Guest mr peculiar Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 ive have started to download some of the tracks children but could i possibly make a suggestion would you be able to divide up the tracks into basic genres e.g ambient/minimal/hard .ect.ect.......as with all these tracks its going to take me forever to download them all and it would be nice to be able to download the tracks in their various styles ....... possibly even a rough bpm or somthing of the sort next to the track ??? anyways just a suggestion as the tracks are going to be sorted into various catagorys later anyway so why not do it now thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OA Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 good idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 yeah, would be great to divide it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Children Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 I don't think so, cause people would not dload minimal tracks if they don't like minimal that much and melodic ones if they don't like melodic that much ... and there is some good stuff as well in minimal than melodic stuff ... so I think it's better to keep the suspense in order to force visitors to dload all Tracks ... or the votes won't be representative enough ... Moreover a minimal Track for someone can be melodic for someone else ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shpongled Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 What... can we already download those tracks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shpongled Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 hehe... I'm blind!!!! sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shpongled Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 Actually I can't download it gives me some error message when I try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aquagena Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 what is the error and the file ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shpongled Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 Well I first tried to download from ftp://contest@ftp.onewayltd.dyndns.org but now I'm downloading from the main page and it's working fine... I see that they are in your(shpongle.com) site.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr peculiar Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 yes that is a fair comment children but now im more likley not to vote at all as there are just way too many for me to get and thats a shame as i really wanted to participate : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tranceptor Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 I can get them all so my offer to be a judge still stands... maybe its an idea to divide votes let judges vote( originality... and so on) and let the people visiting the site vote and then just make a vote combining those??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Children Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 Mr Peculiar : mabe I can make an exception for u as it seems u have a low connexion ... send me a mail with the style u want to vote for and I'll send u a list of the corresponding Tracks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hogus Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 Hmmm... I think the current system favours people who's names start with letters lower in the alphabet. Also.. people who don't like a certain style aren't going to vote for those tracks anyway. I understand that there's not supposed to be a style bias in the voting, but this is an imperfect world, and judging by the comments in the reviews section your only guarantee for a non-biased vote is do have as many people listening to the tracks as many times as possible. Also perhaps the voting should be organised on an elimination basis. There is a first wave, where the top 20 for instance are nominated. So there are only 20 tracks to download for anyone who hasn't done so already (You're pretty much guaranteed that only the better tracks will remain). Then the top 10 which makes it even more accessible to people with slow connections and then finally a top 3. At every 'wave' of votes everyone who's interested gets to vote again even if they have voted before. That way you can re-evaluate your favourites again. So the tracks with true staying power that aren't just novetlies end up on top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slidingtrancer Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 Good thinking hogus. I d/led most of em..... ..... .... and some are good, some are excellent, some are mediocre, but only 2 seem to be really bad. I'm reconsidering entering here. ( btw, i sometimes post under tranceptor) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yantra Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 Why don't u put the tracks in streaming format? this could allow slow connection to preview faster the tracks, by browsing the track as u can do on mp3.com... also i think counting the number of download per track is a good idea... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Children Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 Hogus : pretty good idea ... but I think I'll also add the Tracks that Mars & Me think good and will not be in this TOP 20 (supposing not enough people have dloaded them) ... Anyway I'm not sure we'll do exactly like this, but we'll probably follow your idea :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slidingtrancer Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 If you need me children to review stuff as a judge, just mail me.... I'm here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest etherdesign Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 I do hope there is a system in place for duplicate votes.. I mean, this is tough, I don't mean to be rude to people here, but there seems to be alot of people that pop up out of nowhere.. there are thousands of proxy servers out there and while I imagine the majority of the vote coming from known users under their own names, I can't help but think there will be some duplicates.. what kind of system is at place? number from 1 to 10? in which catagories? production? groove? originality? I don't mean to make this more difficult than it already is, but if is in the scheme of the current 'quick polls' there seems to be a bit of room for cheating here.. again, only a concern, I hope no one resorts to this.. I know the resources here are low and this contest is in good faith.. but.. it should be fair.. Enough blabber, I'm sure the best will be done as is possible and there will be alot of good artists exposed as possible.. I have heard alot of good tracks in this contest from people who I have never heard of.. if this won't be a boon for labels, I'm sure it will be a great contribution to this forum, to see what others are doing.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr peculiar Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 thanks children ill email you now ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr peculiar Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 thanks children ill email you now ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr peculiar Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 thanks children ill email you now ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Children Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 About the duplicate votes, we'll do as best as we can to detect that kind of fraud, but please be correct and don't vote more than once for the same Track, or such frauds could annonce the end of the contest :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eryon Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 Yes, it'd be a pity to leave this event falling down... Be fair... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AtomicCow Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 How about offering the tracks in lower quality as well as high quality? A good tune will stand out even at 16 kbps. That way people on slow connections could judge them too. And if they are really interested they could get the better version of the tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Children Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 Yes we already thought of that, but ther's missing something to me : time ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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