Synthtopia

We’re currently seeing some duplicate comments popping up randomly around Synthtopia.

We use the Intense Debate comment system, so I’ve contacted their technical support to see what we need to do to eliminate the duplicates.

In the meantime, sorry about the inconvenience.

We’ve added a new feature to the site that should make it easy for you to listen to and download some great electronic music from Synthtopia readers.

Just click the Listen To Music link at the top of the page:

This should open up a new music player window that looks something like this:

Here’s some of the things you can do with the player:

• Click the play button if you just want to listen to the latest tracks.
• Select any track from the list and play it.
• Jump to any point in a track by clicking on the sound wave.
• Get info on the track
• Download over 100 free tracks! If the artist has enabled the free music downloads option, the player will show the Download options.
• Share the track to social networks like Facebook & Twitter, get an embed code or email it.

If you want to add your own electronic music tracks to the mix, check out this post: sharing music with Synthtopia readers.

Let me know how the new feature works for you and if you have any feedback on it!

We’ve been looking for a good way for Synthtopia readers to share their music with other readers. If you’re an electronic musician or a label, we want to help people find out about you and your music. If you’re an electronic music fan, we want to help you find out about a lot of great electronic music.

We’ve published multiple posts highlighting the music of Synthtopia readers in the past – but now SoundCloud has added a new “Group” feature that should make this even easier. Read more…

We recently updated Synthtopia to speed up commenting on the site, and the feedback has been positive.

Today, we updated the site caching software, to address problems some users have been seeing with pages occasionally loading incompletely.Thanks to Torley, MarkMosher and others for bringing this to our attention.

We also enabled compression on the server today. If your browser supports compression, Synthtopia should load up to 80% faster.

Our goal is to make Synthtopia Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

Let us know how it’s working for you. If you follow me on Twitter, send me a note if you ever have a problem and I’ll check it out as soon as possible.

Thanks for your feedback. Read more…

We’ve received feedback that commenting was too slow at Synthtopia, and sometimes it was unclear if the comment posted or not.

Synthtopia has been getting more and more traffic, which is great, but commenting has been getting slower and slower, which isn’t so great.

So – we’ve implemented a new comment system, IntenseDebate, that should speed things up a lot. Give it a try, and lets us know if you think it’s an improvement!

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