Any site made entirely in Flash should die a horrible, violent and bloody death...

Nothing against beatport - just that flash sucks hairy monkey balls and should be killed.

Hey, Flash has its uses. More to the point, they just did some serious damage to their search engine optimization. I expect there should be a way around that, even with Flash.

To be honest, I don't like the new search engine at all - it just makes the search and browsing more complicated.

I'm sorry that I'll post a link to my blog but I think it has great relevance and I don't want to write about the same thing twice. I just wrote this out of pure frustration: Beatport's support department sucks ass.

Also, I guess you could include junodownload.com in the traffic chart too.

Funny thing, though. A few hours after posting that weblog entry the issue got solved...
And the link.

beatport needs quality control...

Hey Guys- It's true, we currently don't have our site indexed. Beatport 3.0 uses dynamic redirects, such as http://www.beatport.com/Bad+Boy+Bill
We used to have pages like this indexed (Beatport 2.0) but just haven't implemented it with the entirely new structure of Beatport 3.0.

Beatport is alive & well and doing better than ever :P

Beatport has some decent music- if you like it commercial) but the design is a joke.

Compared to all of the other big music stores online, the "flash" format just sucks period. I am constantly re-installing flash to even view Beatport past the info/requires flash page, when every other website in the world runs great... seems strange that I only have problems with Beatport.

I seriously think that this is a big contributing factor to the drop in sales- I for one, usually dont buy there anymore for this simple reason alone.

IMO there should be the option of flash/no flash.

Yeah, I'll agree with Janos on their support problems. A little over a week ago I purchased 25 tracks. To make a long story short, all but 3 tracks were cut short. Some problem with the download for sure, and not saying it was theirs...but could well have been. Anyhow, no problem, according to their FAQ, you can ask them to reactivate the download links. (I went to sleep while they were downloading, so didn't notice the problem until the next day.) So far I've sent 4 emails asking...no, begging to get these tracks. I've gotten nothing back from them. Nothing.

I used to spend a good deal of money there....but now I'm thinking of trying those other sites quoted in the article.

Yeah, their support sucks. Oh, and seems their forums have been undergoing 'maintenance' for some time now. Hmmmm....(in reference to Janos' blog entry on their forums)

Glenn

Hi there,

I've spent some money on beatport and i've the same problem of Glenn, some tracks are incomplete. I've have problems like communication error appearing on my account and yesterday when i'm will going to check out, appears a new problem for me gateway fraud error, i don't have any problem with my credit card before.
The worst on beatport is the support customer service and the site in flash is a nice piece of shit, i think the people is now searching music in other sites, junodownload, djdownload, mos, trackitdown, playittonight and so on.

cheers,

Smallhousen

Anyone with the stupid error "gateway fraud error" ??

I have opend 4 different accounts in beatport and when i'm going to checkout the result is the same in all 4 accounts: "gateway fraud error"

I cannot not log-on to beatport using IE8 anymore...nor can any of my friends.

I can't buying on beatport, i don't understand the problem but i think i know, probably they have denied me to continue buying in (blocked my ip or something else).
The customer service, they never answer the questions to solve the problem, my problems is always the same communication error or gateway fraud error or problem with credit cards, i don't have any problems with that in other sites, i don't know why the problem maintains only with beatport (i've made 4 new register, i've used all the browsers Firefox, Google Chrome and IE).
If anyone knows people who works on beatport make me a favour ask them, why they didn't answer the customers questions and why they chase the customers who talks true on every music foruns telling the beatport problems and bad service.

Peace,

Smallhousen

What?? This chart was made already back in 2006?? Well, I'm just trying to find some info on what the hell is going on at beatport. Can't click on most stuff because of some f***** up upgrade.
Here's my two reasons for the decline of traffic:

1. The music has become so crappy I can't believe what I'm hearing. Is it an experiment to see how bad you can make music and still sell it??? The music was better in 2006 but is declining rapidly! I rarely find anything I can stand listening to nowadays.

2. Now they have destroyed the perfectly working site with some new flash/script upgrade so I can't navigate the site. Don't change something that works, dammit!!!

AAAAH! I need some music!!!

http://www.filter27.com/archives/2009/01/beatport-40-launches.php

It really does suk ass cos you can't even get on 2 the website on a public computer because of install privileges..it's so fustr8ing..weneva i'm on a public 1 i've gotta use djdownload

just go to jamvana.com same music for a cheaper price and good customer service.

I really hate beatport.. They have completely shut off some very good labels.. and they control a major share of the electronic music download market.. it's simply not fair. They turn down some VERY good artists (like these guys - http://www.plushrecs.com

Not to mention...shutting down their affiliate program and turning their backs on all the people who helped make beatport a prime destination for drm-free music.

This company seems very selfish if you as me.

It's a shame a real internet/web development company doesn't run this organization.