July 10, 2010
Support for iPad, iPhone, and Android Devices
New Media Playback options:
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The MyOnlineBand.com mini player has been updated to support playback options in most modern mobile devices including Android based smart phones and Apple devices. MyOnlineBand.com is now using the web technology including HTML 5 native audio playback.
In addition to smart phones, we are also supporting playback for legacy non-intel Macs that cannot use the Silverlight plug-in. In this case we are offering playback using an Adobe Flash based audio player. This will also work for other computers who are unable to install Silverlight. This will ensure your music will play on almost any device.
Share This Feature for Song Details
The Song Details page now has a Share This Widget
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The song details page now is using the “Share This” widget. This add-in will allow people who discover your music to quickly be able to share it on their favorite social network including, Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live, and MySpace.
July 4, 2010
Online Music Collaboration Wiki
All new MyOnlineBand.com collaboration wiki:
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The all new MyOnlineBand.com collaboration wiki has just be launched and is looking for contributors. In addition to having information about how to use MyOnlineBand.com, with the help of the experts that make up our community, it will become the authoritative source for information about online music collaboration, audio recording, virtual bands, recording software, and audio production techniques. It will also contain music lesions for MyOnlineBand.com’s top talent including guitar lessons from SharkBoy.
- To request access to the wiki editor, Click Here
New Comment Editor Features
You can now add YouTube videos and more to your song workspace posts:
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The comment editor now has many of the new features from the Wiki editor. This allows you to add youtube videos, images, and other media to your post using the special Wiki tags. For more info see the article MyOnlineBand.com Wiki Tags
April 25, 2010
Speed Boost
MyOnlineBand.com now upto 4X faster:
- A combination of months of performance tuning, code optimizations, and a new faster server has dramatically increased the performance of the site. Upload and download speeds have more than doubled for an overall better music collaboration experience.
New Privacy Settings
MyOnlineBand.com now lets you control who can view your Artist Profile:
March 7, 2010
New Video Tutorials
New Video Tutorials show how to use workspaces:
January 25, 2010
MyOnlineBand 2.1 Release
Builds on MyOnlineBand 2.0 to bring even more features and enhancments
including:
- Redesigned song workspaces with intelligent tabs greatly simplify sorting and
paging through files on your song workspaces
- Updated upload utility allows more reliable uploading of large files
- Max file size upgraded to 60MB. You no longer need to use outside services for
most files
- New categories for your workspace items including “Ideas”, “Lyric Sheet”, and
“Project Concept”
- Project Concept features allows a project coordinator to select a file uploaded
to a workspace as the “Project Concept”. This will make it easier for someone
new to the project to get a feel for the music without having to peck through
tracks and mixes.
- Project Concept can now be steamed from the project search results page
- Song Project alert manager allows you to quickly view your alert subscriptions
and delete the ones for projects you no longer wish to follow
December 17, 2009
MyOnlineBand 2.0 Release
Major release with the following enhancments
- New look and feel with improved navigation and a greater focus on user
experience
- New full text site wide search from Bing makes it easier to find what you are
looking for
- Updated online help and a new user support page
- Redesigned home page that now intelligently promotes the best talent
- Redesigned mini player makes previewing files before downloading a breeze
- Support for Mp4 audio format. You may now upload and share M4a files as well as
WMA, MP3, WAV, and Midi files.
September 14, 2009
Features improved
Invite Feature
The project invite feature has been improved. Now when you invite someone to
your project, MyOnlineBand has greatly simplified the registration process.
When your friend clicks the project workspace link from the invitation email,
MyOnlineBand will detect their membership. If they are not a member, they will
automatically be forwarded to the registration page and will even fill out the
form for them.
Once the simple registration form is completed they can proceed to the project
and begin participating. If you have sent an invite to a band members only
project, your friend will be added to your band automatically once they
register.
September 9, 2009
New Features Added
Online Virtual Bands - Part II
We have just completed a major upgrade of the new Online Virtual Bands feature
that was first released in July. There are many new improvements with this
feature including:
- Edit your band to change the name and description after creating it
- Create band workspaces. Band workspaces can be private and hidden from the
community or restricted so that the community can view the project and stream
your tracks and mixes but only band mates can contribute and download files.
- Links to your band workspaces now appear on the band home page
- When creating a new band project, all of your band mates can be sent invitation
emails automatically
Faceted Collaboration Workspace Search
It’s now easier than ever to find projects that interest you. Now when you
browse our listing of workspaces you can drill down on musical genre and
collaboration model by clicking links on a side bar to the left of the search
results For example, you can now find all the active blues projects that use the
community collaboration model in just two clicks.
July 12, 2009
New Features Added
Online Virtual Bands
MyOnlineBand now allows you to formalize relationships with artists that you
collaborate with frequently by creating an online virtual band. Each band gets
its own online profile page similar to an artist profile page. When you join a
band, MyOnlineBand.com automatically links your profile to the band profile. An
artist may be a member of many bands. For more information about this feature,
please go to the Online Bands page. We have a boatload
of new features around this theme that will be debuting in the coming months so
stay tuned.
New Project Status options
You may now modify your project’s status to let potential contributors know the
relative progress of your composition. You may now mark your project as one of
the following:
- Active
- All Positions Filled
- Tracks Completed / Mixing
- Final / Review
- Completed / Published
- On Hold
- Canceled
Project Workspace Improvments
We have made the following improvements to the project workspace pages:
- Musical Genres are now displayed in the project summary
- The project status is now displayed on the stats tab
- A notification is written to the comments section whenever someone deletes a
file from the workspace. The comment will say what file has been deleted and who
deleted it
- You may now edit comments that you have submitted
Change your email address
If you wish to change the email address used to send you notifications, you can
do so using the new “change my email address “feature. This feature can be
access from the members homepage.
New Look
We have an updated look and feel and a new home page.
April 18, 2009
New Features Added
Published Projects Search
You can now view all of the completed collaboration projects that are still
listed on the site. Click here
to view this new feature.
April 16, 2009
New Features Added
MyOnlineBand Video Player
You can now use MyOnlineBand.com project workspaces for film score and Jingle
collaboration. The workspaces now allow you to upload video in WMV (Windows
Media Video) format. The video can be streamed instantly using MyOnlineBand’s
new video player. The video player supports full screen mode as well as playing
the video inside of the browser window.
Improved support for Mac Safari and Google Chrome
We have doubled our efforts in supporting alternative browsers including Safari
(for both Mac and Windows), Opera, and now Google Chrome. We have recently
corrected several bugs related to these browsers and hope that these changes
will make our website more inclusive.
March 15, 2009
New Features Added
MyOnlineBand Jukebox now on profile pages
The MyOnlineBand.com media player is now on your profile pages. This allows your
fans to listen to all of your tunes over and over. Fan can now rate and bookmark
ther favorites right from your profile!
Play All songs from this artist feature now on public playlists
Fans browsing our growing music catalog can now add all of the songs from their
favorite artists to the now playing queue with one click. This feature makes it
even easier for new fans to find and explore your music.
December 18, 2008
New Features Added
New Myonlineband.com Media Player
Myonlineband.com has a brand new music player based on Microsoft Silverlight 2.
Features of the new player include:
- Standard player controls including a seek bar, download progress indicator,
stop, play, pause, play timer, and volume controls.
- Ability to rate and comment on a song
- Browse through our music library and add songs to your playlist
- Download the song so that you can add it to your MP3 player
- Email a song to your friends
- View the lyrics and details of the song
- View and zoom-in on the song’s artwork
- Add a song to your list of favorites
- Click the “Play All” button to play all songs in the select playlist
In addition to the new player, MyOnlineBand.com now helps you to promote your
music with five playlists including:
- Top Downloads – The most listened to tracks on Myonlineband.com
- New Music – The most recently added songs
- Staff Picks – Music selected by our staff which features some of the best tracks
from our growing pool of talented members
- Highest Rated – The tracks that have been rated highest by our members
- Browse All – Browse our entire collection and bookmark your favorites
August 25, 2008
New Features Added
Myonlineband.com Live Chat
You can now chat in real time with other members of the MyOnlineband.com
musician’s community. This is a great way to broaden your relationship with your
online friends, discuss your projects, refine your lyrics and chord
progressions, and meet other likeminded musicians, lyricists and producers. Our
chat application uses Ajax technology and does not require the download of any
software or any plug-ins. Chatting with a person from the other side of the
globe? Our chat board has a built in world clock that lets you know the local
time for each of the chat participants.
July 27, 2008
New Features Added
SUPPORT THIS ARTIST FEATURE
Your fans from around the world can now submit donations from your
MyOnlineBand.com profile. On each profile, there is a link that says "Support
this Artist". When your fans click this link they can select an amount to donate
and then submit. If someone donates money to your profile, we will contact you
and arrange the transfer of funds.
May 14, 2008
New Features Added
EVEN MORE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR PROJECTS
The new keyword search feature allows you either search by the name of the
project or do a full text search of the site using google's powerful search
engine.
Click on the link below to
check it out.
VIDEO TUTORIALS
The first in a series of Video Web Casts has been released that show you step by
step how to set up your profile and use our project workspaces. They are ideal
for people who are new to the site but also may be useful to veterans who want
to learn about the latest features.
Click here for a full list of Video
Tutorials
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