It´s actually not a shop, it´s a meta-shop: compare tracks across various online-shops, e.g. Beatport, Juno and DJtunes based on price, format (Download, Vinyl, CD) and quality.

No need anymore to check every shop site individually - our Metashop shows all offers on one spot!

Click the "Buy button" to get forwarded to the selected shop's site for purchasing.

You will need the permission of the performing artist., yes This is either the dj playing the set or a live-act or a band performing in a concert.
In many cases you may obtain permissions from managers, bookers or labels representing the performing artists.

Yes, to upload recordings on PLAY.FM you just need to login or register as user.

No, PLAY.FM is a free service. Whether it be as a registered user or whether it be as a listener, artist, label, or promoter. There will be no costs on your side.

To enable a free and comfortable service for listening and promoting music. Please accept that we display advertisements from our partners.

First, try our site search: http://www.play.fm/search.
If you are looking for a specific recording, try the search field that you´ll find on the "Listen" page:
http://www.play.fm/recordings.
To find several recordings filtered by music style you can either use our style cloud at the top of the page or go to http://www.play.fm/recordings, click on the search tab "Style" and type in the style you look for.

We track every second/minute/hour that the recordings are listened to. This enables us to show you which recordings have been the most popular during the last 2 weeks. Or the most popular recordings since they have been published. Or even those recordings rising most during the last 2 weeks.
Alternatively, you may also sorty by most recent recordings by using the respective tab.

Visit http://www.play.fm/recordings and click on the corresponding Tab on the "Sort by" bar:

1) Share Button:to manually post links to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.

You´ll find the "share" button in every profile, on every recording detail page, event page and in the player. It will redirect users directly to recordings, events or profiles on PLAY.FM.

2) Widget: to embed recordings into your website or blog.

Visitors of your website may listen to your favorite recordings on your website - instead of being redirected to PLAY.FM. Recordings will be updated automatically depending on the filter you use, e.g. a club, artist or label. To configure the widget, visit: http://www.play.fm/widgets

3) RSS: to automatically publish links to your favorite recordings on Facebook, MySpace or any other website.

You can either use RSS Reader Apps, eg "RSS Reader" for MySpace
or "Simplaris Blogcast" for Facebook or - if you have some programming skills - follow our instructions for programmers: http://www.play.fm/content/programmers

If you want to use the data from the clubs api for our javascript widget, generate the widget Code for a specific Club with the options you like and replace some data like in the example below:

[CLUB NAME]

e.g for Fluc Wanne, url = http://www.play.fm/club/flucwanne, id = 8757
Fluc Wanne (Club / Venue)


Just replace [LINK TO CLUB], [CLUB NAME] and [CLUB ID] with the data from the API.

Beware that a user profile is not the same as an artist/label/club profile.

As a user you may manage your user-profile on the one hand (playlists, watchlist, dashboard,...), and various artist/label/other profiles on the other hand.

To manage your user profile and determine what´s displayed to other users, go to your Dashboard / Your Userprofile and click on the "Edit" button.

To create another profile as an artist, label, crew or club, follow this link: http://www.play.fm/brand/create. If you found a profile that belongs to you as an artist or label, edit the profile and use the "Claim it" feature on the bottom right. right.

You can retrieve a new password here:
http://www.play.fm/auth/resetPassword

Yes, just go to http://www.play.fm/auth and log in with your (old) username and password.
Please doublecheck lower and upper case letters!

Currently Play.fm offer apps for iPhone, android and Windows Phone 7.

The iPhone app is available for 2.99 EUR or the equivalent to your local currency.

The android app is available for 2.99 EUR or the equivalent to your local currency.

The Windows Phone 7 app is available for 2.99 EUR or the equivalent of your local currency rate.

Search for “Play.fm” In the App Store on your iPhone and download the app. Alternatively click on www.play.fm/iphone to open iTunes installed on your computer. Download the app to your computer and sync it with your iPhone later.

Search for “Play.fm” In the Market on your android phone and download the Play.fm app.

Search for “Play.fm” In the zune marketplace on your Windows Phone 7 and download the app. Alternatively click on http://www.play.fm/zune to open the zune software installed on your computer. Download the app to your computer and sync it with your Windows Phone 7 later.

There is no Play.fm app for your Blackberry, yet. Don’t worry, it s planned for the near future.
Stay in touch to be the first to know and subscribe to our Newsletter or follow us on Facebook and Twitter .

Unfortunately there is no Play.fm app for your Blackberry yet. Don’t worry, it is planned for the near future.
Stay in touch to be the first to know and subscribe to our Newsletter or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

There is no Play.fm app for TVs yet. However, there is good news: a TV app is planned for the near future.
Stay in touch by subscribing to our Newsletter or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

1 year after the first installation you can continue to listen to Play.fm without any limits. Fair use implied.

1 hour listening means 60MB data transfer (128kbps/s). With 1 GB you can listen for up to 17 hours.
Play.fm requires internet access when streaming music, which may result in extra charges on your mobile phone depending on your data plan. Please check with your mobile operator for more details.

1 hour listening means 60MB data transfer (128kbps/s). With 1 GB you can listen for 17 hours.
Play.fm requires internet access when streaming music, which may result in extra charges on your mobile phone depending on your data plan. Please check with your mobile operator for more details.

1 hour listening means 60MB data transfer (128kbps/s). With 1 GB you can listen for 17 hours.
Play.fm requires internet access when streaming music, which may result in extra charges on your mobile phone depending on your data plan. Please check with your mobile operator for more details.

While launching the app on your phone something went wrong communicating with our server. This happens when the Play.fm servers are down for example. Please check http://blog.play.fm/server if this is the case. Try launching your app again when servers are up. If you still get the message above please contact us at support+apps@play.fm.

Your app you are using at the moment is out of date. From time to time we update our apps in order to add features or fix bugs. Please update as soon as possible and enjoy an even better app. If you still get the message abover AFTER updating to the latest version please contact us at support+apps@play.fm.

Play.fm needs connection to the Internet in order to stream music on your app. If you do not have Wi-fi access or cellular network data coverage (3G recommended) no music will be played. Please check your network settings if everything is configured correctly.

Well, we are really happy that so many people are using our apps, however our servers can only handle a certain amount of listeners at the same time. If you see the message above we just exceeded this limit. Hold on for a minute and try again. The number of listeners should be lower now. If you still see the message above please contact us at support+apps@play.fm.

90 days after installing the app you can listen to mixes for five hours per month. When launching the app we will let you know when you passed 90 days and how much listening time is left this month. A “month” always starts on the first day of the month and ends on the last day of the month. If you want to listen to more than five hours per month you need to upgrade to Play.fm Premium .

90 days after installing the app you can listen to mixes for five hours per month. If you want unlimited listening time you need to upgrade to Play.fm Premium.

Sometimes the audio stream gets messed up while transferred to your phone. Don’t worry, just skip to a different position. The mix should start normally again. If you still get the message above please contact us at support+apps@play.fm.

If you see the message above we just exceeded this limit of maximum listeners at the same time. Hold on for a minute and try again. The number of listeners should be lower now. In case your Windows Phone 7 is connected to zune via USB cable music cannot be streamed either. Please disconnect the cable from your computer and try again. If you still see the message above please contact us at support+apps@play.fm.

The app on your phone just didn’t load as it was supposed to. Don’t worry, we are on it. Please try again after a couple of minutes. If you still get the message above please send an email to the email address indicated on the message on your phone.

Beware that a user profile is not the same as an artist/label/club profile.

As a user you may manage your user-profile on the one hand (playlists, watchlist, dashboard,...), and various artist/label/other profiles on the other hand.

To manage your user profile and determine what´s displayed to other users, go to your Dashboard / Your Userprofile and click on the "Edit" button.

To create another profile as an artist, label, crew or club, follow this link: http://www.play.fm/brand/create. If you found a profile that belongs to you as an artist or label, edit the profile and use the "Claim it" feature on the bottom right.

Please check your spam folder first.
If you cannot find the verification mail, please try again or let us know at support@play.fm

Log in, go to your dashboard / your userprofile and edit your settings:
http://www.play.fm/dashboard/settings/personal

You will find a field "Email is". When you click on "Verify" (Picture A) we will send you an e-mail to validate your email address. That´s it.

Picture A



Picture B

With a validated (confirmed) email address you will be able to upload recordings, manage profiles (e.g. artists, labels, clubs) and post events to our calendar.

OpenID (open Identification) is a Single-Sign-On-System that allows login without generating a new username or password by using already existing user accounts from other websites, e.g. Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo

You can retrieve a new password here:
http://www.play.fm/auth/resetPassword

1. Check your email application's spam or junk folder or filter.
2. Please note that some emails may be blocked by your ISP (internet service provider).
3. If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please submit a report: http://www.play.fm/auth/loginReport

Yes, just go to http://www.play.fm/auth and log in with your (old) username and password.
Please doublecheck lower and upper case letters!

Just follow this link to get a new account:
http://www.play.fm/auth/legacyCreate

In case you already have a Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo or any OpenID account, you can use this to log in - awesome, isn´t it?

Yes, definitely!

You can listen to all recordings without an account. But to use our more advanced features you will need an account.

You can either register a new account at PLAY.FM or use an existing account at Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo or any OpenID provider to log in.

You will then be able to manage playlists, post events to the calendar, upload recordings, edit artist or label profiles, request track IDs, identify track IDs, comment tracks, add elements to your watchlist to be notified of new stuff, etc.

"Search Site" is a general search across all profiles, events, radio shows, etc.
The search field you find in the Listen, Radio Shows and Events sections helps you find recordings, radio shows or events.

Click on the "Show all Filters" link to combine various search queries (or experts would call them filters), e.g. in the "Listen" section choose "Minimal Techno" as a style, click on "Show all Filters" and choose "Radio Shows" if you only want to see recordings of radio shows presenting Minimal Techno.

You seem to use the search focused on either Recordings, Radio Shows or Events. You need to type in the exact search term - or try our general search instead: http://www.play.fm/search

We track every second/minute/hour that the recordings are listened to.
Based on the listening time of the last 2 weeks we calculate the PLAY.FM Charts shown in the "Listen", "Radio Shows" and "Events" sections.

For example, to calculate "Artist Charts" we add all the listening time of an artists recordings during the last 2 weeks, to calculate "Label Charts" we add all the listening time of the artists belonging to a particular label, and so forth.

We track every second/minute/hour that the recordings are listened to. This enables us to show you which recordings have been the most popular during the last 2 weeks, or the most popular recordings since they have been published, or even those recordings rising most during the last 2 weeks.
Alternatively, you may also sorty by most recent recordings by using the respective tab.

Visit http://www.play.fm/recordings and click on the corresponding Tab on the "Sort by" bar:

This is simple: Visit http://www.play.fm/recordings. There you will see all recordings most recently published. If you´d like to see the most recent recordings of a particular style choose a style from the style cloud or use the tab "Style" in the "Search in Recordings" field right above the first recording to show recent recordings according to your music taste.

The style cloud displays all the music styles of all the recordings you can listen to. The more a style is listened to, the bigger the style will be displayed in the cloud. When you click on a style the cloud will show styles related to the style that you first clicked on, e.g .Techno -> Detroit Techno, Minimal Techno,... and additional, it will filter the content below: when you are in the "Listen" section only recordings with the chosen style will be shown, if you are in "Radio Shows" or "Events" then only those upcoming radio shows or events will be shown that play the selected music style.

Moreover, the style cloud determines what is shown in the chart boxes on the bottom of the "Listen", "Radio Shows" and "Events" pages.
Thus you can choose a style in the cloud, e.g. dubstep, and then see the top ten dubstep artists, labels, events, radio shows, etc.

First, try our site search: http://www.play.fm/search.
If you look for a specific recording, try the search field that you´ll find on the "Listen" page:
http://www.play.fm/recordings.
To find several recordings filtered by music style you can either use our style cloud at the top of the page or go to http://www.play.fm/recordings, click on the search tab "Style" and type in the style you look for.

Up to now you can comment on individual tracks, but not on the recording in general. We are working on it!

Yes, of course: on the right fringe of the player you should see a button named "show playlist" vertically positioned.

By clicking onthe playlists section will open in the player window, in which you can add new playlists and edit existing playlists.

Yes, you can skip by simply clicking into the wave form on the position, which you want to listen to.

Next to the play, fast forward and rewind Buttons. You find another time line, which you can drag to the moment you want to listen.

The track you are listening is superb and you need to know the artist, name and all information you can get about it?
Here it is: our solution for music lovers: mark the corresponding area in the wave form and click the button "Ask for Track ID" above.

How can you mark something in the wave form? Left-click on the position of what you think is the beginning of the track, hold it and drag to the position, where you think the track ends.

You also have the possibility to adjust the beginning and the end of the track after releasing the click.

You are listening to a live-recording and want to tell everybody about your amazing knowledge in music?
No problem: with our flash player we enabled for you the best chance to do this.
It's quite easy: you just need to mark the corresponding area in the wave form and click the button "Identify Track" above.

How can you mark something in the wave form? Left-click on the position of what you think is the beginning of the track, hold it and drag to the position, where you think the track ends.

You also have the possibility to adjust the beginning and the end of the track after releasing the click.

No, for the moment we made out that the 128kbit/s stream rate is the best compromise between possible streaming rates without interference in listening and audio quality.

We want to provide better stream-rates in the near future, watch out!

No, unfortunately up to now, we didn't enable a mobile version of play.fm, e.g. for cell phones.
But we are planning to do it soon, so keep a wary eye on this topic!

Please visit your dashboard.
On the bottom of it you will find the section "YOUR PLAYLISTS".

The + Button you find on every recording site and in the player adds this specific recording to your playlist.
By clicking it a layover will open, where you can choose between your different playlists.

You can create playlists only in the flash player:
First open the player by playing a recording.

On the right fringe of the player you should see a button named "show playlist"vertically positioned. By clicking the playlists a section will open in the player window, in which you can add new playlists and edit existing playlists.

No, you can listen to PLAY.FM only via our beautiful flash player. We hope the functionality and convenience meet your expactations

Please check your installed flash version here
Upgrade your flash version if necessary. Up to now we didn't make out other reasons why the wave form isn't loading.

If the upgrade doesn't help, please get in touch with us and send us an e-mail to support@play.fm providing the following information:
- operating system
- browser and browser version
- installed flash version

For sure: this isn't comfortable. But you can test several things, before getting angry:

This may seem trivial to you but, please check if you can hear any sound on your computer. Check to see if the speakers and/or the amplifier are adjusted correctly. Check the audio controller of your computer or anything else you use for listening to decent music: is it all turned on?

Then please have a look if the recording started to play at all and the wave form loaded correctly.

If it doesn't play at all after clicking the PLAY button, we advise you to download the latest version of the flash player here.

It still doesn't work? Please visit other audio- or videostreaming websites like www.youtube.com, maybe the connection speed of your internet access is too low or your firewall or the firewall of your company network blocks all audio- and/or video-streaming.

All measures failed? Thanks a lot (for your patience :) now we really need an email from you, in which you add the following information:
- your operating system of your computer
- the browser, you use and the browser version
- the version of your flash player

Please send all this information to support@play.fm and we will get back to you immediately.

You can download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player for free here.

For the optimal experience of the PLAY.FM website you should make sure, that you have the current version of one of the following browsers: Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Internet Explorer and the browser specific pop-up blocker allows pop-ups from PLAY.FM.

For enjoying the functionalities of the PLAY.FM Player in full quality, you need the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

You can check your Flash Player version and if necessary download the Adobe Flash Player for free here.

We hope, we have made listening to PLAY.FM quite simple:
you can start the Flash Player on all parts of the site, where you see the PLAY Button.
As the Flash Player is opening in a pop up window, you should make sure your browser allows pop-ups from PLAY.FM.

For listening to PLAY.FM in excellent performance you need a broadband internet access or at least a bitrate of 130bps downstream. Please note, that other downlads you may proceed can affect the quality of the PLAY.FM stream.

No, PLAY.FM is a free service. Whether it be as a registered user. Or whether it be as a listener, artist, label, promoter. There will be no costs on your side.

To enable a free and comfortable service for listening and promoting music, please accept, that we display advertisements from our partners.

The "You manage" area holds content you contributed to PLAY.FM ready for editing.
You can upload Recordings, create Artists, Labels & other Profiles, Clubs / Venues, Events and Radioshows.

Remember that you can manage different artist profiles, event entries etc. with a single login.
If someone else already created your profile you can claim it and check the claim status in the "You manage " section of the dashboard ("Pending claims").

For claiming a profile please see How can I claim my Artist / Label / Club / Shop Profile?

This feature is available only if you are logged in.

Click the "calendar icon" on the event information page to add an event to your calendar.

Check for updates in your dashboard's right column or select "calendar" from your dashboard menu. Select "calendar" from your dashboard menu to delete events from your calendar.

This feature is available only if you are logged in.

Click the "calendar icon" on the Radio show information page to add a radio show to your calendar.

Check for updates in your dashboard's right column or select "calendar" from your dashboard menu.
Select "calendar" from your dashboard menu to delete radio shows from your calendar.

This feature is available only if you are logged in.

Click the "+ icon" on the Artist, Label or Club profile to add it to your watchlist.
Check for updates in your dashboard's newsfeed or "un-watch" items in your dashboard.

This feature is available only if you are logged in.

The Newsfeed is the first thing you see when you go to your dashboard.
It shows recent activity and updates on content you are interested in e.g. items on your watchlist.

"Watchlist" is a tool to keep track of items you are interested in and you want to get updated on e.g. new recordings or additional information is available. You can watch

- Artists
- Labels & other Profiles
- Clubs / Venues
- Tracks (via tracklist and via shop)
- Track Requests
- Tracklists
- Channels

Click the "+ Icon" to add items to your watchlist. Check for updates in your dashboard's newsfeed or "un-watch" items in your dashboard.

This feature is available only if you are logged in.

"Your Styles" are your favorite musicgenres.
We added quick links below the style cloud so you have your favorite styles always at hand for filtering.

Click the "edit" button below the style cloud to add up to six styles.
This feature is available only if you are logged in.

PLAY.FM allows to share its content via email, myspace, facebook and many other applications.

Whenever there is a "Share" icon, click on it and select the application from the list.
You are then forwarded to the respective site to finish the sharing process.

"Your dashboard" is your personal area on PLAY.FM. It gives you an overview of your recent activities, updates on items you are interested in (eg. new recording of your favorite artist online) and much more.
"Your dashboard" is divided in the following navigation links:

- Playlist
- Watchlist
- Calendar
- You Manage
- Your Userprofile

Once you are registered and logged in click on "Your Dashboard" in the site header area to visit your dashboard.

Connecting your account to Facebook allows you to login with your Facebook account. Additionally you can choose what activities on Play.fm are posted on your Facebook profile.

Connecting your account to Twitter allows you to choose what activities on Play.fm are posted to your Twitter stream.

Merging means that the content, eg Playlists, from your second account (with the same email address) will be copied to the one that you are logged in with.

Do you have problems during the upload?
If the upload got stuck, while it was running (if you still can see the red progress bar), this might be referable to your upload stream rate, please check the steadiness of your internet connection. Another reason could be a fault in the file you want to upload: maybe it got corrupted during converting? If everything seems to be okay with your stream and your file (it corresponds to our technical requirements ) get in touch with us, so we can take care of the problem: drop us a line to support@play.fm
Do you have problems while processing?
As soon as the upload is finished your file was successfully stored on our server. It can take a while, from a few minutes up to 24 hours, until your file can be processed on our server. As the processing started you can close the window or leave the page. You will get a note on your dashboard, when the file is finished. If you don't get a note and cannot find the recording in the recordings section of your dashboard, there must be something wrong: please drop us a line to support@play.fm and we will get back to you immediately.

Convert your audio file with a software:
For Windows and Linux users
On Windows and Linux we made the best experiences with the open source tool Lame mp3 encoder, you can download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/
For Mac users
The Lame mp3 encoder is also available for Mac: http://itunes-lame-encoder.softonic.de/mac

PLAY.FM just accepts compromised files within the following specifications:
Technical requirements
The audio file you wish to upload needs to be
- at least 20 minutes long (only interviews may be shorter)
- in one of the following formats: mp3, ogg, ra, ram or aac (please convert wav or aiff files before the upload)
- in a minimum bitrate of 128 kbps (or higher)
- and in the sample rate: 44.1khz

No. PLAY.FM is about DJ mixes. The audio file you want to upload needs to be at least 20 minutes long. Due to our policy we don't support recordings of single tracks. Recordings of only one track will be deleted.

Visit http://www.play.fm/recording/create, choose the type and go ahead. The interview is the only recording type, which we allow to be shorter then 20 minutes.

Visit http://www.play.fm/recording/create, choose the type and go ahead. On the following page you need to enter the location, where the show was recorded. After adding the location PLAY.FM might suggest you already existing event announcements > maybe you'll find the announcement for your recording? Add it and the following steps will be easier, as also your recording is crosslinked with more pages.

The PLAY.FM radio show schedule is programmed by the moderators and only features well selected shows. You think your music is unique and fits the high expectations of our listeners? Tell us and write an email to radioshow@play.fm with a specific concept about your show, the styles you want to play, the hosts of the show, including bios and any information we might need to get you involved.

The PLAY.FM radio show schedule is programed by the moderators and only features well selected shows. The radioshows uploaded by the users are not shown in our schedule. You think your music is unique and fits the high expectations of our listeners? Tell us and write an email to radioshow@play.fm with a specific concept about your show, the styles you want to play, the hosts of the show, including bios and any information we might need to get you involved.

Visit http://www.play.fm/recording/create, choose radio show and go ahead. If you already have one or more recordings of your radio show online, you can choose your existing profiles. Useful as the recording will be related to your general radio show profile and listeners of your show will find it easily. Please note you cannot upload any recordings of radio shows with dates in the future.

Visit http://www.play.fm/recording/create, choose studio mix and go ahead. So users can find your set easily, please add only one style, artist per line.

In the header of the page you will find an "upload" button, which will lead you to the upload section

Getting started
Go to http://www.play.fm/recording/create and provide the community with some general information about your recording, like type, location, artists and styles. Users should find your recording and all related information easily, so please add only one artist, style, link to external website and so on per line. To many fields we added "autocompletion": this means, that after you entered the first letters our database is searched (this might take a few seconds, please have patience) and the autocompletion suggests already existing profiles and styles. Thousands of artists, clubs, styles, crews and events already have existing profiles, so you have a good chance to find the correct profile or style via this too.

File Upload
Please note our general and technical requirements The speed of the upload is determined to the volume of upload stream your provider offers. Please do not close the upload window as long as you see the red progress bar or your upload will be cancelled. If you close the window accidentaly, you can get back to the "shell" you already created via your dashboard. When the upload is finished, the file will be processed on our server. This may take a while, from several minutes up to 24 hours, because all recordings are processed in sequence. But instead of waiting you can now close the window or leave the page. You will get a note on your dashboard as soon as the file processing is finished.

Publish Section
Choose between the different options. You can assign the clearing of the permission to the PLAY.FM moderators. We inform you via your dashboard, whether the recording will be published or the artist denied the permission.

Yes, to upload recordings on PLAY.FM you just need to login or register as user.

Technical requirements
The audio file you wish to upload needs to be:
- at least 20 minutes long (only interviews may be shorter)
- in one of the following formats: mp3, ogg, ra, ram or aac (please convert wav or aiff files before you upload)
- in a minimum bitrate of 128 kbps (or higher)
- and in the sample rate: 44.1khz

Legal requirements
You need to have the permission of the performing artist or his/her management to publish the recording. If you don't have the permission, we can try to get it for you. Choose this option in the publish section after you uploaded the recording.

Copyright issues
Do not upload singles, albums or compilations from only one label unless you have the permission from copyright holders. Due to our policy we don't support the presentation of single tracks. Recordings of only one track will be deleted.

Just start the recording by clicking the PLAY button. In the flash player you will have all options to edit every single track. Or you simply edit the recording.

On every recording site you will find an edit button, which leads you to the edit mode.

Uncomfortable, but this might happen: please drop us a line and we will take care of the situation immediately: support@play.fm

You do not need to claim your profile, but it protects your profile from unauthorized access. If you need other people to edit your profile, e.g. your management, promoter, label or artist you can add further editors.

Claiming means to occupy a profile. It should help you to protect your profile from unauthorized access.
How to claim
In the edit mode, in which you get by clicking the edit button, you will find on the right hand navigation on the bottom of the site the option: Is this your profile? Claim it. Please add the required information in the layer, which opens by clicking "Claim it" > the moderators will check your claim and validate it.

Options
If you need other people to edit your profile, e.g. your management, promoter, label or artist you can add further editors through the Admin Options, which you will see after a successful claim.

Every registered PLAY.FM user can edit your profile, unless you have not claimed it. We truely believe in honesty and intelligence of mankind, especially of the users of our website. What is claiming and how to claim a profile

To edit any existing profiles you need to login or register as user. On each profile you will find a small edit button, which leads you to the edit mode. You cannot edit profiles, which are already claimed by other users. What is claiming?

You can create any profile, e.g. booking agency, crew or record shop here or you take the way through your dashboard: on your dashboard in the navigation on the right you can choose the section "Profiles". There you will find the link to the site, where you can create all different types of profiles.

You can create a festival profile here or you take the way through your dashboard: on your dashboard in the navigation on the right you can choose the section "Profiles". There you will find the link to the site, where you can create all different types of profiles. The festival schedule of the single days should be added by creating an event for each day and stage and relating them to festival profile. The lineup of the festival will be generated through the lineup of the single events.

You can create a club profile here or you take the way through your dashboard: on your dashboard in the navigation on the right you can choose the section "Profiles", in which you'll find the link to the creation of different types of profiles.

You can create a label profile here or you take the easier way through your dashboard: on your dashboard in the navigation on the right you can choose the section "Profiles", in which you'll find the link to the creation of different types of profiles.

You can create an artist profile here or you take the easier way through your dashboard: on your dashboard in the navigation on the right you can choose the section "Artists", in which you will find the link to the profile creation for an artist.

For many functionalities on PLAY.FM you need a user profile. The user can edit profiles, add events, use the player in diverse ways, create playlists and so on. In brief: all actions on the website are done by users. The artist, label, crew or any other profiles are quite simple sites, they are not actually capable of doing something on the website. E.g. a user can edit an artist profile, but not the other way round. If you are registered as an artist, this does not mean you also have a user profile. If you want to edit or create your artist site, you need to sign up as a user here.

Maybe it will take us a while to approve your event. However you should find the unapproved events in your dashboard. If your event is not displayed within 24 hours, you can drop us a line at events@play.fm and we will get back to you immediately

In our event section you will find a big red button, which says ADD YOUR EVENT (or go directly to http://www.play.fm/event/create).

Approval
Every event will be checked by the moderators to make sure only appropriate events are displayed in the event schedule. When we once approved an event of you, you will be allowed to add events in the future without the immediate permission of the moderators.

Filling in the form
All information will be automatically added to the related profiles (e.g. displayed on the artist, label, crew profile) In this section also we added the autocompletion to many fields: after you entered the first letters, our database is searched (this might take a few seconds, please have patience) and the autocompletion suggests already existing profiles and styles. Thousands of artists, clubs, styles, crews and events have an existing profile, so you have a good chance to find the correct profile or style via this tool.

Your track / release is automatically available in our Metashop if it is released in one of our partner shops (see What shops does the PLAY.FM Metashop currently work with?)

If your distributing shop is not our partner shop,yet please drop us a line at metashop@play.fm.

Our current partner shops are:

Beatport
Discogs Marketplace
DJTunes
Junodownload
Finetunes
Soulseduction

Go to www.play.fm/shop to search for a track or release. Click "Check shops" for track / release comparison.

To purchase click the "Buy button" which will forward you to the selected shop's site.
Alternatively click the "Shop" button in a tracklist to compare the selected track.

It´s actually not a shop, it´s a meta-shop: compare tracks across various online-shops, e.g. Beatport, Juno and DJtunes based on price, format (Download, Vinyl, CD) and quality.

There is no longer a need to check every shop site individually - Our Metashop shows all offers in one spot!

Click the "Buy button" which will forward you to the selected shop's site for purchasing.

We know - there are so many great mixes out there! Unfortunately the current legal situation does not allow selling of recordings.

To report inapropriate content, poor quality or copyright infringements use the "Flag" button you´ll find in every profile (artist, label, event, etc.) and on every detail page of a recording or send a link to support@play.fm.

You will need the permission of the performing artist. This is either the dj playing the set or a live-act or a band performing in a concert.
In many cases you may obtain permissions from managers, bookers or labels representing the performing artists.

Unfortunately DJ-Sets cannot be downloaded from PLAY.FM. The licence agreements we have with collecting societies and labels do only allow on-demand streaming of dj sets.

Yes, we do.
As PLAY.FM is based in Vienna / Austria we pay licence fees to Austrian collecting societies (AKM, AUME, LSG).

They have contracts with other collecting societies around the world. Therefore a part of the money that PLAY.FM pays here in Austria will be passed on to those collecting societies abroad.

1) Share Button: to manually post links to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.

You´ll find the "share" button in every profile, on every recording detail page, event page and in the player. It will redirect users directly to recordings, events or profiles on PLAY.FM.

2) Widget: to embed recordings into your website or blog.

Visitors of your website may listen to your favorite recordings on your website - instead of being redirected to PLAY.FM. Recordings will be updated automatically depending on the filter you use, e.g. a club, artist or label. To configure the widget, visit: http://www.play.fm/widgets

3) RSS: to automatically publish links to your favorite recordings on Facebook, MySpace or any other website.

You can either use RSS Reader Apps, eg "RSS Reader" for MySpace
or "Simplaris Blogcast" for Facebook or - if you have some programming skills - follow our instructions for programmers: http://www.play.fm/content/programmers

If you want to use the data from the clubs api for our javascript widget, generate the widget code for a specific club with the options you like and replace some data like in the example below:

<a id="playfm_widget_js_01_link" href="[LINK TO CLUB]">[CLUB NAME]</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.play.fm/recordings/js/01/club/[CLUB ID]/size/450/image_format/mini/color/434343/bg_color/ffffff/items/5/show_logo/1/background/ffffff/title/Play.fm+Recordings"></script>

e.g for Fluc Wanne, url = http://www.play.fm/club/flucwanne, id = 8757

<a id="playfm_widget_js_01_link" href="http://www.play.fm/club/flucwanne">Fluc Wanne (Club / Venue)</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.play.fm/recordings/js/01/club/8757/size/450/image_format/mini/color/434343/bg_color/ffffff/items/5/show_logo/1/background/ffffff/title/Play.fm+Recordings"></script>

Just replace [LINK TO CLUB], [CLUB NAME] and [CLUB ID] with the data from the API.

If you want to start our player for a recording you have to know the recording id.
The recording id is provided within our rss feeds [guid]

1. Get the recording id from the rss feed [guid]
-for example from: latest recordings

2. Include the javascript file from "http://www.play.fm/js/player/external.js" in your header

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.play.fm/js/player/external.js"></script>

Example: html file

3. just call the javascript function "playfmPopupPlayer(recording_id);" to open our player
Start the player for recording with id 1:

<a onclick="playfmPopupPlayer(1);"> This link will start the recording with id 1</a>

Example: This link will start the recording with id 1

1.) Go to the profile of the artist/label/event/... that you want to publish recordings of

2.) Click on the RSS symbol in your browser, choose "Most Recent Recordings" or "Popular Recordings (2 weeks)"

3.) Copy the URL in your browser window and paste it into your RSS Reader or programming code.

To automatically post links to your favorite recordings on Facebook, MySpace or any other website you can either use RSS Reader Apps, e.g. "RSS Reader" for MySpace or "Simplaris Blogcast" for Facebook

Visit http://www.play.fm/newsletter

Visit http://www.play.fm/newsletter

To get detailed info on user statistics, advertising formats and rates, please contact us at sales@play.fm or call +43.1.990.79.34

Yes, PLAY.FM offers internships in the following areas:

- Editorial
- Partnering
- Club-Scout
- Public Relations

Find detailed information about internships here:
http://www.play.fm/content/jobs

There´s a lot you can do to contribute:

Post events to the calendar:
http://www.play.fm/event/create

Upload recordings:
http://www.play.fm/recording/create

Identify tracks:
Many recordings on PLAY.FM don´t have a tracklist but a lot of people would love to know what´s being played. If you´re an altruistic oriented music expert use the Identify Button in the audio player to help build tracklists. Other users will love you ;)

Record events:
Recording an event is easy. You can either use your laptop or a recording device. If you need advice concerning software or hardware, contact us at office@play.fm - we´ll be happy to support you.

Promote artists, labels, events:
If you are a dj, label owner, event promoter or booker, you may create profiles, upload recordings and post events to our calendar. To promote your recordings, artists or events on other websites like Facebook, MySpace or a blog, use the Share and Embed features - read the respective FAQ for details.

Tell us what you think:
Contact us at office@play.fm and let us know what you think about PLAY.FM, what features you miss or what should be improved.