Re: Re: a new "new music" music site

On Jun 8, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Oeyvind Brandtsegg wrote:

> seems like a good idea to me,
> it could become a very nice and useful site.
> I wonder about how you want to be "screening submitted material",
> but that can probably be sorted out. It might happen that this type of 
> "editorial action" will make or break the success of the site, 
> depending on how it's done. I'm not one to give detailed advice on how 
> to do it, I guess, but just being aware of the (potential) problem.

It is a potential problem. On one hand, its nice to have a site that 
you can go to and know that everything you download will at least be 
interesting, although you may not be in love with it. Of course passing 
judgment on someone else's work in such as black and white manner can 
be difficult, lead to hurt feelings, or whatever. The problem with 
letting in everyone is, as I implied above, you get a lot of nonsense 
too. It's not as useful from a user standpoint. Also, and perhaps more 
significantly, it is much more expensive to run, partly in terms of 
server space, but much more in terms of bandwidth. There will always be 
people who download pretty much every track they see on a site (this is 
not a bad thing), so the more tracks on the site, the more the 
bandwidth costs go up.

There is a site only for music by Reaktor users (www.reaktions.com). I 
have some tracks there... anyway... It has about 50 songs, is very new, 
and is still using about 80GB of bandwidth a month. Unfortunately I 
move around quite a bit, and can't run my own server, so I have to pay 
a company to host it. I found HasWeb, who can host a 6GB site with 
160GB monthly bandwidth for only $160 a year, which seems very decent. 
If anyone has a better suggestion for a hosting option (possibly one 
that gives discounts to art-related sites), please let me know.

Back to the process of screening material... one possibility would be 
to assemble a small group of four or five people that could discuss 
works via a mailing list, or forum, when the merit of an artist's work 
is debatable. Looking at the work from a few different angles might 
make the process seem more "fair" and impartial. Any thoughts?

- John

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