I hope Murdoch ensures that artists are adequately paid for their contributions to the site in the same way that he's wants people to pay for online news.

Just spent a few torturous minutes 'navigating' around it. It's chaotic.

And the sound quality seems to be pretty poor; lo-fi even - not a patch on Spotify.

Oh dear...

Why are they trying to get in on Spotify's act? Myspace is a mess. The service appears to be dying on its arse. Nobody in their right mind uses it for social networking any more, Facebook has taken over and even the 12 year olds are deserting it.

They never seem to have addressed the fact that the interface is so horrible to use and so fiddly and the pages look so garish and eye-wateringly awful HTML/animated GIF nightmares and it is a spammers paradise. They haven't kept pace with technology at all.

If they had any sense they would capitalise on what they were good at for a while which was as a base for bands to showcase their music and harvest a mailing list of fans, but simplify the interface and streamline the look of the thing for service users. There are a million customising options but none of the ones you'd actually want.

They should strip it down to a simple database of bands you sign up to the ones you like. You get updates in a simple digest which tell you when you're favourite bands are touring, releasing new singles in a simple bulletin format like Twitter. There are many bands I'd check out and see gigs of, and I'd spend a lot more time browsing the pages of new bands but its impossible to keep up with it as it currently stands at the pages look so horrible it's almost unbearable to use.

I know there are sites like Last FM and some bands use Facebook for promotion but neither do the job particularly well...