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Length of text allowed for shout-out... I noticed that when I responded to a shout by Robbert for one of his suggested songs, my sentence was truncated. It was only after I had posted my shout when I saw that I had exceeded the text/character limit.

1. Can you increase the limit on the text and
2. Can you implement a counter so when we type, it will show the number of characters
remaining?

Thanks:)

I noticed that when I replay previously played songs (from a few months back), the track(s) seem to be streamed from youtube instead.
(I know you have mentioned using youtube as a "fallback" for songs no longer available on the Net.)

I can appreciate and understand the "design" intent if the original source is no longer available and thus the "built in smarts" to locate the same off the vast pool from Youtube.

However, I also noticed that this was also the case even though the original song is still available.

What is the criteria TWONES is employing to render such "decisions" ?.

Does this happen also with all tracked songs (both tagged in playlists and those not placed into playlists)?

Is there a "time trigger" which TWONES set to replace the original source with a Youtube version after a certain amount of time?

I don't exactly like the idea of this "invisible" assumption (for all tracks?) to automatically switch to use tracks off Youtube. The quality of the audio streams "extracted" from the Youtube videos for obvious reasons since they vary so much from lackluster monoaural rips to maybe 125kbps AAC stereo.

Does the same "assumption" in this design intent apply to songs we play via our own WinAMP player with songs on a user's local drive as well?

Could you shed some light on what is going on and maybe allow a user to make a choice to disable this "design"?

Or perhaps you can allow a way to visibly flag a track so the user will know that the original song is no longer available... instead of making it transparent on the assumption that the user doesn't really care.

Is this because you have summarily decided by the "powers that be" at TWONES that THIS is the only way. Maybe there are other TWONES users who are just as discriminating in their taste and expectations for audio quality or we are in the minority.

Since this is in beta, have your analysis of the demographics of your intended and target audience steered you towards this "design"?
(referring to the availability of source versus quality, elapsed time of last tracked play, and integrity of originally played/tracked source

I know I have raised several points and a couple of alternatives. I do hope you will kindly shed some light on this?

I understand that Youtube has a huge pool of music videos (both from the labels and "grey area/questionable" rips from ardent fans/subscribers) and that Youtube has recently "relaxed" in some of their "take down"
policies on user /third party music video uploads.

I hope you won't give me a vague one sentence answer.

Many thanks:)

P.S. I still cannot log in to submit this via the feedback feature on TWONES and had to log directly at the getsatisfaction,com site

I enjoy several playlists on Mixpod.com However, I have not been able to get anything tracked to be included in my twones. ( Example - http://www.mixpod.com/playlist/31559436 )

Can someone show me what I am doing wrong or not doing to get this included in my twones?

Thanks so much in advance.
Bébé x