Now follow Muziboo by RSS feeds
RSS feeds are these cool things that let you follow your favorite blogs etc without visiting them everyday. You are notified of the updates in a feed reader like google reader or bloglines (which happens to be my favorite)
Now you can follow the following by RSS feeds on Muziboo. Just look for the rss icon 
Songs of a user example
Public activity of a user example
Comments on a particular song example
Songs in a group example
Discussions in a group example
All group discussions across muziboo example
Ofcourse there is always our blog’s RSS that you can subscribe to.
Do let us know if you think some other RSS feeds will be useful and we will put them up.
Write testimonials for your stars :)
Do you have someone you really respect/appreciate on Muziboo.com? May be someone who makes some great music or helped you improve by giving you some great feedback on your last few uploads.
Now you can show it by writing a testimonial for them. Just go to their profile and click on the “Write a testimonial” link on the top. Once the person you wrote the testimonial for approves your testimonial, it will start showing on his/her profile
Do let us know what you think of this feature
Regards
Prateek
Tags: testimonials, new feature, muziboo
128 kbps streaming at Muziboo.com?
This is mirrored from the Muziboo lounge thread that can be found here
Last few days, there has been a lot of discussion around the policy that muziboo converts all mp3 files to 64 kbps and this hurts the sound quality. We wanted to have an official thread about it and have the discussion in one place. So here it is
Why 64 kbps
When we started out, we wanted to convert the mp3 to a bitrate that
1. Can be played back over most links smoothly. We therefore chose 64kbps and also converted the sampling rate to 44.1 khz to avoid the so called chipmunk effect.
2. Gives a good preview of the song without giving away a CD quality version so we can introduce sales and people can buy the original composition and the artists can earn revenue on their music through paid digital downloads.
What now
64 kbps will remain the default bitrate on Muziboo. However there will be two more options soon.
1. Starting next month, when we have ecommerce integrated, you can buy a high bitrate version of the track. This would apply only to originals. The costs etc will be announced at a later date.
2. If you do not want to sell your music or if you want everyone to hear a 128 kbps version, there will be an option to upgrade your account and have a premium 128 kbps streaming. There will be other benefits in the premium account such as the ability to reupload a song and not lose comments etc. Again, the exact details will be announced in a couple of weeks.
Songs uploaded feb onwards will have a 128 kbps version (if you uploaded it at that bitrate or higher) by default once you upgrade. For tracks before feb, you will be able to reupload once you upgrade the account.
The basic account with the existing services will always remain free.
We are looking forward to your feedback on this.
Regards
Prateek Dayal
Tags: muziboo, streaming, premium account
Stack overflow at line 0 .. anyone?
Sometime yesterday, I checked in an updated javascript file that caused a stack overflow error on some windows machines (internet explorer). Thanks to Susmit for pointing this out to me. I think some of you may have had faced some issues browsing for few hours today. I really apologize for it. Everything should work smoothly now
If something is still not right, do let me know and I will take a look at it
- Prateek
Members’ Song List now sortable
Some of our power users have a lot of songs. Sometimes you wanna checkout their most played, most commented or most favorited songs. Just like you can do with group songs or on the main music page. Starting today you can actually do that. Check it out. All the categories that we have on other pages are there.
Do let us know what you think. Happy listening!
Tags: muziboo, members, music page, song list
100K Page Views a month
Muziboo.com crossed today, 100,000 page views a month. This ofcourse excludes any of our internal traffic. Just felt like shouting it out 
100K …. yayee!!
Keep uploading guys .. keep having fun!
Source: Google Analytics
Tags: muziboo, news, analytics
Radio beta live now
Muziboo Radio beta is now live at the radio page. There are currently three channels playing some great original music from Muziboo. Also you can click on the Get this button and post this radio to your blog, social networking profiles (such as orkut, facebook, myspace etc).
The radio currently has a database of about 150 songs and there will be more songs (as well as channels) added over time. Give it a spin and if you like it spread it around.
If you have some original compositions not on muziboo, I feel now is a great time to upload them and get them on the radio.
Pink is retired!
Just for the record (as most of you would have already noticed), the pink is retired from Muziboo.com and Green is in … the cartoons on the main page have changed colors too ..
A lot of requests for this green had been pouring in since we launched the new design .. so finally its here … do let us know what you all think of it
Have fun
Prateek
Funny characters in playlist gone
Most of you (ok .. all of you) would have seen the funny + % and other characters in your playlist. Akshay pointed it out in the new design help center and finally I had enough motivation to fix it. Those characters are gone now and your playlist should be clean and shiny
Also we will be soon adding multiple playlist support to muziboo .. so you can add more playlists .. like rock, classical .. whatever you want
Have Fun
Prateek
United We Stand!
Terrorism, War, Drugs, Aids, Cancer, Global warming, Poverty????? whatever it is, that bothers you, bothers humanity, United We Stand to fight against all of it. Well, thats the crux of Sunny’s project. A musical project started in a humble way to involve the Muzibians to start off with and involve the world itself in an ambitious sorta way. He has put up a basic creation for people to work on and coolly enough, the project is already in progress!! Do participate in whatever small (or big) way you can, the creation would ofcourse be beautiful for the noble cause behind it . If not anything, try to post some lyrics in your language, with the content aligning with the cause mentioned, and translate for the audience…
Check out the song (rather the song idea)
To download the tracks (minus track, vox only and mixed), please check this thread. Lets pass the baton of music in our race against the evils of the society!!
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