A new online company, MP3OGS, which specialises in re-distributing old digital music has been set up in what has been described as “the biggest thing to happen to second hand MP3s since Napster”.
Company founder Steve Cantwell was brimming with enthusiasm when interviewed this week when claiming that MP3OGS “aims to corner the market in used MP3s that no one wants anymore or those hard to find digital nuggets that were only released in limited runs.”
Taking advantage of the current trend in music revival of vinyl Steve said he got the idea when he began to wonder about the “sheer numbers of old and unused MP3 in the world just sitting there, gathering dust in old iTunes or Limewire folders” and that he felt those MP3’s had been becoming slowly obsolete for so long that they would probably have increased in value.
This fresh approach to re-distributing old digital music is sure to send shock waves through the industry and, Steve hopes “be a real rival to existing sites and finally rid the world of vinyl”.
“Our grading of MP3s will be similar to that currently used on sites like Discogs,” explained Steve, “but instead in the comments section rather than reading statements like “contains unknown white powder in grooves on B2”, will instead say “contains digital glitch or error at 3.12,” or “comes with original Readme file and jpeg”.
Steve, who DJs in his part time using a classic 16 gig USB he bought in 2011 which contains an original 128kps MP3 of Blue Monday, thinks the industry needs a “buzz” at the moment and MP3OGS is just the movement to do it.
“Most DJs really can’t afford up to 79cent in some cases for music to download and with our re-distributing of second hand, sometimes third hand MP3’s we feel we can remove that financial burden,” he continued. “There will also be a discount feature on the store where you can buy rips of the second hand tracks for as little as 10c.”
The site is set to launch in June and Steve is of the firm belief that MP3OGS will revolutionise the way we deal cheap disposable versions of music.
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