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

On Jun 8, 2004, at 9:49 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:00:41PM -0400, John Nowak wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Why not use neural net software to screen submissions. People vote 
> songs
> off the site and the neural net learns what type of music people who
> frequent the site don't like.
> I am not joking.

Interesting, but a bit beyond the scope of the site I'm afraid. ;-)

- John

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