>I respect the intent and my comments are meant to be
>constructive. Why not just provide a one-click (or two or
>three) way to clear a sample that the user has dug him or
>herself? A simple one page site where you fill out a form,
>maybe upload the sample, and then your service quickly
>curates/facilitates the clearing process.

Well, the answer to that is simple - what we're doing just wouldn't work for licensing just one track. The only reason we can have the licensing be this simple is that we're licensing large amounts of tracks at once. The actual work involved to get a label to sign off is usually months - if not years. We can't spend that time trying to get a specific song for someone.

So far we're close to 100 labels from all over the world signed, and the number of tracks we have is not small - more than 60000 tracks - and we hope to make it 10 times that in a year. So there is an opportunity to dig for stuff noone else has found here. We just got a _lot_ of chinese music, for example.

If you want to keep digging for old vinyl, please do. I still definitely do myself. This isn't going to end that. We're just offering a decent alternative when you want to make sure that what you dig for can be licensed.