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It's over....; I think
Topic Started: Jun 13 2008, 01:14 PM (286 Views)
suikerbuik	Jun 13 2008, 01:14 PM Post #1
Loyal Member Posts: 491 Group: Member Member #198 Joined: April 2, 2005 Gender Male Mood Happy Browser Firefox Blog Please insert the title of your blog	Whell I think the pulled the plug on Social FM. Allthough I cannot find anything about it, all there pages are offline. I cannot login to webcast and the home and blog pages are offline... So I think that is the end of a beautifull time.... I will go on with a new project on www.ubroadcast.com I will let you know when it start. Solong Mercora so long Social FM Edited by suikerbuik, Jun 13 2008, 01:15 PM.



TheSauceMaster	Jun 13 2008, 06:08 PM Post #2
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	Well I tried to install that broadcast manager and it just gives me errors that it's not the correct version. I did download the player to listen and it sounds pretty good but I noticed it is kinda buggy itself. It looks like it has potential though.
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suikerbuik	Jun 13 2008, 06:49 PM Post #3
Loyal Member Posts: 491 Group: Member Member #198 Joined: April 2, 2005 Gender Male Mood Happy Browser Firefox Blog Please insert the title of your blog	Sauce I guess you are talking about ubroadcast. I have no problem connecting with it. I uploaded some music, what you don't have to because you can use there library too, and that it big. I agree with the player, going from one song to the next gives it some problem bnut the sound is nice, and you can make live programs.



TheSauceMaster	Jun 14 2008, 10:37 PM Post #4
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	Yeah I keep getting a error saying some .dll file is not the correct version. I've did everything they say and still haven't been able to get the broadcaster to launch. I'm wondering if it is a Vista 64 problem or something.
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StEC	Jun 14 2008, 10:41 PM Post #5
Gender Hudini Admin Posts: 16,574 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Sick Browser Firefox Blog StEC's Blog!	Yep Mercora's site is still down I think it is the end!?
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serrebi	Jun 15 2008, 12:26 AM Post #6
Special Member Posts: 226 Group: Member Member #55 Joined: September 21, 2004 Gender Male Mood Proud	Yep, it's the end. I got a email in response to my facebook message from Sampath. I won't post it here just in case, but yes this is the end. He said that it would have been irresponsible for him to keep investing money into it. RIP
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dfxshadow	Jun 15 2008, 03:28 AM Post #7
Silver Member Posts: 1,861 Group: Retired Staff Member #54 Joined: September 19, 2004	Not enough money from adds? What happened.... I mean.. I know what happened, they broke the IM format and went program format... they didnt build a community... and cause people like me not to stay a part of it.
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StEC	Jun 15 2008, 08:19 AM Post #8
Gender Hudini Admin Posts: 16,574 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Sick Browser Firefox Blog StEC's Blog!	dfxshadow Jun 15 2008, 03:28 AM I know what happened, they broke the IM format and went program format... they didnt build a community... and cause people like me not to stay a part of it. Exactly....they started that private group where they were supposed to listen to us die hard fans of the program but chose instead to ignore us and go a different route!? Seriously though it's too bad I will miss it I mean I will miss Mercora when it was a great application in it's heyday! RIP Edited by StEC, Jun 15 2008, 08:20 AM.
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danielles	Jun 15 2008, 08:37 AM Post #9
Special Member Posts: 115 Group: Member Member #400 Joined: November 11, 2005 Gender Female Browser Chrome Blog Please insert the title of your blog	awww man, and I was just going to start getting back into it, or at least trying to... I need something to do with my time starting this Thursday :( RIP: Mercora aka SocialFM (2003 - 2008)
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Glenmetalhead	Jun 15 2008, 10:39 AM Post #10
Loyal Member Posts: 545 Group: Investor Member #144 Joined: February 6, 2005 Gender Male Mood Proud Browser Firefox Blog Please insert the title of your blog	It's a real shame but thats what you get when you don't listen to the most important part of a networking program the users I rember back in the day I was willing to pay to use it



dfxshadow	Jun 15 2008, 12:26 PM Post #11
Silver Member Posts: 1,861 Group: Retired Staff Member #54 Joined: September 19, 2004	The thing is, and i dont know why they went with a centralized server to serve music to everyone, that made it expensive for them, if it would have been pure P2P more in line with bittorrent, the bandwidth costs would have been much much less.
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ProKlowner	Jun 15 2008, 03:29 PM Post #12
Professor Klowner Posts: 2,851 Group: Investor Member #791 Joined: February 28, 2008 Gender Male Mood Inspired Browser Firefox Blog Revision A's Nightshades	[quote name='Z' date='Jun 14 2008, 07:18 AM' post='150'] I guess here is the only place I will comment on..............................................MUSIC ...........my Part reason for having been on the net in so many places and times over the past 4 years was because of this program called............................ come on yell it out with me!!! ...............................[size=7]Mercora[/size] I am sorry to say they seem to have shut off the servers! ....ok what I am listening to is internet music.........Mercora may be gone, but our music is not! [size=4]There will always be alternatives............EG[/size] [/quote] Yeah Social fm is dead.



TheSauceMaster	Jun 16 2008, 01:38 AM Post #13
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	dfxshadow Jun 15 2008, 12:26 PM The thing is, and i dont know why they went with a centralized server to serve music to everyone, that made it expensive for them, if it would have been pure P2P more in line with bittorrent, the bandwidth costs would have been much much less. I hate to say it but I think that would have failed also. Several ISP's in the U.S. are disrupting bit torrent traffic. Also the latest new craze seems to be taking away unlimited Internet. Comcast said they are eventually going to have caps., Time Warner is testing caps and AT&T has said they will eventually have caps for metered access. The days of having a unlimited connection are going to be a thing of the past. The bad part about mercora in it's early stages depended on the broadcasters upload and back then not many people had high uploads to support lots of listeners. I always liked the IM style Mercora the best . They had a community at one point and a very active one at that , but all I kept hearing is it was all about the music and community features dropped 1 by 1 until all it was is just about the music. There were lots of us in chat all the time and helping new people who joined Mercora.
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bucky	Jun 16 2008, 06:59 AM Post #14
Gold Member Posts: 4,647 Group: Retired Staff Member #53 Joined: September 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Curious	Indeed Sad however should of stayed Mercora not social FM. when first released everyone went nuts as it was so community based however once that was messed with people only used it for music which is what the programmers wanted really even after good advice from all of us, to be honest im suprised it didnt happen sooner. Oh sorry big shout out to all waves hope you are all ok peeps. Carl aka Bucky



TheSauceMaster	Jun 16 2008, 03:25 PM Post #15
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	They had to change names so they could try to attract new people to try it. It would have been dead sooner if they had not changed names. They failed to realize community is what made Mercora strong back in the day. They failed to realize that most people will try it and only stay so long. Once you lose a person the chances of them coming back are very slim. I'm sure everyone has tried programs and found out they weren't so good and never went back. I know I have done it.
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suikerbuik	Jun 16 2008, 05:52 PM Post #16
Loyal Member Posts: 491 Group: Member Member #198 Joined: April 2, 2005 Gender Male Mood Happy Browser Firefox Blog Please insert the title of your blog	I can understand that they pulled the plug if it was not worth the investment anymore. But what I do NOT understand is they way they did it. There where till the end still a group of people online every day, loyal users, and the pulled the plug without any warning. They did not tell anyone anything. They atleast could have given us a sign. and what about the Mobile users who payed for the programe.... they lost there money... Well what can I say, here in Holland there no sign of limiting the bandwith or put caps on anything..yet. Hi Bucky long time no see, thank JB for being a faithfull listener to my webcast :-) Greeting Hendrik



serrebi	Jun 16 2008, 10:41 PM Post #17
Special Member Posts: 226 Group: Member Member #55 Joined: September 21, 2004 Gender Male Mood Proud	I still think that they could have done a p2p style of listening instead of proxying everything through there servers. As nice as it was, I knew it wouldn't last once I found out they were beginning to proxy listeners around a year ago. I'm still broadcasting at http://www.serrebiradio.com sort of like serrebi101 style, but a little more defined. It's auto dj unless I, or someone else a friend or whatever is using it. Mind the design, it's kinda a pop up player that is my main site. I'm lazy. I've gotta play around with it.
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bucky	Jun 17 2008, 04:40 AM Post #18
Gold Member Posts: 4,647 Group: Retired Staff Member #53 Joined: September 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Curious	hehe thanks Hendrik, Well i left cos me state of the art comp blew and well just board with it, missed all my buds also bud hey i still remember this place. Hey sauceman nice to see ya posting buddy ;-0)



texsguy	Jun 17 2008, 04:58 AM Post #19
Insane Guitarist type dude Posts: 1,907 Group: Member Member #609 Joined: January 26, 2007 Gender Male Mood Horny	'Twas just a matter of time.
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TheSauceMaster	Jun 17 2008, 05:05 PM Post #20
Loyal Member Posts: 659 Group: Retired Staff Member #20 Joined: August 28, 2004	Good to see you also Buckster I used a P2P type broadcaster like several years back. It was called Peercast I believe. Like I said though lots of ISP's are starting to block P2P type of applications here. I left Comcast because they use protocol to mess up P2P. I'm on At&T dsl right now and they haven't blocked it yet so I'm okay. To be honest I'm not surprised they didn't let anyone know they were going offline forever. I can remember lots of times users weren't informed about major changes. Ads don't make money unless people click. I'm doubting the Mobile version made much money and if many subscribed. Mercora had no real way to make money , I remember when they charged people and that even failed. I'm guessing they just finally ran out of money and no one wanted to spend more money on a product that has been on life support for several years now.
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