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We created the game using Unity3d. In order to generate levels we used a combination of random "chunks" and perlin noise (very good for generating the 'paths' across the trees)

Probably you're right. My writing skills are not the best, but the real intention was to point out that this things happen

i did. i posted this as a remainder for people to do their backups, especially under digitalocean

You might do nothing but celebrate. When we were quickly climbing the top ten did exactly that. The "snowball effect" is mostly what keeps the momentum going and if your app is a good one people are already recommending it and you will keep going. If that does not happen and your expectations are not met you can take it as a sign to improve the app.

That being said I would keep very close attention to reviews. (I use appfigures to keep track of that) and fix very quickly everything that should not be. Even though we were #2 there were a few bugs reported via the review system and there is a lot of people that are kind enough to let you know,

If you have a tool like crashalytics thats even better.

Congratulations!

On broad terms, music that is more "upvoted" tends to be selected by the "DJ" more often, but we use a trend predection algorythm to weight the selection.

Those are not the only criteria for selection, but its the most decisive. We assign "points" to the different criteria and then rank the next best song according to that index.

and beavis and butthead was a prequel LOL

I had my AdSense account and site blocked just before i got to the $5000/month mark.

I followed every consideration in the official AdSense blog, ensured that every content policy was met. Appealed with a strong case and got revoked.

No official explanation was given even by Google employees I contacted.

I see tons of sites with shit content and link building monetize with adsense while ours is loved by 1,000,000 users who spend 12 minutes average and a bounce rate below 6%.

Everything on the leak makes total sense to me and we spent so many days implementing stuff to get Google's approval (like image fingerprinting, spam database, porn detection, overseas moderators) to get a shitty robot response with no real explanation.

I think the point with mr.byrne is that everywhere the old big company labels have equity on the system it will be corrupt. If you 'discover' music through Spotify and every song played will give royalty to an artist you might think there is more possibility that a RIAA song gets 'recommended'.

It might not be the case, though. Music produced my the RIAA labels have always been more popular, thats why they are commercialy successful, thus advertised, and with more possibility to be 'recommended'

But why independent musicians feeding the old monster? There are lots of really good music services without RIAA people involved. (i might be wrong on this) rdio, tunein, grooveshark, tunecore, last.fm, beatport

Today music services are the equivalent record stores. some of them have lots of RIAA produced pop music, some others will get only independent labels.

just found nilometric.com