MP3.com Dump Released on Internet Archive

Hi James

Very cool - I’m still working on this here and there when I get a few moments to spare.

What IA have are the final resultant/rendered HTML pages, and not all of them.

Anything overly dynamic (like genre pages) are gone, but artist pages, artist-info and song-info pages seem to be around.

We also seem to have a lot of the cover art (albeit in classic early internet low resolution) for the tracks.

My next goal is to gather a list of the artist images that are missing, and “touch” the Internet Archive’s WayBackMachine to see if they saved any of them. Get them downloaded and uploaded.

After that, the next thing would be to look to seeing if we can link the tracks in the MP3 Rescue Barge back to the website that I’ve got… this should allow people to find the MP3’s a bit more “naturally”.

Ultimately, my goal is to have this up and running in such a way that I can then start to add the songs in the rescue barge into the MBz DB.

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