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Locked. Thanks for the PR!

This isn't a real thing. It's April Fools. We're not making a paid service

Pony.fm's got an amazing community of creators and listeners. Today we're announcing our plan to strengthen our community even further. Introducing... Pony.fm Unlimited. You see, there's a small problem with the Brony music community. Creators aren't getting paid. After many months of research, our highly trained Pony.fm Research division has found the root cause of the problem. Pony.fm is just giving away free music! This is awful, our creators are losing out on so much potential revenue! So to solve this problem, we decided to introduce some dramatic changes across the site. Starting April 2nd we'll be rolling out the groundwork for the new Pony.fm All tracks will cost $0.99 to stream Downloads will be disabled on all tracks to prevent copyright infringement Streams will be encrypted using our proprietary PoniDRM technology that only works on Windows® 10™ using Microsoft Edge™ on the latest Intel® Core™ Processors™. Starting in May we'll also be releasing our new Pony.fm Unlimited service. For $10 a month you can listen to as many tracks on Pony.fm as you want and you'll only have to listen to 10 ads a month! We hope you appreciate these changes to Pony.fm and continue to support our future money grabbing endevours Also, April Fools

Yes, you're right. We try to generate a slug from the title of the track. Using full width characters causes an issue since technically they aren't letters. I'd avoid using these for now and stick to ASCII characters while I try to sort this out

It's been a pretty good year for Pony.fm development. There's been lots of work done to expand Pony.fm to make it easier for you guys to upload and share your tracks. And lets not forget the Hearth's Warming Contest, you guys submitted some awesome songs there. 2017 is going to be amazing for Pony.fm. I've got a bunch of features planned that I can't wait to show off. I'm also looking for some new team members too! I'm gonna outline some of our goals for this year. Now, in no particular order! A complete redesign and rework of the layout. It's almost 4 years old now (can you believe it!) and is in need of modernising. With this redesign, I'll be focusing on: better mobile support, faster page loads and better error detection. Oh and it's also really pretty too Better (and hopefully less) errors. Don't you just hate it when you've finished uploading your track and then BAM "Unknown Error". It's pretty annoying, I'll be concentrating more on not only fixing these errors, but increasing error detection and improving explanation so you understand what went wrong. Mostly just to stop the "Halp Pony.fm is broken!" threads and emails A focus on promoting artists. While having a recent and popular feed is great, there is room for improvement. I'm planning a system that will recommended tracks based on what you've been listening to. Our goal here is to not just repeat the same popular tracks over and over again, but to also promote tracks that are good and otherwise would have gone undiscovered. Making mobile a priority. Let's face it, smartphones and tablets make up a huge portion of the traffic online. This year, I'll be improving our mobile site to make it less laggy and easier to navigate. I'm also investigating building an app for Android and iOS that will allow offline playback for tracks for those long road trips. Archived tracks. As you're probably aware, we have a bunch of tracks on the site (over 21,000!), some of these are from the MLP Music Archive which we added to the site a while ago. We've got another archive that will be being merged soon I've also got some smaller things planned that I'll think you'll appreciate Replying to comments.This should land at roughly the same time as the new redesign. We hear your feedback, don't worry, this will be added! Push notifications. Currently working away on this, should drop 'soon'. Basically it will let you get notifications when your browser is closed or your phone is locked. Will only work on the newest versions of Chrome, Chrome for Android, Firefox and Opera. In addition to this, I want to make a few announcements regarding the Pony.fm team. We've had a bit of a change of leadership. You you might have seen him posting on the Pony.fm threads and helping out with the Hearth's Warming Contest. I'm pleased to announce that Anima Fever has been promoted to Pony.fm second in command! He'll be helping me out with a lot of the community outreach we are planning this year. Hopefully you'll get a chance to speak with him this year. He's got a real passion for archiving the fandom and helping smaller artists out. He's got some awesome ideas on how to improve Pony.fm and our standing within the community. We're looking for programmers! Speaking of the Pony.fm team, we're looking for some new programmers to join the team on a voluntary basis. If you're a programmer with experience with PHP or Javascript, we really want you to join our team. Pony.fm is getting bigger everyday and we need more talented programmers to help us add new features, fix bugs and expand to new platforms. Pony.fm is an open source project however, by joining our team, you're joining the core contributors, can participate in internal discussions and propose and implement big changes to site. If you think you're up for it, send me a PM! If you're not accepted and still want to help out, the core of Pony.fm is fully open source on GitHub and we are accepting pull requests and new issues.

You can see the scores for each track by going to their corresponding sheets. Comments are optional so some or all of the voters might not have left comments

As promised, the full results from this year's contest, including scores are linked on this Google Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WkZNbqQVk62M0aYd6zB4J09PrMJbebTgdwwS92XDOgI/edit?usp=sharing If you didn't win this year, we're most likely going to re run the contest next year

Yep, we're releasing the scores in a few minutes. Keep your eyes on the Pony.fm forums Sorry you feel that way. Better luck next year

Huge news everyone! We're going to be announcing the winners to our Pony.fm Hearth's Warming Contest TODAY! However, we'll be announcing them ON AIR on PonyvilleFM Thanks to the PonyvilleFM team for making this possible. We'll be streaming on PonyvilleFM tonight at 10pm GMT (for the full list of timezones, see here). So, if you've entered, make sure you're listening as we'll be going through the top 15 tracks and announcing the 3 prize winners at the end. Also, quick notice to our contestants, we'll be contacting you if you've won via the email on your Poniverse account. Make sure this email is valid and up to date! If we don't get a response within 3 days we'll give your prize to the contestant below you. Make sure you head over to Poniverse.net before the stream to get your email up to date! Anyway, good luck to you all! Hope you can make it! If you can't make it in time for the stream, we'll be posting the winners on the Pony.fm homepage for 1 week! How to listen to PonyvilleFM Directly on their site • Via PonyvilleLive

Huge news everyone! We're going to be announcing the winners to our Hearth's Warming Contest TODAY! However, we'll be announcing them ON AIR on PonyvilleFM Thanks to the PonyvilleFM team for making this possible. We'll be streaming on PonyvilleFM tonight at 10pm GMT (for the full list of timezones, see here). So, if you've entered, make sure you're listening as we'll be going through the top 15 tracks and announcing the 3 prize winners at the end. Also, quick notice to our contestants, we'll be contacting you if you've won via the email on your Poniverse account. Make sure this email is valid and up to date! If we don't get a response within 3 days we'll give your prize to the contestant below you. Make sure you head over to Poniverse.net before the stream to get your email up to date! Anyway, good luck to you all! Hope you can make it! If you can't make it in time for the stream, we'll be posting the winners on the Pony.fm homepage for 1 week! How to listen to PonyvilleFM Directly on their site • Via PonyvilleLive

Slight change in time, it's airing at 10pm GMT instead of 9pm GMT. Check the link below for the full timezone breakdown https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20161228T2200

Good news everyone! It looks like we've secured a date for our live event on PonyvilleFM. It'll be an hour long and will start at 9pm GMT on the 28th (tomorrow). If you want to listen, head over to Ponyville Live or you can listen directly on their site PonyvilleFM.com We'll be announcing the winners live on stream so good luck to you all!

Don't worry! If you can't join us for the stream, the results will still be posted on Pony.fm's homepage for 1 week and will be posted on this forum

Sorry for the delay in the results! We've got the votes counted and ready to go. However, I'm not sure if I am really allowed to tell you this, we're planning a little show on PonyvilleFM to announce the winners. We haven't got a date yet but hopefully it'll be going out some time before the year is up! If our plan falls through then we'll just release the results on Pony.fm. I'll keep this thread up to date once I know more

We had about 17 submissions, most during the last few days