A heart is equivalent to a vote of confidence. Listeners heart songs they like as a way to express their love for it. Everyday, you're given an allowance of hearts for voting on songs. Each heart corresponds to a vote, and your daily heart allowance resets every 24 hours.

Just click on the heart shaped button on the right hand side of each song. If you see a triangle instead of the heart, you need to convert over to the beta. To do so, go to your settings->preferences and check the box labeled "use heart based reputation system (beta)".

The main way to earn reputation is by hearting good music. You'll gain reputation the more popular a song becomes after you heart it. Besides hearting good music, you can also earn rep by inviting a friend equal to a few percentage of their reputation.

The formula for the number of hearts you get per day is currently 9 + (your current level). If you run out of hearts, you can earn more by listening to The Rack.

This depends on your level on thesixtyone. New users begin at Level 1 and are allowed to vote on a particular song only once until level 5. After reaching level 5, you can heart a song multiple times for each level you have.

Levels represent your skill or experience in choosing good music on thesixtyone. Leveling up unlocks bonus features like the ability to heart a song more than once.

For each level, you can give one more heart per song (past level five) and are given one additional heart to spend per day. The "revive" ability unlocks at level 10. More to come!

You can track your voting history and reputation rewards in the stats and achievements page of your profile.

Just turn on the 'filter not safe for work content' flag in your settings page.

Just favorite one of the artist's songs and any newly uploaded music of theirs will automatically appear under the "artist uploads" tab of just for you.

Open the comments drawer for a song by clicking on the commented 'X times' link, then click the 'Share' tab for the song you'd like to share. From here, you can e-mail this song to your friends with an optional message or post it to your Facebook profile. If you have a blog, website, or MySpace, you can copy/paste the embeddable HTML code to easily add songs to wherever you please, just like a YouTube video.

Some achievements are calculated in the evening on a daily basis, hence you may have to wait up to a day before being rewarded. Furthermore, you only receive achievement notices during daily logins.

No, once you max out your hearts for a song it's accounted for, forever.

Go to the profile page of the user you wish to unblock. A message should appear at the top asking if you want to unblock the user. Follow through the link.

After a song has been posted on the homepage for more than 60 days, any listener can bid reputation points to re-post the song again by clicking on the "revive" link located in the song player. In every three hour period, the user who has the highest "revive bid" will have their song posted. You can see the list of bids for the current three hour period here.

Listeners buy credits (80 credits = $1) that can be spent on cool stuff at thesixtyone.  Once their accounts are funded, they'll be able to instantly purchase songs, albums, and even be able to donate funds directly to their favorite artists on thesixtyone. It's just another way we enable people to have fun while helping artists earn their livings.

You can buy credits whenever you buy music or tip an artist. You'll also be able to load up your account by visiting your settings.

Paid downloads are 256k MP3s complete with ID3 tags and album art. In other words, songs look great when you plug them into iTunes!

Yes! Just click the "download" link.

Tips allows you to give credits directly to your favorite artists. You can tip as little as 25 credits or as much as you want, and the most recent tipper of any artist will have their screen name highlighted on the artist's page as a token of our appreciation.

The patronboard appears on artist pages and highlights an artist's top supporters. It's broken up into 3 categories: overall (cumulative contributions), single tip, and random.

Yep, anyone who makes a contribution to an artist on thesixtyone automatically gets a special screen name color that lasts for 30 days. There are three colors, and they denote level of contribution activity.

Credits are non-refundable. However on occasion, technical problems may delay or prevent delivery of the purchased music. In such cases, we may refund the purchase price in store credits.

If you have more hearts than your daily payout (your level + 9), you'll stop earning hearts on The Rack. You can however continue to earn reputation. But don't worry, once you spend more hearts, you'll be able to start earning hearts again.

The Rack is a radio category that features a random mix of under-the-radar music and automatically filters what you listen to based on the genre you've selected on the homepage. You can earn extra hearts and reputation for listening to songs on The Rack. It's a fun, fortuitous way to listen to new stuff. Plus, with The Rack, you're poised to be an early fan of some of the best emerging music on thesixtyone!

Songs that show up on the front page of a group are based on the activities of the group members. This includes hearts, saves and tags.

The quantity of songs you can upload is dependent on the milestone you have reached. New artists begin at milestone #1 and may upload up to three of their best songs. Two more songs can be submitted for each additional milestone obtained. Once an artist reaches the 7th milestone, the upload limit goes away.

Click the 'Edit' link on the song player.

Click the 'Edit' link on the song player that you'd like to change. Then click save to complete your changes.

Uploading currently supports the standard DRM-free MP3 file format.

Yes. Goto the settings page. There should be a form allowing you to convert your account.

Once you've created an artist account, go ahead and click the 'Upload Song' button on your artist profile page. Complete the song info page and upload away!

Just click the 'delete' link on the song you'd like to delete. Note: You don't have to delete a song if you only want to reupload a track! Click the edit link instead to reupload.

Click the 'Edit' link on the song player. You'll see a link in the edit popup that allows you to re-upload your song.

thesixtyone doesn't host videos. However, you can upload a video to YouTube and tag it with your song and artist name. Afterwards, the video should be accessible under the 'watch video' tab located on each song.