Sync more playlists!
We pushed out a change last night that helps you subscribe to your favorite music playlist, tag playlists and search playlists using Rss or iTunes. So its even easier to keep a tab on new music being uploaded. Look for the RSS and iTunes icon on the left column on these pages.
Happy Syncing!
When West Meets East
The world at this point is definitely a melting pot with a potpourri of cultures getting a chance to appreciate one another-be it for the beauty of a language or a particular style of music or the philosophy of a religion. In Muziboo, we came across two interesting uploads. One is a Brit by name Joanne Singleton writing, composing and singing a song for her love in Mandarin and another a Russian woman by name Natasha experiencing her musical thrills by singing Bollywood numbers.
Do give a listen!
Barso re (”Guru” - new) | Upload Music
太愛你 (Love you too much) | Upload Music
Audio comic series reminiscent of Hitchhiker’s guide
The radio series of Hitch Hiker’s guide to galaxy was definitely a cult and guess it has inspired and still inspires many into trying out similar audio comic series. Came across Kyle Puttkammer’s entertaining 3-part series. Everything’s very well done (not judging the storyline here) , just misses a punchy title music. Here you go!
Galaxy Man radio play - part 1 | Music Upload
Galaxy Man radio drama - part 2 | Music Upload
Galaxy Man radio play - part 3 | Music Upload
Introducing On-Player Music Recommendation
We recently rolled out an interesting feature and some of you may have already experienced it. We now show recommended music on the player after the current song is over. Once you click on a song, you are taken to the song page and you can play it
Its a fun way to discover some new music so do try it out on any of the music on Muziboo or one of the embeds in this or other blogs.
Have Fun!
Sweet sounds from the newbies
In Muziboo, the first timers with their sweet sounding curtain raisers have never failed to put a smile on our faces. Came across a few of them in the last few days. I would love to introduce you to Dibble with his first recording of drums, Jasper on his first piano piece and Kelsey at her first attempt as a rock-star.
Simple Tragedy (for piano) | Music Upload
Bottom of the Ocean | Music Upload
Dibble on Drums | Music Upload
Indian Idol - Love it or hate it?
A couple of weeks back, we had a very interesting discussion on Muziboo about Indian Idol, the music talent show. Basically we asked our members what they like or hate about Indian Idol. There were quite a few interesting and detailed responses that are worth checking out.
- A few excerpts
- SMS voting does not make sense
- There are no shows for composers
- Singers can’t really learn from these shows and improve
- Long and tiring audition process where people are selected more for their presentation than singing
To read the full discussion, go here
How to add music to myspace
Myspace allows you to upload your music and they all appear in a playlist. What if you want to add individual songs to your myspace profile or you want to send your song to your friends as a comment?
You can do that easily with Muziboo and I will show you how to do that in a few easy steps
- Create an account on Muziboo if you don’t already have.
- Upload Music to Muziboo
- View your song and click on the myspace button on the embed widget tool. You can also use the myspace comment button if you want.
All you have to now do is to enter the myspace email and password, select the section you want to post this song on and click post. The song will be posted to myspace. Its as simple as that. You can also embed any song on muziboo on wordpress blogs, blogger, livejournal and other sites using this method.
Muziboo celebrates its 1st B’Day
Muziboo is a year old now! The first song on Muziboo went live the same day a year back and a lot has happened since then. With the various changes introduced now, you might almost wonder if you landed on the right place at all! But don’t worry it’s your same old friendly hang-out :) Do read on to know what exactly has changed
Design
The redesign is both cosmetic & functional and had been executed to provide a better user experience in terms of ‘look & feel’, navigation and content discovery. The two dimensions of Muziboo ‘Music’ and ‘Community’ are made separate entry points. The ‘Music’ page is specifically designed to showcase the 10 best songs of the previous week. This chart is based on a smart algorithm which mines the most interesting content of the week considering various factors like play-count, rating, favoriting and comments (excluding duplicate ones and the ones made by the author of the song). All user-activities including comments and group discussions are moved to the ‘Community page’. Kindly post all your songs to relevant ‘groups’ for easy discovery.
Policy
Uploading in Muziboo is free up-to 20 songs. Beyond that, users have to upgrade their accounts to ‘pro’ membership which is a yearly subscription of $25.95. For users who have already exceeded the 20 song limit, the cap will be set to ‘number of songs uploaded + 5′. For example, if a user already has 21 uploads, his/her cap would be at 21+ 5 which is 26. Beyond 26, the user has to upgrade his/her account.
The policy change has been brought in, to make Muziboo a sustainable platform inspite of the growth in user base and activity. We extend our thanks to George Kuruvilla, Radio Idli, Sudeip Ghosh, Nitin Dubey, Suresh Bhagavatula, Abhishek Narayan, Shashank Gokhle, Muzicast, Devkinandan Tokekar and Arun Raja in welcoming this change by upgrading their memberships to ‘pro’ during beta.
Muziboo is committed to provide you with a better experience. Do stay tuned for an Orkut application to showcase your music and other exciting monthly contests!
You can also post your feed-backs in the official thread.
Add music to your orkut profile
Its great fun to share your music with your friends and there is no better place than orkut for that. To help you with that, we will soon be launching an application on orkut that helps you showcase your music and your favorite music from muziboo on orkut. Here is the screenshot of the application on orkut profile
So stay tuned and keep uploading music on Muziboo.
Softwares for recording songs and karaoke
Muziboo users are quite an enthu bunch and they have contributed to a number of discussions on softwares for recording songs and karaokes. If you are new to recording on PC or laptop, then this post should help you. Here are some of the interesting discussions
Good Karaoke Software and music morphers
There are also a couple of tutorials on Muziboo groups. Some of them are
Home and Professional Recoding and Mixing Tutorial
Recording Multitrack files in Audacity
Whats your sound mixing technique
Thanks to all the users who have contributed or initiated these discussions. I hope these tips are useful to you. Feel free to reply to any of the above threads to discuss further or ask questions
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