Muzicast - The first ever Muziboo podcast!
The Muziboo community has been bonding strong and steady and all user initiatives only drive home that fact. Ronak R one of Muziboo’s enthusiastic users, has definitely leveraged the Muziboo platform in an innovative way to get original compositions out to the world. Its a great start and he has put up a great show with his first episode. The show will go on every week. If you are a composer with original compositions and would like to get it podcasted, submit your music at Muzicast
Great going Ronak!
Subscribe to your favorite muziboo artists in iTunes now
We just rolled out a very exciting feature. Now you can subscribe to music from your favorite artists on Muziboo in iTunes. Just look for the itunes image 
on the profile page (in stats secion next to song count) or the song page (just below the player) and click on it. You would need iTunes installed on your system. iTunes is a free software available for Mac and Windows and for linux you can use something like rhythmbox. I think the best benefit of itunes subscription is the fact that you can listen to music on your ipod even when you are not connected to the internet!
This addition makes muziboo a great service for podcasters too specially when combined with a pro account for large file uploads (longer podcasts at high bitrate)
So happy listening. Do let us know your feedback on this feature or any other requests you have.
Search and get playlist
We recently made it ultra simple for you to listen to the great music on music.
Muziboo now creates playlists for all music charts, tag pages, group music pages, member’s music list and any searches you do on the website. We are sure this will help you listen to the music you want easily. Just search for it and get a playlist!
Go ahead and try it out. We will soon make these playlists embeddable on blogs so you can share the music you like with your friends.
Tags: muziboo, playlist, music, listen to free music
Muziboo.com Poster
We got a muziboo poster done sometime back. Posting an image here.
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
Sound Of Silence
Sometimes some people make your day. George made ours by posting a cover of ‘Sound Of Silence‘ when indeed we had requested for it just the previous night. Here we go!
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
