Dear Songbay people!
Hi!, As you may be aware, The last few months have been a period of intense development and learning for us all here at Songbay HQ. Since our launch in the spring of this year, we have been researching the many ways we need to improve our service so that we can better meet the requirements of our users. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has taken part in beta testing our services and for the feedback and insightful suggestions from our current users on both sides of the Songbay marketplace. We have synthesised all this information (a massive job!) and used it to underpin the next phase of our online service at www.songbay.co
Specifically, we will be making the following changes over the next few months:
-The introduction of stringent quality controls to ensure the integrity of our service and the quality of the Songbay music/lyric library. If material does not meet our exacting standards or if we receive too much of a certain genre of writing, we will not accept it.
-The introduction of Lyric sales.
-An Introduction of Copyright sales.
-A simplified licensing process-removing the many different licensing categories we currently offer, replacing with a single ‘multi-use’ license.
-Controls which allow users to determine their own sale price for all their material at Songbay.
-A rating and comments system to give a broader perspective on Songbay artists.
-The removal of the current subscription options with simple ‘free’ or ‘commission based’ services.
-A much more ‘user-friendly’ website which will be simple to navigate for buyers and sellers.
-A straightforward listing and upload process of songs and lyrics.
-An improved user-profile area allowing for images, video, web links, RSS feeds, etc.
-Greater Songbay exposure on social networking sites to encourage trading.
-The removal of many of the bugs which caused glitches with uploads under certain circumstances.

That’s it for now. We really appreciate your continued enthusiasm and support of Songbay and as always, are driven to encourage the trading of quality music and lyrics.

Songbayteam 🙂