It’s a very big day for the extended iLike community. We’re thrilled to announce that MySpace has entered into an agreement to acquire iLike.
On a personal note, it’s a humbling moment for Ali and me. We’ve always used MySpace as a benchmark to measure our own progress in the online world of social music. Having built the most popular music services on the other social networks, we never imagined that we’d someday team up with MySpace, and we’re excited to see what we can accomplish as one team.
In the short term we’ll be focused on collaborating with our friends at MySpace, who share our commitment to helping fans discover content and connect with artists online, to make our social music discovery platform even more powerful. By joining forces with MySpace, we think we can provide an unmatched social music platform to help you discover music and connect with your favorite artists.
The iLike.com website and applications will continue to operate as they always have – except that we’ll be working to make them even better in the weeks and months to come.
Pictured in photo from left to right: Ali Partovi, Mike Jones (COO of MySpace), Owen Van Natta (CEO of MySpace), Nat Brown, Hadi Partovi
And that’s not the only big iLike development in the last few days. iLike is now enabling music fans who discover and share music on iLike to purchase songs and albums (in MP3 format) in-page directly from iLike.com.
Our MP3 download service is currently in Beta on iLike.com, meaning that we’ll continue to improve it as we get feedback from users and artists. Our goal over time is to offer music fans the ability to impulse buy in-page from wherever they are.
Change is exciting, but we know it can also cause anxiety – even when the developments are good. We’ll continue to update you here when there is anything new or noteworthy to share. We value your ongoing support and we welcome your feedback.
Ali & Hadi Partovi, co-founders of iLike
Why is it that today all of my songs only play a short clip? Yesterday they were fine and played the full song the way I uploaded them. I uploaded them to be full songs. Now they only play a short clip of each song. What gives? Do I need to dump you guys and go with Reverbnation?
Posted by: Dave | August 20, 2009 at 09:00 AM
When fans download their favorite music from ilike; How will the artist get paid?
Posted by: Tko | August 21, 2009 at 07:51 AM
Why not? It is necessary to looking for something new.
Good luck to you in all that you do!
Posted by: CHARIVNA | August 22, 2009 at 08:55 AM
Why are our songs only playing clips?? The other day they the player played the full song, now it's only a 30 second clip. WTF???
Posted by: Leeward Fate | August 23, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Please bring back the free mp3 download option and the full song listening option!
You disabled it without prior notice!
This is a shame!
Posted by: Henry | August 24, 2009 at 09:05 AM
I am loving the new Myspace integration, makes my life easier (and ReverbNation a bit pointless). But it's annoying how when you post a gig the 'url' is a required field... and then when it displays on your profile the link says 'get tickets' -- WTF? If I was at the level where people were buying tickets for my gigs then I wouldn't need iLike!
It's great for you guys that you're making the big money deals but try to remember that the majority of your content providers aren't famous and never will be.
Posted by: Paul | September 21, 2009 at 02:07 AM
I really like the I-Like Concert calendar app, but there is one serious problem with this app. When you add a date to the calendar, it doesn't show up on your friends News Feeds!? This is an important feature of the Myspace concert calendar to notify people when you add a concert date.....for this reason I don't think we can use the I-Like App. Any plans to fix this?
Thanks,
Mark
Low of the LOW
Posted by: Mark | September 30, 2009 at 06:52 AM
Congratulations guys! I've always been a fan of iLike. MySpace acquisition means more growth potential..congrats.
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Posted by: twitter.com/workonweb | November 12, 2009 at 12:31 AM
I am finding it difficult to edit the song which I have uploaded. I
tried it for two days continuously. My fans have send me feedbacks
saying that they are concerned in finding out the song they want to
hear. I checked the help/FAQ sections which offered me no support.
Please help me.
In addition, I want to change the no. of the featured songs.
Tara Dagium
Arunachal Music
Posted by: Tara Chingri Dagium | November 20, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Please support for Winamp Player!
Posted by: A Facebook User | December 07, 2009 at 02:14 PM