AllOfMP3.com Dead.. Resurfaces as MP3 Sparks

AllOfMP3.com has been in the news a lot over the past few months, with assurance of its imminent death. Well, the final nail in the coffin has been hammered down, and the service appears to be no more. However, a remake was immediately launched as MP3Sparks.com, which uses a similar layout and identical back-end. This means, if you had a login at AllOfMP3.com, your login will work here as well.

Legal beliefs aside, AllOfMP3 did a lot of things right, in my opinion as a big music fan. They have a huge selection and offer a wide selection of bitrates, something that personally bugs me with every other music service available. If a ‘legal’ version of this exact same service was available with reasonable prices and DRM-free, it would no doubt do well. I am sure I am not alone in that thinking.

Customers found last week that allofmp3.com would not load on their computers, while others who went through its Russian web address were greeted by a message saying that it was closed “for maintenance”. A former employee confirmed to The Times today that it had been shut down under pressure from the Russian authorities.

Source: Times Online