The once famous social networking site Myspace has admitted to losing more than a decade worth of music uploaded to the site-potentially up to 50 million songs. 

The issue initially gained traction on Reddit when users noted that they could not play or download music. Eventually, users noticed the apology in a post from Myspace.

“As a result of the server migration project, any photos, videos and audio files uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace,” the post said. “We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest you keep backups.”

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Originally one of the world’s leading music sharing platforms, the Los Angeles company was founded in 2003. The post points out that any music uploaded to Myspace from its inception until 2015 may not be available. 

Andy BAIO, former CTO of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, wrote on twitter that the accident could result in the loss of 14 million artists ‘ songs. The exact number of tracks has not yet been confirmed.

“I am deeply skeptical that this was an accident,” he wrote in a separate tweet. “Flagging incompetence may be bad PR, but it still sounds better than” we can’t be bothered by the effort and cost of migrating and hosting 50 million old MP3s.”

Myspace did not immediately respond to a US request for comment TODAY.

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