Your User Account

On DMusic, there are two types of accounts; Users and Artists. User accounts are the default account which contains details about you as an individual. When you register on our site, you are given a free user account. If you are an artist and want to create an account for your band or solo project, you’ll need to first create a user account.

Editing your user account
To edit your user account preferences, settings, and profile, click on the “My Dmusic” tab. Remember, if you’re "seein’ red," you’re in edit mode.

MyDM

The first thing you’ll see when you get to “MyDMusic” is an overview of your profile.
- The picture you see is your profile picture, which can be changed under the “profile” tab.
- You’ll see statistics about your activity on the site as well as your account status.
- Your Current rating is what other users have rated you as, from 1 to 5 stars. If you just joined the site, your rating will appear as “N/A” until someone rates you.
- View profile will take you to your profile, as it appears to everyone else.

Messages

This is the message center, where you will be able to send and receive notes. All incoming notes are automatically saved in your inbox, while all outgoing notes are automatically saved in your outbox. All messages marked with an “N” in your inbox are messages you have not read yet. All messages marked with an “N” in your outbox are messages that have not been read by the recipient yet.

- To filter your inbox or outbox by username or subject, fill out the “filter” field and select “filter.”
- To send a note, fill out the “To:” field with the DMusic user’s account name. “Subject” is optional. To send to multiple users, use a comma to separate names.
- To set the number of notes per page, type in a number in the field next to the “notes per page” and select “set.”

Folder Management

DMusic’s note system allows you to create folders and organize all of your notes.

Setting up a New Folder

1. On the right-side column under the search bar, you’ll see a “folders” section. It displays a link to your inbox and outbox, as well as your folders.
2. Select “folder management”
3. You will see a text field where you can add a new folder. Type in the name of the new folder and click “Add.” Once you click the button, the folder will automatically appear in the right-side column.

Editing an Existing Folder

1. Select “folder management” from the right-side column
2. You will see a list of your folders and an actions column.
3. Select “Edit” to change the name of the folder.

Deleting an Existing Folder

1. Select “folder management” from the right-side column
2. You will see a list of your folders and an actions column.
3. Select “Delete” to delete the folder. When deleting a folder, all notes inside that folder will be deleted. If you wish to preserve them, please move them before deleting.

Moving a note into a folder

1. Select the “messages” tab from within My DMusic.
2. Click the check box under the column “Select” of the messages you wish to move.
3. Locate the drop down menu for message settings, which is under the last note on the page. It’s defaulted on “Delete” and there is a button that says “Go!” to the right of it.
4. Select “Move to. . .” within the drop down menu.
5. A new drop down menu will appear below the one your just selected. Choose the folder you wish to move the message(s) to and select “Go!”

How You’re notified when you have new mail

1. At the top left of the screen where you see “Welcome (your username),” you’ll see in parenthesis the number of new notes you have.
2. Under the messages tab in the My DMusic section, the right-side column will indicate how many new notes you have to the right of the “inbox” link.
3. You can receive email notifications for when you receive notes. To turn this on or off, go to “Settings” under My DMusic. Under the Account Settings, there will be an option “Email Notes.” Select yes to turn email notification on.

Profile

Profile Image
This is the image that will appear on your user profile. If you wanted to post a picture of what you look like, this is where to do it.
To upload a picture from your computer:
1. Select the Browse button
2. Locate the image on your computer. It must be under 300 KB.
3. Click update to save any changes.

Basic Info
Your display name will appear in your user profile. All of these fileds are optional. Click update to save any changes.

Profile Settings
Your bio will appear under your picture in your user profile. Your role and mood will appear in your user profile overview.

- To hide the mood display on your user profile overview, select “Invisible (Do not show)” from the mood menu.

- To show or hide your date of birth or email in the profile tab, select “yes” or “no” from the drop down menu.

- Click update to save any changes.


Music Personality Settings
Your music personality settings help show what your interests are in the music community and will appear in your profile. You can fill out any or all fields. Anything that is left blank, will not appear in your user profile. Eventually, DMusic will have a search option where you can find other DMusic users based on their music personality as well as other information they fill out. Click update to save any changes.


Interests Settings
Your interests settings help show who you are outside of the music world and will appear in your profile. You can fill out any or all fields. Anything that is left blank, will not appear in your user profile. Click update to save any changes.

Settings

Account Settings
- To change your password, enter a new password after “change password:.” Re-type the password after “Confirm:”

- To turn your notes indicator on or off, select “yes” or “no” after “Email notes:”
- To receive or stop receiving the DMusic Monthly Newsletter, select “yes” or “no” after “DM Newsletter.”

Skin Settings
You can turn wide mode on or off here. If you’d prefer the default width of the site, select “No thanks, I’d like to use the default width.” If you’d like the width to be wider, select “Yes, I’d like to view DMusic in wide mode.”

Click update to save any changes.

Information
All information gathered here is used for our statistical purposes only, except for “Real Name” which displays on your user profile or when you post a news article.

Click update to save any changes.


Avatar
Your avatar is the icon that displays next to your user name whenever you post a shout, make a comment, or post in the forums.

This should be a 50x50 pixel GIF no larger than 12288 bytes.

Click update to save any changes.

Subscription Info
When you subscriber to DMusic, your Subscription Info will show your payment plan as well as the date you subscribed.

When you do subscribe to DMusic, you receive an activation code. Once you have that code, you can input it here to update your account accordingly. This activation system also allows you to give subscriptions as gifts to people, as you are free to give your activation code away to someone else.

Journal

Add a New Journal
Type your new journal in the empty text field. Click “Add” when you are finished.

Minor HTML codes will work in your journals, such as bold, italics, headlines, etc.

To post images, you must use BBCode. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, but if we allowed HTML code, it would become an eysore.

Archive
This is an archive of all of the journals you have posted on DMusic. The snapshot indicates the first few words of your post so you can navigate through your archive easily.

Clicking on a snapshot will take you to the actual journal posting that other users see.

- To edit your posting, click the edit icon to the right (the pencil.) When you are done editing, click on “Update.”

- To delete your posting, click on the delete icon to the right (the X.) You will be asked for confirmation when deleting.

Privacy

Preferences
Use this panel to change the communication level for people not on your buddy list.

“Notes” are Dmusic’s internal mail system. If you wish to only receive notes from people on your buddy list, click “Block.”

“User Comments” refers to responses to your journals. If you wish to only receive user comments from people on your buddy list, click “Block.”

“Shouts” refers to posts on your shoutbox. If you wish to only receive shouts from people on your buddy list, click “Block.”

“Artist comments” refers to responses to your posted songs. If you wish to only receive artist comments from people on your buddy list, click “Block.”

Blocked Users

If you have blocked a user, their user name will appear here.

- To edit the extent of communication with a blocked user, locate their username and click “Edit.” You will then be allowed to change your preferences. When you are done, click “Submit.”

- To remove a user from your blocked user list, locate their username and click on the trashcan.

If you block a user, you will not appear on their blocked user list. You will be able to leave notes, comments, etc. as long as they haven’t blocked you.

Users do not know they are blocked until they try to send a note or comment and are not given the option to send it.

Pictures

Pictures are a good way to show your community spirit on DMusic, as they are an insight to your off-internet personality. That being said, do not upload anything that you don’t want to share with the rest of the site. DMusic reserves the right to take down any pictures that are pornography, racist, or anything else as expressed in our Terms of Service.

Each free account is given lots of free space allotted just for pictures. The pictures you upload will appear in your “images” tab under your user account. Pictures that appear under your artist account need to be uploaded via the Artist file manager and not here.

Picture Upload
- To upload a picture, click “Browse” to select the location of the image on your hard drive.

- Enter a description of the image if you wish. It will appear above the image in your image gallery.

- Click “Send File” to upload the picture and description. The picture will then appear in your image gallery.

Pictures
These are the images that you have already uploaded. Their file size and pixel size are shown here. You can delete an image by selecting “delete.” You will be asked for confirmation when deleting.

Watchlist

The Watchlist gives you an easy way to keep track of new material uploaded by your favorite artists.

New Songs
These are recentely uploaded songs from users on your watchlist.

Artists on Your Watchlist
Monitor your watchlist here by viewing who is on your watchlist as well as an option to delete them from your watchlist.

- Click the “X” if you wish to delete an artist from your watchlist.

To put someone on your watchlist, go to their artist overview and click “Add to watchlist.” You can also remove someone from your watchlist by going to their artist overview tab and selecting “Remove from watchlist.”

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