Altertunes

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May 11th, 2008

Hey downloaders,

Altertunes finally have something for users who are looking for free downloads. Yes, now Altertunes will be providing links to the songs, from where users can download them, in return to their duke coins earned while listening to songs on Altertunes.

Now for every action of user inside Altertunes, they will be awarded duke points ranging from 2 to 100. Following are the ways a user can earn duke points inside Altertunes:

Later on users can encash these duke coins, by downloading the songs using the links provided by Altertunes.

Each song will cost users 100 duke coins.

For more information visit duke coins page.

Keep experiencing music with Altertunes,

Altertheater Team @ Altertunes.com

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Altertunes featured in Bangaloreinc.com

May 11th, 2008

Hello All,

Yesterday Altertunes was featured and reviewed by BangaloreInc.com. This is first ever coverage of Altertunes over web.

To read more on the same visit:
http://www.bangaloreinc.com/2008/05/11/introducing-altertunescom-music-from-the-web/

To have a look at “In conversion with Abhinav Singh, Founder of Altertunes.com” visit:
http://www.bangaloreinc.com/2008/05/11/binc-talk-time-in-conversation-with-founder-of-altertunescom/

Many thanks to Pravin Karoshi for covering Altertunes on BangaloreInc.com.

Altertheater Team @ Altertunes.com

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How to create, add and manage playlists in Altertunes ?

May 9th, 2008

Looking for how can you add your favorite songs under one playlist. Here we go, explaining the same:

1. Go to the settings tab after you have logged into Altertunes. There go to manage playlist link and you should see something like this:

   

   Now click on the click to add a playlist and a box will open up. You will be able to see something like:

   

   Fill in the name you want to have for your playlist and click create playlist button.

   You can even create multiple playlists at once. Maximum number of playlists allowed are 5 and one can add upto 25 songs in one playlist.

   Now to add songs to your playlist, go back to your main page. Now you will be able to see an add to playlist option on top of Alterplayer. You will see something similar to this:

   

   Choose the playlist, to which you want to add the current playing song (Note: you need to play a song to add it to a playlist). And press ‘Click to add song’ just next to drop down. You should see a message at top of the window on successful addition of song in the playlist. Something similar will appear:

   

   Now if ever you want to delete a song from your playlist, go back to the settings tab and then to manage playlists section. There click on the playlist name you want to manage, and it will expland for you. You will see something like this:

   

   Simply click on the song name, for deleting it from the playlist. After deletion of the song from the playlist, you will see a strike through that particular song. You will see something similar to this:

   

   And thats it, you have just experienced the efficient ways to manage your music on Altertunes.

   Enjoy managing music with Altertunes.

   Altertheater Team @ Altertunes.com

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Get Google and Yahoo news on Altertunes for your artists

May 7th, 2008

Hello all music freaks,

In our quest to provide a complete music mesh up, we integrated news from Google news and Yahoo news into Altertunes. So now you can get all the latest news about your artist while listening to their songs. From Atif Aslam’s visa problem to Metallica’s latest album release, everything on Altertunes related news section.

Just search for an artist, and Altertunes news feeder do the rest for you. The news keep refreshing every 8-10 seconds.

Altertunes news feeder will shows only the headlines for the current artists. To know more on the news, just click on the news link.

Enjoy and have fun experiencing music with Altertunes,
Altertheater Team @ Altertunes.com

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Show your public profiles to your friends, colleagues and loved one’s

May 5th, 2008

Heyaa,

We hope you all are having a great time experiencing music with Altertunes.

Last night we rolled in a new feature, which allows registered users to make their profile public and show them to their friends, colleague and loved one’s.

Above is how a registered users top center panel looks like. They can see a replica of their public profiles by visiting the link displayed on their home page.

Hence, even if user’s friends are unregistered at Altertunes, they can browse through users playlists and top searches. Additionally, only user’s profile information is displayed to the viewers and not their messages and friends list. However, users may modify the profile settings and also let their messages and friends list made public.

To access someone’s public profile simply type in the following URL in your browser:
http://altertunes.com/user/[PERSONS_ALTERTUNES_USER_ID] ,
For example to visit imoracle’s public profile simply type in http://altertunes.com/user/imoracle in your browsers.

Registered users can make appropriate changes to their profile information by visiting here.

So just go ahead and post your public profile URL on your Orkut Profiles, Facebook Profiles, Blogs, Websites, Gtalk status messages,Yahoo Messenger status messages or what all methods you can find to display your public profile to the world.

Let the world know what’s on your Alterplayer these days.

Have fun experiencing music,
Altertheater Team @ Altertunes.com

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TIP: Google your song using Alterplayer’s find option

May 3rd, 2008

Ever wanted to have lyrics for the song you are playing on Altertunes right in front of you ? Or ever wanted to have the guitar tabs for that song, so that you can pluck a string or two along with the song ?

You can achieve all this at Altertunes with a single click. All you need to do is, play your favorite song on Alterplayer and then just click on the options provided under Find menu tab of Alterplayer. That will take you to YouTube for the related Videos, Google Image Search for the related images, and Google search for Lyrics and Guitar Tabs.

Further, you can control the play, pause, volume up and volume down options for Alterplayer using the keyboard shortcuts. Navigate to shortcuts under Help menu tab of Alterplayer, to explore the keyboard shortcuts.

Take full advantage of the options provided with Alterplayer to explore the music you like.

Have fun experiencing music with Altertunes.

Tags: Alterplayer, Google Image Search, YouTube

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Monthly Newsletter: Updates on 2000 artists and features added last month

April 30th, 2008

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to monthly updates from Altertunes. We are now a month old and we already have a strong userbase of more than 500 users. Thanks for your support and belief in our service

Here are the updates on new artists and feature enhancements from last month:

More than 2000 Artists added last month
We are constantly increasing our music database. Last month we indexed more than 2000 new artists in our database.
Click here for complete list of artists added last month.

Embed Alterplayer on your Blogs, Websites, Facebook Profiles and Orkut Scraps
Last month Altertunes opened up for blogs and user’s personal pages. Now you can embed Alterplayer on your web pages and profiles.Everytime you make an artist query at Altertunes, your embedded Alterplayer will reflect your search query at your webpage.
Click here to embed Alterplayer on your web pages and social networking profiles.

Add Altertunes Facebook Application on your profiles
We follow you wherever you go. Now enjoy the services provided by Altertunes even while your are in company of your friends at Facebook.
Click here to add our facebook application on your profiles.

Dedicate and Share a song with your loved ones
Looking for a way to greet your friend on his birthday? What better way than to dedicate a song for him/her. Now you can even dedicate or share a song with your friends, family and loved one’s on Altertunes.

Is a month’s wait too long for you to know what’s keeping us busy? Subscribe to Altertunes Blog or Join our Orkut Community and Facebook Web Page for regular updates on new artists addition and feature enhancements.

Enjoy your musical journey with Altertunes,

Altertheater Team @ Altertunes.com

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Altertunes open up for Blogs, Websites and Social Sites

April 28th, 2008

Hello there !

Now you can even enjoy service by Altertunes on your Blogs, Websites, Orkut scrapbooks and Facebook profiles.

Add Altertunes application on your Facebook profile by visiting here:
Altertunes Application on Facebook

Also you may generate your Alterplayer code for embedding by visiting here:
Click to embed Alterplayer widget

For registered users, the playlist generated in the Alterplayer will reflect your search query inside Altertunes. Everytime you make a query inside Altertunes, it will be reflected in the embedded Alterplayer on your blog, website or wherever you choose to embed it.

For un-registered users, the playlist generated in the Alterplayer will be populated from the search query at the main page. To create your own custom playlists kindly register here and try again.

See an embedded Alerplayer in action here:
Abhinav Singh’s Blog

To keep track of the things join us on Facebook:
Altertunes Facebook Page

For all those Orkut freaks, join us on Orkut:
Altertunes Orkut Page

Tags: Altertunes, Alterplayer, Orkut, Facebook, Social Networking Applications

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About Altertunes

April 28th, 2008

Launched on 1 April, 2008, Altertunes is a social utility that helps people find their favorite music more easily and efficiently.

We develop technologies that allow our users to manage their music online, access them from any part of the world, and share their favourite songs and artists with other people in a trusted and secure enviornment.

With Altertunes you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart’s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite artists into Altertunes and let us do the rest. We will quickly scan our entire world of music, to find songs similar to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy, create playlists, see who else on Altertunes is having a similar music taste, what all playlists others have made.

We provide you access to all kinds of music, from the most obtuse to the most tripped-out and to the simplest catchy tunes. Our mission is to help you connect with the music YOU like.

Anyone can sign up for Altertunes, and start exploring the music world.

The name Altertunes signifies our vision and goal of helping people, to reach their favorite music and find new alternate music. It our mission to reward the musically curious among us with a never-ending experience of music discovery.

Tags: Altertunes, Music, Get Music Social, Social Network

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