August 29, 2011

August 23, 2011

June 06, 2011

May 26, 2011

May 07, 2011

April 23, 2011

• New Silverlight based upload tool lets you upload many files at once by dragging and dropping the files into the browser window. It makes it super easy to upload all of your tracks in a single step. To learn more about this feature check out the Wiki page.
  How to upload multiple files
• Some minor tweeks and usability improvments to the manage your songs page
• Better compatibility with IE 9 and Firefox 4. Several page rendering problems that occured with the new browser versions have now been corrected.

Feduary 26, 2011

• Update to music publishing feature now lets you change the order that the song appear in your profile.
• Some minor tweeks and usability improvments to the manage your songs page
• Performance and reliability improvements for the integrated file upload component

Febuary 3, 2011

Updated Personal Messaging System

• Alerts will now appear in the “mail” section of the main navigation bar. This will indicate the number of new messages in your mail box.
• The entire email system has been streamlined to be easier to use especially on touch based devices such as the iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Updated Personal Messaging System

• As the first part of a larger effort to make it easier for more of the world to use the site, MyOnlineBand.com is being translated into many languages. The first language is Spanish with more to come in the near future.
• MyOnlineBand will detect your preferred language and switch to Spanish automatically. You may also access the Spanish version by going to http://es.myonlineband.com

January 20, 2011

Updated Manage Published Song Features

• Ability to add Genres to each song. This feature will make it easier for fans to find your music in our online radio.
• Ability to publish songs to your band profile. The new “Publishing Options” tab allows you to specify where your song will be displayed on the site. You can choose whether or not to add the song to your band profile, your artist profile, and the MyOnlineBand Music Library.
• Cleaner and easier to user tabbed layout.

Advanced Song Search

Upgraded Silverlight Media Player

• Add to favorites – This feature allows you to add songs to a personal playlist. You can access this list by clicking the “Play Favorites” button which is available on all of the music library pages.
• Full Screen Mode – This feature allows you to view your playlist using your entire PC screen. You can then sit back listen to your favorite MOB music and watch the song name and images dance along to the songs.

Add songs to your band profile

• By publishing a band members only project. This will automatically publish the song to the band’s profile page.
• Selecting the band in the publishing options in the “manage my published songs” page.

January 5, 2011

Updated Band Features

• My Bands page now shows the band photo in the band list
• The Band Search now allows you to search by band name
• The Band Search page now shows the band photo

December 29, 2010

New Advanced Song Workspace Search

The all new advanced search page allows you to drill search using any combination of “Workspace name”, “Talent Needed”, “Genre”, “Collaboration Model”, “Project Status / Phase”, and “Last Activity Date”. You can then easily sort the search results by clicking on the column headers. Your search criteria can be refined by clicking on the “refine search” button on the search results screen.
Try the advanced search feature

New Create Band Wizard

The “Create Band Wizard” is a major improvement over the original band creation page. You may now add a custom image to your band profile and specify musical genres for your band.

Friendly web addresses

As part of a process of making the site easier to use, the web address format for song workspaces and band profiles have been changed so that they are easier to type in by hand.

Some other minor tweeks by requested by our users

• On the browse bands page you may now sort the results by clicking on the column headers. The sortable columns include the date the band was created, the founding artist, and the band name.
• The order of the tabs on the song workspaces has been changed to match the workflow. The tab order is now “new files”, “mixes”, “tracks”, “ideas”.

December 18, 2010

Open Audition Drill Down can now be filtered by Genre and Collaboration Model

The Open Audition Drill down pages now share the same filtering features as the other pages that display active workspaces. You can now filter by both musical genre and collaboration model. This should make it easier then ever to find projects that fit your talet and taste.

Song Workspace Upgrade

New Files Tabs
Song workspaces will now display a "New" tab which displays a list of all the new items that have been added to the workspace over the last 2 days. This makes it easier to find new items that have been uploaded to the workspace.

Smart Default Value
When uploading a file to your song workspace you can select whether the file is an "Idea", a "Track", or a "Mix". Default value for this field will now change depending on the phase of your project. For example, if your project is in the mixing phase, the default value for an audio file type will be "Mix". Song Workspaces can set the project's phase from the "edit" workspace page. Only project coordinators may change the workspace settings.

Band Member Ads Show in Workspace
If you create a community or moderated project that is not associated with an online band, you can create ads for open positions and the ads where displayed on the workspace page. This functionality was not available for "Band Member Only" projects since only band members can participate on the project. As of November 2010 we added a feature that allowed bands to post ads for open positions. These ads are associated with the band and not with a particular workspace. This new feature will now display all band level positions on the "members only" workspaces. The ad will include a link to submit an audition for the band.

New Public Workspace Page
All Song workspaces except for private workspaces have both a public facing view which is available to the public and a members only view which is only available to MyOnlineBand members and allows artists to post files and add comments.
The public facing version of the page has been modified so that it easier for fans to find using external search engines such as Google and Bing.

New Feedback Forum

Feedback Forum
A new customer feedback forum has been set up with the help of our partners at UserVoice. It allows you to submit ideas for new features, and for other members to vote on your ideas. You will also be able to see if your idea is being worked on and be notified when your feature is implemented.

MyOnlineBand now available as an App in the Google Chrome Web Store

MyOnlineBand.com is now available in the Google Chrome web store. This will allow you to install MyOnlineBand as an application in both the Google Chrome web browser and the new Google Chrome OS. It allows MyOnlineBand.com to take advantage of some of Chrome’s features that allows MyOnlineBand to behave more like a desktop application and use features such as pop-up alerts. For more information about this feature check out the Wiki page.
How to install MyOnlineBand as an app from the Chrome Web Store

December 5, 2010

My Auditions Page

New Feature
A few menu items has been added under the “Online Bands” header called “My Auditions”. This page allows you to track the status of your auditions and gives you the option to cancel them. This page works in conjunction with the band audition features introduced last week.

My Bands Page Face Lift

Now easier to use
The My Bands page allows you to manage your online band memberships including creating new bands, quitting bands and managing open position ads for your bands. This update substantially improves the ease of use and graphical appeal of the page making it easier to access the growing list of features.

November 25, 2010

Location Specific ads

New options:

• Some people prefer to work only with local musicians. To accommodate this preference, you may now specify the country, state, and metro area for the position. By default the ad is open to the entire world with no location restriction.

Online Band open position ads

Advertise open positions in your online band:

• In addition to creating open positions advertisements for your song collaboration projects you may now create ads for your online bands as well. See the new option on the “My Bands” page.

Band Audition work flow

Require auditions for your online band
When ads are created to open positions in your online band, you may specify audition requirements for the positions. This allows each of the members of your band to review the each applicant and vote on whether or not to allow them to join the band. You have several options for audition requirements including:

• Founding Member Only – In this workflow, the band’s founding member is notified when an audition is submitted. The founding member can then approve or deny the audition.
• Majority – in this workflow, all band members are notified on the audition submission and will have a chance to vote on the audition. If a majority of the members accept the audition, then the artist will be added to the band.
• Unanimous – This workflow is similar to the “Majority” workflow but all members must agree. If any members votes no, the audition will be denied.

Update your published songs

You can now update a published song with a new mix without changing the play count
Now when you edit a song on the "Manager my songs" page, you will now see an option for updating the song.

July 10, 2010

Support for iPad, iPhone, and Android Devices

New Media Playback options:

• The MyOnlineBand.com mini player has been updated to support playback options in most modern mobile devices including Android based smart phones and Apple devices. MyOnlineBand.com is now using the web technology including HTML 5 native audio playback. In addition to smart phones, we are also supporting playback for legacy non-intel Macs that cannot use the Silverlight plug-in. In this case we are offering playback using an Adobe Flash based audio player. This will also work for other computers who are unable to install Silverlight. This will ensure your music will play on almost any device.

Share This Feature for Song Details

The Song Details page now has a Share This Widget

• The song details page now is using the “Share This” widget. This add-in will allow people who discover your music to quickly be able to share it on their favorite social network including, Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live, and MySpace.

July 4, 2010

Online Music Collaboration Wiki

All new MyOnlineBand.com collaboration wiki:

• The all new MyOnlineBand.com collaboration wiki has just be launched and is looking for contributors. In addition to having information about how to use MyOnlineBand.com, with the help of the experts that make up our community, it will become the authoritative source for information about online music collaboration, audio recording, virtual bands, recording software, and audio production techniques. It will also contain music lesions for MyOnlineBand.com’s top talent including guitar lessons from SharkBoy.
• Request access to the wiki editor

New Comment Editor Features

You can now add YouTube videos and more to your song workspace posts:

• The comment editor now has many of the new features from the Wiki editor. This allows you to add youtube videos, images, and other media to your post using the special Wiki tags. For more info see the article MyOnlineBand.com Wiki Tags

April 25, 2010

Speed Boost

MyOnlineBand.com now upto 4X faster:

• A combination of months of performance tuning, code optimizations, and a new faster server has dramatically increased the performance of the site. Upload and download speeds have more than doubled for an overall better music collaboration experience.

New Privacy Settings

MyOnlineBand.com now lets you control who can view your Artist Profile:

• MyOnlineBand.com now allows you to keep your artist profile private. There are four privacy settings.

  • Public – Your profile is completely visible to the public Internet. There are no restrictions on who can view your profile. This is the ideal setting for artists who are using their profile to promote their music. This is the default setting.
  • Registered Users Only – Only registered members of MyOnlineBand.com Music Collaboration community will be able to view your profile. This is the ideal setting for someone who does not want to promote any music but wants to let other members know about her talents or abilities. Any registered user will be able to invite you to join a project, send you a personal message, and listen to and rate your music.
  • Band mates Only - This setting hides your profile information from everyone except for members of any of your online virtual bands. This is ideal for artists who are only interested in working with people they already know or for local bands that use MyOnlinBand.com for a collaboration space.
  • Hidden – This setting completely hides your profile from all users. This is idea for commercial studios and major label artists who wish to keep their profile and song collaborations private.

March 7, 2010

New Video Tutorials

New Video Tutorials show how to use workspaces:

• Video Tutorials Home Page
Import and Export from MyOnlineBand.com to your audio recording program

January 25, 2010

MyOnlineBand 2.1 Release

Builds on MyOnlineBand 2.0 to bring even more features and enhancments including:

• Redesigned song workspaces with intelligent tabs greatly simplify sorting and paging through files on your song workspaces
• Updated upload utility allows more reliable uploading of large files
• Max file size upgraded to 60MB. You no longer need to use outside services for most files
• New categories for your workspace items including “Ideas”, “Lyric Sheet”, and “Project Concept”
• Project Concept features allows a project coordinator to select a file uploaded to a workspace as the “Project Concept”. This will make it easier for someone new to the project to get a feel for the music without having to peck through tracks and mixes.
• Project Concept can now be steamed from the project search results page
• Song Project alert manager allows you to quickly view your alert subscriptions and delete the ones for projects you no longer wish to follow

December 17, 2009

MyOnlineBand 2.0 Release

Major release with the following enhancments

• New look and feel with improved navigation and a greater focus on user experience
• New full text site wide search from Bing makes it easier to find what you are looking for
• Updated online help and a new user support page
• Redesigned home page that now intelligently promotes the best talent
• Redesigned mini player makes previewing files before downloading a breeze
• Support for Mp4 audio format. You may now upload and share M4a files as well as WMA, MP3, WAV, and Midi files.

September 14, 2009

Features improved

Invite Feature

The project invite feature has been improved. Now when you invite someone to your project, MyOnlineBand has greatly simplified the registration process.
When your friend clicks the project workspace link from the invitation email, MyOnlineBand will detect their membership. If they are not a member, they will automatically be forwarded to the registration page and will even fill out the form for them.
Once the simple registration form is completed they can proceed to the project and begin participating. If you have sent an invite to a band members only project, your friend will be added to your band automatically once they register.

September 9, 2009

New Features Added

Online Virtual Bands - Part II

We have just completed a major upgrade of the new Online Virtual Bands feature that was first released in July. There are many new improvements with this feature including:

• Edit your band to change the name and description after creating it
• Create band workspaces. Band workspaces can be private and hidden from the community or restricted so that the community can view the project and stream your tracks and mixes but only band mates can contribute and download files.
• Links to your band workspaces now appear on the band home page
• When creating a new band project, all of your band mates can be sent invitation emails automatically

Faceted Collaboration Workspace Search

It’s now easier than ever to find projects that interest you. Now when you browse our listing of workspaces you can drill down on musical genre and collaboration model by clicking links on a side bar to the left of the search results For example, you can now find all the active blues projects that use the community collaboration model in just two clicks.

July 12, 2009

New Features Added

Online Virtual Bands

MyOnlineBand now allows you to formalize relationships with artists that you collaborate with frequently by creating an online virtual band. Each band gets its own online profile page similar to an artist profile page. When you join a band, MyOnlineBand.com automatically links your profile to the band profile. An artist may be a member of many bands. For more information about this feature, please go to the Online Bands page. We have a boatload of new features around this theme that will be debuting in the coming months so stay tuned.

New Project Status options

You may now modify your project’s status to let potential contributors know the relative progress of your composition. You may now mark your project as one of the following:

• Active
• All Positions Filled
• Tracks Completed / Mixing
• Final / Review
• Completed / Published
• On Hold
• Canceled

Project Workspace Improvements

We have made the following improvements to the project workspace pages:

• Musical Genres are now displayed in the project summary
• The project status is now displayed on the stats tab
• A notification is written to the comments section whenever someone deletes a file from the workspace. The comment will say what file has been deleted and who deleted it
• You may now edit comments that you have submitted

Change your email address

If you wish to change the email address used to send you notifications, you can do so using the new “change my email address “feature. This feature can be access from the members homepage.

New Look

We have an updated look and feel and a new home page.

April 18, 2009

New Features Added

Published Projects Search

You can now view all of the completed collaboration projects that are still listed on the site. Click here to view this new feature.

April 16, 2009

New Features Added

MyOnlineBand Video Player

You can now use MyOnlineBand.com project workspaces for film score and Jingle collaboration. The workspaces now allow you to upload video in WMV (Windows Media Video) format. The video can be streamed instantly using MyOnlineBand’s new video player. The video player supports full screen mode as well as playing the video inside of the browser window.

Improved support for Mac Safari and Google Chrome

We have doubled our efforts in supporting alternative browsers including Safari (for both Mac and Windows), Opera, and now Google Chrome. We have recently corrected several bugs related to these browsers and hope that these changes will make our website more inclusive.

March 15, 2009

New Features Added

MyOnlineBand Jukebox now on profile pages

The MyOnlineBand.com media player is now on your profile pages. This allows your fans to listen to all of your tunes over and over. Fan can now rate and bookmark their favorites right from your profile!

Play All songs from this artist feature now on public playlists

Fans browsing our growing music catalog can now add all of the songs from their favorite artists to the now playing queue with one click. This feature makes it even easier for new fans to find and explore your music.

December 18, 2008

New Features Added

New Myonlineband.com Media Player

Myonlineband.com has a brand new music player based on Microsoft Silverlight 2. Features of the new player include:

• Standard player controls including a seek bar, download progress indicator, stop, play, pause, play timer, and volume controls.
• Ability to rate and comment on a song
• Browse through our music library and add songs to your playlist
• Download the song so that you can add it to your MP3 player
• Email a song to your friends
• View the lyrics and details of the song
• View and zoom-in on the song’s artwork
• Add a song to your list of favorites
• Click the “Play All” button to play all songs in the select playlist

• Top Downloads – The most listened to tracks on Myonlineband.com
• New Music – The most recently added songs
• Staff Picks – Music selected by our staff which features some of the best tracks from our growing pool of talented members
• Highest Rated – The tracks that have been rated highest by our members
• Browse All – Browse our entire collection and bookmark your favorites

August 25, 2008

New Features Added

Myonlineband.com Live Chat

July 27, 2008

New Features Added

SUPPORT THIS ARTIST FEATURE

May 14, 2008

New Features Added

EVEN MORE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR PROJECTS

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