Background Info

SoundsBox is a relatively new music site starting in late June 2007. They are licensed under the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (ROMS). In accordance to the licenses terms, Soundsbox pays license fees for all materials. Soundsbox...

It's worth noting that Soundsbox is often one of the first stores to offer the latest albums.

As someone whose favourite bit rate is 256VBR I have marked the store down slightly as albums can often be found with very mediocre bit rates however it might be a coincidence but a number of albums I have looked at, on Soundsbox, recently are offered at quite good bitrates. If this is a conscious decision by Seva then great

All I can say is, searched for Sarah Vaughan and came up with 3 albums??Tch, tch. Fiesta and Lavamus laid out a load of 'em. May be an unfair judgement and I'll try searching for other stuff, but the music most important to me is how I choose a site.

But one of the nice things about Soudsbox if you requested more Sarah Vaughn
as a member,they would do there best to get you more tittles.
I too use catalogue as a criteria for choosing a site, but you can not judge a site merely by one artist.

SoundsBox is an illegal mp3 site. I was referred by someone who found one of our label releases on their as they had their credit details stolen from the site and used in Russia, and they were disappointed we were associated with SoundsBox. But we have never authorised SoundsBox to use the release which is freely distributable under a Non-Commercial Creative Commons license normally and the artist was receiving no royalties from any sales. The release was downloaded and illegally re-uploaded for their profit alone.

After requesting SoundsBox to remove the release they haven't complied and we are thinking of taking legal action to get the release removed.

I'm surprised anyone would use this site.

I'm sure they would comply,but I'm only guessing.

And don' be so surprised.

Hi LostChildrenNetLabel

Welcome to the forum

I hope you don't mind me fleshing out your post a bit. For anyone who isn't familiar with Creative Commons licences, I think you're using something like this:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

And your website would seem to be this:
http://lostchildrennetlabel.wordpress.com

which I commend to our readers. I've already found some interesting music there and I look forward to browsing it further.

I understand your displeasure but I think you should bear in mind that Soundsbox may operate in a jurisdiction which doesn't yet recognise Creative Commons licences. You might also consider putting a reference to the licence in the 'Comment' field of your ID3 tags.

gm