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Originally Posted by shmuckerz  i like the way u can grab and move around the album pictures, very innovative.
BUT. the download speeds are pretty slow...
right now im downloading a song at 30Kbps... this is quite pathetic to the 1.3Mbps i get when downloading a song or even movie trailer from itunes, and if im correct those servers are based in america.
one other small suggestion.. i cant find the newest popular songs.. if i were to sign up for a service such as urs, which i look forward to doing at some point i would only do it if i could get the newest songs.
cheers
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Thanks for compliment, we were thinking about how people actually shop for CD in a store and we wanted to bring a similar experience to our visitors, no more boring flat "do nothing" catalogs ! You play with your food, now play with your CD "collection".. still tweaking it...
The development server is sitting in our office running off an ADSL so the upload is a little slow (768kpbs upload) as this is running a beta... We will "move" it to our co-location facitiliy end of this month.
Our co-located server has 10Mbs line, so you will get up to 2mbs downloads... that's an average, we got even higher from Maxonline 8Mbs at home. So a 6mb song downloads in less than 2 mins or less... we are planning a download manager and P2P towards end of the year...
We think you want to be a "downloadolic" so we try to increase bandwidth for you to download as much as you want... every day a new album.. Try new stuff, now that it is affordable.. (You can afford to buy new album every day ?)
On the songs that you see, you will see some of them are very new 2008 releases (incl Canto and Mando pops), famous and not so famous but released in the last 12 hours, it takes us about that long to download 2,000 songs every day and process them including cataloging, QC, etc. It's a daily update from the source servers, including large amount of original Album Art which we have to resize for the site. Our order schedule is newer + older at the same time to fill the "bank" so that you will also get the latest and eventually the oldest... So once a song is released officially, you get it when you login, faster than you can drive to your CD shop.
It will eventually have about 300,000 song for this year, over time it will keep growing.... ad infinitum...
We try to have a good mix of the latest and greatest Western and Chinese songs, looking for JPOP, KPOP and other indies... and keep hunting for new sources...
We are working on a more intutive "smart" search and selections, any ideas are appreciated. Search is not yet working... and multi-language (Simp Chinese) will also be ready soon.. The challenge is to make it really simple and easy to use and still be sophisticated.
Please bear with us, it is still work in progress, and with your help, it will be a "dream" site...
