Another one bites the dust: MediaMaster
03.02.09Filed Under: Misc
MediaMaster was one of the direct competitors of the music service Ezmo which I helped build. It was with sadness I read today that they too had to close down the service due to lack of funding. I know all to well how difficult it is to fund such a service and given the current global financial crisis it’s not a huge surprise.
Out of the closest competitors to Ezmo I guess it was Anywhere.FM who really made it, they got swallowed by Imeem just a few months after launching.
It seems like subscription based services like Spotify are catching on, but to me those services are more about music consumtion than music collection. In my opinnion there is still room for services which provide a way for music collectors to enjoy music digitally whereever they may reside. Maybe it’s me being an old fart, but I like to have some piece of music I can call my own in the sense that it’s my collection…
I wish my Swedish friends in Spotify all the best and I hope they can sit at Steve Jobs’s table and turn down a 30 billion dollar offer 
UPDATE!
Not even the record industry themselves are capabel of creating music services which last over time. This week Sony BMG and Universal Music’s joint venture TotalMusic had to shut down. Aparently they had some of the same problems as the other services mentioned here and this makes you wonder if this really is an industry that’s worth saving or if they should just die as a result of their own incompetence.
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