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I have a live radio of a small subset of the collection, hosted on my VM. Uptime is somewhat sporadic, so it might not work all the time.
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MP3.com was one of the Internet's earliest music distributors. I've worked on a couple of different projects related to it, which are listed on this page.
I have a live radio of a small subset of the collection, hosted on my VM. Uptime is somewhat sporadic, so it might not work all the time.
Playing: Angels Hope (Impbob Comedy) - Mermaid
If you wanna discover and shuffle some tunes, or whatever else might lurk within the Barge, this is the tool for you.
The applet is available here and picks from a random selection of Barge tunes/recordings. I also have a mini version on my iPod player interface.
Archive.org has a sizable collection of mp3.com audio in The mp3.com Rescue Barge. A reported 960.6 GB is nothing to sneeze at! But a few years ago I came across a big list of download.mp3.com links, many of which were already hosted on the Wayback Machine, and a great deal of them were not represented in their own Barge!
To remedy this issue, as well as collect IDv3 metadata on all the audios I could find, I started the Rescue Barge Barge project to fill in the gaps with some storage loaned from a friend and then a larger drive I bought myself. The result is a hoard of 533,046 mp3.com mp3s (counting duplicates) from bitrates from 24kbps to 128kbps, totaling 1.78TB!
While I don't believe I have means to share the downloaded files themselves due to the sheer size of the archive, I compiled a huge dataset with everything one needs to look through it with the Barge + Wayback Machine source URLs, including artist, title, genre, and comment metadata. For less than relevant, but hopefully interesting technical details, see my blog post on The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge.
MP3.com Dataset (zipped CSV, 27.5MB; 131MB decompressed)
To use the CSV, I'd recommend a newer version of Excel with CSV parsing. Make sure you check the "my data has a header" option, and set the all text columns to Text (Artist, Title namely) to prevent it from evaluating some of them as math expressions.
The ODS copy already has that work done for you, so you can open it in Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice and look up any artist or song with your software's search.
My MP3.com Dataset post:
My friend mariteaux's posts on MP3.com (he's our correspondent in these matters):
The mtlx - Last Summer saga: