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

I think the best bet is to put something together on sourceforge for using
CVS to collaborate on csound orc/score composition, CVS is well suited,
and anyone smart enough to know csound and CVS, and say perl or python to
write scripts to genrate scores is going to smart enough to make some cool
tunes.



On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, 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.
> 
> Chris.
> 
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