Last night we launched a new version of TuneShout - version 1.1 for those of you scoring at home. It's mostly a minor upgrade, and will be the last upgrade before we do a major upgrade in early fall.

Here is a short compact list of all the enhancements.

1. Reworked the Artist "biography" section to give it more structure. It is now broken out in to the sections, with two additional fields added: Musical Influences and Future Plans. In your Artist Account Edit page, you will able to add content to the two additional sections.
2. Bitrate is now analyzed during track uploads. Low bitrate songs will be prevented from being streamed due to the technological limitations of our Flash-based streaming engine. This will prevent the "chipmunk syndrome" for some artists.
3. Artists now receive emails when they make a sale a receive a review. This will help you guys keep tabs on your new reviews and your sales -- I know that some of you guys do have sales :)
4. Slight reorganization of the Artist Account section. We've reorganized the top of the Artist Account to make getting around and changing things a lot easier.
5. Addition of RSS links around the site. We already have a lot of RSS feeds for nearly every page on TuneShout, we've just made their existence a little more visible.
6. A system to "tell a friend" about artists and TuneShout. Now, if you find a band on our site that you want to tell a friend about, you'll be able to use our on-site email form to do so. Look for the "tell a friend" button on the left. You can see an example on my account. Also, users can tell a friend about TuneShout.

Enjoy the new features, and make sure to contact us with any problems or concerns.