joule wrote:I don't really like where this is going.
New suggestion:
Just have a group of members grant tracks to be on "the chipmusic.org playlist". This is an effective way to find good enough quality and filter out most of the crap, without making it all too serious/competetive. The threshold to be on the playlist shouldn't be enormously high.
I think this is a good idea. It should not be like micromusic.net's QFS, but rather a simple control to filter out non-chip/8bit music, troll songs etc. But again, this might be easier done the other way around, with a "Report track"-button.
Some other opinions and ideas:
I think a one-upload-per-week is very reasonable.
I'm very glad tags will be implemented. This will help tremendously.
About likes/favourites/thumbs etc, I agree with some that it is a great tool for bookmarking (that's mostly the way I've been using it on 8bc, for instance). However, I think it should be mandatory to add a comment in order to add a thumb/like/bookmark. It prevents laziness and encourages constructive criticism.
Having a chart most people seem to agree on not being a good idea, myself included. Trash80's suggestion with a kind of algorithm dividing views, comments and thumbs/likes might work though... I'm not sure. A kind of recommendation system like last.fm (but simpler) could also work. It would give you recommendations based on tracks you have "thumbed" compared to what other users with similar taste have "thumbed", and take tags, total "thumb"-count etc in to the calculation. It might be too hard to pull off, but I like the idea... That way, the "charts" would be exchanged with a personal recommendation list. µB mentioned something similar, I believe.
Having a "Subscribe to user uploads"-function would be nice.
Also, good job on the site so far. Looking forward to see it grow.
But lately, I think Malmen has been doing the best Radix-style chiptunes. But they are technically and sound wise a bit more polished than Radix tunes, but Radix remains the king of chiptune melodies.