Rate Thumbs Up or Down for all Songs on Deeper Into Music
You may have noticed the ratings system on the Floating Playlist and Last 8 section. The rating system allows you to cast a vote for a song as it plays and the vote will automatically be added to the songs database. As more votes are cast the votes start to influence the playlist rotation so that eventually higher rated songs will be heard more often. Positive votes and requests will (eventually) cause those songs to play in a higher rotation. Songs that get few requests or negative votes will (eventually) play a lot less often. Songs are required to have at least four votes before the system applies the votes to the song rotation and playlist. Songs with a significantly high number of votes get a proportionally greater increase over time.
Scores of negative votes can significantly reduce the play frequency of a song. In fact, it’s quite possible to vote artists “off the island” so to speak. Significant low votes lead to an artist’s play being either severely curtailed or, in some cases, completely eliminated.
Update 3/2011: You are now able to easily vote on any song at any time on its Song Information page. You get to that by clicking on a song’s album art from the Last 8 page (or by searching for the song in the site search). Also, on the Last 8 page, you can click on the Info icon:
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You are not required to register to vote, however, you can vote for any song only as it is currently streaming and then only once per song in any 24 hour period. I hope folks will make use of the ratings system.
One thing you’ll have to do in order to get the full benefit of this system is to disable your pop-up blocker. (Most blockers will allow you to disable by domain, so disable for deeperintomusic. net, please.) If you don’t disable your blocker you may not be able to vote and you won’t be able to see the pop-up confirmation.
The instructions below will assist you in allowing popup windows from deeperintomusic.net.
If you are using Internet Explorer:
- Go to the Tools menu.
- Select Pop-up Blocker. (If this isn’t listed, you have a third-party popup blocker. See below.)
- Click Pop-up Blocker Settings.
- In the Pop-up Blocker Settings window, type deeperintomusic.net as the “Address of Web site to allow” and click the Add button.
- Close the Pop-up Blocker Settings window and all Internet Explorer windows.
When you reopen Internet Explorer, you should be able to access the Deeper Into Music site without receiving an error message. If not, you may have a third-party tool blocking popups.
If you are using Firefox:
- On Windows, open the Options dialog under the Tools menu. On Macintosh, open the Preferences dialog under the Firefox menu.
- Click the Web Features icon on the left.
- Here you should see a checkmark next to the option to block popup windows. Click the Allowed Sites button to the right of it.
- Type deeperintomusic.net as the “address of web site,” then click the Allow button
- Click OK in the Allowed Sites screen, then click OK again for the Options/Preferences screen.
If you are still not able to access the Deeper Into Music site without receiving an error message, you may have a third-party tool blocking popups.
If you are using Mozilla:
- Open the Preferences dialog under the browsers Edit menu.
- Scroll down to the Privacy & Security Category in the left column and expand it by clicking on the arrow.
- Click on the Popup Windows topic.
- Here you should see the an option selected to block unrequested popup windows.
- Click the Allowed Sites button to the right of it.
- In the Add field, add deeperintomusic.net, and click the Add button.
- Click OK in the Allowed Sites screen, then click OK again for the Preferences screen.
If you are still not able to access the Deeper Into Music site without receiving an error message, you may have a third-party tool blocking popups.
If you are using Safari:
- Open the Safari menu.
- Here you should see the Block Pop-up Windows option checked. Click to uncheck.
If the option was not checked, or if you are still not able to access the Deeper Into Music site without receiving an error message, you may have a third-party tool blocking popups.
Third-party popup blockers:
There are many third-party popup blockers that could be affecting your ability to use Deeper Into Music. The basic steps are:
1. Determine what popup blocker you are using
2. Find its list of allowed sites and add deeperintomusic.net.
Instructions for some of the most common popup blockers can be found at the links below.
