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Is there any reason to hope that the photo album edit function at OurStage will be made functional any time soon, for those of us with plenty of great shots to share?

I also recently wanted to update my songs. I didn't read the fine print the first time round and noticed that the quality of the songs offered was a pivotal factor. The Mbps needed to be higher on some of my earlier song offerings.

So, I went looking for a way to perform that edit of my songs at OurStage and was surprised to find that we, as users, have no capability to edit our songs once they're uploaded. By that I mean that we cannot delete them and re-upload our music in a higher Mbps format, which is what I wanted to do.

This didn't sit right with me. I felt that I wanted to put my best musical foot forward. I thought that I should be free and able to correct the quality level of a few of my songs that I had uploaded. I suspected that offering a better quality recording, as the site suggests, may increase my chances in the competitions.

I wrote in to ask why users could not edit their own songs in this way and was offered a form letter response. The letter said I would lose my song's favorited denotations. That didn't concern me, because the songs in question had either not been favorited at all or were only favorited by a few. I countered by telling them that the measure of true fan of my music would be those that would return a second time to re-favorite my songs. I also offered that I have fans on other sites that are that rabid for my songs. The form letter also said that the number of times that the songs were listened to by judges would be erased as well. That didn't really concern me either. The letter further said something about not allowing songs in competition to be re-uploaded. There was some concern that users could use the function to cheat in the competitions. I answered this concern with the fact that none of the songs in question were in competition at the time. (They weren't) It also stated that all of my awards or medallions would forever be irretrievable. I had not won or received any awards or medallions.

Someone at the site then simply deleted all of my songs, except the two that were in competition. They did this without trying to coordinate with me about which songs I wanted to delete. I wrote back and mentioned that I had specifically said some and not all of my songs. In fact, I had just been working on the first of several that I wanted to upgrade and did mention that title.

Then, to my surprise, all of the previously deleted songs reappeared. What's this about then! Question: Did they actually delete my songs, or merely hide them from view? Does this site keep a cache of my songs that I upload forever to use as they wish? (Perhaps I should have read that fine print more closely.)

Is there any plan to offer users an edit function for their songs? Is the deletion of my page at OurStage the only way to ensure the removal of my songs from this database? Will my song uploads forever be controlled by this site?

Other sites that I have uploaded my songs to all offer their users the ability to edit their own songs without having to go through a site admin. MySpace, EZ Folk, Motagator, SoundClick ...It's a long list. We also compete at those sites too, but not for prizes.

So, here's a note of warning to those of you who would like to show a lot of photos at your page. More than two rows of photos on my page caused the edit function to go haywire and not work at all. Somehow this kind of a glitch doesn't seem very professional at a site of this caliber but so far this glitch has not been cured. I still cannot edit my photos.