As you most likely realized, this is our homepage! Here, you can browse through the top songs, stems (parts of a song, such as the bass, drums, vocals, etc.), and users. You can also check out the featured Remix Wizard, through which you can directly remix your favorite artist's music! If you're an artist, get more info through the "for artists" link; if you're a fan, get more info through the "for fans" link. To make music, click "Create music"; to discover more music, click "Discover."

This is where you discover the great songs, stems, and users in our community. You can filter the results by most popular, most played, and most recent. Below these options are additional filtering options to help your discovery. Any audio you find can be played, mixed, and purchased! When you find a user you like, click through to their profile to learn more and hear all their work.

This is your search engine. For a quick search, type in a keyword that describes the music you're looking for and press search. If you would like to search by instrument, key, tempo (speed), type of audio (music, sound, or speech), date, or user, click "advanced" under the search box.

Each search result will tell you the title of the audio file and the name of the artist who created it. Through the results, you will be able to play the audio file, "mix" it by loading it into the MixMaker, and purchase it to support your favorite unsigned and indie artists. Through the dropdown list, you can go to that audio's profile, comment on it, and "pin" it to use it later.

This is our online MixMaker, where you can make your own songs and remixes. Each row is a different recording contributed by our community that can be edited using our cut, copy, zoom, and duplicate (2nd from the left on the bottom row of tools) tools. To make mixing easier, use the "grid" mode, which will cause the audio to snap to the beat. The backwards arrow is the undo tool. The GR/UG buttons allow you to group/ungroup audio files.

To add music to your mix, click "search" on the upper right hand side of the page. You'll notice that the tempo (speed) of the mix is displayed to the right of the editing tools. When searching, it will be helpful if you search by this tempo. If you're finished with your mix, click "publish" to publish to the MixMatchMusic community. If you want to save the mix and finish it later, click "save draft."

Sign up for the site and you'll get one!To edit your profile, click on the edit link next "my profile".

The profile is available for all users to see and has three tabs: personal information, music, and friends. The personal tab lists info about the user, such as their location, the style they play and the instruments they use. If you're a MixMatchArtist, your upload/download ratio compares uploads to downloads to determines whether you're eligible for free downloads. The music tab lists the songs the user created on the site, as well as the audio uploaded to the community.

From the user profile, you can add the user as a friend, send a private message, or leave them a public comment. You can also rate the user if you think they're good (or bad).

Every audio file on MixMatchMusic has its own profile that is available for all users to see. The profile lists the musical information of the audio (instruments used, genre, tempo, etc), and the stems used to create the audio. The "used in" tab tells you all the works this audio file is used in. The pinned tab tells you who has pinned this audio as a favorite.

On the right-hand side of a profile tab there is a column that says "modifications." Click this to bring up our community wiki system which you can use to agree or disagree with the various info given about this audio file, including the attribution, genre, tempo, instruments, key, audio type, effects, tags, and what it sounds like. This will help our community organize and categorize the audio on the site to make it easier for others to find!

From the audio profile, you can play the audio file, use it in the MixMaker, purchase it, comment on it, pin it for later use, and rate it if it's good (or bad).

This is your private workstation in the community that is only visible to you (the private equivalent of your user profile).

The portfolio section of the palette is where you keep track of the music you've made and uploaded. The portfolio can be filtered by published and unpublished works, as well as by songs created and stems uploaded.

The download section lists all the audio you've downloaded from the community. The pinned audio section lists all the music you've pinned as a favorite.

Here you can keep track of how other users are using your published songs stems. The Transaction Log is divided into two sections that you can switch between at the top of the window: "new transactions" (transactions that have accumulated since you last visited your Transaction Log) and "all transactions" (all your transactions on MixMatchMusic). You may also find specific transactions by using the transaction log filter in the dark gray menu.

Any time a new transaction log appears in your log you will receive an email notification. To select how frequently you receive these notifications, go to the "my preferences" page.

If you're a MixMatchArtist, this is where you can keep track of the royalties you earn from your published works on MixMatchMusic.

The Royalty Log is divided into two sections that you can switch between at the top of the window: "accrued royalties" (accumulating royalties that are unpaid) and "paid royalties" (a list of all royalties that have been paid to you on MixMatchMusic).
To setup how you would like to get paid, click on the "payment preferences" tab.

This is where you upload stems, unfinished works, and songs to the community. We give you the chance to provide a lot of information about the audio file so that it's easier for other users to find.

The only info required is the title of the upload as well as the type of upload it is - whether it's music, sound, or speech, and what kind of music, sound, and speech it is. But, beyond that, you can list the other artists that are attributed to the work, the genre, instrument, tempo, key, what it sounds like, and any tags you can think of.

To make uploading faster, you can build an upload queue. To upload a file, click browse to find the file. Then, to add to upload more audio, click "add to queue". When uploading your audio, you can choose to publish it to the community, or you can keep it private and publish it later. You can upload WAV, AIFF, or MP3 files. For in-site use, all files are converted to MP3.