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A lot of people's music just isn't that good. The goal shouldn't be to allow everyone to have an equal chance at weekly top 5, it should be to stop people who shouldn't be there from being there.

It's always gonna be hard to get noticed on a site this large with any kind of voting system in place. That's not ever going to change.

Also you say "that error message", but uhh... which one exactly?

At 12/7/11 02:16 AM, adsubzero wrote:

At 12/6/11 11:07 PM, RampantMusik wrote: Audio doesn't get enough traffic, though, to make a blamming system viable.

It will get enough traffic once XP points are available in the AP.

I think there'd be very few people who don't use the audio portal solely because they don't get XP from it. The traffic increase would be marginal at best.

At 12/6/11 09:26 PM, AetherX wrote: Keep the 0-5 votes! But make it more like the Flash Portal. Add experience (extra exp if you review) and blamming. On top of that, though, the voting should be limited. Say, only three zeros/fives per day (that will limit zero and five bombing) UNLESS they leave a review. Also, voting scores will only determine the five of the week.

Again, over-complicating things with this 10-15% song stuff and limiting scores per day and making people review stuff. Nobody should be forced to do anything, it would only make using the AP a massive chore for the majority of users.

If they got rid of 0-5 votes in the audio portal I think they could give xp to people simply for loading a song up and it wouldn't be of any detriment at all. It would be perhaps a fraction quicker than getting xp in the flash portal. Maybe.

These suggestions with formula and cross checking and stuff are waaaaay too complicated. To reiterate my views on this, all we really need is to:

- Remove or deprecate 0-5 voting and replace it with a like button (not a dislike button)
- Leave reviews exactly the same as they are now

The voting remains anonymous and easy but with no score attached, you just like it or leave the page; nobody ever has to know that you're a big, fat, mean poo-poo head.

16bit sounds are best taken from a soundfont if you're going to be working in a modern DAW, imo. Google around for the Final Fantasy 5 and 6 soundfonts.

- since it's also pretty much unanimous that the current system isn't working as it was originally intended.

All I'm saying is that, since at this point it's pretty much unanimous that there should be some sort of voting system, it's perfectly reasonable to use this thread to discuss and suggest hypothetical voting systems.

At 12/6/11 06:59 AM, SBB wrote: Can we stop using this thread to come up with our own fancy voting systems? The question is whether we should HAVE one or not.

Heaven forbid we start having a civil and constructive discussion about voting!

Also if people want exp from the audio portal to be a thing I think it should just happen automatically after a song has played for x number of seconds. Would give people an incentive to actually listen to a song for a while before closing the page.

nope sorry not today

What I'm saying is that if you remove the ability to vote maliciously completely then we don't have x-bombing and legitimately crap music just fades into obscurity.

If people want to attach a score to things then they should leave reviews, since words are more helpful than numbers and the review scores don't actually do anything in the AP charts and rankings.

Someone was like "you shouldn't be able to like something until you listen the whole way" and I was like "fuck that noise!"

At 12/6/11 12:05 AM, Birdinator99 wrote:

At 12/5/11 08:11 AM, midimachine wrote: Except these guys right here are not very funny man I must say!

Damn straight. All business here.

You did your best, bud. That's all anyone could've asked for.

I shouldn't have to listen to a single second of a song to be allowed to like it, let alone have to listen to the whole thing (or write a review, urgh). If there's no "dislikes" and no 0-5 scoring then why should we have to wait?

Arbitrary restrictions are pretty heinous!

The problem with removing scores and replacing them with likes or thumbs-up or whatever is that there's not really a good way of implementing it retroactively AND fairly.

If the top 5 or top 30 or whatever is based on likes instead of scores then we might still have the same people topping every week, but there won't be a massive flood of 0-bombing the night before the changeover. Also leave dislikes out because then people are just going to dislike-bomb instead which would be super lame.

Sorry man, but this was doomed to failure from the start.

Except these guys right here are not very funny man I must say!

You could always just fine-tune the timing in the playlist by dragging the end of the audio clip with stretching enabled, I guess

At 12/5/11 04:42 AM, Psil0 wrote: My question is, I'm trying to match an acapella to the phrasing of the sections in a remix I'm doing. Is there any easy method in which to get the acapella at the right tempo/speed to match the phrasing of the sections.

Not really sure what you're asking, but there's two answers.

Are you trying to change the rhythm of the vocals? There's no easy way to do that but your best bet is probably cutting the acapella into parts and using slicex or something.

If you're leaving the vocals as is and just need to match them to the tempo then you can refer to this writeup i did for another user a while ago

At 12/4/11 11:09 PM, InvisibleObserver wrote: Wtf of the day

Oh lawd.

why am i itching all of a sudden?

Make sure step editing isn't turned on in the playlist

At 12/3/11 07:07 PM, SessileNomad wrote:

At 12/3/11 05:51 PM, midimachine wrote: Buy the damn thing.

ahh. here we have the useless mod in his natural habitat. notice how he makes assumptions when he doesnt have an sizable slab of information on which to base his judgings. he is truly a disgusting creature.

get a grip lol

At 12/3/11 04:25 PM, jpbear wrote:

At 12/3/11 04:00 PM, SBB wrote: Last one is pretty cool. If it turns out to be fake then that's an awesome self promotion stunt

But no one knows who the original artist is lol

my money's on louis la roche (again!)

Buy the damn thing.

Chron, we mods have this covered already.

Granted, but this

Bass and guitar are worlds apart when it comes to functionality, technique and establishing a good feel.

is still totally true

How is it trolling to say that playing bass guitar is completely different to playing lead or rhythm? It is.

Let's do this!

For christmas I would like some uptempo, euphoric electronic shoegaze sort of thing that makes me love life. Something vaguely like this but not completely similar.

song starts picking up at 1:20-ish if you're some plebian who gets bored of long, contemplative intros! :P

Practice playing reaaaally tightly because timing is definitely the most important aspect of playing bass, imo.

I have a similar looking jazz bass, it's an Ibanez copy made by Cort and it sounds pretty awesome. Fender's starter basses are pretty snazz too; good buy!

At 12/1/11 09:36 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: I think complaining about "stat posts" has become a new fad or something... People seem to be doing it a lot lately.

Aye, but just so we're perfectly clear have a look at the post count again

Too subtle? :<