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Virgo Lounge Help and FAQs
Virgo Lounge’s mission is to promote House and Dance Music through its web site that features over 300 hours of music broadcasting for house, garage, club, disco, and classic dance music.
There are other aspects of the site to include music resources, shopping, services for print / web and an online directory with a large selection of links to other popular music and broadcast sites.
Virgo Lounge is offered to the independent music community as a resource and point of reference to provide better understanding of particular, creative styles developing within the music culture.
We get tons of questions about Virgo Lounge and we hope the following will help.
What Broadcasting Format Does Virgo Lounge Use and Why?
How Can I Get Music To Play from Virgo Lounge?
What Is a Podcast?
How Can I Use My iPod with broadcasts from Virgo Lounge?
How Do I Convert Real Audio Files to MP3?
How Is Your Music Acquired and Do You Sell CDs?
Who Are Virgo Lounge Partners?
How Do I Become A Partner or Promote My Product With You?
Do You Exchange Links?
Can I Offer Feedback?
What Online Stores Do You Recommend?
What Broadcasting Format Does Virgo Lounge Use and Why?
The broadcasts on Virgo Lounge are in Real Audio format.
Why? We get this question a lot. We like Real Audio because of the quality we can acquire from the platform. We know MP3 and MP4 are now standard, but we've been streaming with Real Networks for over 10 years now, way before MP3s were thought to be used in streaming environments.
Plus, unlike sites with continuous music feed, we like to give our listeners control over the music. For example, you can rewind, fast forward, pause, and come back to your favorite song whenever you like. You cannot have these features with most 24-hour broadcasting sites.
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How Can I Get Music To Play from Virgo Lounge?
Virgo Lounge’s music streams are near CD quality and are Real Audio encoded. Each music file size averages around 50MB to provide optimum sound.
 To play a Real Audio file, you must first download the FREE Real Audio Player. Once it’s installed it will associate .RM and .RAM files automatically and music streams will play from your computer.
Our Real Audio streams are designed for BroadBand, DSL and other High-Speed Internet connections. Dial-Up users, or if you are having break-ups in hearing our streams, should “Right-Click” and “Save As” the “Download - DL” link associated with each file to save and play directly from your computer’s hard drive for better quality and uninterrupted listening.
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What Is a Podcast?
It is a new technology for using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to automatically download audio files to iTunes or Windows Media player via software. This is the work of Adam Curry - many of you may remember him as an MTV VJ years ago.
This new technology is impressive and any favorite online radio program can be downloaded with Podcast feeds. The feed command is in the RSS or XML file, which will download audio files to your hard drive. For some people it’s a way of creating their own radio show when at home or on the go to automatically upload content to a MP3 player. You can go to www.Podcasting.net, to get an idea of how popular Podcasting has become.
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How Can I Use My iPod with broadcasts from Virgo Lounge?
The process playing Real Audio files with an iPod is fairly simple. The following links will explain exactly how to accomplish:
Convert Real Audio RM / RA files to iPod
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/convert-real-audio-rmra-to-mp3wav.html
iPod with Real Player
http://service.real.com/realplayer/support.html?section=iPodRPinstall
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How Do I Convert Real Audio Files to MP3?
Should you want to download Virgo Lounge Real Media streams to your iPod, here's a handy and free tool to use. The Jodix RM to MP3 converter is clean and worry-free of any ad or spyware with an easy to use interface that makes converting .ram or .rm files almost effortless.
Batch processing is supported and installation fast, safe and requires no registration.
Visit Jodix to get your FREE decoder.
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How Is Your Music Acquired and Do You Sell CDs?
All music on Virgo Lounge is strictly for promotional use only.
Our music is acquired through various sources from producer submissions, online purchases, and access to artists who supply promotional samples.
Virgo Lounge does not participate in any P2P file sharing, MP3 sharing, or reproducing from recorded or live online music streams.
No music mix sets on Virgo Lounge are for sale nor do we provide CD copies.
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Who Are Virgo Lounge Partners?
We have a long list of partners throughout the music and recording industry. We acquire these relationships to better serve our site visitors’ convenience.
How Do I Become A Partner or Promote My Product With You?
We’d like to hear from you. Please follow this link >> click here
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Do You Exchange Links?
Yes. Please follow this link >> click here
Can I Offer Feedback?
Yes and we certainly welcome your thoughts. Please follow this link >> click here
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What Online Stores Do You Recommend?
There are many, many good music resources online. We recommend you find store you like by conducting a web search and testing your selections.
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