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Reasons why DMusic is better than MySpace

tracy	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 2:41 AM so why do you use DMusic instead of Myspace?
Opossum	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 2:48 AM I can't really use MySpace. It's way too slow on our dial-up to even be usable. I DO check out certain pages now and then, but it often takes 20 minutes to nearly an hour to view one page. However, the majority of sites aren't slow for us at all.
wailingmiserere	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 6:10 AM I know there has been some criticism of the DMusic redesign... but the MySpace layout is just ridiculous. Before I got used to where everything was on the control panel page I used to have to stare at it for ages and click around blindly before being able to get any sense out of it. DMusic at least has quite a fair degree of common sense as to where everything is located on screen.
imemine	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 6:44 AM Tracy!
ShadowMom	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 7:43 AM My what? I don't need 1,000 "friends"-- all of them cookie cutter copies of the one before. And -- oh yeah! the music has something to do with it, too.
perkie1973	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 7:54 AM Well..Creativity Rules here @ DMuisc...I use MySpace to promote Dmusic...
Opossum	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 8:04 AM On 31st Jan 2008, wailingmiserere said: ... but the MySpace layout is just ridiculous. Yeah, you can say that again!
leedsquietman	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 8:28 AM 2 main reasons 1) Music upload space and quality - even on a free account here you get 75 MB with 12 MB download limits per song at any bit rate mp3 you choose. At my space you are allowed 4 songs only, with a measly 6 MB per song limit and then they resample your music to lower bitrate hash. 2) The Community - Myspace is more of a place to 'sell yourself' or promote your gigs etc, that occurs at dmusic also but we talk about meaningful stuff like improving vocal micing and best software/plugs etc and we also talk about funny irrelevant but cool things such as 'cheese or muffins' or political things. We have a broad spectrum of interesting users here !
Orion	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 12:38 PM Myspace sucks! DMusic kicks ass!
GeneHilbert	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 12:46 PM I get to let my piddies run free.....
MickeyBreezy	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 2:59 PM i have always hated myspace, but a year ago when everyone seemed to have left DM for myspace, i went as well, and i still dont know how to use it very well, i hate having to go back "home" to do everything on there. also the critisism about the redesign of DM is just rediculous, when i left here it was still the old style layout, when i came back i felt right at home navigating the site, its still the same intuitivity that it always has, and i love that cuz i suck at the internet, so i need easy. in conclusion, i tried to leave DM for myspace, and im back here... my vote=DM
plungerboy	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 3:37 PM MySpace is a place where people advertise themselves like products, there has to be something essentially wrong with that. Also, MySpace is mostly for bored emo/goth kids with nothing better to do, do you really want that to be your market?
Alwex	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 3:44 PM as already stated, its so much easier to discover artists and bands on Dmusic then on myspace. Myspace is more like a a free band site for promoting oneself and just keep updates on gigs and album releases...Dmusic is a creativy booster. Here Everybody helps everybody, you get to hear what people think about Every single piece of yours (almost atleast). the community is so close here. and it doesnt take a decennium to load the sites and songs
shadowself	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 3:44 PM Reason #742: No bling.
shadowself	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 3:45 PM Reason #409: No forced media. Reason #438: People over 13. Reason #590: Larry's hotter than Tom.
GeneHilbert	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 4:18 PM ain't going there......
HenriRoger	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 4:57 PM I use both places . There is a lot of good jazz at myspace . I like how the page can be personalised. (Videos , slideshow ...) I've put a link to my dmusic page there. Also ... Paul Mac Cartney IS my friend there ...lol Dmusic has more space for music , more community spirit with creativity . The collabs are a great thing here . You got to invite BBcode to be your friend and it looks good
Tallisman	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 6:56 PM and threads like this one: http://www.dmusic.com/forum/leflaw/25885 boogie, T
celtaidd	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 7:13 PM Because it IS!!!!!
Tattoomom	Date: January 31, 2007 @ 8:33 PM Because Vic takes up all the bandwidth over at Myspace he is on there so goddamn much!
Distilled1	Date: February 1, 2007 @ 1:53 PM Tattoomom^
PrincessTast...	Date: February 12, 2007 @ 9:14 AM Because I can be a weirdo here and get away with it... fuckin' faux-indie kids.
stat30fbliss	Date: March 29, 2007 @ 11:04 PM Dude, people here are way better than those myspace douchebags...
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 29, 2007 @ 11:09 PM The MySpace layout is indeed ridiculous but in terms of size, the criticism over it is no worse than what we've had about the new design here. If we could get the customisable features of a MySpace but without the exploitable code and threat of pages with a million bandwidth-choking images on it, that would be awesome.
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 29, 2007 @ 11:10 PM MySpace user page I meant to say.
NickSawyer	Date: March 29, 2007 @ 11:36 PM reason # 350689583957395: there are 350689583957395 reasons. need I say more?
fireball87	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 3:48 PM Because If I want to use a creepy multi million usd website designed by a 20 year old, I'd rather use facebook... And good lordio, I'm slacking, I need my multi million usd website done in 4 months. Mostly its because I tend to hate myspace's design, and even worse do I hate the common audience of no iq places like myspace. From what i've seen in community sites though, user customization is a bane to a good website, maybe a rephrase is in order buzz. "If you could have the customizable features of myspace, but without the crappy following designs, bad uses of code, and anything else that depends on the common intelligence of mankind, that would be awesome"
fireball87	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 3:49 PM Oh yeah, and dmusic was here first... from what i remember.
GeneHilbert	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 4:07 PM It just is damn it.........
Dominon	Date: April 3, 2007 @ 5:20 PM 'cos big name celebrities are there, and the companies who made them too. Any second now it'll be sold off
SimonWaldram	Date: April 8, 2007 @ 6:56 AM MySpace gives you leprosy
Tattoomom	Date: April 8, 2007 @ 4:54 PM I don't have to have Tom as a friend?
bigfootofget...	Date: April 9, 2007 @ 4:54 AM ^^^ Haha, who is that Tom guy anyway? And why does he like to add everyone? Even 2 year old kids he can paedo on. Anyway, back to the point, MySpace is a pile of muthafunkin' rubbish, it's confusin', slow, it can take people months to reply, people go mad coz they have someone who's famous as a friend. It's just a waste of space.
leedsquietman	Date: April 9, 2007 @ 5:15 AM yeah, like Madonna and the like actually reply to their Myspace friends personally ! (yuss, it's a minimum wage drone employed by the record company who writes you back, :doh
billrhynes	Date: April 9, 2007 @ 7:33 AM I use both. I've found old friends on Myspace but I've made more new ones here. I subscribe to DMusic basically for the deep links and upload space. Wish I could imbed Youtube vids here though...
HenriRoger	Date: April 9, 2007 @ 7:38 AM Got this message : Date : 08 avr. 2007, 12:22 IMPORTANT MESSAGE! MY SPACE IS CLOSING SOON!!!!! From Mr. Tom Jones (Manager of Myspace). Myspace system is getting too crowded!! We need you to forward this to at least 20 people. I know this seems like a large number, but we need to find out who is really using their account. If you do not send this to at least 10 Myspace members, we will delete your account. WARNING! We want to find out which users are actually using their Myspace accounts. So if you are using your account, please pass this email to every Myspace user that you can. IF YOU DO NOT PASS this letter to anyone we will delete your account. Sorry for this inconvenience. -Tom Joke or spam ?
PrincessTast...	Date: April 9, 2007 @ 3:25 PM Yay! No more Myspace!
shadowself	Date: April 9, 2007 @ 5:20 PM On 9th Apr 2008, HenriRoger said: Joke or spam ? If you think even for a second that it (or ANY other email/IM like this one) might be real, you need to go back to the beginning of the Internet and start over.
ShadowMom	Date: April 9, 2007 @ 7:54 PM I'm pretty sure Tom knows it's MySpace... not Myspace. And besides, Tom is a very friendly person. He has like a million friends now, right?
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 8:59 AM I get junk like that on Yahoo as well, one of my lesser informed friends will spread them from time to time. ok... after my last reply, i read some of the rather surprisingly dumb and pathetic replies - i really thought some of you could actually find a level of criticism better than Republican and Democrat supporters arguing over the Iraq invasion... guess i was wrong: reason # 350689583957395: there are 350689583957395 reasons. need I say more? - er, yes. what are those reasons? i dont mind waiting to see them a creepy multi million usd website designed by a 20 year old... - not quite 20 but fair enough. user customization is a bane to a good website, maybe a rephrase is in order buzz. - not at all and the one you suggested is definitely not something i would consider as an alternative... not that i have any intent of adding one. you started getting some customisations here and if skins ever arrive i am sure few will bitch at something they can simply switch off (so if anything, it would be better than MySpace where you can't do that easily when visiting a page). dmusic was here first... - if you don't want to get your fingers in every corner of the globe which is almost vital for us struggling indies, that's cool, stay in one place. It just is damn it......... - ah, there was me thinking you asking so nicely if i would make an exception to my "no bands" option checked on my personal page just for you, might have meant something... but i feel the same way about the file manager here - "it just is, damnit..." 'cos big name celebrities are there, and the companies who made them too. Any second now it'll be sold off - hello. Fox. megabucks. MySpace gives you leprosy - well i guess you can always call Jesus to come and cure you and if he's busy, hide in a cave or something. ^^^ Haha, who is that Tom guy anyway? And why does he like to add everyone? Even 2 year old kids he can paedo on. - he created the site... the system is designed so that when you first create a page you have a friend automatically, Tom. he is removable as is any person from your list, here or there. as for the last line, that was about as low as it gets - you definitely should be a senator if those are the kind of things in your head. Anyway, back to the point, MySpace is a pile of muthafunkin' rubbish, it's confusin', slow, it can take people months to reply, people go mad coz they have someone who's famous as a friend. It's just a waste of space. - over 100 million would disagree and not all of them are stupid, airheaded blondes, fakes and major label artists either. it beggers belief to read some of these things, seriously it does... ignoring the fact that it's obvious many here know nothing or little bar that of the negative media attention yet actually have pages, then post utter insensitive crap like that... i dunno whether to laugh at your terminal stupidity or cry at the futility of this site being populated by those who i really thought were made of more than just hot air. go ahead, throw it back, prove my point. but for those here who really couldn't give any intelligent criticism (especially those with MySpace pages) please find the time to delete your pages there if that's how you feel, or just post in large capital letters how much of a low IQ'd, hypocritical, narrow-minded fool you should be feeling, assuming of course that capacity is still a valid working function.
shadowself	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 10:51 AM Well, jeez Mr. So Much Better Than Us, where are YOUR reasons?
kingo	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 10:55 AM DMusic's dad can beat up MySpace's dad.
blacklieder	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 11:13 AM I think you cannot compare to I use both, but considering the obvious difference in the communities, they serve different purposes, as some of you have already mentioned. The forum is the most obvious boon that dMusic has over MySpace. Forum is quite sophisticated. MySpace has the community and the blogs, but again it strikes me as With dMusic, whenever it gets in a fix, it reaches into its bag of tricks. Besides, dMusic is for musicians - MySpace? Tom, Dick and Harry, and
shadowself	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 6:12 PM On 11th Apr 2008, ChillinBuzz said: - over 100 million would disagree and not all of them are stupid, airheaded blondes, fakes and major label artists either. This is a really lame argument - it's like saying that because Nickelback or Britney Spears has sold great volumes of CDs it means that they are more talented than artists who have not. Or like saying that McDonalds must be high quality because they have shoveled a few billion slop burgers into the maws of the drooling masses as opposed to that Ruth's Chris Steakhouse down the road whose business is not as rapid. Quantity does NOT equal quality. Personally, I'll stick mostly to my steak and DMusic, you can have your McMyspace.
shadowself	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 6:29 PM On 11th Apr 2008, ChillinBuzz said: ...surprisingly dumb and pathetic ...it's obvious many here know nothing ...insensitive crap ...laugh at your terminal stupidity ...just hot air. ...couldn't give any intelligent criticism ...low IQ'd ...hypocritical ...narrow-minded fool 1 thing about MySpace that is better than DMusic - the staff would never even consider being that much of an fucking asshole to their customers. Unless, of course, you're trolling.
imemine	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 8:46 PM On word- SWANK LOUNGE! wait---that's two words!
shadowself	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 9:19 PM Ficus is one word.
imemine	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 9:44 PM Oh yea---Myspace has no SQL errors and crashes!!!! Yea----we have that all over Myspace!!! Hell yea---we SO rock!
shadowself	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 10:31 PM When DMusic is having technical problems, some of the site is still functional. MySpace's dreaded "an error has occurred..." is all encompassing.
imemine	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 10:39 PM Sometimes.
evansorchid	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 10:43 PM But, MySpace has so many interesting people..... **The mother of a 2-year-old boy was locked up Monday because of an ad she placed online. Sheriff's deputies say she solicited strangers to kidnap her son from the boy's father Saturday night. Deputies say the boy's mom posted the kidnapping on her MySpace page. She was willing to pay $500 to get the job done.** You can't buy advertising like that.