Audio Portal

The Newgrounds Audio Portal is one of the two main submission sections of the site (along with the Flash Portal), and is where artists can upload their music to be freely used in flashes. The more popular artists, such as ParagonX9 and Soundshifter, have numerous songs that are downloaded on a regular basis.

The Audio Portal has just like the Flash Portal a voting system. There is a download system in the Audio Portal too, it is possible to download tracks. A normal track has a black cover. If a track is downloaded 500 times it has a gold cover. If it's downloaded 1000 times it has a platinum cover. And if it's downloaded 5000 times it has a 2X platinum cover. Files that are larger than 8 Mb cannot be submitted to the Audio Portal. Mp3 Files that are submitted to it have been ensured of that it's sampled at 44.1Khz

Genres

One important thing of the Audio Portal is that it has genres,

• The easy listening ones contains Classic and Jazz.
• The electronic Genres contains Ambient, Dance, Drum N Bass, House, Industrial, New Wave, Techno, Trance and Videogame.
• The Hip Hop, Rap and R&B contains Hip Hop - Modern, Hip Hop - Oldskool and R&B.
• The Metal, Rock one contains Brit Pop, Classic Rock, General Rock, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Indie, Pop and Punk.
• Miscellaneous contains Funk, Goth, Latin, Miscellaneous and Ska.
• And as last the Southern Flavor one contains Bluegrass, Blues and Country.
• There is now a Voice Acting genre, but it is not shown in the dropdown list when you choose genres.

Complaints

There are a lot of musicians at the Audio Portal that have complaints about the system. There have been alot of discussions going on at the forum about the functions of the Audio Portal.

• If you start the Audio Page you can hear a song from ParagonX9, alot of users complain about it that it's frustrating that every time you go to the Audio Portal you hear it again, some users should like it if theres a system that let you choose yourself if you want the music from ParagonX9 at the Audio Portal to play or not to play. (After the redesign, it now plays on of the top 5 submissions of the week. It can, unlike before, be muted.)[citation needed]

• A lot of users suggest bringing a Top 50 system to the Audio Portal.[citation needed]

• There is a function in the Newgrounds User Profile that you could see the Audio Reviews you have given, a lot of users would like it if you could see all your votes you have done in the Audio Portal in your profile too.[citation needed]

Programs

The musicians at the Audio Portal use different kinds of music programs to make their music, the one that's most used is Fruity Loops. A lot of users use the program Reason too, and Acid is used sometimes. You can see what many Audio Portal artists use in a news post made by RigAudio.