All the music downloaded in MySpace before 2015, around 50 million songs through 14 million artists, has been lost. They revealed that all user media of the first 12 years of myspace lifestyles have been deleted in a server migration and cannot be recovered.

“After a server migration project, all the photos, videos and audio files that downloaded more than 3 years ago would no longer have in or in MySpace,” said the site (through Boing Boing). “We apologize for discomfort and recommend that you keep your backup copies. “

A Reddit thread this weekend detailed the number that the artists faced when they aimed to recover the music they downloaded in MySpace between 2003 and 2015. Last year, the artists who listed the wise ones that their oldest songs were no longer playable. When asked about the problem, MySpace said they were examining the problem.

However, 8 months ago, MySpace began telling users that music, as well as images and videos downloaded before 2015, were lost in server migration. “There is no way of them,” Myspace admitted.

Although it is a subject of verbal exchange in Reddit, the challenge has reached a weekend general when the technological journalist Andy Baio tweeted about lost songs:

– Andy Baio (@Waxpanke) March 18, 2019

Baio added the accident: “I am deeply skeptical that it was an accident. Clear incompetence can be a bad PR, but it is larger than” we cannot be disturbed through the effort and the charge of migration and accommodation of 50 million MP3. “