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  1. 41 minutes ago, afan said:

    May be, the controllable downloads options for authors will be better? More better is to leave the choice to pay or not for listeners, but add special customizable buttons to interface.

    Otherwise for me, as an author, disabled download and forced paymend - the right way to curb the tracks spreading through the audience.

    To rephrase: I would like to have the options of policy customization with ability to leave my tracks free.

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

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  2. 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 ;)

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  3. If the title is spelt using full width characters like you have here, that might be the issue. I'm not entirely sure how full width text reacts with URLs but that could very well be the issue here. Try uploading it using normal characters and see if that fixes your problem

     

    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

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  4. 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 :P
    • 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.

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  5. Pardon me, but what about the detailed evaluations to how we got those scores for our tracks in the first place?

    Simple scores are not enough for us to use for evaluation.

     

    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

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  6. How will we know how the evaluation of the final score for our tracks?

     

    Some of us (if not all) are really curious on what each of the judges scored (even by each category) on our tracks that resulted to the final scores for them.

     

    Because we would be really eager to know how we can improve on our tracks in the future.

     

    Yep, we're releasing the scores in a few minutes. Keep your eyes on the Pony.fm forums

    I'm sorry I have to say this but...as a musician of 17 years of piano and 7 years of composing...I strongly disagree with the top 3 tracks...I am not saying this because I am upset I only came in 4th, just missing 3rd by .02, I am saying this from my music experience. 

     

    Sorry you feel that way. Better luck next year

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    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  :love:
     
    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

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  8. HATGaOt.png

     
    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  :love:
     
    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

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  9. 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!

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  10. What about for those who won't be able to watch/listen to the PonyvilleFM thing? How are they going to know the results?

     

    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

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  11. 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

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  12. Best of luck to everyone participating :3

    Totally not expecting to be in the top 10 though cause i'm not that good. xD

     

    How many participated btw?

     

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

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  13. Thanks to everyone who entered! We've had an amazing amount of submissions this year :D

     

    So what happens now?

     

    Well, we're gonna have a team of judges review all of your submissions and grade them. You can see our full judging criteria over here. All of your tracks will be rated on a scale of 0-100. With 100 being amazing and 0 being terrible.

     

    We'll be releasing the results hopefully before Christmas with an announcement on our home page.

     

    If your track manages to win 1st, 2nd or 3rd place, we'll be contacting you via the email you used when you created your Poniverse account just before we announce the winners

     

    Good luck to you all!!!

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  14. Is this contest still open? I uploaded my song and I can't find the checkbox to submit.

     

    Also, I can't find the song on my profile page. The artist link on the song in question goes to a different profile. Something tells me this is a repeat of a problem I had last year.

     

    Looks like there's an issue with your account. I'll get that fixed, also I've checked the submit box for you. Don't know why it's not showing. What timezone are you in?

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  15. Agh, I'm actually getting problems trying to "log in" to pony.fm to upload my track for this contest when i'm already logged in. Evgn ried logging out and logging back in and problem still not solved. What should I do before time is up??

     

    Try clearing your cookies and your browser cache. If that doesn't work, send your track via PM and a link to your profile and I'll upload it for you

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  16. Thank you so much. I wasn't able to start until this weekend, and it makes me feel a lot more comfortable knowing that I have a little more time to tweak my composition instead of having to rush the whole thing quite so much.

     

    EDIT: just for clarification, to qualify, I must submit my track at or before 11:59 pm GMT on the 20th, correct?

     

    The submission box on the site will disappear at 11:59:59 pm GMT on the 20th. As long as you check the box and hit save before that time you should be good

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