The site is there, but I tried one tune and it wouldn't work (popup said there were technical issues). I want to get my 51 cents worth!

they seem like they are back up

Were you able to download songs from them? I'm at work right now and can't test it myself for a while. If so, I'm spending that damn $9 credit tonight like a Sexy MF.

yeah I'll be using the rest of mine tonight if they really are back up. they'll turn into noneofmp3.com pretty soon

Yes, my comrades are back. In Soviet Russia, MP3's download you!

Trying to order music gives you:

"Ordering is temporarily unavailable."

I still have $11 left... shoot!

I wouldn't be surprised if they were under a major server attack and still recovering.

I hope they come back. I just recently discovered this site and spent about $100.00 filling in a ton of artist catalouges in my collection. The thing I love about this site is how you can choose the bit rate of the downloads. Gotta love that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMP3.com
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1187

AllofMp3.com Down but Not Out
May 15, 2006
Thomas Mennecke


If there's one online music distribution model that has a chance of toppling iTunes, AllofMp3.com would be it. With fair prices, tremendous quantity and a variety of available formats, Russian service AllofMp3.com has become a premier download venue - one that by some accounts exceeds the popularity of Napster.

With its growing popularity however comes enormous controversy. Although AllofMp3.com is a pay service, its pricing, format and copy protection structure (or lack there of) has drawn the ire of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.) Unlike most authorized download services which charge a flat rate of 99 cents per file, AllofMp3.com charges by volume. Each megabyte costs 2 cents, therefore the greater the quality the greater the price. For example, a 320 kbps bitrate MP3 from AllofMp3.com may end up costing the customer a whopping 8 cents while a 128 kbps may be as little as 4 cents.

In addition to an inexpensive price structure, music downloaded from AllofMp3.com contains no copy protection, or DRM (Digital Rights Management.) This allows the individual to copy, burn or transport the file to as many portable devices or share among friends without restriction. Customers of the service are also entitled to choose from a virtually any format, such as lossless FLAC, OGG, or MP3. AllofMp3.com's reputation for high quality music coupled with excellent customer service has allowed this service to approach near-mainstream success.

Yet the legality of AllofMp3.com remains in dispute. Because of considerably weak Russian online copyright laws (there are no provisions for online distribution), enforcement against the service has been met with fustration. Additionally, AllofMp3.com claims they pay royalties to the relevant collection agency in Russia.

The IFPI filed a complaint against AllofMp3.com in February of 2005; however their attempt lost steam when Vladimir Dragunov, the IFPI’s legal advisor in Russia, warned the IFPI “don’t have much chance of succeeding” if they attacked the digital music retailer. Moscow later dropped the charges against AllofMp3.com.

Considering the entertainment industry’s position against AllofMp3.com, many fans of this service feared the worst when the site was unavailable for a second day. Instead of the typical homepage, visitors were greeted with the following message:

“Attention” “We are sorry but the server is closed for maintenance”

However this is not the result of a civil complaint from the IFPI, nor does it appear to be anything other than a legitimate server issue.

“As far as we know the site is genuinely down for repair,” an IFPI spokesperson told Slyck.com. “Russian authorities had ordered the seizure of some of the site’s servers a couple of weeks ago, but it switched to new servers and the service carried on.”

Although there's an ongoing case against AllofMp3.com, the service appears safe for now. A request for comment from the administration of AllofMp3.com was not immediately returned at time of publication.

Update: After three days offline, AllofMp3.com has returned. No explanation other than the above mentioned server problem has been indicated. Although the site is back, ordering music appears to be unavailable.


http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1187
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMP3.com

Now it says...

Hopefully in a few days we will be back in the U.S.S.R.

(I can only imagine their "technical restructuring" involved the KGB hammering down the door, the technical staff tearing computers out of the wall, throwing them in the back of a "Lada" and driving to an abandoned warehouse in Kazhakstan.)

Hah! Looks like our comrades are back in business!

I'm currently in the process of ordering Hard-Fi's "Stars of CCTV", and it's halfway through downloading. Let's go to work!

huh.. getting a bunch of socket errors in my explorer... not downloading... Guess I'll just let it sit.

I am able to download, but it is very slow today.

Yeah, I'm also getting errors.

Mine is working, but it takes forever to encode things.

My Gnarles Barkley album download is still in the process of being encoded (and has been for the past half an hour), yet I have no problems downloading the Starlight Express Original Cast Recording in lightining speed.

Don't judge me for the latter please. I enjoy some showtunes every once and awhile.

Mine won't let me download uncompressed versions...even though it says it's available. Thus, ruining the whole point I gave them money. Crap.

I can't connect to the server now. My internet has been going out all day (thanks Cox) and the first time I signed back on, my speeds went from 60-70 kbps to 15kbps. Now I can't even download shit. I'll keep my Windows PC up and running for the rest of the night with the hopes that the rest of the music I purchased today (clearing out the balance on my account) goes through. So far only portions of albums I have purchased have downloaded so far.

It's letting me order... just ordered a few tracks off Massive Attack's "Collected". All my tracks were encoded and downloaded in full (albeit at a slower speed than usual)... hope this pans out!

Anyone getting to download the uncompressed versions? or FLAC at least?

I managed to get a whole two tracks to download today...

I got about 60 tracks. Today was my first day, so I don't have a way to compare, but I averaged anywhere from 15-70 kb/s per song. A few albums gave me an error message and the site was pretty slow to navigate.

*sigh* again...

ANYONE download uncompressed songs?

I'm sure if someone had, they would have answered you by now.

Last night I bought a couple of albums in 192kbps AAC format. The first encoded pretty quickly. Download was a little slow. The second didn't finish encoding until today.

I've only ever download 192kbs versions and I've been able to grab a couple CD's at that rate - a little slower downloading than before, but not terribly slow.