Comments on: Beatport 2.0 Comments

By: Spunch

Spunch — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:33:39 +0000

Im still trying to figure out how to make a website like Beatport, i love it and so does any dj i know!
Anyone know how they built it?

By: Spunch

Spunch — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:33:39 +0000

Im still trying to figure out how to make a website like Beatport, i love it and so does any dj i know!
Anyone know how they built it?

By: Keef

Keef — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:35:42 +0000

Good luck getting them to respond. They responded to my complaint of the entire site being too small with “most people rely on the sound of the track for purchasing.” Needless to say I was *really insulted.* They don't seem to me to be looking to advance their customers. Audiojelly and Juno.co.uk are much friendlier and give more information (and you can see their sites!).

By: Maxx

Maxx — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:33:56 +0000

Masterbeat is a buggy/slow/cluttered with Flash as Beatport currently is…
Might be interessant if you want international mainstream/dance music from the majors (Universal, Warner, Columbia…) but you have no information about e.g. the catalog# of the release, the audio excerpts are especially crappy sound…

By: miles

miles — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:48:12 +0000

beatport is a ripoff missing 34 tunes dont join they tack your cash and run dogs

By: Sonya Frederick

Sonya Frederick — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:33:18 +0000

check out http://www.masterbeat.com – it’s awesome. Get over your adversion to Flash – it’s an incredible way to build a website this functional.

By: Xamphoa

Xamphoa — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:05:51 +0000

Yall should check out http://www.gigacrate.com. It’s a great alternative to Beatport. Little flash. In fact, the only flash is the audio player itself.

They are a new dj friendly digital music site and community. Not quite the catalog that Beatport has, but certainly a good alternative.

Check it:
http://www.gigacrate.com

By: BubbleBoy

BubbleBoy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:17:17 +0000

These guys suck. They are nothing but a bunch of amateur hacks trying to make money off talented musicians. They treat their employees like crap too. The best thing they could do for everyone involved is shut down their pitiful business and go home. Bonass Tempel is nothing but a big fat software pirate who does way to many illicit substances and deals crap to kids on the side.

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:57:20 +0000

Agree with all of you, especially with baoboa. I think that they dont have the right to kick new labels. My best friend ( and label owner) is trying to get his label to beatport 1,5 year now. After many attempts they send him an email telling him that they don’t accept new labels. He told them that his label is not new and he is trying to get in contact with them for more than 1,5 year. Well, they really don’t care. They are not professionals and im sure that beatport owners don’t give a f*ck about their business as they cant control their employees. The worse is that most people think that beatport is the best. They dont know what is really happening and they don’t care actually.

and something more (for all stores), i cant understand something …
The online stores keeping 50%-60% of the sales! WHO THEY THINK THEY ARE? And they do nothing. So many labels out there … thousands, why they don’t make all together a open online store and they accept to give their music to the thiefs? Because THEY ARE thiefs. They should keep maximum a 10 – 15%. wtf? What the producer will get? what the remixer will get? what the label will get? how the webmaster will get paid? how the grafs designer will get paid? how the promoter will get paid? ALL of them they will take a 40%. And the online store the 60% ooh!!! sounds fair aaa?
Im really pissed off.

By: lstewart

lstewart — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:18:31 +0000

omfg i completely agree. flash is complete nonsense. you nailed it. these guys ‘like flash’ because because it hurts their brains to think about proper css+html. the site is repulsive, slow, buggy, and unusable. i mean f off, its 2007, you load the page, the font hurts your eyes, you can’t search, the interaction model is completely backward and inconsistent with the 100 or so pages you’ve already viewed that day….

plus this closed (non-) standards crap is so misguided in general.. at a time when everything seems to be opening up everywhere else… where’s the developer api?? bah!

the other problems mentioned like no permanent links… sweet jebus… what can i possibly say…

why do they have a lock on the content? without some kind of special relationship with labels this kind of crap shouldn’t survive very long… and the market is ready for an effective competitor… it really surprises me that no-one has pulled this off yet