I actually deleted both my myspace & reverbnation accounts last week…..

Myspace is just cluttered with too much stuff and the player it uses that opens in a different browser window is not very user friendly in my opinion . Reverbnation is much the same. Has a better media player but a bit too much on the clutter side too and a lot of spam to do with promoting your music.
Sometimes less is more and the simplicity of Bandcamp & Soundcloud is where its at i reckon . As a musician i far and away prefer Bandcamp over other sites as the one thing is has over say , Soundcloud is its design features. So every Soundcloud page looks the same whereas Bandcamp is more or less like your own website as you can upload your own photos and change colours etc . Provide a link to your facebook page from there and between the 2 of them you’re all set .

Myspace may not be gone the way of Bebo just yet but it looks like its heading that way…

I firmly believe that users like simplicity and functionality – not bells and whistles lumped into a cluttered, poorly presented web-site. OTR is user friendly for example because it’s text (with relevant hyperlinks) and a comments box for posters to use. Same with Bandcamp as Scarecrows says. Easy to know what it’s about and what to click to get where you want. If you want to bang a nail into a fence-post you use a hammer. You don’t want a bottle-opener, whistle, torch or any other useless crap on it. We see novelty items on the market all the time and i don’t even think that myspace even has a novelty factor any more. Myspace started out as a dating site as far as i recall and had huge potential but whoever was in charge of directing it really took their eye off the ball and didn’t not understand this potential that it had. Unsurprisingly it was Murdoch and his empire of hawks i assume who screwed it up.

So the young and hip Timberlake shovels 35 million into it and the best he can come up with is myspace.tv.

Yaaaawn!

@ Jim

As far as i can assertain Reverbnation gets far more traction Stateside than in Europe. Reason i think this is all the spam you get is about playing festivals in Austin , LA, NYC etc and promoting your music on tours with US musicians.
I’ve noticed a few Irish bands using it such as Sweet Jane & Lace Weeper but they seem to be the exception rather than the rule.

Player plays fine for me every time and always has. Perhaps you need more space on your HD? I hear that a lot, but I can’t for the life of me see what the problem is.

I gotta assume it’s a PEBKAC kinda thing.

ReverbNation was quite popular with the bands, now I’m not so sure, as better alternatives can be found.

Murdoch butchered Myspace – they stripped anything that was communicative and valuable and basically turned it into well a self site with little interaction from the outside like the way yahoo geocities would have been but removed the ability to input your own code in html or css (which for me was part of the original attraction because I learned html from the 90s) in an age where producing your own css site has pretty much diminished.

THe new owners have made updates, but still have not reverted the site back to what it used to be before Murdoch bought it (which feedback which they sought out when they bought it was the popular demand). It still has huge potential but it needs creative ownership and could prove to be a useful platform for not just music artists, but artists of other genres.

I think the owners have a huge mess to sort out, but there’s some interesting ideas just that interaction across the community is still zero, except within your friends.

One of the older social networking sites, Care2.com that predates Google but not sixdegrees.com, may have done away with their original forum, but they updated and still going strong enough.

Unfortunately though there are “bands” and “musicians” out there who use it purely to spam and self promote with little interest in anything else which is why ordinary users get bored with really quick. Some people need an education on internet and social networking etiquette.

The Myspace profiles are more individualized then Facebook and the players are just fine.If you can’t find someone maybe the problem is you.It’s so easy to use and there is more to do.What’s everyones REAL deal?

I love my Reverbnation page, so much so that you are all welcome to check it out – http://www.reverbnation.com/danielprendiville.

Reverbnation had two useful selling points for me – a link-in with Facebook (most sites have that now as well) and the ability to get material “out there” quickly and easily. Bandcamp is fine, but having to upload wavs (as against mp3s) is a pain. Does anyone out there actually download wavs from Bandcamp?