Hey guys, so, it's been a while since I've updated. I've been having a serious music block. Like, I don't think I've had one this bad since before the making of .:This is the End:. School's been doing it for me as well.

But anyways, that's not why I'm making this post. I'm sure a good 50% of the people who make audio or are audiophiles here probably know how bad the GD users are. They've corrupted the audio portal to the point of we have strict rules, and people only see it as a database for their levels. There's been a lot of drama about it lately. There's even a petititon to have the game removed off the stores. They're just horrible.

One thing they don't understand is, having custom music in Geometry Dash is a privelege. RobTop certainly didn't have to add that feature in the game. And not every game with a level editor allows custom music. To have access to now over 700,000 songs is a pretty big privelege when the developer could've just limited you to the same 21 songs that are now on there. Well, the GD users have abused this privelege. They constantly upload stuff that they know is not allowed here. None of them, I'm sure no why we can't. Well, if you're a thief or you know someone who is one, allow me to educate you guys.

When you go to submit a song. You have 3 options of what type of song it is. You can either say it's an original composition and you have all rights to it, it's an original song and you have all rights to it but you used samples or you sampled from a song, or it's a remix or cover of the song and you still have rights to it because you made it.

Now, allow me to take Skrillex - First of the Year. Good song, right? Well, you can't say it's an original composition, because you'd be saying you made it and you didn't. You can't say you used samples which you did not own, because you still didn't make the track. And you can't say it's a remix or cover because you'd still be borderline saying you made the track. See where I'm going with this? You're putting a license on it admitting it's yours, and it's not yours. Not to mention, you're also putting a license on it allowing certain rights to people who download it. You don't have the rights.

And no, it also doesn't matter if the song is free of copyright. It doesn't matter if the artist explicitly tells you you're allowed to use this track for whatever you want. Go to sites like SoundCloud and upload a NoCopyrightSounds song on there, let me know how long it stays up there. It's a big lawsuit on the site. Say if Skrillex ever found this website and saw a big chunk of his songs were being uploaded here, he could put this site out of business and you could forget using the songs you have access to on here. And I'm sure you'd be pissed off if you lost a site that you worked your ass off to keep it up and running for 20 years all because there's users on here that are idiots and are ignorant to the rules. I guess you just don't think it's that serious, huh? It's not you who'd be penalized. Not in this case anyways. If you search hard enough I'm sure you'll find news articles about singers suing people for using their songs without permission.

This is all part of why I help out in the Audio Portal Cleanup. I've only been on this site for just barely over a year, but I've also learned how important this site is. It's basically a good starting point for creators. I get tons more attention and feedback on my songs here than YouTube and SoundCloud. If I didn't post my tracks here, I would still be thinking my stuff is good and I would've never have recieved the feedback I've been getting. Feedback is the reason why I think I've been doing better.

I will say GD has had some positive impacts on here. For example, without GD I would've never have gotten into EDM. And I also would've never considered making EDM music. Nor would I have ever considered being on this site. But, there's also been many negative aspects.

That's just my little rant, I know it was rather pointless but I just needed to vent on these morons. And if you're a responsible GD user who isn't an idiot like these theives, this post wasn't intended to offend you. If you're a responsible user, I'm sure the site thanks you. However, if you're someone who uploads songs you didn't make I seriously have no sympathy for you if you're banned off this site or if RobTop decides to remove the music privelege. You guys are not only hurting yourselves, but you've hurt this site, the staff, the actually good GD users, and the musicians who actually want to make it big. Speaking of that, that's another thing that bothers me. Anyone else get tired of these GD users downgrading musicians because they're not like Skrillex? Boy I am. It's okay to think a song is bad, but for the love of god I'll never forgive you if you base it off of whether you'd see it in a GD level or not or if you think YOU would ever use it in a GD level.

So, yeh, anyways..

I'm going to try and do something musically productive this weekend. Although, I do have a science fair project to finish up. And I am entering this writing contest. So, I'm not sure if I'll start a track. I do have a little bit of a synth loop though that I might post and get your opinions on if I should elaborate on it or go back to the drawing board.

~Alpha