I get a bigger thrill when someone stumbles over one of my tunes three years after it left the top 50.

I got bored by the charts after several emails to the moderators expressing my dismay with people posting songs in the wrong genres to game higher chart positions. I never got a single acknowledgement.

It possible that soundclick had their quality filters enabled.

I never got a single acknowledgement.

I acknowledge you daily to my family, friends, co-workers and the man on the street.

Too bad the SS (Sounclick Staff, get it?) didn't.

ORIGINAL: ParanoiA

Hey Songcraft...I'm currently using AT&T's webhosting service and I've been extremely pleased with their bandwidth. No problems for people downloading from my site and all that. But I'm ready to jump ship for other reasons. Is Go-Daddy just as reliable? I mean, can I count on their bandwidth throughput to deliver for folks downloading from my site?

I just remember, and this was a few years ago, that when downloading music from personal sites they would be kind of hit or miss - some would just take forever to load and could not even begin to stream, while others were lightening fast and couldn't stream too quickly for them. I stuck with the sites that were fast and dumped those that were slow pokes.

I've already got the odds against me just trying to make music people want to hear, let alone running them off because my webhosting service is too slow.

What do you think?

I've been using Go-Daddy for at least three years running two separate forum softwares, music and more and never had any issues with the deluxe plan. You can compare the plans here.

For MP3 I don't plan on publishing overly-large files yet no lower than 128. Because you want the audio to play back smoothly (no stuttering), I think 192.kbps is OK, but I think no more than 256Kbps.

ORIGINAL: Jonbouy

ORIGINAL: bapu

Just think of the claim to fame to be able to say you are #1 on soundclick (I've come close in a sub group). Think of the deals from majors pouring in, the celebrity, the groupies (ug, that gives me shudders thinking about a soundclick groupie).

The CHB hit #1 in our sub-genre and what we got was...

What was it we got guys?

Oh yeah, Nuthin!

Yeah also remember that we got there with just the one mp3....no update required...

Man we are smoking hot but I'm not gonna let my second Soundclick No1 appearance go to my head, this has just raised to bar for me and I'm gonna have to re-commit to my quest for quality to stay at the top.

I'm still humble enough to get stage fright though when I click to submit that upload... Mind you I've always had more humility than most.

Honest...really.

JB, you left out, Trust Me.

SongCraft, your avatar is very similar to that of Tolgar, the co-founder (along with his twin brother) of Soundclick:



No comment or accusation implied, just thought it was curious.

ORIGINAL: SongCraft

ORIGINAL: bitflipper

SongCraft, your avatar is very similar to that of Tolgar, the co-founder (along with his twin brother) of Soundclick:



No comment or accusation implied, just thought it was curious.

Honestly that's a coincidence, that said I'm sure 'silhouette graphics' of a similar nature had already been done by many.... Google 'silhouette' and I guarantee you'll get millions of hits.

LOL!! I just did a Google search and look what I found... here it the original image:



That image was used for Tolgar's avatar, a free download from www.freevectors.net


Whereas I painstakingly created my own from several photos of people I know and then added the silhouette effect using photoshop

Credit is now given. Or at least until this post is deleted (hope that never happens).

I think your DAW is calling you again, Andy!

Bitflipper, I did feel discredited when I should be credited for my 'own' creative work.

Consider yourself properly credited, Greg. You, obviously, had some time on your hands for creativity while that poseur Tolgar was out frittering away his life becoming an internet millonaire.

dunno if any of you use other sites

http://virb.com

might be worth checking out.. the problem with all of em.. well they aren't charities.. and as much as they had pluggers going around buying singles back in the day to influence chart positions people are trying the same ish now...

it's been going on donkey years.. so called "independent labels" not being so independent.. bands like oasis were "supposidly" signed to an independent creative records, but at the same time Noel signed a publishing deal with sony.. go figure ;-)

thats just the tip of the iceberg, and well Murdoch owns myspace since tom sold out.. a friend noticed when he was getting a LOT of hits, they REALLY slowed down the connections to his song.. while obv. major artists didn't have that issue.. coincidence , I think not..


all that'll happen is yet another site will appear, but if it's down to people abusing/rigging the soundclick charts ,they should employ a better system.

Thanks Julianna! I could prolly figure it out eventually. It's just that I'd rather spend my free time making music. So we'll see...

ORIGINAL: SongCraft



That's my bother inlaw Joe on drums and his bother off to the side is Jeff on bass.

LMAO Wow, do people really set their drums up like that? I always thought that was just for TV, like "The Monkeys" or "The Partridge Family."

Mike

I find it hard to believe soundclick cares so much about their so called charts. I guess they are thinking of their "reputation" but everyone who is familiar with these types of sites knows the charts are fiddled- and those who want to do so will find a way.

Robert Anthony

ORIGINAL: chefmike8888

LMAO Wow, do people really set their drums up like that? I always thought that was just for TV, like "The Monkeys" or "The Partridge Family."

Mike

LOL!!

Mike, if only you knew their style of music! It's 'Heavy Punk Rock' with a lot of 'F' words and such! They're raw and rocking loud and love to play live, absolute nothing like a TV-studio produced act such as the Monkee's or Partridge family.

My young nephew is the same, into Heavy Punk Rock.

Their main purpose is 'to have fun' performing 'live' no midi, no backing tracks, and definitely no vocal lip-sync LOL!!

They remind me of when I was very young playing heavy rock 'live' (5 piece band) in the late 70's, those were fun times.