On your playlist editing page, just below the "listen" link, there is a box which provides a link to request a review. We carefully consider each request, so make sure your playlist is of great quality! Things to consider: Does your title match the theme of the list? Does the description accurately describe the contents? Is there enough music in the list to provide a pleasant listening experience throughout a few playbacks.
If your playlist gets promoted to BlueBeat Radio, you'll see your new custom image mosaic right away, wherever your playlist is displayed!

You must have a BlueBeat.com account in order to create your own playlists. Playlists are complilations of music that contain songs hand picked by users. You may add hundreds of songs of your choice. When you've made a playlist with the minimum amount of playable music (10 artists, 10 albums, 30 songs), you may share it with the rest of the BlueBeat community and listen immediately. Also see What are the restrictions of building playlists / Why are they there?.

After a playlist has passed the minimum requirements for playback (10 artists, 10 albums, 30 songs of playable music, it is deemed "ready to listen". Your playlist will be shared with the rest of the BlueBeat community once you listen to it, due to recording industry guidelines which state, in part, that online radio stations must be publicly accessible before they can be heard.The playback of your playlist is subject to the DMCA Sound Recording Performance Complement. BlueBeat always ensures that the playback of all playlists on the site complies with these 3 hour rules, but it is your job as the DJ to build a playlist diverse enough to be played again and again, ideally for hours on end. If there is not enough variety in your playlist to continue playing under the Complement, the BlueBeat player may close prematurely because it cannot construct a valid playlist, and your listeners will be left unsatisfied. Give your audience the variety they crave and they will continue to listen to your playlists!

Anything you add to your playlist can be removed by clicking on the minus icon next to the item you with. However, once your playlist has been listened to you cannot remove content if it will cause the playlist to be less than the minimum number of songs (10 artists, 10 albums, 30 songs of playable music) for legal reasons. In this case, you'll have to add more content before you can remove content.

You'll need at least the minimum requirements for playback: 10 artists, 10 albums, 30 songs of playable music in your playlist. Also see What are the restrictions of building playlists / Why are they there?.

They're contained within the BlueBeat terms of use.

Go to the Your Playlists page and click on the playlist whose name or description you want to change.

We hand-select quality playlists, both our own and those of users to feature more prominently at BlueBeat.com. These are known collectively as BlueBeat Radio. Playlists that are included in BlueBeat Radio display a custom image mosaic and generally garner far more attention and playback within the site.

BlueBeat uses a non-interactive license for streaming music online, which precludes us from allowing listener control over playback; it's similar to how radio stations function. To remain DMCA-compliant with our current license, we cannot provide controls to modify the playback timing of the songs. In the future we may switch to a (more costly) interactive license or offer features from multiple licenses, but for now we aim to keep BlueBeat free to use for our listeners.

If you like a certain song you can use it as a seed to generate a playlist. Although we cannot guarantee that the song will play due to DMCA rules.

Anyone can create a link to a playlist. These links can then be posted on blogs, in emails, on MySpace/Facebook profiles, etc. When the link is clicked, anyone with the BlueBeat music player will hear instant music. Here's how to make your link:

1. Find the playlist you'd like to send.
2. Right click on the link which launches the playlist & 'copy link location' (IE users: go to "Copy Shortcut"). This URL is now in your computer's clipboard, ready to be used however you like.
3. Right click & select 'paste' or hit control+v to insert the URL into emails, HTML, etc...

BlueBeat welcomes up-and-coming artists to the site! To be reviewed for BlueBeat, send your commercially-released CD (no sharpie-labeled, home-burned copies, please) to:

BlueBeat Music Submissions
55 River St, Suite 200
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Give us a minimum of 2 weeks to review & process the CD (Note: your CD will not be returned), then check back often. Once the music is uploaded onto BlueBeat, be sure to promote your BB artist page & music to your fans!

Also make sure you and/or your band have registered with 1) SoundExchange and 2) ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC to receive your royalties!

Click on any of the to favorite artists, albums, songs or playlists.

We do not offer any music to be downloaded at this time.

You can Contact Us with any suggestions/requests for music.

We offer a Free membership plan that allows the user to listen to 50 free songs once signed up.
After the 50 free songs are used, a user must sign up for a paid membership to continue listening to music

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