1. How-To-Listen
2. Contact Information
3. Forum Registration
4. Financial Issues
5. Song Downloads (legal issues)
6. Do you take song requests?
7. Independent Artist Airplay
8. Promotional Issues

 

How-To-Listen

How can I listen to the SwissGroove audiochannel?

Look for the mediaplayer link underneath the tune-in sections of the respective channel on the front page. Click/Choose the link of your preferred/installed player and the music wil start playing. Click here for further information regarding this topic

 

Contact Information

How can I contact you?

Click here for contact information & for our e-mail addresses.

 

Forum Registration

Do I need to be registered in order to listen?

No. All you have to do to listen is to click one of the mediaplayer links in the tune-in section on the front page. For more options, and for some help in choosing the right one, you can click requirements on the menu bar. If the problems resist, drop us a line, please.

Why should I register?

We encourage all our listeners to interact with us and other listeners. This can be done easily & quickly through our shoutbox or by joining the SwissGroove Forum. You need to be registered in order to post in the forum.

Will you sell or give away my information?

No, we don't. And we mean it.

 

Financial Issues

How do you finance SwissGroove radio?

The webradio is mainly financed by the makers of SwissGroove. Of course, we also get donations from our listeners which is highly appreciated and very much needed to keep going also in future. Besides that, we get financial aid from sponsors and we make a few bucks trough selling CDs via our partners amazon & cede.ch. Google ads also help us finance the music-platform.

What do you need the money for?

It is mainly needed to pay for royalty fees to artists and record-labels (through SUISA & IFPI) and to buy new music. Much money has also been invested into bandwidth & sophisticated hardware-infrastructure.

How can I support you?

You can financially support us. For details, please click here. If you want to donate bandwidth, scroll down on the same page for further information.

 

Downloads

Can the songs played on your music-channels be downloaded from your website?

No. We are only licenced to stream music (webcast) but not offer it to our listeners for download.

Can I download and save your stream to my PC?

Technically, yes, but legally, NO and we do strongly discourage you from "ripping" (downloading/saving) our stream to your PC. Again, legally, we're licenced to broadcast music and NOT to offer music for download purpose. So please comply to these regulations or go somewhere else. Thank you so much!

 

Song Requests

Can I request a song?

Currently, we're not supporting this option but might implement it sometime in future. At various times, one of the makers is djing live and you can interact with the DJ using our studio-chat on our home-page. He/She might even play your favorite song.

 

Independant Artist Airplay

Do you support & play music by independant artists?

Yes, we definately do. Many of the songs played are actually from independant artists that can be found on various music-plattforms such as CDBaby.com, IC-Musicmedia, etc. Others have sent us their music for airplay consideration and we're always interested in finding, playing & supporting such artists.

I am an artist. How can I send you my music?

You can either send us your CD if available or your MP3s (192 kbps min.) on a CD. You can also point us to a website/server where we can legally download your music. Please refrain from sending us MP3s by e-mail. They will not pass our SPAM-Filter. Our addresses can be found here here.

 

Promotion

Do you sell T-Shirts with your station's logo?

Not only T-Shirts but some other stuff as well. Please visit our online store at Cafepress.com (http://www.cafepress.com/swissgroove) or at epresso.com (http://www.epresso.com/shops/frame.php?shopId=10559)

How can I help you promote your channels?

If you have a website, use one of our logos or buttons found here and link to our site. And of course, spread the word!