We’ve received a few emails to say that recently uploaded tunes don’t have the usual sound quality expected from amazingtunes.com. Musical tastes aside we took a listen and we’ve noticed that there are quality issues with the newest flash files being played from the site. Specifically anything uploaded over the weekend has a strange hissing quality which people have mentioned sounds like it’s “on Myspace”.

Our guys are working hard on finding a solution quickly. In the meantime, we hope the small quality issues don’t spoil your listening pleasure. Remember the issues only relate to the most recent releases, there are still thousands of tunes to listen to, buy and download. Of course, you could listen to Amazing Radio on DAB in the UK and online at amazingradio.co.uk in the rest of the world.

*** Update ***
Problem solved. Newly encoded tracks working fine. We’ll be re-encoding all files effected as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience.

the amazingtunes.com team

We know there are some seriously Amazing artists and songs here at amazingtunes.com, but sometimes it’s hard to know where to start looking for them. Why not give Amazing Radio a listen? Located just to the left of the BBC on DAB or streaming through the internet at amazingradio.co.uk you can hear a cross section of what we at Amazing and, most importantly, the listeners of Amazing Radio and users of amazingtunes.com think are the best things on the site.

So why not listen during the day for an uninterrupted mix of amazing tunes? Or if you’ve got quite specific tastes, why not try some of our shows? Our presenters on Amazing Radio trawl the amazingtunes.com website extensively every week to bring you new songs that they think are amazing for your listening pleasure. If dance music is your thing why not check out Mark Ryan’s show? If indie is your life, why not try Fuzz Chaudhrey or Tom Cotton? If something a bit softer is what you’re after why not give Frankie Ward’s acoustic show a listen, or softer still through our Amazing Ambient stream? If your tastes are eclectic then perhaps Charlie Ashcroft’s ‘Audition’, Trevor Dann’s ‘It’s Amazing’ or Greg and Burtt’s show would suit you? There are plenty of great shows broadcast every week on Amazing Radio – you can check out our presenters’ profiles and playlists from their links here.

Why not take matters back into your own hands and let us know which tracks you love you think should be played? Activity on the site effects the chart and let’s us know what you would love to hear on the radio. So get involved and discover the music you’re about to love…

We’ve been a little quiet on blog.amazingtunes.com, probably whilst we’ve been concentrating on office moves, national DAB radio stations and streaming speechless audio on the Internet… If you’re interested in what we’re doing with Amazing Radio (and why wouldn’t you be) then check out at www.amazingradio.co.uk

We’ll be back to blogging on here about all the good stuff happening on amazingtunes.com, new music, unsigned artists, growing numbers of fans and plenty of innovation. The site’s had a spruce up recently and we’ve been working hard on a raft of new features which we’ll let you know more about in due course. The plan is little and often; improvements and innovation to give you even more reasons to love amazingtunes.com

We’ve already been voted Pocket-Lint’s ‘Website of the Day’ this week. See what they had to say about amazingtunes.com and Amazing Radio at http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/31047/new-unsigned-acts-on-radio

• Girl of the moment Lily Allen has managed to pull off a double in the UK charts as her album It’s Not Me, It’s You debuts at the top of the album listings. Her current single, The Fear, is on its third week at the top of the singles charts with Allen being the first artist to achieve this double feat since The Kings Of Leon back in October of last year.

• New Zealand is on the verge of introducing a new law that would allow legitimate disconnection of any internet users who download music illegally. Proposed for February 28th, the “Guilt Upon Application” law would mean that connections could be cut without trial if copyright infringement has occurred. The Creative Freedom Foundation however are speaking out against the law.

• Coldplay’s triumphant 2008 release Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends has been announced as the biggest selling album of the year, shifting 6.8m copies across both physical and digital platforms. Four UK acts made the top ten and you can see the top 50 here.

…amazingtunes.com

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This is the latest controversial twist in the piracy saga that has the BPI pitting its (now very disgruntled) wits against an unconvinced ISP collective who are unwilling to take part in the battle against piracy. The participation of internet companies, with their abilities to control a customers’ connections, seems to be the most logical step in attempts to stem the transference of illegal files. So much so that last year Government officials spoke of

Pop songstress Lily Allen has been out and about promoting the release of her second album ‘It’s Not Me It’s You’ (released February). Appearing on Q-Radio however she gave the impression all things aren’t quite so rosy as we’re led to believe. Frustrated at the lack of money she is receiving from a hit album and a number one single she let out a stark warning to future bands and acts that presume putting pen to paper is their route to riches.