MXTabs to Reopen 2007-03-27 by WishMaster | 46 Comments |
Madison, WI – March 27, 2007 – Musicnotes, Inc., announced today it has acquired and plans to reopen the popular guitar tablature website, MXTabs.net as the first site to work directly with music publishers in offering free, licensed legal guitar tab downloads.
Through agreements with music publishers, participating copyright holders will receive a portion of all advertising revenue generated through views of their tablature on the web site MXTabs.net, while still retaining control over their song catalog in a robust online community.
Many well-trafficked guitar tab web sites have recently shut down due to industry pressure for offering transcriptions of copyright-protected songs without proper licensing. MXTabs.net was previously one of the most popular of these guitar tab web sites, before it voluntarily removed all guitar tablature in the summer of 2006. The site and its assets have since been acquired by Guitar Tabs LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Musicnotes, Inc.
Guitar tabs (tablature) are transcriptions of music presented in a text-based format that has become increasingly popular with guitarists online. The text format allows guitarists to transcribe music for guitar and easily post these transcriptions to MXTabs.net, without requiring advanced knowledge of computers or other notation software.
Similar to YouTube, Wikipedia and other user-generated content sites, the guitar tab arrangements offered on MXTabs were created, reviewed and edited by the site’s enthusiastic guitarist community. With the new legal version of MXTabs, users will again be encouraged to participate in the MXTabs community to help build, grow and continually improve the MXTabs song catalog. This includes creating guitar tabs for songs that are not popular enough to warrant the publication of a traditional song book.
However, unlike many other user-generated content sites, only songs that have received permission from participating copyright owners will be made available online.
MXTabs.net is expected to launch its new web site in summer of 2007. For more information on how to participate, publishers and administrators are encouraged to visit www.mxtabs.net.
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omg omg omg omg 
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Yes, final Fu**ingly!!!
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thanks for posting this, my day just got better
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Cool new look/format. MX used to be my homepage for like two years. I'm definitely excited.
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This made my day.
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[quote="Thor"]This made my day.[/quote] This made my year. I was getting really tired of having to use Ultimate-Guitar.com
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This made my year. I was getting really tired of having to use Ultimate-Guitar.com
Yeah that site is really annoying, wanna-be mxtabs
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It kinda sucked, because once I signed up on musician's forums, MXtabs was shut down, so my account was pretty much useless since I made it to rate and post tabs.
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Yeah, i noticed how the forums were kinda like an echo of why it was started in the first place.
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YES!! Finally after many failed attempts I can get and play my favorite music (well...try to play)
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(well...try to play)
haha tru dat
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Finally... Now I can study drumtabs again!
Mx will always be THE drumtab site. foking good news.
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UG was never going to be Mx.
Thank god.
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aaaaaaaah! Ultimate guitar wasn't cutting it for me.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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fuck yeah guys
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OMG! That rules! This was the site that hekped me learn drums-now for guitar and bass-911 tabs was sucking my balls biggie.
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This made my year. I was getting really tired of having to use Ultimate-Guitar.com
UG does suck majorly
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It's about time.
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Revamping the frontpage and everything. Everytime I refresh it's something new.
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I was getting really tired of having to use Ultimate-Guitar.com
Same here. This is great news.
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Finally!
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OMFGGGG
No more fucking gay Ultimate Guitar!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you God.
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This is effin sweet. I was getting tired of Ultimate-Guitar myself.
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Just another reason why Madison, WI owns. This is tight news.
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awesome. just awesome.
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good I hate e-chords.com
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Right awn. ultimate-guitar was ass.
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Where does Jeremy fit into all this?
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They're going to be official, and right, and everything beautiful.
I can't wait.
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Ultimate-Guitar is good... But MX is better!
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Jesus titty fucking!!!!!!!!!!11
UG was decent, but the pop ups are just outragously horrible.This Message Edited On 03.27.07
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yay. id had enough of ug by now
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btw new site does look pretty hawt
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www.tablatures.tk was the one I used after mxtabs got shut down, its better than ultimate-guitar. Anyway, a lot of my classical guitar arrangements that have no copyright were taken down or prevented from being downloaded on that site. Glad to know its back up, I'll be uploading again
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Awesome.
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About time!
Excellent news!
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Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!
F**k Yeah!!!!!!!!!
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I've been using 911tabs.com, which takes tabs from all kinds of sites including UG.
Nothing ever compared to the greatness of mxtabs, though.
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best news of the day (so far)
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Wow awesome indeed, this is the place I always came to look up tabs when I first started playing. Can't wait for it to be up and running :D
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If you submit the news, be careful. I got banned from UG last time I mentioned MXTabs in a post.
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I'll do it, I don't use my UG account for anything else anyway.
It's called 'Tab Sites Soon To Be Legal?", and if their mods don't rejectify it, I'll post the link when it's up.This Message Edited On 03.28.07
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I'm assuming the article was not approved...
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This is fucking awesome news!
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Hopefully it actually happens. I can imagine it would be hard to split money between 26457 different artists.... I hope it reopens it's really good for beginner musicians who need help picking out songs by ear.
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This is good, but "only songs that have received permission from participating copyright owners will be made available online." Do you think it's likely that a lot of tabs won't be made available for this reason?
I'm not sure how it will work, but hopefully this will be as good as before.
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