Frequently Asked Questions

MogulTunes is the next wave of new music distribution. Using the elements of "social media" and "wisdom of the crowds" we deliver new music to DJs all across the world.
 

It's very simple and easy to join MogulTunes. It's FREE, however their is an approval process. Fill-out the registration form and we will review it. If everything checks out, you will receive notification via email and/or mobile phone.
 

Most people say that today it takes live shows or word of mouth to win them over.

Most MySpace addicts are so oblivious to the hundreds of thousands of bands trying to add them everyday that they don’t even give a listen anymore unless someone sends a message. MySpace is a great way for bands that share a gig and like each other to stay in touch, or to share new songs with friends and fans already established. MySpace was a great tool when it first came out for promotion, but it’s become so oversaturated that it is no longer really a valuable tool for initial promotion without some sort of driving force to draw attention to it; and it cannot be an advertisement or some poor excuse for a thinly veiled word-of-mouth campaign. It must be authentic!
 

If you encounter a bug or problem, please send us a bug report using our handy form. We really appreciate your help improving the site. If you encounter abuse, please email us at abuse@mogultunes.com. Please be sure to include the URL of the page where you found the bug or abuse occurring and any other pertinent details.
 

MogulTunes is best viewed in Firefox. Although, MogulTunes is visible in Internet Explorer, and Safari, we believe that our site is best viewed in the latest version of Firefox.
 

Mogultunes is a free music discovery service for DJs, Radio Programmers, A&Rs, Press & other industry tastemakers. For artists & labels some of our basic features are free. You can create a profile, upload a picture or album art, and listen to new music. But to allow our members access to your music you must pay the music submission fee.
 

YES! You can advertise on MogulTunes. We have a variety of advertising options for you to choose from. Just contact our sales department at sales@mogultunes.com
 

No. Unless you own the copyright or have expressed permission form the owner of the music you may not share the music you get from MogulTunes. We at MogulTunes have a very strong stance against piracy.
 

Just press the F11 key on your keyboard to view MogulTunes on a Full Screen.
 

Unless you exist in two parallel universes at once, unfortunately no. To protect the integrity of the system, our policy is one person, one account. This is to help prevent users from artificially inflating MogulTunes vote counters, which is explicitly against our Terms of Use.
 

Having an identity crisis? First make sure the new username you want is not already in use. You can do that by logging out and going to the registration page and checking for the new user name you desire by entering it in the form clicking the “Check Uniqueness” button next to the field. Then you can request a change to your user name by contacting support@mogultunes.com. Make sure to email us from the email address associated with your MogulTunes account.
 

You can request for your account removal by contacting support@mogultunes.com. Please keep in mind that this action cannot be reversed. Also make sure to email us from the email address associated with your MogulTunes account. If your email address has changed since you created your MogulTunes account, you can change it in the Email Preferences settings in your Profile.
 

MogulTunes takes a firm stance against users who violate our Terms of Use. This is in order to protect the integrity of our system for the good of our community. Example violations include spamming, hate speech, pornography, etc. If the abuse was severe enough, then it will warrant an account removal.
 

First make sure you're using a valid email address, and you're typing it in correctly. Certain domains are not allowed to register on MogulTunes due to serious Terms Of Use violations. Some domains will be blocked from registration if they have been used consistently for abuse. If you believe your account or domain was blocked in error, please email support@mogultunes.com.
 

You can change your email address in the Email Preferences settings in your Profile.
 

If you've chosen to display information such as your age or location to nobody, then you will be able to see it when you're logged in and viewing your own profile. However, it won't be shown to anyone else on the site. You can confirm this by logging out and viewing one of your profile pages.
 

The promotion and burying of music is managed by an algorithm developed by MogulTunes. There is no hard number of votes/buries to promote or remove a song. It's based on a sliding scale that takes several factors into consideration, such as number of votes, reports, time of day, genre submitted to, voting/burying diversity, etc.
 

This is evidence of our promotion algorithm hard at work. One of the keys to getting a song promoted is diversity in voting activity. Until the algorithm gets the diversity it needs of users voting on the story, it will remain in the Upcoming section. That way, the system knows a variety of people will be into the song.
 

We don't display who buried songs as we're concerned about fomenting user wars. What you bury is your own personal decision — our math will take care of the rest. Also, users feel uncomfortable sharing negative actions with others. We like to focus on the positive!
 

If you change your mind about a vote or accidentally vote for the wrong song, you can un-vote any song at any time within your profile. Just view your voting history, find the song that you want to remove, and then click "un-vote." Note, un-voting a song does not mean that the song is removed or the song has been buried. Un-voting a story removes it only from your profile.
 

Your song likely got buried by other users. Not all songs resonate with the community. It's neither you nor us who decides what is and what is not good music. That's up for the entire MogulTunes community to decide whether to vote for your song or bury it.
 

We don't release information about our algorithm to help prevent gaming, abuse, spam, etc.
 

To submit a song to the MogulTunes community, you can do it through our easy to use submission form. We'll give you options to provide a headline, description, thumbnail, and the proper topic for your submission. You have to be signed into your MogulTunes account to submit songs to MogulTunes. The only requirement is that you request a “Client” account level upgrade. You can do this through your MogulTunes profile dashboard. There is a cost associated with this service. Please check out our solutions for more info.
 

Please contact support@mogultunes.com to remove a song. Be sure to include the MogulTunes URL of the song you want to remove. You must be the original submitter of the song to request a song’s removal and you must email us from the email address associated with your MogulTunes account.
 

You can edit songs that you have submitted by clicking on the “Edit” button to your song listings. You cannot edit songs once they have been released to the MogulTunes community for voting, feedback and downloading. You must also be the original submitter of the song to edit a song.
 

The amount of time it takes for a song to upload or download varies based upon your connection speed and type. The faster your connection the faster your upload or download.
 

You can control what information to display and to whom to display it in the Privacy Settings option in your Profile when you're logged in.
 

MogulTunes will notify you when certain events happen on MogulTunes, such as when another user befriends you or there is new music that you need to know about. If you want to manage which notification emails you receive, you can do so in the Email Preferences setting in your Profile.
 

Having friends on MogulTunes is one of the greatest ways to find songs you'll be interested in. To add a friend, visit the "Friends' Activity" tab of your user profile and click on the "Add Friends" link on the right side of the page. There you can find friends already on MogulTunes by importing contacts from your Web mail or desktop address book. You can also search for current MogulTunes users by username, email, name, or location or send an email invite to people who aren't yet on MogulTunes. Once a friend has been added, you can track their votes in the "Friends' Activity" tab of your profile. In fact, you can track of all your friends' submissions, votes, and comments there.
 

Inviting friends is easy — just click on any user name you see on MogulTunes to go to that user's profile. Click the button next to their icon that says "Add Friend." You can also invite find your friends on MogulTunes by visiting the "Friends' Activity" tab of your user profile and clicking on the "Add Friends" link on the right side of the page. There you can find friends already on MogulTunes by importing contacts from your Web mail or desktop address book. You can also search for current MogulTunes users by username, email, name, or location or send an email invite to people who aren't yet on MogulTunes.
 

If you add someone as a friend on MogulTunes but they haven't reciprocated by adding you as a friend, then you are considered a fan of theirs. If you both add each other as a friend, you are then considered mutual friends. You can tell who you are fans or mutual friends with by looking at the icon under each person's name in the Friends list in your profile. Because people on MogulTunes often like to follow those users with whom they have something in common, we designed relationships in this manner so that you would have the most flexibility in the types of connections you make with other users. Always remember that you can control your privacy settings to limit the display of personal info to everyone, just people you've added as friends, or nobody.
 

If you feel that a photo in another user's Profile violates the MogulTunes Terms of Use, you can notify us by clicking on the "report image as inappropriate" link on the right side of any photo page.
 

Each MogulTunes account can upload up to 25 photos to their profile to share with other MogulTunes users. Also, make sure that each photo you upload is no larger than 1MB.
 

We take exploit reports very seriously and would like to work with you to make MogulTunes as secure as possible. Contact us at abuse@mogultunes.com and provide as much detail as you can about how to reproduce the exploit. It would be helpful if you email us from the email address associated with your MogulTunes account.
 

Almost every function that you perform on MogulTunes is stored in a unique RSS feed, so you can subscribe to an almost endless number of feeds. For example, you can subscribe to an RSS for specific users, friends, genre, searches, and the Upcoming and Popular sections. Subscribe to MogulTunes RSS feeds.
 

The official mobile (beta) version of MogulTunes is under development. You will be able to vote for songs from your mobile phone or pda as long as you have an account first on MogulTunes.com. We will also have a version for Apple's iPhone at.
 

MogulTunes Spy is a realtime snapshot of MogulTunes activity — submissions, votes, buries, and comments. However, because of the large amount of activity on MogulTunes, Spy can only show a fraction of it. It allows you to watch what's happening on MogulTunes as it happens. You can use MogulTunes Spy in the Popular section, the Upcoming section, or both simultaneously. Remember, MogulTunes Spy is only a sample of the activity on MogulTunes, and by no means is a complete representation of all activity on the site.
 

The Cloud View is an alternate way to view upcoming submissions. (The default view is the Story View.) Like traditional heat maps, Cloud View gives an organized depiction of songs in a chronological fashion. Newer songs live near the top; older songs are found near the bottom. As a song gains votes, its song title increases in font size. And when a friend of yours has voted on a particular song, the song title appears in green.