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What happens when streaming services die?

Major streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music boast massive catalogs but, like any music giant of our recent past, these services are prone to buyouts, data loss, and complete shutdowns.

In the early aughts, musicians flocked to online communities to share their songs and build fan-bases outside of their local music scenes. Websites like MP3.com, MySpace, and Purevolume opened up new avenues for bands to connect with fans and deliver music to the masses for free. This was the start of a music distribution revolution.

All of these platforms are now dead, and with them, the songs they hosted. Some will never be heard ever again, long purged from the hard drives whence they came and from the memories of passive music fans.

This website exists as a journal to one obsessive collector’s modest music archive as they search out lost music from the early Internet age.

What does this website share?

I'm focused on sharing media that can't be bought or otherwise accessed through traditional streaming platforms. I do not share content available for purchase on Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon Music, or any other digital retailer.

The music shared here is from my personal archives, unless otherwise denoted. I rip my CDs losslessly using XLD. Check out this website's guides on how to replicate my process.

How can I contribute?

Do you have any dusty CDs or mp3s on an old hardrive? We're totally interested in that stuff! Shoot us an email at scribe@discography.fm or join our Discord server.

Want to write something for the site? I'd love to hear your pitch.

Who else is doing what you do?

We keep a blogroll of friends and other archiving projects on this page. Reach out to recommend another project.