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Comments on: CNET Download Music will redirect to Last.fm

All pages of CNET Download Music will redirect to corresponding pages on Last.fm beginning March 11, 2009.

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by davidm-sp March 8, 2009 11:03 AM PDT: last.fm is a great site to uncover new music and get recommendations. Another approach to music discovery is 'social music recommendation' based on the psychological perception of music. Our service <a href="http://www.signalpatterns.com/music_survey">Music Patterns</a> provides customized playlists based on music that 'People Like You' actually listen to.

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by FatalBox March 10, 2009 6:28 PM PDT: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! sorry for my classless statement but this rally makes me sad. I use last.fm but it has a totally different purpose for me than music.download.com

I use last.fm to find the artists i am already familiar with and listen to new releases by those artists. The problem with last.fm is the play limit. If i really like a song why can't i listen to it as much as i want. I use music.download.com to listen to artist i have never heard before as selected by editors. I bet there is a last.fm editors choice sections but i don't know or care where it is.

To think that i was about to suggest that music.download.com will include a lala.com or amiestreet.com style player.

I will miss you dearly music.download.com and your large selection of music out of which i liked a lot. I will also miss the way your eyes twinkle when you smile and that you never tried to sell me anything, you really just cared about the music.; Like this Reply to this comment


by calico1000 March 10, 2009 6:49 PM PDT: HATE LAST FM! LOVE CNET DOWNLOAD MUSIC!!!!!!!! DON"T GO!!! DID I MENTION THAT LAST FM STINKS?????; Like this Reply to this comment


by calico1000 March 10, 2009 7:04 PM PDT: OK, this change has clearly made me inarticulate, but I don't want some music site finding me music I might like, I want to discover it for myself. Finding anything on Last FM is almost impossible, I want all the categories mixed together is a wonderful stew of discovery. I can always engage iTunes Genius if I want someone else's recommendations. I visit Download Music and Crossfade almost every day. You are on my toolbar! You have your own button! As of tomorrow, you have lost me. I know that CNet was bought out, but some of the changes are awful, like this one. I would have thought that CBS bought CNet because it was unique and wonderful. Changing it into another corporate gussied-up clone is going to destroy what made CNet so great to start with. So sad. Give me back the techie geek comfortable CNet we have all grown to know and love. The Postman is back on Mailbag, please rethink this too!; Like this Reply to this comment


by avidreader514 March 11, 2009 3:51 AM PDT: If Last.fm maintains the excellent Free MP3 of the Day program, and supports the Facebook application, all is not lost.

I really enjoyed discovering new music daily with you folks.; Like this Reply to this comment


by Kurt Wolff March 11, 2009 11:09 AM PDT: Fans of Download Music's Free Mp3 of the Day feature might like this Last.fm page:
http://www.last.fm/music/+free-music-downloads; Like this Reply to this comment


by BMENON March 11, 2009 10:39 PM PDT: I have been listening to last.fm too,but it is not as good as CNET Download Music with regard to new music additions,Editors'Choice/views,artists&their details,sample music-plays,full music-plays and so on.
CNET Download Music has its own special distinctness that last.fm may not be able to provide,sad that
it is leaving, redirecting us to last.fm; Like this Reply to this comment


by Kerbyrials March 12, 2009 2:18 AM PDT: Pitiful.

Download.com music downloading was a very recognizable name and had a great interface. It was one of my favorite sites. Last.fm is nowhere near the same. ALL the music on download.com is now gone. It was not transferred. So what we have is CBS, after buying out CNET, just threw out the music, and tried to hide it by pointing people to last.fm, which has NONE of it. Come on CBS, at least ADMIT that you killed the site because you didn't know how to make it profitable. Don't try to pull a shell game on us and say that you have some kind of partnership with Last.fm. You don't. This is just corporate dishonesty, and puts my opinion of CBS' "integrity" quite a few notches lower. But then again you are the network that brought us Katie Couric and Dan Rather. I guess truth is not your forte.; Like this Reply to this comment

by dya75 March 12, 2009 8:32 AM PDT

Oh, this really stinks. Why? I love CNET Download Music. Based on the other comments and what I've heard about Last FM, this doesn't seem like a good move. I've discovered so many new artists at CNET Download Music. I can't listen to all of their songs, see what's been listened to the most (overall and in the past week) and choose what I want to listen to based on the criteria that matters to me. HUGE disappointment. Anyone up for a petition?

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by SilenceInTheDarkness March 13, 2009 8:38 PM PDT: If possible, I would definitely be in.; Like this


by alildirt April 3, 2009 10:42 PM PDT: Count me in; Like this


by lavender lotus March 12, 2009 8:38 PM PDT: This is terrible. I'm completely lost on Last FM. The artists are more difficult to find and as noted above music wasn't transfered. Is there anything we can do to get CNET Download Music back? Pleassssssssssssssssssse!; Like this Reply to this comment


by Ryan_Kirkwood March 13, 2009 11:29 AM PDT: Why?; Like this Reply to this comment


by ian_r March 13, 2009 5:35 PM PDT: "Proud"? "Thrilled"? You've got to be kidding. It reads like a statement that might have been put together by lawyers after they fired all the staff. Only someone that clueless would think that lastfm was a suitable alternative. A ridiculous decision.; Like this Reply to this comment


by SilenceInTheDarkness March 13, 2009 8:32 PM PDT: WHY?!!!!!
Even though Last.fm is good, it is nothing compared to music.dowload.com! I mean, you can stream the songs (majority of them) yet the number of free downloads decreases terribly. Last.fm hardly offers the downloads we found in this site.; Like this Reply to this comment


by garybraden March 13, 2009 10:08 PM PDT: As an artist that has spread my music freely to thousands of users through music.download.com, I am extremely disappointed with this move. Someone else will probably soon come along and duplicate what has been lost, and I will be watching for this, or maybe I'll do it myself. In any case, no need to continue to subscribe to download.com. It is now just a tiny part of a huge, multinational conglomerate, and they ruin everything. Bye Bye!; Like this Reply to this comment


by Cyberzombie23 March 14, 2009 11:05 AM PDT: Lame, lame, LAME. Last.fm is cool and all, but nothing like what Download had. I can download mp3's and play them at work. I can't do streaming audio at work. This is not a suitable replacement. I'm really disappointed that this has been done.; Like this Reply to this comment


by arlisila March 15, 2009 6:13 AM PDT: music.download.com was organized as a beatiful and readable music magazine. last fm is organized as a mainstream local radio station.

A lot of thanks goes to corporate America for this nice move.; Like this Reply to this comment


by paulientje March 15, 2009 10:21 AM PDT: and so do I, I mis the free downloads.; Like this Reply to this comment


by March 16, 2009 12:04 PM PDT: I Totaly agree with Kerbyrials post. F You CBS. if u cant handle to maintain a music site why did you buy it...Do you want to clear up things by redirecting us to last.fm grow up CBS there aint kids here infact even kids can see whose foolin. ******; Like this Reply to this comment


by machain March 17, 2009 12:44 PM PDT: I'm really sorry CNet download .com is closed. Is the best sito of music I ever found on the web. I visited every day the site, found incredible quality artist and music. I knew the music on Download .com was sure I like. Last.fm doesn`t have anything of that. It's really, really sad.; Like this Reply to this comment


by inconstantmoon March 17, 2009 4:44 PM PDT: WHAT A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE IDEA.

music.download.com was my refuge for discovering new music. The layout was simple and easy to navigate. And most importantly, you could download songs! Last.fm makes my head hurt. The layout is complicated and not at all as user-friendly as music.download.com. I am incredibly disgusted.

And don't act like you did this for the "friends and fans of CNET Download Music" because we all know it was just business.

Thanks for nothing.; Like this Reply to this comment