I was just searching on the audio portal, and i have to say... it's great. It really is.
But here is the problem... when you're looking for a song to use in your work, you cant use "any" song... so when you apply that in the audio portal, you just ha ev to keep scrooling and clicking until you basicly get lucky and find YOUR song.
The reason i belive for that, is that, the audio portal has goten too big for it's current Archive style. Sure, the music is classified by styles... but that is as broad as the flash portal bein classified as "Action" "Comedy" "Drama" and "Games" and nothing else...
So, one way i belive it would work to improve the Audio Portal would be to add something like a "tag cloud" systema. Where the author could associate keywords to it's creation. Anything he sees fit, like "mario" or "snes" or just "background". But also, the author should have the option to allow (or not) the users to edit those tags, to improve it under user experience.
So, if i'm looking for musics for my video, i would have the option to search on the categories that NG gives me, or just type something like "Background" to find all sorts of creations that people think would make good background music... it gives a wider choice with a narrower scope, and i belive it would make people use the audio portal even more, and good artists would be brought to light more often.
What you guys think?