@@ -2,17 +2,15 @@ [alonetone](http://alonetone.com) is a growing independent music platform, providing free services for musicians wanting to host and distribute their music in a non-commercial easy-to-use environment. -alonetone was launched in January 2008 +alonetone was launched in January 2008 and as of June 2009 hosts over 8000 songs from 800 musicians and has delivered over 500,000 mp3s to real listeners. -## alonetone is looking for more love +## alonetone is always looking for more development love -Are you a musician / music lover with Rails or UI/design chops? +Have ruby and/or javascript skills? Help us build the best music platform, period. -Help us to build the best indy music platform out there. +Warm the hearts of musicians world wide by working on an app that provides musicians with a home, a connection to each other, to their listeners, and to a source of inspiration. -If you are interested, [sign up over at alonetone](http://alonetone.com/signup) and check out what is there. We could always use more usability/UI/design help, basic testing, general feedback, and eventually, some more Rails love. - -Secondly, please email me at sudara at alonetone dot com. +Or get jiggy with our build-to-order API and do something crazy and exciting. ### Bug reporting @@ -24,11 +22,11 @@ To create and run the best online home a musician could want to have, providing How do we reach this goal? -* It is easy to use, intuitive, and consistent (grandma-friendly) -* It is attractive to look at +* It must be easy to use, straightforward, intuitive, and consistent (grandma-friendly) +* It must be attractive to look at * It provides musicians with practical, useful and inspiring tools and services * It provides listeners and first time site visitors with a 'hook' into their first taste of alonetone music and helps them explore the site in an intelligent and guided way. -* It encourages artist exploration +* It encourages artist exploration and the feeling to stick around. * It does not overwhelm folks with TMI (too much information) or TMO (too many options) or TMF (too many features) For more info, visit [the alonetone faq](http://alonetone.com/about) @@ -41,15 +39,14 @@ Really, only the very basics are implemented. * Unlimited mp3 uploads for musicians * Creation of playlists / albums * MP3 streaming and download -* Basic artist browsing -* Tracking of listens and providing useful feedback to artists -* Very basic commenting system -* Facebook integration +* Artist browsing +* Tracking of listens and providing useful feedback and statistics to artists +* Commenting system * Feeds for iTunes podcasts and offsite flash players ### Current tech -* Rails 2.1 +* Rails 2.3 * Rspec * jQuery and LowPro * SoundManager 2 (for flash mp3 playback) README.markdown f067596d9643476d1cdb6636a1bb88675de2b229 sudara sudara@alonetone.com http://github.com/sudara/alonetone/commit/629c613fd33466f11ec166c154a6ff589bc67067 629c613fd33466f11ec166c154a6ff589bc67067

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