The Audiofile feature was a prime reason for me to tune in onto salon.com. Removing this unique feature is burning the bridges to a massive part of your audience. I cannot imagine this will go through without financial regret.

Bring it back!

Audiofile gave Salon a fresh dimension. Now, you join the ranks of the army of online journals regurgitating news and politics, albeit in a slightly more progressive fashion. Can't you reconsider?

Man ... go on vacation and Salon removes my favorite feature ... you shoulda told me about this before I renewed my subscription, guys ... most of the new music I've discovered over the last couple of years has been through Audiofile, and I will miss it sorely. Alas, poor Audiofile, we barely knew ye.

hey, why not put a link to "Black Sweater, White Cat"? These guys blog every day a new song (they passed already nr. 200), and all this music is published under a Creative Commons license, so everybody can download/copy/share this music.

http://biotic.blogspot.com/search/label/BSWC%20One-a-Day

C hear s!

This is a sad loss for Salon, at a time when the arts are under attack from all sides -- net radio's battle to fight unrealistic royalties, the right wing's constant threats to any kind of government support for such "unnecessary" things... We have forgotten that great societies produce (and share with the world) great artistic achievement. The Egyptians? The Greeks? The Romans? The legacies they left for us are inextricable from the art of their cultures.

Okay, so this may be a tad hyperbolic, and maybe it was just a few of us that will miss this feature. *sigh* I guess a small dose of beauty once in a while as an antidote to the ugliness of most of the rest of the world right now was just not worth a bump of the bottom line.

I guess I'll go back to reading about the most recent way our current government is screwing us and the world, and how ineffective the Dems are in combating it. I'd like to threaten to discontinue my subscription, but realistically, there's an election coming up and I'll need it.

I just wish I could have counted on Audiophile to be here too. One more reason to be sad...

I have a suggestion: Use the money you're paying Paglia to write her unreadable and pointless gobbeldygook (wtf?) to bring Audiofile back when you finally realize that Paglia's not an asset to Salon.

I, too, just discovered Audiofile this year, and was thrilled about it. It had led to new music (and even one of the best concerts I'd been to, in a while). And now gone. A loss, to be sure.

I'm a bit late in expressing my dismay over the demise of audiofile. I don't write letters to the editor - had to register in order to write this one. I LOVED this feature! Had it set up in my itunes podcasts. I was so happy the day it reunited me with an old favorite, wedding present ... sob ...

susan

For a long time now, Audiofile has been my first (and frequently my only) weekday stop at Salon. There was nothing else like it anywhere. Now there's nothing like it anywhere at all. Honestly, I may not even bother continuing my premium membership without Audiofile.

Every three or four days I check to see if by some miracle Audiofile is up and running again. I loved the new music I discovered here, I loved the heads up that a favorite artist had a new CD dropping, I loved the contests to discover new artists, and I loved the articles. Hope it comes back. I'll probably keep checking.

What a wonderful feature this has been. I came across some very interesting music here and I enjoyed the commentary, too. This has been such an excellent part of Salon.

I've been a fan of Audiofile for years now, coming back regularly to read listen. I edit an online music site, so I visit a lot of music blogs and read plenty of online content, and Audiofile always remained a clear favorite. It's sad to find Salon abandoning a feature that boasted a unique, strong voice for independent music and active, adventurous listeners. I hope they follow through on Joan Walsh's claim to "[beef] up our culture coverage, including music"--though feature articles never can replace the voice and format that made Audiofile such a standout.

i just found and fell in love with this site about 3 weeks ago. and now you're gonna up and quit on me?!? you're my bread and butter! my favorite warm blanket! my long kiss goodnight! where will i turn for awesome new music and relevant music article?!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

j

i just hope you know how alienating this move is to anyone under 25 who visits salon.com (not that they'll have a lot of incentive to do so after the demise of audiophile)i'm not afraid to admit that, while i do turn to salon for the occasional feature on news and politics, this is the only feature i visited regularly, and probably the only music blog sponsored by a major online news source i relied on for new music. many, many cred points deducted.

The recommended free download feature this column provided was something that made Salon stand apart from many other music sections on the internet. I hope you have the good marketing sense to bring back another incarnation of Audiofile sooner rather than later. Until then, I won't be around as frequently.

I only today discovered that you've discontinued Audiophile, and I'm terribly disappointed. I've added several new songs to my iPod over the past year or so due to great discoveries from your Audiophile selections. Every Saturday (like today), I looked forward to the weekly round-up of songs, since I rarely had time to check Audiophile daily during the week.

At a time when Salon has been making lots of changes to its content -- some good (not that I can name those), several bad such as the return of the atrocious Camille Paglia and Video Dog which, except for Rabbit Bites, is just awful now -- eliminating Audiophile may be the final blow for me. Especially since your feature writing isn't good enough to compensate.

I don't think I'll be renewing my Premium subscription this year.