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.
http://myonlineband.com/MusicCollaborationWorkspaceSearch.aspx
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
May 1, 2008
New Features Added
NEW WAYS TO SEARCH FOR PROJECTS
The project search feature has been improved to show more infomation about the project including the number of views,
posts and the date the project was last updated. You can sort the projects by
number of views, date last updated, date created, artist, and project name.
NEW RULES FOR DELETING FILES FROM WORKSPACES
The person who started the project may now delete anyfile from the workspace as lonf as the project is either a
"Members Only" or "Private" project. On "Public Projects" only the person who uploaded the file may delete it.
WORKSPACES IMPROVMENTS
The following impovements have been made to the Music Collaboration Workspaces:
- You may now send a workspace file to another member as an attachment to a
personal message. To use this feature, mouse over the "Mix Information"
link for the file you wish to send and click the "Email File" Link. This
is usefull when you have many mixes or tracks on a workspace and you need to
commincate which version you want to bandmate to work with.
- The workspace now shows the selected collaboration model.
- You may now upload Midi files and PDFs.
- Workspace nows lists your remaining disk quota on the upload page.
SONG COMMENTS AND RATINGS
Other members may now rate and post comments about your songs. All comments must
first be approved by the artist. Once a comment is approved, it will appear
below the song information on the song details page.
February 23, 2008
New Features Added
IMPROVED PERSONAL MESSAGES
The new sent mail view allows you to view messages that you have sent and check
to see if the person you sent them to has read them. You can view the messages
and recall messages that may have been sent in error.
To help protect users from SPAM we have added many new things behind the scenes
that will detect SPAM messages and prevent them from being delivered. In
addition, users may now report SPAM messages and optionally block all future
messages from the sender.
ARTIST SEARCH BY LOCATION
You may now browse artists by Country. Select this option from the Artists menu and you will see a list of countries where MyOnlineBand.com users reside and how many artists are in each country. You can drill down into each country and see the MyOnlineBand.com Artists who may be Web Jamming next store.
MINI PLAYER IMPROVEMENTS
The Mini Player now detects if a user does not have the Silverlight plug-in and makes itself bigger in order to provide a better nag to download the plug-in. We also changed it so the Silverlight install can be done without leaving the page.
The Mini Player now detects your scroll position on the page and follows you around so that you can’t lose track of it when you need to pause the playing track.
UPLOAD BIGGER FILES
You may now upload files as large as 30MB. This is double the size previously allowed. This allows you to upload 24-bit WMA files for most songs and some WAV files.
WAV file uploads are now allowed. We still recommend the 24-Bit WMA 9 lossless codec over WAV however because it can give you the same quality but with 3/1 compression ratio vs. WAV.
MORE PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS
More and more professional musicians are rebelling against pricier collaboration sites in favor of MyOnlineBand.com. Session players that regularly play with Paul McCartney and other major acts are flocking to us. The leading reason for switching was ease of use and not to mention the price (100% free). Analysts are already predicting that our competitors who change $100 a year to join and then 15% transaction fees will not be in business a year from now.
January 27, 2008
New Features Added
IMPROVED MUSIC COLLABORATION PROJECT INVITE FEATURE
You may now invite MyOnlineBand.com member to join your project my browsing their profile and clicking the "Invite to Join Project" link.
After click the link, you may select a project then invite away! The Invite Page also allows you to notify MyOnlineband.com users by specifing their MyOnlineBamd.com username
with a MyOnlineBand.com email address.
For Example:
joeuser@MyOnlineBand.com
You may mix and match both members and non-members in a single invite requests and may invite upto 10 people at a time.
NEW PROJECT PUBLISHING FEATURE
After you and your online band mates have finished your work you may now automatically publish the completed mix and credit the contributing artists using the new Project Publishing Wizard. A new button will appear on your project workspace
toolbar after the first mix has been uploaded. The Wizard allows you to select a mix, add a description, lyrics and other information. It then allows you
to select the contributing artists. When you click the Finish button, the new mix will be published and be available for download from the MyOnlineBand.com homepage, the Music page, as well as the
profile page of the project owner. Each contributing artists will be awarded with 10MB of extra disk space. An email notification will also be sent to each participant to let them know that the project has been published. Links to each of the participants profile will be added to the song detail page.
December 29, 2007
New Features Added
VIDEO TAB ON MUSIC COLLABORATION WORKSPACES
You may now upload and download Video files (WMA format only) in your project workspaces. This allows you to better communicate how to play a difficult part of your song or to leave a video message for your collaboration partners. Video files are automatically added to a new Video tab on the workspace page.
FRIENDLY FILE NAMES
The file download feature has been enhanced to speed downloads and make the download process easier. You no longer need to right click to download. When clicking a download link, you will automatically be prompted to download the file. The file name will be changed to the title given to the file when it was uploaded.
USER PROFILE PAGE IMPROVEMENTS
The “Music” Section of your profile now contains an image for each of your songs. If you have not uploaded a song image, you can add one using the “Manage Your Music” page. Your profile in addition to displaying the projects you have started, it also shows active projects that you have posted one or more files to.
EDIT PROJECT INFO
Project Coordinators may now change the name, description and categories for a project after it has been created.
December 14, 2007
New Features Added
ARTIST TALENT SEARCH
You may now search for artists by talent. The talent search page displays a list of talents (such as Guitar,Bass...) and the number
of artists on the site with each talent. If you click the category, a list of artists will be displayed sorted by skill level.
Musician Search By Talent
MUSIC COLLABORATION FAQ
A FAQ has been added that discusses the various aspects of online music collaboration and how MyOnlineBand.com facilitates this process.
Click here to view the Online Music Collaboration FAQ
December 3, 2007
More new Features Added
AUTO-COMPLETE ON ARTIST SEARCH
Now when you search for an artist a list of matches will begin
appearing as you type. For example if you type "sh", "sharkboy" will
appear in the list.
PERSONAL MESSAGES
Myonlineband.com has finally gotten a personal messages system. It is
a cross between myspace and hotmail. You can;
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Send people messages by clicking "Send Message" on a user's profile page.
- Reply to a message
- On your dash board page you will now see the number of messages under your inbox
- Message Center lets you browse your emails
- An email alert is sent to a user to let them know that a message is waiting for them.
November 26, 2007
IMPROVED NEW PROJECT WIZARD
The wizard for creating new projects has been improved to allow you to
invite others and create ads for open auditions inside the wizard. You
can now specify the talents you need for your project by simply
selecting a check box next to the talent. Check boxes are provided for
most common talents such as guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. You may
still create more detailed ads from the project workspace page.
HOME PAGE UPDATED
The home page now shows the number of open auditions available grouped
by talent. For example, there are currently 2 positions available for
vocalists and 5 positions available for drums. Clicking the link for
each instrument will bring you to a page that shows the details for
each open audition.
RSS FEEDS FOR OPEN AUDITIONS
You can now subscribe to RSS feeds for open auditions for each talent.
If you are using Firefox (live bookmarks), Internet Explorer 7, or
Internet Explorer 6 with either the Google or Yahoo tool bars you can
take advantage of this feature. After you subscribe to the feed, the
bookmark in your web browser will automatically be added each time a
new open audition is added. The bookmark will be removed automatically
once the position has been filled. If you are using IE 7 with MS
Office 2007 Outlook, information about each open audition will also be
available as an email in the "Feeds" folder.
To subscribe to the feed, from the home page, click the link for the
open positions link for a talent, then click the RSS icon on the upper
right hand corner of the screen.
START YOUR NEXT COLLABORATION PROJECT AT MYONLINEBAND
If you are planning to start a new project soon, please post it on
MyOnlineBand.com. Ads for your project will be automatically be
submitted so that they appear when people search on Google, Yahoo and
several other sites that I am partnering with. This greatly increases
the talent pool for your projects.
November 12, 2007
Several new features have been added to the site over the weekend.
SUBSCRIBE FEATURE
This feature lets you opt-in to receive an email alert whenever a post
is made to a project you are working on. Unlike some of the other
sites, the body of the post is included in the email. This will save
you the trouble of needing to login to view the post.
To use this feature:
- Log-in to the site and view a project workspace.
- Click the "Subscribe" button. An alert box will inform you that you
will now receive an email alert.
This feature uses "AJAX" technology. When you click the button, the
screen will not flicker. Also, when posting messages, the alert
process kicks off in the background so that the person posting a new
message will not have to wait for the possessing to complete. In other
works no extra wait time even if 20,000 people are subscribing to your
project.
"PROJECTS I AM PARTICIPATING IN" FEATURE
This is a new item that appears on your dash board page (The page that
is displayed after you login). On the left side of the page you will
see the projects you have started. On the right side you will see all
of the projects that you are participating in. This allows you to
easily navigate to your last project with out having to search for it
(like on some other sites).
START YOUR NEXT COLLABORATION PROJECT AT MYONLINEBAND
If you are planning to start a new project soon, please post it on
MyOnlineBand.com. Ads for your project will be automatically be
submitted so that they appear when people search on Google, Yahoo and
several other sites that I am partnering with. This greatly increases
the talent pool for your projects.
Thanks for helping to build the best collaboration site on the net.
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