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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.

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.

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

Softwares for recording songs

Good Karaoke Software and music morphers

Softwares and VSTIS

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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Ronak’s been running a great show with Muzicast and his latest show has definitely helped in bringing the audience a notch closer to the show, with just the concept. Interview of Rakesh Baro featured in the sixth episode is the first ever audio interview on Muziboo and the first episode in which the featured music is from a musician outside India (Don Modica)

The concept of audio interview by itself may not be innovative, but considering Muziboo’s setting and interaction, it is comparable to the kind of joy one would derive from watching or listening to the interview of a known star through one of the known media channels. Rakesh Baro whose interview was featured in the latest episode is definitely one of the star singers on Muziboo and it was good thrill listening to him and his ideas.

All credits to Ronak for arranging, packing and presenting the show in a way, people feel closer!

If you wanna have fun by co-hosting  Muzicast or doing other background work, read this

Muziboo in the last few months has seen a number of musical creations which were born out of creative collaborations among members. Though technically Muziboo’s offering is ‘easy upload and share’, one cant dismiss at that. The community around the ‘easy upload and share feature’ brings in all the difference. Collaboration is one of the natural outcomes of such a dynamic community and the such creations definitely speak of the enthusiasm of the users who have been involved.

United We Stand is definitely one of such enthusiastic project underway

Muziboo is offering a few internships. You can apply if you are a hacker from anywhere in the world or a music freak who would love to be an evangelist of our product. Please checkout the presentation below for details

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Sudeip’s PowerJaMmEd is an awesome instrumental piece dedicated to GG.

Wow there goes GG with his critical feedback on tone

“your tone is okay but it has the moody, dull feel to it. maybe because of the studio reverb thing. but honestly, it sucks.. the early hendrix recordings had that. lol not this but much more better version. this is far worse from that..know what i mean bro??

put the drive on 2’o clock of the amp, treble on 2’o clock, mid on 10’o clock, Bass on 1’o clock, reverb on 8’o clock. know what i mean?? thats some serious sound there. see if you like.

download a better patch from the links i gave you man. use it. it has everything. because of this cloudy patch you cant even hear the pedal tone riffing goin on.it sounds way to muddy.

when it comes to the solo, add a bit more Mid to your sound to give it a more cutting sound.”

This feedback is definitely insightful and attempting different iterations of the same composition with various technical inputs can really help in fine tuning one’s creation. But the charm is lost if the general audience is exposed to too many such iterations. To get all this going behind the stage we offer privacy features in our pro account that helps musicians take feedbacks from the trusted ones, working on them and then unveiling to the general audience!

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!

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.