its the dead elephant room.. the music store its GONE! and with it 100,000 of songs and purchases result in 1000000's of flat out stolen credits.. are we going to talk about this or not??

omg yes!! i saw that the music store just disappeared one day! but luckily im still able to access my music wishlist and listen to the songs i have on it...so thats good...at first i thought it was down for maintenance or something but seeing how it's been unavailable for quite some time now its getting a bit concerning...

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omg yes!! i saw that the music store just disappeared one day! but luckily im still able to access my music wishlist and listen to the songs i have on it...so thats good...at first i thought it was down for maintenance or something but seeing how it's been unavailable for quite some time now its getting a bit concerning...

why are you okay with a wish that dont do a dam thing its there but you cant buy from it or add the songs to your music collection WHICH IS GONE! btw ..i think your confusing your wish list with your mixes. yes are mixes are still there for now.. but that be normaly be maybe 10% - 30 % of your whole music collect at any one time. in my case it maybe 30% of all the music i own! i have over 5000 songs which i have purchased over my 17 years on imvu.. meaning i have been cheated out of over 3 million credits.. imvu have just walked in and stole a massive chuck of my collected imvu purchases.. its theft plain and simple.... there is no other way to explain it...

The truth is that it is a big scam, I think that I did not reach 3 million credits spent on music, but the truth is that there are several credits spent in this way ... it seems absurd to me that they remove it, in the same way imvu should see how to fix this, if return the credits or some option that benefits those of us who have purchased ... I think this was due to the new update that is available for the imvu desktop or the app, which allows you to listen to the radio IDK

that and there music provider stopped serving them either it went belly up or there fed up with imvu. either way we and imvu got a solid FU from them.

Tbh, I'm surprised they ever had a music store. Music licenses cost money and managing them is a pain in the ass. Depending on what type of agreements they had, they can also be revoked at any time, or in the case of irrevocable licenses, not renewed when the agreement expires. This is why Streaming services never have everything you want in one place.

This is also why I do not pay for music or use streaming services. If you want to have access to a song (or any other media) for the rest of your life, you need a local (or physical) copy.

To this day I still listen to my music from my hard drive that I've been curating for over a decade. Whenever I want to add a new song, I look it up on YouTube and download the m4a file directly. I also keep a copy of my collection on an SD card in my phone for when I want to listen to music on the go. This also has the added benefit of not having to listen to commercials or skipping songs you don't like.

Also, with Discord, you can stream music to everyone in the call. It's less convenient than simply playing a song in the room on IMVU but it is a decent option if you're hanging out with your friends.

supossly the the music service they used was some 3rd rate napster rip off. that was allegedly owned by brent. even thou it was never proven.
allso never proven was when brent was bought out of imvu he sold the music service was also aquired.. for a large sum. just adding to his golden parachute.. if any of that is true then they closed there own music provider to weaken classic and to screw its users. if not they couldnt handle dealing with the provider. either way they screwed us!!!!

I hate to play devil's advocate, but buying 5000 songs on IMVU was a poor choice. I'm not sure why you'd need that many; their catalogue didn't have a ton of unique or exclusive music. If hosting or DJing was your thing, you'd of been better served and payed less to set up your own stream like many (decent) DJ'S use on VU and SL. Nothing's forever with digital media and at some point VU is/was gonna shut down, in which case you'd lose all that music anyway.

It doesn't make what they did right, but I'm just saying you could've saved yourself some heartache. You should still have access to your playlists as well. That said, you should try contacting customer support for a reimbursement, though I suspect that ship has sailed. I got a semi-decent refund, as did many others back when they limited product sounds to 15 seconds and everyone's trigger music broke. If I recall you had to provide transaction evidence, so you should be able to log the purchases for a refund -- if they issue them at all and it isn't too late. I wouldn't expect more than 25% of the original value however; just how the cookie crumbles with them.

N.B. This is why I'm a little sad we don't have a new means of media storage in stores. CD's don't have enough storage for modern games, so even physical copies aren't forever like their older counterparts. Equally, very few people buy physical now anyway, so companies aren't going to invest in a new standard for a consumer minority ..sadly. It would only drive the already high price up, anyway. I still proudly collect music CD's and vinyl.

i collected the music over years to do everchanging series of mixs it was just not something i did in one lump. that refund you got was because of a class action suit. there isnt one yet for the music store.

why are you okay with a wish that dont do a dam thing its there but you cant buy from it or add the songs to your music collection WHICH IS GONE!

ok sure i may not be able to buy them anymore but at least i can still listen to the samples

i think your confusing your wish list with your mixes.