I've done a bit of "play" testing and noticed it takes about 5 - 10 minutes before it logs ordinary plays. Seems like I have to clear my cache and reload the page, then sometimes the results show even quicker. It's hard to know what happens while your voting, because you can vote all day long and your song never hardly comes up once, so it's easy to lose track as to how that impacts the play counts.

Here's the bottom line about these play counts:
It appears that Danny and Brian are saying it's only a fan play count, while some of you have experienced (maybe) a mix of fan plays and judging (voting) plays. Regardless, I think OurStage should clearly report what is what, and stick with that.

Example 1:
Song Preview Plays = 300 (from visitors & fans, etc.)
Contest Plays = 500 (from contest judging rounds)
Total Plays = 800 (for this song)

Example 2:
Song Preview Plays = 800 (from visitors & fans, etc.)
Contest Plays = 300 (from contest judging rounds)
Total Plays = 800 (for this song)

Note: The contest data (plays) could be made public or "hidden" by the artists. It would be great to know exactly how many times my songs got voted in any given channel throughout the month or at least by end of month. It's my own personal data which I can chose to share (or not share) with others.

If they simply did this, there would be NO more questions or confusion about where all our "plays" are coming from.

That's my vote! grin
Michael

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