Remember MySpace? The period the “Top eight” and your BFF, “Tom.” Many us deleted our priles way back, once we ditched the social media platform for a shiny, new Facebook. However, some have been utilizing MySpace all alongside — and their music catalogs are in deep trouble. Or worse, gone perpetually.
As ors have identified, MySpace has completely misplaced consumer recordsdata — a ton them — over time. One MySpace consumer introduced the massive challenge to mild with the next assertion:
About a 12 months in the past, all music on MySpace from 2015 and older stopped working. At first MySpace said they were working on the issue, however they eventually admitted they misplaced all the info (and apparently didn’t have backups?). See this thread for more details.
Consequence Sound has since confirmed that MySpace misplaced a complete 50 million songs uploaded between 2003 and 2015. Anyone hoping to maintain what they’ve uploaded to the platform higher again it up instantly, if something their prile nonetheless stays.
MySpace’s Data Privacy Officer confirmed, “Due to a server migration, recordsdata had been corrupted and unable to be transferred over to our up to date web site. There is not any method to recuperate the misplaced knowledge.”
Yikes.
MySpace lost all music uploaded from 2003 to 2015 from technology
Source: Consequence Sound