I, too, would love a tutorial on successfully creating verified SC accounts with avatars, etc. I spent hours digging through different threads to assemble a system for what I thought was the process for creating verified accounts. I'll outline my steps and the outcome below:
Preparatory steps:
1. I bought 1000 Hotmail emails for $6 from the person suggested in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=269&p=3937&hilit=1000#p3937
2. After receiving the emails & respective passwords in a .txt file, I added the POP settings to the end of each of the 1000 email address/password combos so the format was as such:
HelenaesBertrandoo491@hotmail.com,wmscbk73,pop3.live.com,995,true (email,password,popserver,popport,ssl)
3. I created usernames and first/last names to appear similar to the emails: Helena-Bertrando,Helena,Bertrando (username,first,last)
4. I manually collected avatars and inserted them into a folder to match the order of the names so that the avatar/name combos would seem realistic.
Once I prepared all this data, I performed a test run of just 20 accounts to make sure it all worked. Here were those steps:
1. I opened the Create Accounts tab of SCManager and imported the email .txt list, leaving the "Do not verify email account" box unticked.
2. I set the "# Accounts" to 20, and I left the "threads" at 1.
3. I selected the folder where the avatars for the 20 users were stored in order.
4. I unticked "Random Usernames," left "Random Numbers" ticked, and unticked "Reuse" usernames.
5. I pasted the username,first,last list into the "Names" box in order.
6. I scraped for proxies using the "Highly Anon" setting with the "Validate soundcloud.com" box ticked and the "Multi Acs per proxy" box unticked.
7. I clicked "Create Accounts" and then ran the process in the Processing tab.
After the process finished, I ended up with 1 verified user, 1 unverified user, and 18 fails. Neither of the 2 accounts successfully created had avatars - I had to manually log-in to the 1 successful account to upload the avatar.
I hope I'm making some really silly mistake or forgetting something obvious (or better yet, something not so obvious). If they were all fails, I would think I had obviously messed something up, but having one success sort of throws a wrench in that theory. Martin, you've been really quick to respond to most of these threads and to emails, etc. Can you help me out? Thanks!