Tag Archives: MP3.com

The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge

Posted on September 10, 2025 by dotcomboom

So back in November, I grabbed 1.78TB of media from the Internet Archive’s mp3.com Rescue Barge, and their Wayback Machine both, in pursuit of creating the most thoroughly complete archive I can muster of MP3.com’s music. The Rescue Barge is … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the Official MP3.com Guide to MP3s

Posted on August 15, 2022 by mariteaux

I don’t think it’s a stretch to call myself an MP3.com historian at this point. From my initial essay two-and-a-half years ago, to digging deep into how the service worked, to previewing some of the music that MP3.com were promoting their service with, I’m part of that small group who have been trying to keep the memory of one of the most forward-thinking dot-com startups alive after it was all but forgotten post-closure in 2004.

I was effectively honor-bound to pick up the last copy of The Official MP3.com Guide to MP3s from Amazon after all that work, and I was not disappointed for my $6.29! We’ve got late 90s MP3 hype, forgotten MP3 and MP3.com competitors, and even some screenshots of the backend of MP3.com, far away from where any Web spider could’ve gone. It’s a trip.

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The mtlx Chronicle

Posted on January 21, 2020 by dotcomboom

“Is it even real?”

As real as you want it to be. Continue reading →

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