{"id":2441843,"date":"2019-03-18T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=809455"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:46:46","slug":"myspace-lost-all-music-uploaded-to-site-prior-to-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/myspace-lost-all-music-uploaded-to-site-prior-to-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Myspace Lost All Music Uploaded to Site Prior to 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All music uploaded onto Myspace<\/a> prior to 2015 \u2013 an estimated 50 million songs by 14 million artists \u2013 has been lost. The site revealed that all of users\u2019 media from Myspace\u2019s first 12 years of existence were erased in a server migration and cannot be retrieved.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace,\u201d the site said (via Boing Boing<\/a>). \u201cWe apologize for the inconvenience and suggest that you retain your back up copies.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Reddit thread<\/a> this weekend detailed the issue artists faced when aiming to retrieve the music they uploaded onto Myspace between 2003 and 2015. Last year, artists who visited the site realized their older songs were no longer playable. When asked about the issue, Myspace said they were looking into the problem.<\/p>\n

However, eight months ago, Myspace began informing users that the music \u2013 as well as photos and videos uploaded prior to 2015 \u2013 was lost in the server migration. \u201cThere is no way to recover them,\u201d Myspace admitted.<\/p>\n

Although a topic of conversation on Reddit, the issue reached a widespread audience this weekend when tech reporter Andy Baio tweeted about the lost songs:<\/p>\n

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Myspace accidentally lost all the music uploaded from its first 12 years in a server migration, losing over 50 million songs from 14 million artists. https:\/\/t.co\/OyKB5Dxtw9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 18, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Baio added of the mishap, \u201cI\u2019m deeply skeptical this was an accident. Flagrant incompetence may be bad PR, but it still sounds better than \u2018we can\u2019t be bothered with the effort and cost of migrating and hosting 50 million old MP3s.’\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All music uploaded onto Myspace prior to 2015 \u2013 an estimated 50 million songs by 14 million artists \u2013 has been lost. The site revealed that all of users\u2019 media from Myspace\u2019s first 12 years of existence were erased in a server migration and cannot be retrieved. \u201cAs a result of a server migration project, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:13:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}