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  1. I am a lover of fan music. I do covers and I am a bit busy, but would love to try out the site. I have a few people that should be featured on the site. So, I could help get some good composers onto the site. But I would like to help in any way.

     

    Awesome! Thanks for your interest in joining, morethanicecream. I've added you to the alpha. Please head over to the Pony.fm QA forum and read through the pinned topics there to get started. :)

  2. The www doesn't show up in the address bar, but if I don't include it the hyperlink doesn't function. ^^ People have to copy and paste it into the address. Just something I did for the readers' convenience.

     

    The hyperlink will most definitely function without it. Like so:

     

    http://mlpforums.com/blog/213/entry-2743-full-divisional-recap-most-attractive-pony-tournament-2013/

  3. I'm just curious, about a few things:

     

    What are your plans to monetize pony.fm?

    Will users be able to sell there music?

    Have you thought about possible expansion into non-pony music? How scaleable is your current set up?

     

    If you addressed these in another thread/post, then I apologize for the redundant questions.

     

    Can I please ask you to post general questions about the site like those in the Pony.fm discussion thread, Bohtty? I'd be happy to address them, but just not in the comments section of a blog post about a specific site feature. :)

  4. Although i can understand the reasoning behind it for quality but i noticed that there's no uploading mp3's. One of the songs i have is only on mp3. What about an on the fly converter? I was lucky that my music program was able to convert my other song to .wav from the scource program that I used to create it. (might be able to do that with my other mp3.. hmmm...) 

    *note: I didn't get notified you quoted me like i should have. 

    and thanks for adding me!

     

    Please post this in the Pony.fm forum, which you now have access to. We have a thread going there about MP3 uploads.

  5. Wow, you are most certainly the best web-dev I have ever seen.

    I mean, talk about rapid development. A power Linux (or at least Mac) user, too, I assume?

     

    I'm actually a devoted Windows 8 user, not something anyone typically wishes to associate with the term "power user". ;) I do know my way around Linux, though; it's what I use on my server.

     

    I'm a lot newer to web development than you might think; Pony.fm is a personal learning process for me almost from top to bottom. Glad you like how it's coming together, though. So far, most of the feedback on the site has been quite positive.

  6. Nothing wrong with PowerPoint. :P It creates extremely good-looking text and has tons of cool effects to apply to just about anything.

     

    It's awesome to see a writeup of the Crystal Empire Saga project. I have tracked down various tracks you've already released in their pre-final forms and they sound awesome, but I really look forward to seeing how the final album will come together with the voiceovers and everything.

     

    Any chance you might publish the final album as a Pony.fm exclusive? :D

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  7. I'm using Firefox or to be precise a Firefox based browser and the embedded player is working fine for me. It doesn't look the same as the picture though but I assume the design must of changed at some point during development and the picture is outdated.

    As I said in my last comment, I rewrote the entire player from scratch yesterday. :P The picture became outdated less than 24 hours after I wrote this blog entry.

     

    That's the nature of alpha software - rapid development, rapid changes!

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  8. This is really great! I think it'd be cool if you could comment on the song directly from the embed. Although that's not really that important, since you can click the link to the song directly above the embedded player.

     

     

    Sounds neat, but can I please ask you to repost that idea in the QA forum, PhonyBrony? It's worth discussing properly with the team.

     

     

    now it shows a copy of the entire website in the embed rather than a small media player. :S

     

    I just wrapped up a major rewrite of the embedded player. Take another look now?

  9. All four were absolutely fantastic essays to read, but I ended up voting for the final one, about the "explosion" of art because it is the one that I can most closely relate to on a personal level.

     

    Although you didn't really highlight it in your essay, Dark Qiviut, fan sites are every bit as much an expression of fan "art" as drawing, music, animation, and game development. These monstrosities take an unbelievable amount of love and dedication to build - and there is most definitely an art to creating a good fan site.

     

    Furthermore, unlike a work that is created once and then uploaded to the Internet, maintaining a large fan site is an ongoing commitment that guzzles thousands upon thousands of hours of unpaid personal time. Most people take the existence of their favourite fan sites for granted and don't have all that much awareness of what lies behind them, but they are still hugely rewarding in their own way.

     

    And when a fan site, like Pony.fm, requires custom software development as well, additional skills quickly begin to stack, like programming, UX design, graphic design, etc.

     

    Perhaps the best part about building and maintaining fan sites is that they can become a venue and a catalyst for all the other variations of fan labour to blossom and grow. :)

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  10. well, ive been chatting a little with BlackGryph0n, i can see if hes up for some of it. and also, will you be doing voice commercials? because i would definitively love to do that! and i would also love any position during the alpha tests and the full launch

     

    If BlackGryph0n is interested, by all means put him in touch with me! Tell him to email me at feld0@mlpforums.com if he wants in on the alpha. :D

     

    Voice commercials... in what sense? Putting commercials together for Pony.fm, or accepting uploads of commercials on the site?

  11. I do have a few question questions; how will the functionality work on mobile, will there be rules restricting what you can upload (content wise, not file. If you need a clearer description I'm talking about the actual music itself not the kind of media), how will the "music listening function" work (i.e. automatically switches to a different song, you choose if you wish to play the song again or play a different song), and overall I'm curious about the layout (how everything looks, color scheme, fluidity, ease of access).

     

    (Since the actual site dosen't give much info. besides “FLAC and WAV uploads ... Off-site sharing through an embedded player ... social experience not unlike deviantART's[.]” etc., and I'm to lazy to search for any of these answers, (which may or may not exist) I guess this is the place to ask.)

     

    Can you please repost that comment in the Pony.fm discussion thread? I'll be happy to answer your questions there - I'd just like to draw a little more attention to the thread, and keep this blog post focused on the alpha testing initiative.

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