FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

What is YourSpins?
YourSpins is a new kind of music community for fans who want to immerse themselves in world of remixes. Within YourSpins, you'll be able to share your mixes of top songs with others, rate and comment on other mixes - and chat, mail and IM other people too. Plus you can make your own unique ringtones to be sent to your phone. Each user gets their own homepage, with all their mixes and ringtones listed. Soon, we'll introduce blogs for each user, but for now, all mixes can be exported to your own blog by pressing 'Blog this mix' on the mixpage.
Is it legal?
Yes - it's all legal. The copyright of the remix remains with the artist, but you have the right to remix it and host it on YourSpins or your own website/blog.
How does it work?
The artists provides the 'creative master' - the .di file. The .di file contains the song, divided into parts (e.g. intro, verse, chorus, break etc.). Each part has a number of channels and each channel contains extra material as supplied by the artist. This means that each part of the song could have, for instance, 4 basslines, 5 drum tracks and 7 basslines. The user can manually manipulate the song (using one of our free players) as it is playing to create their own remix of the track, or they can press the 'improvise' button to get a new version created using our special algorithms. Further description of how the players work are available in their own application help files. Once you are happy with the mix, it can be saved to your own page on YourSpins. N.B. saving to website is only activated with the online players at the moment.
What are these .di Remixers?
In order to mix .di tracks, you will need to use one of our free players. The plug-ins will allow you to remix within a standard media players - and the diOnline Remixer is a Flash-based application which requires no downloading.
What is a Barmy Blender and Moiling Mixmaster?
These are the user classifications on YourSpins. here is an overview of all levels, with their associated points:
  • Level 1 : 1-19 - Noob
  • Level 2: 20-49 - Mad Spinner
  • Level 3: 50-80 - Freaky Mixer
  • Level 4: 80-110 - Barmy Blender
  • Level 5: 110-200 - Serious Spinhead
  • Level 6: 200-500 - Moiling Mixmaster
  • Level 7: 500-1000 - Spinmaster General
  • Level 8: 1000-1500 - Supreme Guru
  • Level 9: 1500-2500 - Ultra Hardcore Nutter
  • Level 10: >2500 - Omnipotent Grand Overlord
Points are awarded for many things. If you want to get more points, you need to make mixes, have people listen to your mixes, invite friends, have people blog your mixes, comment on mixes and homepages, post in the forum, get stars awarded for your mixes, have friends, and finally - we also occasionally will award bonus points at our discretion. Bribes can be emailed to us directly(!)
So, that's it basically. The more you use the site - and the more other people like your mixes - the more points you get. I'm not at liberty to divulge the exact algorithm we use to calculate this, but I will say that the people who make lots of mixes will find themselves going up through the ranks quicker than those who only make a few!
What's the connection between http://www.yourspins.com and Digimpro?
http://www.yourspins.com is owned by Digimpro and uses their technology to empower the user to mix tracks easily.
I have a question for you that's not on this list...
Great, mail it to us at talk2us@yourspins.com - and we'll get back to you real soon, and put the question and answer up here.