Our long awaited second video interview, featuring Rich Lodato

This time around Phil caught up with a well known and respected MP3U musician, the one and only Rich Lodato. This is a brief glimpse into his life and works,...

Coming soon... MP3U Artist Interview 2

Greetings, MP3Uers. Our first wave of beta testing has gone very well, and the new MP3U is slowly but steadily evolving into a truly multifunctional music site.
We are getting ready to start phase two of beta testing. For anyone interested in accessing and exploring the site-in-progress behind the scenes, contact us via PM or reply to this thread so we can contact you. Thank you! ... See more

This has been a while coming. We promised it would be released before summer... Well, here it is! The first MP3U Video Artist Interview, featuring Patrick Brilliant Dixon

MP3U is close to completion! We’ll be inviting beta testers in waves over the coming weeks, from a random list of MP3U users. See you soon on the other side!

Quick behind-the-scenes tutorial on current MP3U functionality

Here’s a quick preview of how an artist page currently looks in the site-in-progress (used my own artist page for demo purposes). The over all look of the page hasn’t been finalized. We are working on functionality first. An explanatory video showing how to play tracks, upload tracks, change page image files etc., is on the way.

Here’s a brief summary of some of the things you can do.

As you can see, the top of the page shows a large artist banner. Until artwork is uploaded this area will show the same banner as on the main MP3U page, or genre-specific artwork, by default. When logged in, a tiny cog icon appears in the upper right corner of the banner area. To change the artwork, simply click the icon and choose your own image. Several images may be uploaded here if you prefer a rotating carousel (like on the main page of the old site) rather than one static image. Entirely up to you.

Below the banner you can see the ‘upload’ button. Uploading a new mp3 is as simple as clicking that button and choosing the track from your computer.
Tracks are displayed 10 at a time. Just click the right arrow here to see the next 10 in your track list

As you can see, individual track artwork is now also possible. If you don’t assign specific artwork the track art will show your artist profile pic by default (you can see this in the screenshot for the track MP3U in the Classroom).

When you hover the mouse cursor over the play button to the left of the track titles, it will offer two choices. You can click the ‘play’ button to start the track playing in the player at the bottom of the screen (in this screenshot the 10th track is currently playing). The red part above the player is showing location in the track in a ‘progress bar’.
Or you can click the ‘+’ button to add the track to your playlist, accessible in the bottom right of the screen, to listen to later. You can build your playlist over time and/or edit it as you see fit.

The upcoming video demo will clarify the above and more. If you’ve any specific questions, fire ahead 🙂 - Phil ... See more

Trailer for the forthcoming, and first ever, MP3U Artist Video Interview, featuring Patrick Brilliant Dixon. Coming soon! 🙂

As part of our upgrade we're looking at doing video podcasts. We'll be doing casual interviews with sound engineers, music coaches/teachers and of course... musicians from MP3U. If you'd like to talk to us about your music, your set up and/or approach to writing and composing then let us know. Don't be shy! ... See more

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The site formerly known as mp3unsigned.com is now MP3u.com

Kae here - we were working on the playlist today. There's a lovely animation that happens when you click the "play" icon next to a track, that directs attention to the playlist icon in blue on the bottom right. when that's clicked/tapped, the playlist opens up, covering about 30% of the screen so you are still free to move around under the playlist if you want (hmm - maybe make the playlist semi-transparent as well?)

The screenshot was taken on my phone.

Getting there! ... See more

Kae here: Today we were working on the basics of the new player. In both the desktop and the mobile, the player will be represented by a "play bar" across the bottom of the page. When you click a play icon on any track, it will be added to the playlist (accessed through the icon on the right of the play bar).

The new website is built as a "single page application", so when you click into an artist or search around the site, you're not actually loading new pages at all - just reloading bits of the page that you're on. This lets us keep the player playing without interruption even as you browse.

We're also discussing the ideas of artists creating albums of their music, shareable playlists, automatic playlists, tracks downloading and storing in browser memory for offline playing, and many other things, most of which are possible 😉

The attached image is a small taster of what the mobile player looks like today after starting my own work, before Phil gets to play designer on it! ... See more