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@opentype Well, It really worked as suggested by you. Thanks a ton Bro 👍

Opening it on the Smule website should always work. That gives access to the URL of the performance.

The sharing tab or arrow is not appearing in one of my recording on Smule although the song playback works. How do we share such song

Thank you for the info. I might check it out. 🙃

Fix iOS Audio Recording Issues: Disable Sound Recognition Feature View the full article on the Smule blog

Yes, I agree that it is seems to be good for practicing. The scoring is similar to Smule, where you get points based on your accuracy in matching the pitch guide, but you also receive a corresponding letter grade. I was trying for A++ but only got one plus on those songs, so I didn’t save them lol. You can join others’ duets, although the main draw for me is that I can sing by myself and not have to deal with the toxic people and environment on Smule. It did give me the option of allowing others to duet with me, but I chose not to. Not sure if this option is free, or if I’d have been asked to pay. By my estimate, 90% of the accounts are fake/bots, although the number of bizarre fake comments is much less than the first time I tried StarMaker, so maybe that has also improved. I have one friend who mainly sings on StarMaker now. He told me only half of the accounts are fake lol. I recognized one other person from Smule. Both used the same or similar names. I guess if you want people to find you, you use the same name. If you don’t want to be found easily, you change your name. Some other pluses: You can adjust the pitch of the song The live jam feature is better (according to my friend) You can save your song as a draft and finish it later

I’ve never tried Starmaker. I’m genuinely curious to know more about it. Maybe it would be good to have a practice app. What do you feel are any advantages of Starmaker over Smule? Also what is this about “scrapped due to poor scoring”? Someone scores you? And you can join other’s duets? I wonder how many people are on both apps? And do they keep the same names? Sorry lots of questions!

I use a normal android-type headphone. I have used one for years without any problem. I switched to a new one when the problem started, but the noises remain. Thanks.

May be they should add a feature where I can see that someone saw their profile views and saw me visiting their profile.🤣 "They don't know that we know they know we know!"

That's fair. And I initially chalked it up as a bit of a conspiracy theory as well. But the more I heard the same from other users - and especially from Ambassadors and other "team leaders" and those in selected Smule focus groups like Frontman who would have more insight into these things - the more it made sense. And without any official explanation from Smule as to why a simple feature like this isn't being implemented (when it's readily available on the website), this is the best reason I can see from where I'm sitting.

I hope this post is allowed, but people have asked about other singing apps in the past, so I assume it’s ok. We’ve often discussed the shortcomings of StarMaker, but the main reason I deleted it is because they made all of the songs require VIP to sing, and since the accounts are mostly fake, it was hard to find songs to join, and the price for VIP makes Smule seem like an absolute bargain by comparison. And given that StarMaker’s sound quality is pretty horrendous, it’s not worth paying for, and I wouldn’t have considered it a viable alternative to Smule. But, I recently reinstalled StarMaker to give it another try, and, get this … Solos are free! As far as I know, I’m not on a free trial period. I’ve made four songs, as well as a couple I scrapped due to poor scoring. I haven’t been asked to pay yet, nor informed of any limits on the number of solos I can post … for free! Smule, if you’re listening, this would be a good feature for you to borrow from StarMaker! It seems too good to be true, so if anyone knows whether or not the solos will remain free, please let me know.

A logout option is something people have been asking for, for a long time. I never understood why Smule didn’t add it just to make a large number of people happy. However, it makes sense that Smule doesn’t want it. Back in the heyday of support chats, blind loves on recordings, glowing comments from people who didn’t actually listen, etc … a logout/login feature would have been helpful for people using multiple accounts. But Smule decided at some point to break up the fake butt kissing fest, and so I assume they don’t make it easy to log in and out, so as not to encourage one user to have multiple accounts. Personally, I struggle with anxiety and would have loved to be able to log out of Smule when the mood isn’t there. But I have to settle for removing and reinstalling the app. It’s not so bad now that I can offload it and reinstall it easily without having to log back in.

To be honest, it sounds more like a conspiracy theory to me. The vast majority of users have one account and have absolutely no reason to ever log out. I can only think of two typical reasons to switch accounts: Running an additional account for a group. That’s somewhat reasonable, but it’s not the typical Smule use. It’s a choice you have to make (usually knowing the possible disadvantages upfront) and the number of people who do this are nowhere near the numbers that would matter at all when it comes to app download numbers. I doubt the number of active iOS group account owners who constantly have to switch account are higher than a value in the hundreds. They might be pretty vocal in the Smule sphere, but I doubt their group switching activity is really relevant in regard to downloads or feature requests. The second reason to switch accounts would be for nefarious purposes: Stalking, spamming, inflating likes and view counts … all that stuff. With an official account switching feature, those things would be come MUCH easier! So, Smule actually has a very good reason not to offer this feature for this reason alone. Maybe there are more reasons to switch accounts, but the argument still holds. If it’s not a feature that benefits a large amount of users and if it comes with problems of its own, maybe that’s explanation enough.

About the only time I’ve ever actually logged into the website is when I had some issue with not being able to comment on my duets or something? I do wonder if I listen to a duet on the website and I’m not logged in, if it will show up as a profile view from a private user? This seems to me like an overly complicated feature to create and manage, which adds little value to the experience. Hope it has whatever effect Smule intended?

This is a great point! Might explain a couple of random viewers I had on my page. It’s possible they didn’t view my profile at all.

Smule has never outright said this (and why would they, because they'd look like assholes), but several higher-profile users - even Ambassadors - have said that's why we're never getting a logout button. The lack of a logout button (or a switch accounts button) means we always have to delete the app and then redownload it. And it's THOSE redownloads by existing users that make Smule's numbers look really good in the app store.

Yep! This is why I turned off read receipts. If I receive a message of a personal nature from a man, I can ignore it and pretend like I just never read it at all. I used to warn on my profile that I don’t check the inbox, but now I don’t even bother with that.

True! If there is an option, I turn it off 😁

Oh, so that’s why Smule doesn’t add a logout option! I never knew!

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The way it rolled out quietly and only available to iOS users in the beginning, it seems like that was the Beta Testing phase (without actually calling it that). At the point in time when it was officially announced in the app is when it became available to Android users as well (I’m assuming). That initial disparity was a shitty move. But now it’s been a week, a couple weeks into it, everyone can just turn on private mode or not. At least there’s a choice and you can just ignore this feature if you choose to.

I’ve heard it’s available for Android too now. I asked Smule if there were plans to put the private / public mode options on the website (so I could go into private mode without having to update the app, haha) and they said “We can extend that feature, but we can't confirm if and when at this point.” So I guess I’m staying public for the foreseeable future.

They thanked me for being considerate, and said they would pass it on to the appropriate team. Said they cannot guarantee the outcome, but it would certainly be considered. Ultimately, I assumed Smule would continue do whatever the heck they wanted and I was wasting my time, but I like to make noise. Although, I did have someone tell me that the profile views feature is available for Android users now … but I didn’t know if it was true, or if he was just yanking my chain.

@DuetWithAlli it was thoughtful of you to contact smule on behalf of android users. I was wondering if Smule responded and what was their response (if you don’t mind sharing).

Yeah, I've got all that stuff off too. You just never know when someone's going to see that you're online and expect you to immediately jump into a chat or a Sing Live or whatever. People can be goofy, and I like Smuling on my own time and when it's convenient for me, not when someone else expects me to. As for the turning off the "send read receipts" the last thing I ever want to hear from someone is "I KNOW YOU'VE READ THIS. WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING MEEEEEEEE?"