The Launch – [from my personal blog]

Check out the Ear-Drum.org Launch post over at my personal blog FightSkillz.com

“Ear-Drum.org is the current face of a project I’ve been working on for years. It’s an RIA(Rich Internet Application), which is just a trendy and faster way of saying a powerful web enabled desktop application.

Ear-Drum.org is a music community in a desktop app. I’ve been searching for the ultimate online music community for a very long time and while a very few have come close to that before being seriously sold; hacked; or turning evil, none – and absolutely none that are currently available, come close to having any soul. It’s as if the people behind them are robots in suits, anti-groove people worrying about a bottom line and completely detached from the depth of experience of connecting with another person through music. Ear-Drum.org differentiates itself with a heavy focus on collaboration, learning, and immersion, while also letting you promote your music and meet other musicians. It’s for pros as much as it is for beginners and everything else in between. We can always learn from each other and expand on our abilities. Ear-Drum.org strives to be the rich and engaging environment that’s required for that kind of deep interaction.”

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EDO Version 0.2.0

Ear-Drum.org Desktop version 0.2.0 is now up.

There were a lot of changes on the server side, version 0.1.0 is no longer supported. Everyone should get an update window next time you open EDO. If you run into trouble you can always update using the Auto install badge at Ear-Drum.org or read the install guide in /docs to learn how to perform a manual install/update.



Launch

I’ve watched social media platforms evolve over the last few years. Everything from MySpace to BandSpace. I’d springboard between sites as they got cool features, when they’d disappear and go out of business, or get sold to some corporation who suddenly claimed excessive rights to my content.

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