Volume Features

Audio Uploading

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Tired of uploading music files one by one? Forget the old way. Volume has the capability to upload multiple music files on your system all at one go. Fascinated by some music on other websites? Just provide the URL path to that music file and Volume's script automatically takes care of everything. Are you anxious to showcase your talents to the music world? Volume is your solution. You record your voice or your tunes directly on your site using Volume's QCP Component and instantly bring your music to the world.

Smarty Templating System

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Are you familiar with the HTML and Smarty codes? You can customize the layout of your Volume-designed website with this feature. The Smarty templating system allows you to customize your design to fit the exact look of your creative brand, integrate a custom design or make additions based on your requirements, all without bothering with PHP codes.

Fetching audio metadata

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When you upload a music file, you would want all associated information or metadata, the album image, the title of the song, the name of the album, the name of the artist and the release year, to all be fetched automatically. Unlike users of other script designs, users of a Volume are freed of the bother of manually entering all these details and identifying appropriate images for their album.

Playlist

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Users can now browse through your website, choose music files, and create a playlist using the Create Playlist option. Playlists can be created based on specific criteria like the music genre, and be stored to be played back at any point of time. Users also have the option to view playlists created by others, to listen to them, and to share and post comments. These features keep your page views rising.

Quick MIX

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Do you want your members to be able to listen to a list of songs one after the other without interruption? Quick MIX will help them do this. They will need to just add selected songs to Quick MIX and listen to them without the bother of identifying and playing the tracks each time. Quick MIX draws more members and more visitors to your site.

Search options

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The search criteria options provided in Volume are new and imaginative. Searches need not be limited to the name of the album or artist's name; visitors can search by other new criteria like music title, tags, duration of the music track, language, and the time frame within which the album was added. Any album can now be searched for with the smallest scrap of information as the search criterion.

Instant Play

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Music listings on a Volume-designed website have a Play button next to them. Users can play songs instantly by clicking the Play button and need not go into the Listen to Music page each time they need to sample something. They can experience the feel of a track with one click. Click to play a track; if you don't like it you just click the Play button of another track and enjoy listening to it.

Artist Management

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Any artist would like to know how he or she is performing on the charts. Artist management encourages artists to add more songs. One can find who the leading artist or album is in Artist Management. Members have the option to upload photos of artists to post too if the administrator approves it. They can also listen to the albums of their favorite artists, view image galleries of them, learn about how their tracks have been rated and also the number of times their tracks have been played.

Lyrics

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Sometimes just the music is not enough: published lyrics can add to the experience. You can upload lyrics for your music files and have control over them too. The administrator works with the creator of the lyrics in controlling them. The lyrics can be set to be displayed while the song is played. Members can add lyrics, remove them if they find them inappropriate and also provide translations. There can be multiple versions of published lyrics too. Members and visitors can have fun adding alternative versions of the music, translated versions in other languages, and so on.

Social networking features

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Volume is endowed with a complement of basic social networking features. Users can invite friends in, they can listen to their playlists, post comments and share messages and profile settings. Users can in this way learn more about who visited their profile and share a lot of information amongst themselves.

Internal messaging

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The internal messaging feature enables one to send and receive messages from right within the site. Better contact can be established amongst members through internal messaging. Mail management becomes easy too with the help of the Mail module.

Banner Management

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Anybody is drawn by curiosity to turn to an attractive advertisement. The Banner capability serves as a source of revenue to the website owner. Webmasters can make use of the real estate provided for banners, to accept advertisements, or to advertise on the Volume-designed website on behalf of others for marketing promotion . The webmaster is authorized to control the advertisements put up as banners too.

Menu Management

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The menu options in Volume are very customizable. You can add, remove, edit and even change the order of the main navigation menu options to suit your exact requirements.

Announcement

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You can now get your message out to every single member on their home page with this feature. You could even accept advertising revenue from other companies in return for promoting their site in the Announcements section. Whatever you want to do, this Administrator Announcements feature lets you get in touch directly with users each time they log in.

Add music to blogger

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Your users when listening to any music on your Volume-designed website, can quickly publish them to their Blogger blog with a few simple clicks. This incredibly easy way of posting albums will spread your brand across hundreds, maybe thousands of websites with very little effort on your part. This leads to excellent exposure and pushes up the value of your website as well, allowing you to command better advertising prices.

Audio player with Playlist

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The redesigned audio player has more than just the player alone. The list of songs to be played is displayed on the player as well. When an album is chosen to play, the complete details of the album are displayed as well, including the album image and the number of times the album has been played. The user can choose to play all the songs, or skip or delete tracks from the playlist by unchecking them.