Comments on: Myspace Music streams 1bn+ tracks in 1st week http://www.themusicvoid.com/2008/10/myspace-music-streams-more-than-1bn-tracks-in-less-the-a-week/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=myspace-music-streams-more-than-1bn-tracks-in-less-the-a-week One of the music industry’s leading sources for music industry opinions, insights and interviews. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tim H http://www.themusicvoid.com/2008/10/myspace-music-streams-more-than-1bn-tracks-in-less-the-a-week/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Tim H Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:01:34 +0000 http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=189#comment-179 Donna, you are right that a stream will start when someone clicks on a page, but not about bots. When a bot visits a page, it won't retrieve the embedded music on it - unless it is a specialised bot designed to do that, unlike all the usual ones. In terms of the stats, I'm not sure that the streams would only have been triggered by registered users; anyone visiting a few of their pages will, I'm sure, be counted too. I'm not sure what the point is of the per-registered-user number, in fact! Tim Donna, you are right that a stream will start when someone clicks on a page, but not about bots. When a bot visits a page, it won’t retrieve the embedded music on it – unless it is a specialised bot designed to do that, unlike all the usual ones. In terms of the stats, I’m not sure that the streams would only have been triggered by registered users; anyone visiting a few of their pages will, I’m sure, be counted too. I’m not sure what the point is of the per-registered-user number, in fact!

Tim

]]> By: Donna Larson http://www.themusicvoid.com/2008/10/myspace-music-streams-more-than-1bn-tracks-in-less-the-a-week/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Donna Larson Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:36:03 +0000 http://www.themusicvoid.com/?p=189#comment-174 Were the streams counted from all the band pages on MySpace and if so why were the independent musicians not represented by the 4 major labels and Orchard counted. If the count included those independent musicians it's just another example of MySpace Music bragging about somebody else's work. Music plays on MySpace are not necessarily song plays. The counter increments when someone clicks on a page because the song players are set to start when a page opens. So 100's of 1000's of plays are no more than bots visiting pages. That's why the claim is outrageous. Does anyone really believe that every single registered account user played 10 tracks. Do the math. That means every user had to login to MySpace in that week and play 10 songs. Look at the last date logged in on any random 10 pages. You will find many users have not logged in, in months. Were the streams counted from all the band pages on MySpace and if so why were the independent musicians not represented by the 4 major labels and Orchard counted. If the count included those independent musicians it’s just another example of MySpace Music bragging about somebody else’s work.
Music plays on MySpace are not necessarily song plays. The counter increments when someone clicks on a page because the song players are set to start when a page opens. So 100′s of 1000′s of plays are no more than bots visiting pages. That’s why the claim is outrageous. Does anyone really believe that every single registered account user played 10 tracks. Do the math. That means every user had to login to MySpace in that week and play 10 songs. Look at the last date logged in on any random 10 pages. You will find many users have not logged in, in months.

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