imeem – Music is Social

Get a free MP3 download of Cobra Starship’s hot single, “Hot Mess,” for free on New Music Tuesdays on imeem. The catchy indie rock tune has been climbing the Billboard charts and follows the band’s hit release of “Good Girls Go Bad,” featuring Leighton Meester from Gossip Girls. Be sure to get your free download today, brought to you by Dr Pepper.

Download “Hot Mess” by Cobra Starship for free here

We’ve gotten a *lot* of feedback over the past 3 days about next week’s changes to user-uploaded photos and videos on imeem.

There has been some confusion about what is and isn’t changing, and I want to make clear that you will ALWAYS be able to post a profile picture, and to customize your profile theme. You will also still be able to post photos in comments by using standard embed code from sites like Photobucket.

We are listening, and wanted to give you an update on what we can do in response to your feedback.

First, we are delaying the removal of imeem’s photo storage features until Wednesday, July 15th. This will give imeem users extra time to transition those photos to other services.

Second, we’ve gotten questions about why we’re not offering a way for people to download and save the videos they have previously uploaded to imeem. The bottom line is that imeem was created as a place to upload and stream content; the site wasn’t built to support re-downloading of content (music or video), and making that change now isn’t practical for a variety of reasons. Our hope is that most users kept original copies of the videos they uploaded to the site. Our plan is still to remove all user-uploaded videos this Tuesday, June 30th.

This video change applies only to videos uploaded by users. We will continue to be a great place to go for official music videos, and in fact, it will be easier to search for and find music videos as a result of this change. You will still be able to express yourself by featuring these videos on your profile, alongside your favorite songs and playlists.

If you are an artist or label and would like to digitally deliver your video and make it available as part of our library of official ingested content, please contact us at partners@imeem.com.

Finally, we’ve heard from some VIP subscribers with concerns about the upcoming changes. We are offering refunds to those VIP subscribers who are directly affected by the changes; affected subscribers can send an email to VIP-support@imeem.com requesting a refund. Note: This email support address is for VIP subscribers only non-subscribers can email their feedback to our standard support address, support@imeem.com.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback.

Dalton

Today, we’re introducing our very own imeem Facebook appication that allows you to add to your Facebook profile any music playlist, song, or video that’s available on imeem. If you already have a Facebook account, you can go ahead and add this new app by clicking here.

Want to put some crazy dance videos, your latest party mix, or some summer jams on your Facebook page? No problem. Once you’ve added the imeem app, there are a variety of ways to add content to your Facebook profile:

[if you're surfing imeem]
* On any music playlist, song, or video page on imeem, click the Facebook icon under the “Add To My” section. Then click the link “Add To Facebook Profile”
* Copy and paste the URL of any music playlist, song, or video into the imeem Facebook app

[if you're using the imeem Facebook app]
* Check out our listing of featured and top ranked content and easily add any of that media to your page
* View what imeem content your friends have added, and add that stuff to your own page (you can claim that you added it first)

As always, suggestions and comments are welcome (just add them as a comment to this blogpost). We’re still trying to figure out what other neat stuff we can do with this Facebook app, so stay tuned for further updates.

Here’s the link: http://apps.facebook.com/imeemfb/ . Tell your friends to add it as well! And if you’re having trouble figuring out what content to add to your Facebook profile, here are some suggestions to get you started!

…Angelo
…Playlist: Dim Mak Records Sampler [ Add ]

…Rosa
…Video: Paris in Jail – Music Video Parody [ Add ]

…Joe
…Song: Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye [ Add ]

…jimmylin
…Playlist: the eclectic collection (sorry, gotta pimp out my own playlist) [ Add ]

…Brian
…Song: Apples in Stereo – Energy [ Add ]

…Gina
…Video: The Strokes – You Only Live Once [ Add ]

[On a side note, isn't it crazy how many new apps are popping up every day? Some are addictive (I could spend hours drawing masterpieces with the Graffiti app), some are a little odd ("Your friend has thrown a sheep at you"...huh?!?!), and some are random (anyone else get a message saying someone rated them on the Lamefactor scale?). Go figure.]

You may have been wondering about this mysterious icon that now appears on music playlists, song pages, and search results. Well, wonder no more. In addition to creating playlists, you can now create something we like to call QuickMix. What exactly is a QuickMix? Think of it as a temporary  music playlist that you can listen to and add songs to “on-the-fly” while browsing around imeem.

When you first click on the icon, it’ll open up your QuickMix in a brand new window. From that point forward, you can keep browsing around imeem and adding songs to this QuickMix. All the playlist features that you are already familiar with are there (enabling/disabling a track, shuffle mode, etc.), and you can remove songs from your QuickMix that you don’t like.

But let’s say you create this amazingly perfect QuickMix and you want to save it. No problem. Just click on the “Save” button and you will be able to save the playlist to your profile page. Piece of cake.

Creating a QuickMix is an easy way to just sit back and enjoy some tunes without much hassle. What’s great is that it can serve a variety of other purposes as well. Here are some scenarios I was able to come up with. If you think of any of your own, let me know.

The “Channel Surfing” method - You do a search, quickly add a ton of songs to your QuickMix, cycle through them just as quickly, and figure out which ones you like and dislike.
The “Big Night” method – You’ve got a big dinner date at your place and your date is about to arrive. Just fire up a few slow jams into your QuickMix, and you’re all ready for the evening. If things turn out well, save the QuickMix for future use.
The “High Fidelity” method – You’re checking out your friend’s cool playlist but realize that a few songs on the list prevent it from reaching a level of greatness. So you add the good songs to a QuickMix, fill in the gaps with the songs you think should be in there, and now you can compare with your friend whose list is superior.

So go ahead, check it out, and create a QuickMix. And of course, let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.

For more information about QuickMix, check out our FAQ page here.

Just like with music, now it’s easy to upload all your video collection in one swift blow by following these easy steps:

1. Browse and select the videos you want to upload.
2. Add some basic information about each video. (the minimum required is a genre).
3. Upload.
4. Get some popcorn and revisit all those awesome moments. Like the monkey scratching it’s butt, the star wars kid or the night you were interviewed drunk.

You can join the fun here: http://upload.imeem.com/videoupload/
(Click on the text that reads: “Uploading a lot of files? Click here.”)

Are you a prolific artist with a gazillion music files that you want to upload to your imeem profile/group but you don’t want to go through the cumbersome process of uploading one file at a time?

Try the new multiple file uploader!
1. Browse
2. Select your songs.
3. Upload All of them at once!

And remember, only upload songs for which you own the rights to!

You can find it in the Upload section of the site (when you select “Music”). And then click on the text that reads: “Uploading a lot of files? Click here”

http://upload.imeem.com/audioupload/

Enjoy!

Hey people,

We’re really excited to tell you about our updated “What’s New” feature. It lets you see all the cool stuff that your friends have been sharing and commenting on as well as things happening in your groups.

You can see your “What’s New” by clicking here. You can also get to it by clicking the “View All” link in the “What’s New” section of your home page.

The “What’s New” feature really speaks for itself but here are some of it’s key components:
- View by playlists, music, videos, etc.
- Watch new videos directly on the page
- View all recent forum activity in one click

So check it out and let us know what you think.

we’re all pretty psyched here at imeem today. we’re announcing that imeem has partnered with snocap to enable an ad-supported business model around all the social music activity in our community.

why is this cool_important_significant? well, the partnership lets us make sure that we’re keeping users happy and content owners (and artists) happy.

as the community has grown on imeem, we’ve been working hard on ways to improve how users find and express themselves with each other through their musical, artistic, and pop-cultural tastes. at the same time, we’ve also been working hard to create a reliable system for content owners and artists to control the availability of their content and also make money off of it.

IMHO, the best way to accomplish that is to offer a share of our online ad revenue to content owners, while also making sure that users can buy downloads of music or video they discover through others on imeem. snocap’s id system and content registry, which btw includes almost all of the major and indie label music out there, allows us to do just that.

So after several months of working on this Snocap-enabled system, we are excited to get the word out today and get more labels and artists involved on imeem!