iCompositions is powered by a couple different servers, but everything is coordinated by our primary web server. Our hosting provider was kind enough to send us a picture of the hardware that makes it possible for iCompositions to serve terabytes and terabytes of music each month.

Last month, we premiered the iCompositions Music Player iPhone app. It's been great to see usage of the app grow over the past few weeks and to discuss the development of the app and its future with the community. I wanted to take a moment to share what could be considered the history of the iCompositions app and the decision making process that made the app what it is.

A little over two years ago, I wrote An Impassioned Plea to People Who Block Our Ads. I came across an article today that echoed and expanded on those sentiments and I wanted to share it with our members.

We've been very busy recently.

After almost six years, I have changed my username on iCompositions.

Every once in a while, I get hate mail. Some of it's dull and uncreative but some of it is just such raw, gritty hatred that I have to save it.

With the extensive development of plugins and extensions for browsers today, there are a lot of ways to remove advertisements from your browsing experience. OmniWeb makes it extremely simple and it's not much more difficult on Firefox or even Safari. But please, I beg you, don't use any of those tools to block ads on iCompositions.

When Apple released their new site design after the WWDC keynote, a lot had changed. One thing, in particular, stood out for me.

Since the release of iC3.6 a few weeks ago, blogging and commenting on blogs has taken off. While the functionality has been there since late 2005 when iC3 was introduced, it was difficult to keep track of new blog entries as they were posted.

Wear your support for the community!

Last night, iCompositions performed major upgrades on the Artist Page system. We didn't actually add any new features but the implications of the update are bigger than any new feature we've added in the past.

Something's coming on Saturday... something known as Falsetto...

Yes, the time has come... The Record Executive and Talent Manager titles are no more.

We're kicking off our month long celebration of iCompositions' second birthday with Backstage 2.0, an update to our community portal!

As we did with Halloween, tonight we unveil iCompositions' official Autumn header. We'll leave it up there for about a week and next month we'll unveil our Winter header. To finish up the year, we'll have one for New Years.

Well everyone, we finally made it. Sure we killed the server in process and there are a bunch of things that either don't work correctly or don't work at all. But the most important thing is that it's finally been released. Thanks to everyone who helped with the development of the site and of course to all of our members, we wouldn't be here without you.