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The numbers inside the links to your files

dizastahhw	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 5:37 PM Why do these change EVERY DAY? I'm trying to post up a song and let ppl listen to it, and then by the next day, the link has changed, all because of like 8 little numbers and letters. Why does this happen? This never really happened 6 months ago, why is it happening now? I'm just trying to figure this out, thanks
mracky	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 6:09 PM this prevents someone from doing a remote song link (putting their song link in a web page on another site). That's piggy-backing; a dead weight to a site's band width.
babykilla1	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 9:34 PM If you wanna put a song on ur own server.. thats an option. Ive tried that. Heres what u do. Upload the song to ur lil website thingy. Then you wanna make a new winamp playlist in m3u format. Add a "new location" to the playlist...the exact http location of the song u uploaded. Save the playlist and upload it to ur site, and set a link to it. When someone clicks the link to the playlist itll begin playing in winamp or whatever media thing they like. (this works best for hifi). In order to make a lofi version of ur song, u wanna convert the mp3 to a lower crappy quality version and upload that and perform the same steps. I think I said that right.
dizastahhw	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 10:50 PM Yea, I was thinking about that. I understand the thing about bandwidth issues, its just that I'll post a song I did on a message board for all of the peeps to see, and then the next day, it ain't werkin, and its just really frustrating.
ashleighj	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 11:04 PM try using the 6-digit number before the alpha-numeric one. i think the help section explains how to make a link, you use something like "audio hifi 123456" in square brackets to make links in the forums, your journal, etc..
ashleighj	Date: December 12, 2003 @ 11:06 PM ummmm.. i meant 5-digit numbers.. and you meant message boards at other sites, right..? all you can do is send them to your main artist page. sorry, i get confused easily sometimes.
babykilla1	Date: December 13, 2003 @ 10:31 PM The thing about deeplinking is NOT about bandwidth issues. The reason they dont want non-subscribers doing this....and here comes the nasty truth, is that if you deeplink a song, the person doesnt have to visit dmusic and see their advertisements. If no one clicks on the advertisements revenue goes down blah blah. Course I rid myself of ads by buying a pop-up blocker that also specializes in killing most regular advertising from sites. MUHAHAHAHA
fu-dog	Date: December 14, 2003 @ 11:15 AM here. That section of the FAQ will explain a bit about "deep linking" and how to link to files on an internal basis. You can also get an explanation of how to link to your tracks from within the site by using the "Song Linking" link to the top right of where you enter text into the forums. If you're looking send users to a specific song on your artist page, you can do that like so: http://dizasta.dmusic.com/#92476 links to your artist page and moves the user to the track "Comin Through." #92476 is the id number of your song. You can do this for any song on your artist page. " id="73907">babykilla1: The removal of deep linking is all about bandwidth. We were running 12MB/s on a daily basis for a bunch of folks pirating Indian Bollywood music. Since we've installed our anti-deeplinking measures, we've reduced our bandwidth usage by 66%. This means there are more resources available for artists that are actually creating and sharing their music, and that we're not paying large amounts of money to support thieves. If we pay for bandwidth for everyone without recouping costs, then we can't afford to keep the site open. You're actually paying for a pop-up blocker? Why don't you just use Mozilla, install a hosts file on your machine that re-directs advertisements to localhost thus nullifying the images, and give your money to one or more sites you frequent so you can help sustain them? dizastahhw: ashleighj meant for you to look at the two FAQ entries starting here. That section of the FAQ will explain a bit about "deep linking" and how to link to files on an internal basis. You can also get an explanation of how to link to your tracks from within the site by using the "Song Linking" link to the top right of where you enter text into the forums. If you're looking send users to a specific song on your artist page, you can do that like so: http://dizasta.dmusic.com/#92476 links to your artist page and moves the user to the track "Comin Through." #92476 is the id number of your song. You can do this for any song on your artist page.
babykilla1	Date: December 16, 2003 @ 8:08 AM I paid for one that was actually better than all the freebie versions they have now. I tested it for the month or so they gave it out. It worked much better. Also...whenever I use any browsers except IE, many websites I go to give me serious problems. Like my schools site, its secure area, is always screwed up. Therefore, Mozilla sucks for me. Not an option. Will you ever turn the deeplinking on for subscribers? I don't think many paying-people will use it for "pirating" music off ur site. I mean you have all their data from the financial transaction.

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