from there, but damn I used it just about every day. Damn. It redirects to Amazon now, which has no info about albums other than track listings.

dc

lol, I do the same exact thing...

 

[eplebnista]

 

[psianime]

Damn.. i liked looking at their CD info...

 

[flavio]

I guess alot of just used them to look up track listings and stuff. I did actually buy a few CDs from them and the price and service was good....that was a couple years ago though.

 

[Crimzon]

I think that's the problem, too many people used them as just a resoucrce site. I haven't bought more than 2 cd's a year since highschool, but I usually bought one from them. I liked the site, too bad it's gone.

 

[Supahfreak]

I tried Tower.com but they dont have complete track listings. They prolly figured it out that people were just DL'ing the track listings, thanks for the allmusic site.

FreAk

 

[BurnItDwn]

cdnow used to have great $10 off of $15 coupons and the like .... I think i probably bought 30 or 40 cds from them back in the old days when they had killer coupon codes ....

Did a ;uick search on google
Heres some info related to Amazon running Cdnow (sort of)
Can Amazon Tune Up CDNow?

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
what happened to them? That was pretty sudden.

Go to allmusic.com, I'm pretty sure that's where cdnow got all their track listings and information anyway.

Yeah, but they don't have the Windows Media/Real Player sound bites to check out a bit of a song

 

[MrBond]

Here's a link. There's a bunch more stuff on this site (link, work safe, but the URL itself isn't) about the impending death of CDNow.

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[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: MrBond
Here's a link. There's a bunch more stuff on this site (link, work safe, but the URL itself isn't) about the impending death of CDNow.

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there's something interesting..

· $50 Amazon.com Promotional Certificate for new
Associates from CDNOW - Just sell 10 or more items between
now and December 31, and you'll receive a $50 Promotional
Certificate from Amazon.com as a reward.

 

[kyutip]

Seriously, who would in their right mind buy CD online?
With the wait, shipping cost, price not much cheaper than B&M ?
Every tuesday, B&M store would sell CD for pretty good price (between $9.99 to $12.99) and you can get it right then.

Too bad for them, I actually use their site like everybody else, for resources

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: kyutip
Too bad for them, I actually use their site like everybody else, for resources

That's probably why they went under! Nobody ever really bought anything from them, just used them to fix the ID3 Tags of their MP3s.

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: kyutip
Seriously, who would in their right mind buy CD online?
With the wait, shipping cost, price not much cheaper than B&M ?
Every tuesday, B&M store would sell CD for pretty good price (between $9.99 to $12.99) and you can get it right then.

Too bad for them, I actually use their site like everybody else, for resources

Yeah, but what if the only music store around you is The Wall (now FYE I think).

Those jerks sell CDs at around 18 - 22 dollars a piece.

 

[Dedpuhl]

I bought a couple CDs from them back in the day. I mainly looked for track listings and the length of songs.

 

[Jzero]

That's weak. Although I live very close to their HQ. Wonder if there will be an auction?
hmmm....

 

[KeyserSoze]

That's probably why they went under! Nobody ever really bought anything from them, just used them to fix the ID3 Tags of their MP3s.

Ha ha, I thought I was the only one.

Go to allmusic.com, I'm pretty sure that's where cdnow got all their track listings and information anyway

I'm ashamed to say, I didn't even know this site existed. Excellent. Thank You.




KeyserSoze

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: serialb

Originally posted by: dougcio
That was a great resource to look up song titles, albums, labels, songwriters, publishing info, etc. I never bought anything from there, but damn I used it just about every day. Damn. It redirects to Amazon now, which has no info about albums other than track listings.

dc

I use their site to seek for track info too.

what more do you need than track info?

 

[RSMemphis]

Actually, I did order from the a fair amount of CDs...

The problem was that their shipping was not trackable, so two of the CDs I wanted were lost, and they resent them. Sooner or later that gets too expensive for them.
I am still wondering where along the route the CDs were lost - I am thinking that either at the company itself, or in the beginning part of the shipment (several thousand CDs sent out in a day, no one will miss one or two?).

 

[Pastore]

Use mp3.com for your discography.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: aves2k

Originally posted by: kyutip
Too bad for them, I actually use their site like everybody else, for resources

That's probably why they went under! Nobody ever really bought anything from them, just used them to fix the ID3 Tags of their MP3s.

That sucks. I actually liked their info, and used it mostly for the aforementioned purpose.