Duets.fm Blog

With Duets.fm, all your songs, favorite singers, downloads and other customizations, stay on your device and are never sent to a server.  While this gives you great privacy, it also means that duets.fm data is not backed up. If you buy a new phone and would like to move all your customizations to the new phone, you would need a cloud backup service like iCloud or Google One.  When you use a cloud backup service, the service will give you the option to copy the apps and data from one device to another. This option will move all the customizations you made in duets.fm from an old device, to the new device.  The base data for the app would occupy only a few megabytes (about 10 MB for 30,000 songs) and would be a quick restore on the new device. But if you have a lot of downloaded songs, you might be using gigabytes of storage and the restore can take a long time. For Android users, please note that only songs downloaded to the internal storage would be backed up. 

Often, you sing the same song multiple times. Now, there is a way to see these songs in duets.fm. From the Songs tab, pick 'Repeats'. You will see a list of songs that you sang more than once. Each song would show how many times you sang them. Other details, including icons and date of the song, would reflect the last time you sang the song.  The list would be ordered by the last time you sang each song. It might also be preferable to order it by number of times sung, but that is for a future release.  If you tap on the song, it will play all the times you sang that song - by joining someone, posting an invite (OC), group or as a solo. It will not show other's joins on your duet invites, because that is not a repeat.  Whether a song is a repeat is determined purely by it's title. This would result in two kinds of errors: If you sang the same song from two different uploads, whose titles have a few characters that are different, they would be treated as different son...

In the Singer's tab, each singer's picture is marked with the follower status. Please long press on any singer for an explanation of all the icons.  A singer can be in four categories: 'Follower', 'Following', 'Both follow', 'Only I follow'. On top of each singer's picture, you will see arrow_forward if you follow them and arrow_back if they follow you. You will also see a refresh icon refresh next to 'Show singers'. If the app is in the process of updating the follower/following information, this icon will rotate. You can also tap it manually to update this information. Since this is an expensive operation, the app restricts this to be run at most once a day. If it has been less than a day since the last update, the icon would look like update_disabled . If you have more than 10,000 followers (or following), many of the singers cannot be categorized right. This is because Smule has a 10K limit on fetching followers...

There can be six kinds of songs in your Smule profile: Duets that you joined on other's invites ('My joins') arrow_forward Duets that others joined on your invites ('Other's joins') arrow_back Invites that you posted, also called OCs ('My invites') insert_invitation Group songs ('Group joins') group Solos ('My solos') person Unknown type device_unknown The leftmost icon on top of each song's cover image would be one of the above six icons, showing its type. 'Unknown type' are songs that are not included in any of the above five categories. These songs seem to have some error while they were uploaded. These songs do not play from Smule and keep spinning for a long time.   See  advanced search . Only some users have songs under this category and they have only a small number of them.   You can see the count of songs in each type from the Songs tab - Song types dropdown.  The views section in 'Song types' contains two mor...