FAQ

Just click here.

Just log in and click "MY ARTIST PAGE" at the top of the screen. You'll see a list of menu options including photos, tags, etc. Edit away.

Simple. Click here and complete the sign up process.

Music must be uploaded in MP3 format.

Artists can buy blocks of time on the Stereofame Stage that appears in the upper right of most pages by using their available points. Just head to the Point Store.

The best thing an artist can do for their labels is get popular. Artist success is label success.

Yes, although labels that sign you earlier reap greater rewards when you're successful.

Charts are calculated based on the number of listens, "thumbs up" votes, profile views, etc. No funny business.

For Artists: Stereofame uses SF Rank for Artists to indicate and organize high quality music on the site. By considering over 100 variables through a unique formula created by Stereofame, songs and artists receiving a high score through the formula will receive a better SF Rank and are more likely to appear at the top of the music charts. Some important factors considered are: music production quality, originality, musical arrangement, melody, musicianship, creativity and vocals.

Song votes, song comments and music reviews submitted by users are also considered in SF Rank. Through the formula, votes by some users may have greater influence on an Artist's SF Rank than others and thus, such users' votes may have more value at any given time.

The SF Rank scores are real-time and dynamic using website activity data to determine song quality. Stereofame takes a proactive approach to improve the ranking quality in an effort to create a useful resource for users searching for talented, independent and unsigned artists from around the world. Thus, Stereofame reserves the right to modify the SF Rank Formula at any time and without notice.

Great question. In a historical sense, a label was (and unfortunately for musicians still is) a company that signs musicians to contracts then produces and distributes their music (and then keeps most of the money). Just as bad, the "old labels" overlook thousands and thousands of great musicians. By starting a label on Stereofame, a listener can search for and sign talented musicians to their label, then begin promoting them to others and share in the musicians' success through the accumulation of their own Stereofame points.

First, sign up as a listener. Then you can start a label.

Just log in and click "MY LABEL PAGE" at the top of the screen. You'll see a list of menu options including photos, tags, etc. Edit away.

It's absolutely free. And no strings attached. Plus you can earn cool merchandise and prizes. Once you're hooked, you can check out added benefits that are available to Backstage Pass Members.

Labels troll the site looking for talent. When they hear something they like, they can click the "add to my label" button.

Labels can use the banners and links in the promote section of their label homepage to spread the word. And there's always good old fashioned word of mouth, email, Twittering, and IM.

Nope, at least not yet.

Charts are calculated based on the number of listens, "thumbs up" votes, profile views, etc. No funny business.

Every time a registered visitor or user on the site views an artist's profile, listens to an artist's song, or "thumbs up" an artist's profile or song, that artist gets a point. "Thumbs down" votes for songs and profiles subtract a point. It's that simple.

At Stereofame, you get rewarded for what you do on the site. Listeners with labels that have popular acts will earn the most points.

As you sign artists, some percentage of the points they earn are also added to your label. The earlier you sign an artist (be first in line people) the large chunk of points.

Click artists from your label homepage. You can delete/manage artists there.

Sure, just spread the link love.

SF Rank for Labels is based upon the success of the Artists that they have signed and that success is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, signed Artists' SF Rank, Music Store sales activity, contest participation results and user voting. This ensures that Labels who are really good at picking out great Artists rise to the top of the rankings. Stereofame takes a proactive approach to improving the ranking quality of Labels and thus reserves the right to modify the formula used in the SF Rank for Labels at any time and without notice.

The SF Rank on your profile page is your all-time SF Rank. You can track your SF Rank history on the Browse page when you Sort SF Rank by a variety of time periods.

Stereofame is a social music game that brings fans and artists together and empowers artists and listeners to determine what's hot by creating virtual record labels.

Just click here.

On the login pop-up at the top, there is a link below the password field to allow you to recover your username/password combination by using the email address you used to sign up.

That's easy. Click here.

Click "Contact Us" at the bottom and tell us what you've seen. We'll look into it right away. You can permanently block a user from sending you a message or seeing your profile by clicking on "block user" in a number of locations.

The points are a way to reward our users (artists, labels and listeners) for listening to and enjoying the music. Not bad huh?

Points are updated once a day at midnight eastern time.

For Artists: Stereofame uses SF Rank for Artists to indicate and organize high quality music on the site. By considering over 100 variables through a unique formula created by Stereofame, songs and artists receiving a high score through the formula will receive a better SF Rank and are more likely to appear at the top of the music charts. Some important factors considered are: music production quality, originality, musical arrangement, melody, musicianship, creativity and vocals.

Song votes, song comments and music reviews submitted by users are also considered in SF Rank. Through the formula, votes by some users may have greater influence on an Artist's SF Rank than others and thus, such users' votes may have more value at any given time.

The SF Rank scores are real-time and dynamic using website activity data to determine song quality. Stereofame takes a proactive approach to improve the ranking quality in an effort to create a useful resource for users searching for talented, independent and unsigned artists from around the world. Thus, Stereofame reserves the right to modify the SF Rank Formula at any time and without notice.

For Labels: SF Rank for Labels is based upon the success of the Artists that they have signed and that success is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, signed Artists' SF Rank, Music Store sales activity, contest participation results and user voting. This ensures that Labels who are really good at picking out great Artists rise to the top of the rankings. Stereofame takes a proactive approach to improving the ranking quality of Labels and thus reserves the right to modify the formula used in the SF Rank for Labels at any time and without notice.

Chatting is as easy as 1,2,3 on Stereofame!

Public Chat:
1. Open Stereofame Public Chat
2. If nothing is going on, MINIMIZE it on your desktop.
3. Standby for PINK!

When you see pink on your chat bar at the bottom of the page, that means someone has entered a chat. Open your chat bar back up and see what's up!

Private Chat:
1. Send a private chat invitation (if the person is online).
2. "Chat" on their top toolbar turns pink.
3. When they click on the pink "Chat," the chatting can begin!

You can MINIMIZE private chat as well. When your private chat partner sends you a chat, your chat bar turns pink!