KPM Music shutdown?

[Yohanes Salomo]

Guys, I had a bad news. I seem to happen to see that KPM Music's official website has shut down for good. Kinda.

It's official. I was feeling like going there, but all I got was this:


It's sad because it was the place I used to visit, but I'm not sure if it's shut down for real, I'm kinda worried.

[nidostar]

Yohanes, back in August 2023 the KPM catalogue moved over to Extreme Music. Their website is here https://www.extrememusic.com.

They explain here (https://www.extrememusic.com/blog/kpm-is-moving-to-extreme-music) all about KPM's move including an FAQ which advises "The KPM website will remain live for a short period, but we encourage you to transition to using Extreme Music as quickly as possible". The "short period" seems to have been as much as 3 years!

Alternatively you can view KPM's catalogue on the APM Music website at www.apmmusic.com.

[LibraryGuy78]

The thing that sucks is that the KPM site was the only place where i could listen to the Conroy 78s they digitized as well as some of the Music House albums (many of the MH albums were only on KPM for some reason and not on UPM), it was also the only place where i could listen to the Sound-Pol & Scores & Songs libraries (though for the latter it might be available on another production music website) and on some international versions of their website they had the De Wolfe library, and some of the tracks from that label that were removed from the main DW site were still intact on KPM's.

This means that i probably need a VPN to listen to these tracks since unlike KPM's website where you could choose what country's lineup you would prefer to see, you need a VPN for Extreme, i thought the KPM site was only temporarily down so this REALLY sucks : (

[lbjames]

The thing that sucks is that the KPM site was the only place where i could listen to the Conroy 78s they digitized as well as some of the Music House albums (many of the MH albums were only on KPM for some reason and not on UPM), it was also the only place where i could listen to the Sound-Pol & Scores & Songs libraries (though for the latter it might be available on another production music website) and on some international versions of their website they had the De Wolfe library, and some of the tracks from that label that were removed from the main DW site were still intact on KPM's.

This means that i probably need a VPN to listen to these tracks since unlike KPM's website where you could choose what country's lineup you would prefer to see, you need a VPN for Extreme, i thought the KPM site was only temporarily down so this REALLY sucks : (

agree....oh well

going forward.....if you need music house albums, you will need to request/download them from BlackwatchPlaid's thread, pretty sure he will refresh the links when he has time.

https://librarymusicthemes.com/index.php?topic=702.0

[Yohanes Salomo]

The thing that sucks is that the KPM site was the only place where i could listen to the Conroy 78s they digitized as well as some of the Music House albums (many of the MH albums were only on KPM for some reason and not on UPM), it was also the only place where i could listen to the Sound-Pol & Scores & Songs libraries (though for the latter it might be available on another production music website) and on some international versions of their website they had the De Wolfe library, and some of the tracks from that label that were removed from the main DW site were still intact on KPM's.

This means that i probably need a VPN to listen to these tracks since unlike KPM's website where you could choose what country's lineup you would prefer to see, you need a VPN for Extreme, i thought the KPM site was only temporarily down so this REALLY sucks : (

Ah, I see. Me too! I love the Music House albums on KPM's website, but that sucks because it's down. So, I agree. Oh well...

But at least there's one on UPM's website, just only available in United States, and not that much as far as I know, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Yohanes Salomo]

Yohanes, back in August 2023 the KPM catalogue moved over to Extreme Music. Their website is here https://www.extrememusic.com.

They explain here (https://www.extrememusic.com/blog/kpm-is-moving-to-extreme-music) all about KPM's move including an FAQ which advises "The KPM website will remain live for a short period, but we encourage you to transition to using Extreme Music as quickly as possible". The "short period" seems to have been as much as 3 years!

Alternatively you can view KPM's catalogue on the APM Music website at www.apmmusic.com.

Ah, I see. And yes. I know right, Nido?! They said "short period", but it has been as much as 3 years! So yeah, I agree with what you said. Anyway, thanks for the heads up, Nido.