Audiogalaxy
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Audiogalaxy was an Internet music service with three incarnations. From 1998 to 2002, it was a file sharing system that indexed MP3 files. From mid-2002 to mid-2010, it was a promotional website for the Rhapsody music subscription service. Finally, from mid-2010 through 2012, it was a personal audio place shifting service. Audiogalaxy ceased operations on January 31, 2013.
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Vinony's link graph records 117 inbound references to Audiogalaxy, and connects out to CNET, Hyphanet and music.
It sits within the topics 1998 software, Defunct digital music services or companies and Internet forums.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.audiogalaxy.com
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- inception
- 1998-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2002-06-17
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Conflict with RIAA over sharing of copyrighted material
- Partnerships and end of P2P operations
- Relaunch
- Closure
- References
- External links
Audiogalaxy was an Internet music service with three incarnations. From 1998 to 2002, it was a file sharing system that indexed MP3 files. From mid-2002 to mid-2010, it was a promotional website for the Rhapsody music subscription service. Finally, from mid-2010 through 2012, it was a personal audio place shifting service. Audiogalaxy ceased operations on January 31, 2013.
==History== The original Audiogalaxy system was created in 1998 by Michael Merhej as an FTP site index called The Borg Search. It quickly evolved into a robust peer-to-peer system with client software (the Audiogalaxy "Satellite"), a web-based search engine, always-on searching for requested files, auto-resume and low system impact. It quickly gained ground among file sharers abandoning Napster in 2001. Some observing the previous downfall of Napster via lawsuit were shocked at the design of Audiogalaxy, which was in some ways more centralized than Napster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Audiogalaxy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.