How is SocialCase different?

Unlike most music sites the idea behind SocialCase is pretty simple and seems pretty obvious after a little thought. We think that the way you are forced to find music on those other sites is all wrong!

At SocialCase we honestly believe the music comes first. Before the pictures, before the bios or backgrounds, before the shows or merch what really makes a band is the music. Here we don't make you search around, listening to one song at a time, making you click through tons of search results hoping to stumble upon something new. At SocialCase we bring the music to you! Just go to the "Find Music" section and start listening, if you are looking for a specific genre, go for it, the player adjusts to what you are listening to and tries to bring you the music it thinks you want to hear.

Right now we are just starting out and forming this idea, we plan to make it even more customizable and also have big plans for launching a "Fans" network that will allow fans to rate music, so the community not only listens to the music, but also helps push the good stuff to the top!

As if that isn't enough! you have complete control of our audio player, skip songs, repeat songs, fast forward, rewind, etc. Another one of a kind feature is the randomization of music. Every time you hit refresh your player reorganizes and recollects music, so the more bands, the merrier. We think this is a great way to expose both bands to new listeners and listeners to new bands. Now last but not least, we love the idea of sharing this service and the music you find with your friends. So we give you the ability to post bands players, albums, or even genre players to blogs, myspace profiles, bulletins... anywhere you want basically.

pretty cool aeh? yea we think so too! enjoy.

News

We're still here 5/5/2008
Yea, we've been quiet and lazy... but we're still here :) more coming soon, we promise.

We <3 Our Sponsors 6/4/2007
Hopefully some of you have noticed that we now have a small sponsorship page on our Genre pages. We hope you enjoy these sponsors! Most of them are indie web comic artists and some of their stuff is pretty cool. Check them out!

BTW, the guys from Project Wonderful were kind enough to invite us to join their network. They are the ones supplying the back end for the sponsors system. They are really a cool little group! Even PvPonline.com loves them!

Well, that's it for my rambling.
Shea

It's Alive! 5/25/2007
After a few months of laying in wait Socialcase is finally starting to kick. We're glad to inform all of our new and existing members that thanks to word of mouth and hopefully your love of the ideas behind Socialcase our bandwidth usage for this month has grown over 400% as compared to last months numbers (and we still have a week left)! None of it would be possible without the support of you guys!

In other news, we have started to plan out a timeline for pushing you guys some new features. Some of which include playcounts, customizable playlists, bug fixes, and more security improvements to protect your audio files once they hit our hot little servers.

Thanks!;
Chad

We <3 U! 5/21/2007
I just want to say thank you to our community for supporting us and putting up with us.

Thank you to GameMusic4All for blogging about us. We love you. We really do. We want you all to know that we hear you. We will keep adding features, keep adding genres, and keep making sure you guys are taken of. We have a lot of bugs to fix, a lot of features to add, and a lot more OpenArena(!) to play with the community.

Chad: you are the voice, we are merely the ears!
Shea: Hear Hear!

Enjoy the new ChipTunes genre. It kicks ass.

Update?! OMGWTF?! 5/17/2007
Thats right, first round up updates came through today. I know the site has sat stagnant for far to long, and with our growing (humble BUT growing) membership numbers we needed a way to display artists in a better more logical fashion. If you check out the Genre pages or "Find Music" pages as they are often also called you'll notice a new artist listing system. Now in the spirit of SocialCases randomized philosophy these listings are also completely sorted and displayed at random. So now that you don't need to click so much we're hoping you'll find new music faster! :D

There were also a small couple of fixes in smaller less significant areas to improve performance and such... nerd stuff, I won't bore you. With that said, enjoy and once again thanks for the support!

Hugs N' Kisses;
Chad

P.S. I hate IE... so yea... sorry IE users, I got sick of hacking the CSS to make your stuff look right.

Nerd 4 L1F3 5/14/2007
Shea and I are big nerdcore fans true and blue. Ever since we felt the rythmic vibrations of 8 bit audio caress our inner ears we've been total suckers. So it shouldn't come as a surprise when asked if we'd support/sponsor "Nerdapalooza" we without hesitation said "O'RLY? YAH!!!!1!!!one!!!1!!cos(0)!!". With that being said we just want to extend a special thanks to all the newly joined "Nerdcore" groups that have found their way here and are supporting the idea of SocialCase. In the mean time we're eating up bandwidth like a mofo and loving it!

Thanks Guys!

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Slackers 4/21/2007
We know, we promised big and came up short. But we've had plenty of time to work on some other interesting stuff and come up some more ideas. Good news, now that we've both taken some time off and put some more thought into to the Project Adventure we've came up with some ideas of how to improve it and some new features and such that we want to try out. We plan on tearing down SocialCase as you know it, and turning it into something a little more adventurous.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled, and thanks for all the love and support :D

Love;
SocialCase.com Dev Team

Been A While... 12/30/2006
As the year closes we have been playing kinda hard, and no, we haven't forgotten about ole' SocialCase. Since we are a small operation running on extra time and a shoe string budget we haven't been able to devote time or effort to some of the forth coming features we have planned out, sorry, we know, we're slackers. With that being said soon however after the holiday season is over and the dust has settled we are going to be going back into heavy dev mode. In the mean time we would like to thank all of the bands that have signed up (yes even the ones who haven't uploaded any music... a phenomenon we still haven't figured out) and showed support of the idea, if nothing else.

We hope everyone enjoyed their holiday as much as we did here and we look forward to bringing some new ideas to the table and we wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Thanks for the support!

Love;
SocialCase.com Dev Team

New Stuff 12/6/2006
Well we have been officially open for a couple days now, and have had a few artists sign up but need more. We are in no hurry to grow, but we just love the idea of opening up bands to the idea behind socialcase so when we launch the "Fan" sections there will be plenty for our users to experience and rate.

For all of the bands out there, we have enabled some new security measures to help protect your audio files once they get to our system. If anyone noticed (we doubt it, but we hope so ;) ) we were down for a few minutes while setting up some new security measures to prevent unauthorized downloading of our audio files. We hope this helps keep our bands, or would be bands confident that we have their best interests in mind. So spread the word and spread the love!

Thanks for the support!

Love;
SocialCase.com Dev Team