When using Musicians Together, please bear in mind that the site is maintained and funded entirely by the community of musicians. The advantage to this is that we are not saturated with advertising and have the freedom to only feature music made by our members. The downside is that we have no full-time or paid staff and very little money for development. Therefore, while we do our best to keep everything working, please be patient with the parts of the site that aren't technically perfect - or when things go wrong!

If you can't find what you need in this section, try asking on 'the wall' on the homepage. Thanks :)

How To Use Musicians Together

General guides on how to do stuff on Musicians Together:

Adding an avatar (profile picture) or changing your current one
Adding a channel background or changing your current one
Changing your password (When you know the old password)
Embedding a video from Youtube
Resetting your password (When you have forgotten your old password)
Turning off email notifications
Upload a video

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to questions we tend to get asked a lot:

Known Bugs and Issues

This is the stuff we know doesn't work well and want to fix when we have the time/money/expertise:

Adding an avatar (profile picture) or changing your current one 1. On MT's main menu bar go to 'account' --> 'personalise channel' --> 'change avatar'. 2. Click the grey 'browse' button next to where it says 'user avatar, please select image file'. 3. The box that opens up lets you navigate around your computer. Find the image file you want to use and highlight it by clicking it once, then click 'open' (in that same box). 4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the blue 'update' button. It may take a while for the new avatar to appear everwhere around the site as the one you are replacing could be in your computer's cache. Just give it a little time and it will work fine. Back to top
Adding an channel background or changing your current one 1. On MT's main menu bar go to 'account' --> 'personalise channel' --> 'change background'. 2. Click the grey 'browse' button next to where it says 'channel background image, please select image file'. 3. The box that opens up lets you navigate around your computer. Find the image file you want to use and highlight it by clicking it once, then click 'open' (in that same box). 4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the blue 'update' button. It may take a while for the new background to appear as the one you are replacing could be in your computer's cache. Just give it a little time and it will work fine. Back to top
Changing your password 1. On MT's main menu bar go to 'account' --> 'account settings' --> 'change password'. 2. Enter your old password and new password in the relevant boxes. 3. Click 'change password'. Back to top
Embedding a video from Youtube 1. On Youtube - navigate to the video you want to embed. 2. Click the 'Share' button below the video, then the 'Embed' button. 3. A box of code will now appear. 4. Left click in the box of code (the embed code) which will highlight it all blue. Then copy the code by either right-clicking and selecting copy or using the ctr+v keyboard shortcut. 5. On Musicians Together - Click 'upload' on MT's top menu bar.. 6. Type in your song title, description, tags and choose the categories you would like the song to appear in. 7. Click 'Continue to upload.' (the upload button will not appear until you have entered title, description, category and tags). 8. Click on the 'Embed Code' tab on the next screen. 9. Paste the embed code you copied from Youtube into the embed code box by either right-clicking and selecting 'paste' or using the 'ctr+v' keyboard shortcut. 10. Enter the legth of the video in the video duration box in the format specified. For example if the video is six minutes and twelve seconds long you would enter 00:06:12. 11. Click the browse button to choose the image you would like to be used as a thumbnail for the video. Hightlight the image and click 'Open'. 12. Click on the blue 'Upload' button at the bottom of the page. Back to top
Resetting your password 1. Click the 'login' button at the top right of the screen - or 'join' on the menu bar - to go to the login screen. 2. Underneath the login button, click 'forgot password'. 3. Enter your Musicians Together username and the verification code. Hit the 'Submit' button. 4. You will get an email (to the email address you used to join MT). Click the link in that email. 5. A web page will open that says near the top 'Password has been changed successfully.' Do not click any links or fill in anything on that page. Just close the tab/window. 6. You will receive another email which contains your new password. Click the link in that email to go to the login screen. You can now login using your new password. Back to top
Turning off email notifications If you want to reduce the number of emails you get from Musicians Together, follow these steps. Please note that when you switch off emails you will still get internal notifications. 1. On MT's main menu bar go to 'account' --> 'turn emails off/on'. 2. Scroll down and choose 'yes' or 'no' for the events that you want emails for and those that you don't. 2. Click the blue 'update notifications' button. Back to top
Upload a video 1. Click the upload tab on the top menu bar. 2. Fill in the title and description, choose the category(ies) you want your video to appear in and enter some tags. 3. (Optional) If you want to make the video private (visible to friends only) or disable comments, ratings, embedding etc., click on 'more options' at the bottom of the screen and select accordingly. 4. Click the blue 'continue to upload' button. 5. Click the grey 'upload' button. This opens a box allowing you to select the video file (under 250mb) from your computer. Highlight the file and click the 'save' button. 6. Don't navigate away from the page when the counter reaches 100%. Wait until a message appears saying 'Video Upload Has Been Completed'. It may take a few minutes for your video to appear on MT, while the file is processed. Back to top