It's an appeal of a sort, so fair enough place to ask!

Looking at your acc, it may be that you are covering copyrighted songs, but for anime songs or videogame themes this is a bit more lenient. I have rarely if ever heard of a legal issue arising from someone covering songs in such a way as I hear you doing. Actually streaming your catalog as we speak. Really cool stuff. I'd like to hear you make some of your own compositions or heck, maybe ask you to improv for me some time!

It's more likely that you scouted someone who was breaking the rules. @TomFulp descouted you, and he generally only does that in the case of the latter. Otherwise he would probably remove your catalog and ban you.

As stated, this is probably the case, one or the other. Hope @TomFulp will come in and clear this up.

It's illegal to ask to be scouted, because people abused that so much over the years.

To get your clarinet stuff into GD you need to both be scouted on NG and reach out to elder mods on GD's discord.

Reporting stuff won't "clear your name" and get you scouted, but it's 100% appreciated. If you want to do that just because and help us out, the AP rules are here

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/audio-guidelines

I had heard these two Pokemon covers back to back and they didn't feel like they were up to the level of scouted Audio Portal work. Does anyone else who plays clarinet want to weigh in?

I don't play clarinet (well), but as someone who was part of lots of live ensembles, there is nothing wrong with his/her playing, or the style of submission. I've played in several several trios. I also think live instrumentation deserves to take precedence in that side of the AP, even if it's minimalistic in nature. It takes a lot more than just programming to make sound good, and it's a middle finger in the face of AI generated crud.

Submission wise, @mega-mashuu's recording is good quality. Timing could use a bit more work, so perhaps throw a metronome in one ear while playing. I would not upload 2 copies of the same song, one with melody, and one without. That's my only gripe. I actually really enjoyed it and would have scouted them myself if not for that.

Thanks for the feedback - I rarely see these types of criticism show up on the places I upload my covers, so it's nice to hear another comment on what I can improve on. I can also understand Tom's thoughts about how those submissions covering Biri-Biri seem unfit in the audio portal even if I were still scouted today.

Regarding not having two different versions of the same song - I assume you want me to simply replace the file of one ID with the one with the melody. I'll make sure that I do that when I finish the one with the melody, and I'll also delete the short version as well. My only question about this: Would I have to find another place to host the file of the version without the melody, or am I able to have multiple files on one song ID?

My last question: I am absolutely sure I would get banned if I were to upload a cover here with the actual song's instrumental track, but is it fine if I just have a link to, say a YT video, of the cover with the original song's instrumental? What I upload here will not have a backing track unless I ask someone else to create one or to play an accompaniment for me.

I've reset mega-mashuu's status so they can be re-scouted!

That's what NG is all about. That feedback. Hope you stick around!

Don't worry about replacing files. I would just stick from now on to uploading 1 single version. You can link the no melody versions on Google drive or something. Multiple files attached to the same ID would be a good suggestion for the "suggestions to Tom" thread in the supporter forum though.

You can't use the song's original backing here, no, unless you have a license (purchased mechanical license and master license if I'm not mistaken)

However you can link your YT video in the description. Even if you were to just play the lead line, you can upload your playing here. Who knows, someone may want to sample a link. Prob me. And yes ofc, you can also ask someone else to cover the backing track or collaborate. The latter is preferred since covering a song in such an exact manner can be a bit dubious! Never know if someone just ripped the midi, in that sense.

made a song and upload it

it got matched to someone's song, i appeal and it work :D

the song was glitchy, gotta re-make it

re-upload it in the same project

the song is in another verification that it's my song

delete the project be frustration

got another mail to appeal my song, the one that i deleted..

can't appeal it; so can't post songs anymore

Well now i feel like an asshole.

i accidentally closed the appeal and i was waiting for newsground to unban me so i can upload more audios. and i got a feeling that it takes longer when i closed the appeal which means i'm banned forever aren't i?

Hi there!!! I just wanted to ask for some help, I made a cover of the song Hell's Greatest Dad with a close friend and was gonna post it, but it was flagged for copyright infringement, so if it IS copyright infringement, I'll gladly take it down, it was just for laughs anyways, but just wanted to let you know I did make an appeal.

The last moderation action on my account took two songs more that are not AI generated:

Alwa’d Group - AlAqsaFlood (Enhanced) فريق الوعد للفن الإسلامي - طوفان ?

Alesra'a Band - AlAqsaFlood (Re-Enhanced) فرقة الإسراء - طوفان الأقصى (محس?

These would be the submissions made by someone else which you "enhanced" and tagged as "jihad"? The ones named after the 7 Oct attack by a terrorist group?

Ah, don't tell me that you are also forced to follow the hypocritical western censorship. I thought you are much open-minded to call it “terrorist” and what do you call forcing a certain people to live isolated and oppressed by the evil entity of Israel? Or do you think that self-defense starts with Israel and ends with Palestinians?. Still, even if you are forced to follow a certain agenda, Gen Z is already aware of this masquerade play of terrorism. In the end, I am sorry if I put you in dangerous state as a platform, but I thought Newgrounds is uncensored as someone classifies it in the deep web LOL.

Also, I wonder why such track exists they are also Jihadist: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/863140 even though it refers to the terroristic ISIS that is globally considered as a terror group and not just by the West.

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/copyright/appeal/view/107293 Yo here’s my appeal (not to good with these as stated in the appeal lol)

Your appeal was closed by staff, you are only allowed to upload music you created and have full rights to.

So like it was rejected or under review? If rejected then aight can I have it removed?

Rejected. Your audio rights will not be restored, there are a number of places you were presented with "only upload your own stuff".

There's a misunderstanding here about what Newgrounds is for. NG is only for original content, which you created, which you have the rights to publish. When you submit to NG, you are licensing whatever content you post as your own original creation.

That means uploading someone else's stuff, even if you "have rights" to use it elsewhere, is no bueno. You could animate a music video to this guy's track and post it to the Movie portal to be judged since it's free to use, but you can't just upload it to the Audio Portal. You could even make a cover of the track and post it. But you can't upload it wholesale, without changing a single thing, or even using the master recording as a sample. You don't have rights to claim that as your own work.

Western culture censors a lot less than Islamic shari'ah, which I'm not sure you would even want to live under to be honest.

For example, your profile picture is an image. The prophet has said on many occasions and in many different ways that images are prophibited, "Allah will punish the image makers until the day they are able to breathe life into them, and they will never be able to do that," and so on (see hadith). This is the reason for the destruction of many world heritage sites we have from Mesopotamia, etc. Images of any living thing, human or animal, are haram.

If we were an Islamic theocratic site, we would have no images. We have images. If we were an Islamic site, we would probably have no music. We have lots of music. We are clearly not an Islamic site. We are a user-created content site, everything by everyone. If quran.com or sunnah.com is what you're looking for, you're in the wrong place. You can go there instead, or do a quick google and find plenty of muslim forums and communities where you would be happier.

Secondly, the songs that were removed from your profile weren't removed for jihad tags, although they might have been if you weren't just recycling someone else's content with some minor enhancements. Really depends on your lyrics. If they were promoting terrorism or discrimination on the basis of national origin, gender, religion, or orientation, we don't allow that, for obvious reasons. To be clear 9/11, 7/7, the recent attack on Bishop Mari Mari Emmanuel, celebrations of such events and calls for other violent attacks will not find an audience on NG.

As for why your songs were not considered remixes: anyone can apply filters, EQ, bass boost, etc. They likely would have been fine if you had instead remade/covered the tracks, though you would have to have purchased a cover license to do so.

HI, I was unscouted due to unknown reason, and I haven't received a single notification about this. Was i unscouted because i break some rule? If no, what is the reason? Can i be re-scouted?

Aight, I understand

Aight, I probably missed those, but anyways, so Im pretty much banned at the moment for uploading audio? Or is it indefinitely

Your take on Islam seems more like folkloric tale than a well-researched, logical analysis. You're comparing apples and oranges, dude - a divine religion claiming infallibility vs. a man-made ideology designed to keep the masses in check. Those in power mess with temporary rules as if the afterlife doesn't matter, squeezing people into a trivial, liberal box so they won't ponder their existence or question their culture. They've been fooled by relativism and widespread doubts about Islam.

As a born-and-raised Muslim, I've encountered strict rulings prohibiting things without careful examination of the texts. But even if we assume they're legit, it doesn't make Islam inferior to your ideology. Islam still provides a holistic, logical explanation for our existence and gives you a noble purpose: worshipping your Creator. You won't keel over if you don't draw or listen to music.

Islam isn't trivial or oppressive like you're trying to portray. Even though my picture is not digital yet mostly photographic which copies the imagery of Allah yet If you dig deeper into the rulings on these matters, you'll find a hadith that limits the prohibition on drawing picturese even digital ones. For example, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Angels (of mercy) do not enter a house where there are pictures.'" The subnarrator Busr added: "Then Zaid fell ill and we paid him a visit. Behold! There was, hanging at his door, a curtain decorated with a picture. I said to 'Ubaidullah Al-Khaulani, the step son of Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) , "Didn't Zaid tell us about the picture the day before yesterday?" 'Ubaidullah said, "Didn't you hear him saying: 'except a design in a garment'?" Thus, there's an exception for designs on garments, meaning pictures are allowed as long as they're not oversized or worshipped like idols or used in un-Islamic ways, like drawing a woman without hijab. Similarly, the famous hadith in Bukhari forbids music collectively when accompanied by other atrocities like adultery, alcohol, and obscene singing. Other hadiths suggest music is permissible, so the ruling isn't clear-cut. Personally, I avoid obscene lyrics in my music, which allows me to compose and play.

Now, regarding Islamic theocracy, I'm not saying your site must follow Islam Sharia, but at least use common sense. Even non-Muslims and Jews in the West oppose the annihilation of Israel and blockading people without reason just to please invaders and oppress the Middle East with Zionist occupation. The UN's supposedly universal code allows people of the land to fight back against invaders, so it's not fair to call the October 7th attack terroristic. Also, there's no clear evidence that HMS intentionally targeted innocents, and if they did, why haven't they continued to do so? They only attack military sites. But, if you dig into non-mainstream news, you'll find that the IDF itself acknowledged their fault in targeting IL people and killing their own soldiers in that day, not to mention targeting employees of the World Food Program later despite clear signs that they're a universal non-profit organization. Evidence and reality show that the IDF is terroristic, not HMS, and people in the West, especially university students, are waking up to this masquerade of terrorism.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to be intolerant of your culture, even though I recognize it as atrocious and lustful rather than objective and ethical. It's just common sense that if you're truly democratic, you should support the Palestinian people's quest for freedom unless you reconize them as animals like Israel racist media say. You shouldn't violate others' freedom of speech while preserving only your own, because that's called hegemony, and hegemony is incompatible with democracy.

As for enhancing songs, it's not as easy or trivial as it seems. It requires knowledge of things like EQ, limiters, compressors, exciters, imagers, and stabilizers, and not everyone has access to the same efficient tools. If it were that simple, why would bands release remastered versions of their albums decades later? Mixing and mastering can be complex and even paid work.

The same goes for AI songs. Prompting AI isn't trivial, as not everyone understands English or how to get the best response from AI. It requires continuous supervision to create something worth listening to. You're being a bit aggressive in censoring AI music, but mark my words - one day, AI music will take over and sound humanized as technology advances. I didn't just publish raw AI songs from Suno; I tried to humanize them a bit. You disregarded my work for no good reason. If it sounds good, why limit it? People don't care how much effort you put in.

(My apologies for going off-topic, but...)

@MohamedTBER Dude, please stop acting like a child. It's off-putting. Nobody even compared your ideology to theirs - you are the only person doing that. Desperately, I might add. Please stop your weird conversion-crusade or whatever it is you think you are doing.

As a reminder: You broke rules and are acting unacceptable on an internationally accessible site about art and games. That's what happened. Then you got caught. And now, possibly because you saw an opportunity to do so, you try to frame this as an act of suppression.

Also: Please stop reacting to your own posts... We all caught on to the fact that you like yourself.

• yo, so like, 2 years ago, I filed an appeal for audio I posted, and it got taken down and it showed that is sounded like a song by the name of "Double You", by The Marine Project, I literally just found out what song that was today and it and the audio I posted don't sound anything alike, but yeah, ever since then, I was never able to post any music. any help would be appreciated, thanks.

And why did you not tell that first to the one who responded to me, disgracing my religion and personalizing my appeal? Do you want to be put in a miserable state without self-defense to trick people into thinking that you are fair, and I am stupid? And where did I talk about Christianity to call it conversation-crusade or do you mock defending my religion as you already know that Islam and Christianity are mutually exclusive? Did you forecast that I want people to convert to Islam? What appears in my speech is that I only want to defend the moral state of my religion. I did not say that people must join Islam. People already have their own free will and no one can just convert them by just speaking, or do you feel that your false information is under threat from the true information?

I saw the opportunity? And did not the site itself give this opportunity to appeal their decision? Or do you want to act dictatorial just on Muslims and Pro-Palestinians? If I am truly wrong about those two tracks, why don't you respond to my argument with argument instead of crying over my fair appealing?

Talking about rulings as if you are talking about distinct facts, yet you already define by your fancy the norms you use in your rulings, like what is terroristic and what is not. I did not break the rules because I did not believe even that was terroristic. Your problem is more likely essential than political with such type of art.

Why do I not respond to myself? Do you believe that I have placed a comment that I do not like? If you feel insecure, please delete the option to react to myself. Or do you feel inferior to me until you find only positive reactions to your posts? Do I need people to react positively on my post to believe in myself? The truth is objective, not subjective.

@MohamedTBER You seem very intent to read a lot of information into my post that was never there in the first place. Suddenly it's "Christianity", "Muslims and Pro-Palestinians", "moral state of my religion"... It's clear to me that this is not about the removal of your submissions - you are looking for a platform to spread your paranoia.

Whether you do so consciously or subconsciously makes no difference to me. At least to me, your background is of no relevance. The choices you made speak so much louder than your words here. Your actions aren't the ones of a thinking adult but those of an angry child.

People were killed by a terrorist group/organization/whatever you want to call them and from what I can gather after the fact, you weren't exactly critical of their actions, to say the least. We are talking of real life murder here. Not a fan of that... Not a fan of lazy plagiarism either. Again: That is what got you into trouble. And if you could stop being butthurt about somebody who is critical of your believes* (after you felt the need to bring them into play yourself), then you might even be able to see the very constructive advice ADR3-N is giving you some posts above. Despite disagreeing with you, they have been offering you expert advice on how do do better. If that isn't the action of a nurturing role-model I don't know what is. So yeah: Hard to be critical of that kind of behavior.

* believes which are completely unrelated to aforementioned lazy plagiarism I might add

dont we have a politics forum for this stuff

Not anymore. People have said their bit, any further posts not related to audio appeals will be deleted.