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Your suggestions were actually 'real' until RiffWorld came along Keld.
The original RiffCaster page had more than twice the number of songs on it than the RiffWorld front page has. The Sonoma guys have said that the reason for the limited number on the home page is to speed up your browser's load time. Whether or not they can/will change it will probably be down to that issue.

The original RiffCaster also had song channels where different genres could be posted and it included an 'unfinished' channel too, if I remember right. It was never really used effectively though as the 'default' posting channel eventually ended up taking all the posts as people didn't choose a relevant channel before posting.

As regards your third suggestion, I suspect that the proverbial "can of worms" would be opened on people keeping their songs at the top of the list by playing them again and again themselves. Heaven knows we've heard enough about it already but, until Sonoma put measures in place to stop it, such a system is open to abuse. I suspect the 'Charts' page might be seen as the current 'solution' to your suggestion.

If only Colin!

I still don't see any major advantage 'practicing' offline. RiffLink and RiffWorks are one in the same. If you want to practice on a collab you can do it the same in RiffLink as you do in RiffWorks - or am I missing something way more obvious??

Must be an age thing!!!

Suggest you log this call directly with Support so they can allocate a job number and track future correspondence.

I'm not sure what you mean by, "mix" but I don't think you can properly mix a whole 'song' outwith RiffWorks after it's been saved. The save process mixes down a song into one file and so importing to a different DAW means you can't extract the individual tracks to mix each one separately.
What you might be able to do is 'solo' the individual instruments in a RiffWorks song and then save each one out as a separate file to then import as individual tracks in, say, ProTools.

As Bill says, you can import a saved RiffWorks file into the likes of Audacity where you can fade, equalise, bass boost etc. but, unless you're saving out individual tracks to work on separately, you're only ever mastering a whole song.

Not sure if any of this makes sense (or helps) but keep asking if there's anything else.

You need to click the 'Create' button to add further Riff blocks. Have a look here to get some guidance on creating a song.

Like yourself, I've used TASCAM and Fostex 4 and 8 track machines in the past and, although RiffWorks does things in modular form and not linear, it actually doesn't take much time to get used to it. Song creation in chunks, is actually quite a logical process and it saves a lot of time. If all of your verses have the same chord structure/bassline etc., why record it four times in a song when you can record that verse once and duplicate it. One good take in RiffWorks means you've got your whole set of verses for the song recorded without mucking up verse 3 for example and having to go re-record or drop-in lots of times.

There are more and more professionals using RiffWorks to record their stuff. Todd Rundgren used it to record his latest "Arena" album.

Hope you find it's worth persevering!

If you click on the 'Mix' button and choose, 'Mix to Riff', you can bounce tracks to a single riff. It sounds like you're using the T4 demo so, in effect, you can indeed mix three tracks to a fourth thus freeing them up again for other instruments/vocals etc.

I can log in to RiffLink so 'taint a UK bug - just a 'yUK' bug.

Suggest you open a call with the Support guys who will help you.
If RiffWorks is asking if you want to save a diagnostics file, make sure you do and save it on your hard drive as the Support people will need it.

Log in to your store account and check your download area.

The beta testers have been hard at work and we've come up with a few bugs which have forced the engineers to go back and tear apart a lot of code - more than they realised they'd have to.
The downside to this is that it will obviously take longer than just fixing a few simple bugs. The up side however is that the guys are uncovering longstanding issues which are indirectly associated with these newer bugs. This should be good for everyone as it should make the new release more robust and stable.
As beta testers, we know things are moving forward and we're awaiting the next beta release soon. Unfortunately, we can't say exactly when, as no-one can ever say what the next bug squash will mean in terms of work.
Sorry to be without definitive answers Stephen but keep the faith bro! It's getting there!!

Excellent news Hal. Nice to hear a good news story in a world where crap service is becoming the norm.