About Vye Music
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about Vye Music. This page contains information about the site's interface, features and history. See the FAQs if you have a question about Vye Music.
Please direct bug reports, comments and queries to: info(at)vyemusic.com
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Vye Music Interface
Elements of the interface are displayed here, with descriptions. Vye Music is the portal that connects your computer to a world of musical love.
Search (top-left) helps you find any artist, album or track you're looking for.
Vye Hot 100 (left-pane) displays the most popular 100 tracks on iTunes.
Radio (left-pane) allows you to enter radio mode, where you can ban/like artists and recieve refined track suggestions.
Now Playing (left-pane) displays a list of the tracks you've got queued, as well as previous selections. You can edit your queue here.
Search History (left-pane) displays up to three of your most recent searches. Click them to return to the results.
Toggle Video (video-top-left) click this to toggle fullscreen video.
Wrong Song (video-top-right) if Vye Music serves the wrong video/music, you can click this icon to request a fresh matching result. If you're logged in, Vye will remember this.
Previous Track (video-bottom-left) click to return to the previous track. This will return to the beginning of the track if the current song is part-way through.
Play / Pause (video-bottom-middle) click this to toggle the pause/play of your music.
Next Track (video-bottom-right) click to move to the next track in your play queue. If there is nothign queued, Vye Music will select a song for you.
Playlists (left-pane-bottom) displays your current playlists and allows you to create a new one if you are logged in.
My Music Library (left-pane-middle) if you are logged in you can click this to go to your online music library.
Logout / Login (top-right) click on these options to login through Facebook, or end your session on Vye Music if using a shared computer.
Upload your Library (top-right) if you are currently logged in, a menu item appears allowing you to upload your iTunes library to Vye Music.
Repeat Song (bottom-right) click this button to toggle repeat for the currently playing song.
Vye Music Features
Vye Music is a rich application with powerful features for music sharing, discovery and streaming.
Artist Profiles get a quick overview of any artist. Displays a short bio, similar artists, top tracks, and a list of all albums by popularity.
Share Anything easily and quickly share tracks, albums, playlists and even entire artists with a short-link or over your social neworks.
Radio allows you to refine Vye Music's song suggestions, by selecting preferred artists, and banning others.
Music Never Dies which means it never stops, at Vye. If you have nothing queued, Vye Music will select something for you to listen to.
Playlists quickly and easily build a playlist of your favorite track. They're a snap to share too!
My Music Library is your music sanctuary in the sky. All your faves, accessible from anywhere in the world.
Upload your Library from iTunes and in minutes take your entire collection to the cloud, and savour the sound.
Multiple Track Selection because one track is never enough. Hold SHIFT or CTRL to select more than one track.
Vye Music History
Vye Music was founded in 2010 by 17-year-old Gold Coast teenager Charles Allatt. He envisioned a free streaming music service without limits, and by utilizing the massive music catalogue of music, and the comprehensive data of Last.fm, Vye Music was born. The site is the first step towards fulfilling Charlie's much larger vision of changing the way content is consumed and discovered online.
The original (and unreleased) version of Vye Music (see right) focussed more wholly on video, but this design was scrapped in favor of the current version, which is more conducive to a seamless music experience.
The new version of the site was built in less than 3 months with only parts of the code derived from the original version. During this time, Charlie entered into contact with Alicia Mayer an intellectual property strategist and a member of Hollywood's royal family; Alicia is the neice of the legendary Louis B. Mayer. Her high-profile connections led to the involvement of new-media pioneer Chris Adams, who has over 20 years of experience in the media space, and a colorful history of top-level clients including Facebook and HBO.
Chris and Alicia are assisting Charlie as members of his advisory board.
The future for Vye Music involves a much greater emphasis on mobile devices, including dedicated native applications for iPhones and Android phones. This will allows users to take their music with them anywhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
If your question has not been answered below, then please don't hesitate to contact us at info(at)vyemusic.com.
1. How much does Vye Music cost?
$0.00. Zip. Nuthin'. Vye Music is a free service.
2. How many songs can I stream per month?
As many as you like. You can stream six, or sixty thousand, we don't mind. Seriously.
3. I clicked the 'PLAY' icon but it didn't start playing my song. What gives?
When you click the 'PLAY' icon 
next to any track, it will QUEUE that song, which means it does not play immediately. Instead, it joins a list of music. This way you can select a bunch of tracks and queue them up, then leave Vye to play through your tunes without having to constantly change your selection. You can see how many tracks are currently queued by looking at the left-pane menu option 'Now Playing'. You can click this option to view the whole list, including previously listened-to tracks. When viewing the play queue clicking the 'PLAY' icon next to any track will skip to that position in the queue, and begin the song immediately.
4. How do I create a Playlist?
If you are logged in, click the 'Create a Playlist' option in the left-pane menu. A new playlist should appear, with the words "Playlist Name?" in italics. Type a name for your new Playlist here, and then press ENTER to confirm. You can add tracks to your newly created list in the track-menu by clicking the 'Playlist' button, and then selecting your new list from the secondary menu. Remember to hit enter when you create your list.
5. In the track-menu clicking the Playlist button does nothing. How come?
This means you don't have any Playlists yet. You can click the 'Create a Playlist' option in the left-pane menu and create one. It should then appear in a secondary menu option when you click the Playlist option in the track-menu.
6. How do I select multiple track at a time?
When you select one track, hold SHIFT and click above or below to select all the tracks between your initial selection and your new one. You can also hold CTRL when clicking to toggle whether an individual track is selected. You cannot share more than one track at a time.
7. Why can't I see the 'My Music' / 'Playlist' track-menu option?
If either of these options is not visible then it is because you are not currently logged in. Click the login option at the top of the page.
8. Why can't I see the 'Share' track-menu option?
This option will disappear if you have more than one track selected, as you can only share a single track at a time. If you wish to share multiple tracks at a time, you should create a playlist, and share that instead.
9. Why does Vye sometimes play the wrong song?
Unfortunately sometimes people tag songs incorrectly on YouTube which means results are occasionally wrong on Vye Music as well. Sometimes things like interviews, instrumentals, and amateur covers can be displayed instead of the song you want. If this happens you can click the red "x" icon (video-top-right) to request a more appropriate track. If you are logged in, Vye Music will remember this selection and never display the banned track again.
10. Can I get rid of the ads?
At the moment, the banner advertising we serve helps support the cost of development and hosting for Vye Music. Premium options may be available in the future, and those would include and ad-free interface.
11. Why do songs sometimes not play, and in the now playing queue it says "(FAILED)"?
If this is happening frequently then you may be experiencing a temporary problem. Clearing your browser cache may help. Otherwise, this problem generally only occurs when YouTube cannot find a suitable song for Vye Music to serve to you. This may change over time, as any errors in Last.fm's data (which occasionally cause this issue) are constantly being fixed, so if your music isn't avaialble today, it probably will be tomorrow. If you still have no success, try adding the song to your music library without extra words like "(Album Version)" or "(Remastered)" which usually don't affect the track, but can occasionally prevent YouTube from finding a match.
12. How do I tell you about my awesome idea for improving Vye Music?
Always open to suggestions, send us an email at info(at)vyemusic.com. Thanks for your support.