Muso City is a music oriented, online community for music fans, bands and artists, musicians, music venues and music retailers. Our aim is to help connect our users, not only allowing bands, artists, venues and retailers to promote themselves, but also helping people form bands and make friends.

Although the site is designed for people involved with or interested in music, everyone is welcome to join. The only restriction is that you must be over the age of 16 to create an account.

Yes! All features of the site are currently available completely free of charge, although you will need to create an account to send other members messages and use some other functions of the site. It is possible that we will charge for some premium services in the future, but this is very, very unlikely and all basic site features will always remain free.

As with any online community, our site is all about our members. If you want to support the site, the best thing you can do is help spread the word. Tell your friends about the site, include a link to the site on your blog, website, MySpace page or email signature or add us to social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Reddit or Rojo.

If you find a bug, please contact us, tell us what went wrong and we'll do our best to fix the problem as quickly as we can.

You can manage your images using the image management screen, which can be accessed by clicking on the 'Manage Images' link under the 'Manage Profile' heading on your My Account page. Using this screen, you can upload new images, delete existing images, add or change the captions for images and chose whether specific images are visible on your profile page.

You are allowed to add HTML content to your profile in the Additional Information section. You can edit this by clicking on the 'Customise Profile' link under the 'Manage Profile' heading on your My Account page.

The customisation options for member profiles are currently fairly limited, although we do hope to add more features in the future. You can currently chose the background image for your page and add HTML content by clicking on the 'Customise Profile' link under the 'Manage Profile' heading on your My Account page and following the instructions on this screen.

Your userid is a unique id that you use to sign in to the site and other members use to send you a message. Your display name doesn't have to be unique and is the name that you are generally identified by on the site.

Once registered, you aren't currently allowed to change the unique userid you use to log into the site, although you can change the display name that is generally used to identify you on the site by clicking on the 'Edit Display Name' link under the 'Maintenance' heading on your My Account page How do I add images to my profile?

You can change your display name by clicking on the 'Edit Display Name' link under the 'Maintenance' heading on your My Account page.

Click on the 'Edit Personal Info link under the 'Maintenance' heading on your My Account page, change the information shown and save your details.

Click on the 'Edit Contact Email' link under the 'Maintenance' heading on your My Account page, change the email in the appropriate field and save your details.

First of all, we're sorry you want to leave but if you really want to go, you can cancel your account by clicking on the Cancel Account link on your My Account page and then confirming that you'd like to cancel your account. As soon as this is done, your profile will no longer be visible to other visitors to the site.

It should be noted that we give you a short (usually 48 hour) cooling off period during which you will be able to reactivate your account by signing in in the normal way and following the on-screen instructions. Once this 48 hours period is up, all your data will be permanantly deleted and will not be able to be retrieved.

All members with an artist or musician account can upload MP3s to the site that can then be played on your profile page and through the MP3 search facility. MP3s are added using the MP3 management page which can be accessed by signing in, then clicking on the 'Manage MP3s' link under the 'Manage Music' heading on your My Account page.

The music players used on the site only support music encoded in MP3 format. Unfortunately, other music file formats such as aac, wma, wav, ogg, etc. are not compatible with the site.

Playlists allow you to organise the tracks you upload to the site in whatever way you like - for example, by album or date - and also let you add additional information about the tracks in the playlist. Playlist are managed using the Playlist Management screen, which can be accessed by clicking on the 'Manage MP3s' link under the 'Manage Music' heading on your My Account page. You can also chose which playlist you would like to add an MP3 to (or even create a new playlist to add an MP3 to) when you upload MP3s using the MP3 Management screen. Any MP3s you upload that are not added to a playlist you have created will appear on your profile under an 'All other MP3s' playlist.

There is now no limit on the number of MP3s you can upload to the site! The only restriction is that any MP3 you upload must be under 10MB in size.

The easiest way to send a message to another member on the site is to click on the 'Send Message' link at the top of their profile page (you must be signed in to do this). This will open a blank message with that member's userid already entered into the 'To' box at the top of the page. You can also write a message by clicking on the Messages link in the menu at the top of each page, clicking on the 'Write Message' tab, then entering the member's userid in theto box at the page.

PLEASE NOTE: A member's userid is the unique name that they use to log into the site, not the display name that is generally used to identify them . To find a member's userid , look for the bold text that is displayed in the box at the top of their profile page. To avoid having to remember lots of userids, we would recommend that you add any members you are likely to message a lot to your contacts list.

To view your messages, click on the 'Open Inbox' link in the top left of your My Account page or the Messages tab in the menu at the top of every page. To read any of the messages in your inbox, just click on the message subject for that message.

Your contacts are other members of the site who you regularly send messages to. Once another member has been added to your contacts list, you can easily add them to the distribution list for a message by clicking on the 'Contacts' link when writing a message.

The first thing to do if someone is sending you messages is to block them as this will stop them sending you any more messages. To block another member of the site, click on the 'Block Member' link at the top of their profile. Alternatively, you can block another member while reading any message they have sent you. Just click on the 'actions' button, then select 'Add sender to blocked list'.