I have made myself this question a few seconds ago. Which is the border between uploadable art and not-uploadable art in deviantART? Everybody will agree with me that music is an art. But you cannot upload, for example, music in DA, not in the trivial way of uploading an MP3/OGG/... You cannot upload videos either. You can however upload things like stuff in Flash. And those Flash movies can contain both (your) music and/or (your) videos.

I am a demoscener. That is, people like me makes demos, and music, and nice computer graphics, and put all together (I have no time nor space to define it here). I consider demos to be an art. Some people in DA have uploaded their own Flash-made demos (check for instance). But you cannot upload binaries (traditional EXE) material in DA, which seems sensible. In the other hand, most (+99%, I would say) demos are not Flash, so someone in DA looking for demos cannot go to any other place but Pouët.net which is like the best thing one can get by mixing DA and demos.

About the music issue, well, I could not see any rule disclaiming that you cannot embed music in a Flash movie. Of course, there are more or less stylish ways to do it. Put a graphic EQ, some simple, dynamic effect on it (the latest Actionscript versions allow you to do some interesting tricks with FFT) or a boring scroller. It's up to you! So maybe uploading music is a bit embarrassing if you want to look every song like a new thing to show, not just listen.

The same applies to video. Adobe Flash can import a video and transform it to Flash. Problem solved. Upload and share.

It is not that I am claiming a statement to make DA look like damn Last.fm or blasted YouTube. It is just wondering how "traditional art" is catalogued in deviantART, and why can we upload text and images (for those of you not informed yet, deviantART is not your own Flickr account, go post your party pics there) and even Flash but not music, nor (quality) short films.

Comments welcome.