Alpha 1.1 deployment

Summary of features released at 5pm January 7, 2020 under the Emanate Alpha 1.1 release.

See bottom of the post for a special twitter promotion.

New: Search

All music stock is now searchable, with artist names and tracks separated inside the predictive results.

The search for new music never ends

New: Track promo pages

One of the most important features of this release is the individual track pages for each audio item. This means every song is now sharable. This page will be a focus of development in 2020 to become a promotional homepage for new song releases, collaboration, commenting and playlisting.

Track promo page — the new home for song releases

New filter: Popular vs Recent

Sounds in the ‘listen’ feed load randomly by default, with style filters for genres and overall mood and intensity. This release sees the addition of Most Recent vs Most Popular filtering alongside any other selection.

Get that cool ish, get that fresh ish.

New: Global player adjustments

Following feedback from users, the footer was updated to enable single touch scrubbing inside a listening session on both mobile and desktop.

Touch it, scrub it, feel the vibe.

New: Hygiene and backend monitoring

Most of the Emanate front-end has been refactored in this release, with massive reductions in weight and consistency across the application. This work has slowed down the 1.1 release, but will speed up future releases.

New backend end tools have been added, including the first iteration of our play manipulation monitoring tool which will notify users of suspicious activity. We hope that this will encourage a ‘play fair’ attitude and help users build a sustainable music community.

Keepin’ it clean

Next

With over 400 artists on Emanate now and around 200 in the queue, uploads are still managed by the Emanate team. The next release will allow the artist to create their own profiles and upload music automatically with a review stage before monetisation is enabled.

Later in the year, a new My Emanate section will allow playlisting, following and liking tracks. Native mobile apps are also on the map for 2020.

Promo time!

It’s time to start sharing your favourite tracks on Emanate!