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Who can use CoverWithMe?
How can I register?
How can I post a cover?
How can I create a music band?
How can I manage my band's members?
How can I combine band's videos?
How can I post band's covers?
What happens in case of conflict within my band?
Can I post personal creations?
Who can use CoverWithMe?
CoverWithMe is dedicated to all musicians and singers all over the world.
All registered members can share their musical interpretations ("covers"), create or join music bands, and rate videos.
All visitors can browse published covers, member profiles, band profiles, and top-rated videos and bands.
Other specific features - like video rating - are available only for registered users.
How can I register?
In order to create your free account, you can click on "Create new account".
Then, you have to fill the subscription form (some fields are mandatory).
You have total access your personal information, and you can request to remove such data by sending an email to postmaster@coverwithme.com.
When your subscription form is sent, you should receive an email confirmation, and your account should be created when you click on the link within the email.
If the registration email isn't received, please check your Spam Directory!
Once your account is created, you can login in CoverWithMe, and you should see your personal tab "My space".
All the actions you can do in your space are explained in the following parts.
How can I post a cover?
CoverWithMe website is based on videos post on Youtube. In order to share your videos in CoverWithMe, you must previously create an account in Youtube, and post videos within your account in Youtube - these videos must be validated by Youtube.
Click on the link "Post a cover" - in "MySpace" tab; a form will open.
Fill at least form's mandatory fields - like cover's title, youtube URL - and save.
Your cover becomes visible for members once the video has been approved by CoverWithMe moderator.
Then, your cover is visible in "My Space" tab ("My covers" category) and in "Member covers" tab where it can be searched.
You can always open your cover forms, and modify them.
All CoverWithMe members can comment and rate the covers that are approved and published.
Members can also send you private messages in order to establish contact, and to propose you to play songs together.
If you agree, you can create a new virtual band and invite new music partners in it (see next part).
How can I create a music band?
Clicking on "Create a band" allows you to create a new virtual music band.
You can choose a band name, a band logo, instruments and music styles played by group members.
You can choose if the band is private or public ; while a band is private, only its member can view its information.
When the form is complete, you can click on "Save".
The bands you create are visible for you in tab "My space" ("My bands" category).
All the band information can be modified after creation: to do so, open the form clicking on the band's name, and click on tab "Edit".
Adding new members to your band is explained in next part.
How can I manage my band's members?
If you want to incude a member into your band, click on the band's name (from "My space"), then open the tab "Group".
A menu appears; click on "Add people", and type the member's login you want to include in your band (you can include several members at the same time: to do so type all the logins you want into the field).
You can add a request message (i.e a welcome message), and you can click on "administrator member" if you want the new member(s) to have the same privileges as you in this band.
When the form is filled, click on "Add users".
You can use the menu link "People" in order to remove members from your group or to change their rights.
Watch regularly your personal space: pending memberships of the bands you created are displayed in box "Pending subscriptions". Musicians concerned will belong to your bands only if you change their status to "Active" with the link "People" (see above); you also may reject these people.
How can I combine band's videos?
Band's members can decide to share to each other their videos. They could use free file exchange platforms - for big files - such WeTransfer.com.
If a band member has appropriate knowledge, computer and software, he can combine videos by himself thanks to a video edition software, and synchronize the tracks.
However, if no one in the band can do this, CoverWithMe can realize for you the final videoclip.
Each band member will have to send his own video to CoverWithMe - using the file exchange platform he wants - and will have to use CoverWithMe contact form, providing descriptions for the band, the members and the video to create.
CoverWithMe will realize the video as soon as possible, and will provide it to the band members - thanks to a file exchange platform.
How can I post band's covers?
When you own a video file of a band cover, then if you want to post it in CoverWithMe, it must be previously post into Youtube, like all other videos.
Once the video published and validated in Youtube, click on link "Post a band cover" (from "My space" or from the welcome page).
You can post a band cover only if you belong to a music band; if you don't, then link "Post a band cover" isn't visible in "My space" and in welcome page.
When you click on link "Post a band cover" then a form appears. The form looks like the form "Post a cover". The main difference is that you must choose the band that will be the owner of the cover, among all your bands (field "Audience").
Click on "Save" once the form is completed.
The new cover will be visible for all members in tab "Band covers" once the video has been approved by CoverWithMe administrator. Once validated, website members will be able to comment and to rate your cover (if it is "public").
What happens in case of conflict within my band?
You accept that CoverWithMe will not be liable in case of any conflict between band members about video editing, video content or publication, or about memberships.
However, each member of CoverWithMe can decide to unpublish any video where (s)he appears, even videos belonging to a band.
In case of videos owned by a music band, members can first ask the band leader to un-publish the video, but in case of conflict, you can contact CoverWithMe.
Notice that CoverWithMe has no capacity to un-publish videos from Youtube website.
Can I post personal creations?
Music compositions can be post in CoverWithMe; to do so, such videos must be previously post on Youtube - like all other videos.
A new space dedicated to personal creations will be created soon in CoverWithMe.
CoverWithMe declines all responsabilities concerning licence or intellectual property violations of customer creations post by members.