The end of The61 02/15/2010
For some time now I have had songs hosted on the web at a once cool website called http://www.thesixtyone.com/ and in fact my contributions could be accessed directly at http://www.thesixtyone.com/djaiskjellerup/ Unfortunately, this website has long had an evolving tinkering ethos to its construction and the latest set of changes have rendered useless for acts. It's enough of a change to make it a completely new concept but unfortunately takes away one of the most fun things about music on the web; discovering something new that you like. The search tools have been dismantled and instead you are channelled sheep-like through a narrow corridor of acts. Branching out from this is awkward and counter-intuitive. The guys that provide this site have long been belligerent in the face of feedback from users and once again they are deflecting all criticism in order to forge their own path. It's their website so it's their prerogative but I am certainly going to cease using it as a place to host my songs. The material will be briefly available in it's old form at http://old.thesixtyone.com/ but the egg timer is running on that one so I will either remove my songs or allow them to expire. (stop press: songs now removed!). I'll be choosing a new host for my songs that will also hopefully include a widget player so that you will also be able to listen to them from my own site. It's most likely to be http://www.reverbnation.com/ although I read that there is a buzz around http://uvumi.com/ as well. CommentsLeave a Reply |