Legal issues with Amazon.com

As far as I know, we are the first and only music torrents site that provides you the option to buy the albums we have published in Amazon.

I thought that this was an excellent idea, give the user the option to easily buy an album that they liked after download and hear it for free. That way, everybody wins: the user gets an album that already know they like, the artists and Amazon gets some money (oh, and the labels too, most of it), and we get a small commission that help us to cover our hosting expenses. A great idea that every torrent site should implement.

A couple of days ago, we received an email from Amazon, demanding us to remove any links to them and informing that they closed our account.

I can't overstate enough the idiocy of said request: they're actually telling us to stop helping them selling albums! This is so unbelievable that I needed to share it, and vent the frustration that caused me this failure in trying to cooperate with them for the best interests of everyone.

I created Coda.fm with the objective of innovate and go where no other torrent site has gone before, and this "partnership" was a key piece of our vision, but looks like they're not ready. This is a big disappointment and a bad decision that stopped a first attempt to integrate our activities, in my opinion only opposing in appearance.

Although we're no longer an Amazon Associate, we're going to keep the links to buy the albums. A couple of hundred of albums and digital downloads has been sold to the date, proving it's usefulness, and that is the only criteria I will use to decide what features we keep or remove.

Don't worry, as long as someone find us useful, not matter what happens, we will adapt (and fight) to keep Coda.fm running.

Cheers!


Coda.fm administrator

User profile

We just added the possibility of customize your user page, being able to create a user profile to tell the others more about yourself, if you want to do so. In the future, we plan to add social network features (like connect with other users, create list of favorites artists, have a custom RSS feed, etc.), and being able to describe yourself should be the first step in that direction.

This was a frequently requested feature, and I hope you all find it useful.

Cheers !

Coda.fm administrator

Weekly rankings

We have completed the weekly rankings (by number of downloads) of albums and artists, in contrast to the old rankings based on total downloads. The new rankings should be more informative, showing you the latest trends, and the lists will be more dynamic, worth of checking it out often.

Also, we kept the rankings based on total downloads, so you can look at it too if you find it interesting.

I hope you all find this new feature useful.

Cheers !