I got one good little change for the Audio portal. How about if you can order your song by

Name
Rating
Date
Genre

AND Downloads? Ordering them by downloads would be great in my opinion

I think that you should even make a feature that makes it so a music needs at least 3 votings or reviews to have a real score cuz if a no point music gets only one vote and the guy put a 5 for nothing and that a way better song gets like 100 votes of 5 and one vote of 9 it will automaticaly be lower than the no point lost in the middle of nowhere music.

Yeah something must be done about the voting system on the audio portal. No one likes it

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Better even than having loops on your page, would be a block o' text at the top of your audio page, say around 2000 or so max characters so you can say what you need to say, recommend tracks, etc.

It would help out with getting some tracks some publicity on your own page.

uh, how about being able to delete your own tracks. that would be swell.

At 12/7/06 05:00 PM, ParagonX9 wrote: It should also be very useful for playing short preview tracks for the listener for an
upcomming new song, And that the listener can vote "Finish it!" or "Don't finish it!"
+ a little "things you should improve/add..." message option..

Like an Audio Alpha?
Great idea, actually!

At 12/14/06 05:56 PM, HouseMasta wrote:

Damn straight!

I'm now going to attempt to type in ONE paragraph my feelings on the direction the audio portal should take.

..if you look back at my first few posts in this thread back on page 1, you'll understand how hard that is for me.

The audio portal has evolved. It started as a loop system, fair enough, but the users have taken liberties from the system and it has evolved into a sort of mini-site. The community is far smaller, and publicity is less - but this is not because people arn't interested in audio; it's because nobody knows its here. Newgrounds is promoted as a promimently flash site - again, fair enough - but it has that new motto; 'Everything, by Everyone. I know there's a huge site rehaul coming up, and it's impossible to tell what would happen yet, but I feel it would be benificial to push the site away from the flash animation typecasting it currently holds, and promote it as a 'media' website.

Wow. Long paragraph. Does that count?

With this redesign and stuff people seem to say all this problems with everything will get fixed, but I got an idea, how about having "Audio admins", with the full control of changing and altering settings at the audio portal, since the admins seem to have no time doing anything with the Audio Portal.

I think if we did so the problems could have been fixed much easier.

What do you think of the idea?

A small discussion of the non-loop AP seem to have breaken out, I would just like to refer to my posts on the first page.

Basicly, my point is that loops should be more incouraged making (awards etc.) and that if the AP could get focused a little bit more on loops, that is what would make it unique against other music sites out there.

i dotn know if thsi has been discussed
but people should get experience points for voting on audio submissions
also a blam/protect system should be set up to keep the crap out of the audio portal.

Hmm, I've seen other websites where when you hover over an image a drop down list of links is displayed below.
What would be the best way of using this? I was thinking maybe have a few songs (or flash) displayed while hovering over an artists name. Or when hovering over a songs name (in charts) allow voting instead of having to goto that users full list of songs.

Sometimes that's why I don't vote. I just want to browse the top rated songs in a genre.

The possibility to favo Audio artists.
To have an Audio Portal Top 50, to see when you have answers at reviews you gave and to see when someone reviewed your Audio.

At 1/6/07 06:47 AM, Astrono wrote: The possibility to favo Audio artists.

That's good

To have an Audio Portal Top 50

that's not.

, to see when you have answers at reviews you gave and to see when someone reviewed your Audio.

You can.

At 1/6/07 08:19 AM, SBB wrote:

At 1/6/07 06:47 AM, Astrono wrote: To have an Audio Portal Top 50

that's not.

And what if we make a Top 10 Audio Submissions for 1 month

At 1/6/07 08:33 AM, Astrono wrote:

At 1/6/07 08:19 AM, SBB wrote:

At 1/6/07 06:47 AM, Astrono wrote: To have an Audio Portal Top 50

that's not.

And what if we make a Top 10 Audio Submissions for 1 month

OK then but only if I get cookies

At 1/6/07 08:36 AM, SBB wrote:

At 1/6/07 08:33 AM, Astrono wrote:

At 1/6/07 08:19 AM, SBB wrote:

At 1/6/07 06:47 AM, Astrono wrote: To have an Audio Portal Top 50

that's not.

And what if we make a Top 10 Audio Submissions for 1 month

OK then but only if I get cookies

*Gives a delicious cookie to SBB*

I was thinking of types of genres. Like "Trance" for example. the under it would be ""sub" genres that would be under that type. like "Genre" - Trance - Proggressive. OR, "Genre" - Trance - Melodic.

To be more specific on genres.

Kill zero voters...

oh, and being able to update songs would be nice. You can do it for flash cartoons, so why not audio submissions?

I HAVE A GENRE TO ADD.

SURF MUSIC.

At 1/6/07 10:53 AM, Chronamut wrote: just gimma a friggen review notification saying WHICH new song i have reviews for - like that giant list of songs it shows you in your respond to your reviews part of your profile - just put a little "new" thingie beside the ones that are new or something - or auto weekly pm bot notifications could be helpful too.

Yes please!

*raises hand*

Solus has an idea to help stop zerovoting...

allow audio voting privileges to only those accounts that are more than a week old. It'll also help stop mass alt upvoting, because you'd have to wait a week to use your alt to downvote someone or improve the scores of your own songs.

At 1/22/07 02:20 PM, SolusLunes wrote: *raises hand*

Solus has an idea to help stop zerovoting...

I love Solus.

Along with the "Genre" we select, there should be a "Mood" too... IMO

Huh? Nobody's posted on this thread in a week? It just shows how much we care about the portal. =P Here's my suggestion, which I've put a lot of thought into - I hope you all appreciate it. =)

My suggestion is what I think is a great idea: customizable reviews. See, everyone reviews differently and looks for different things - I, for example, look at melodies, harmonies, percussion, sound choice, attitude/atmosphere, and the song overall. What I think could happen is that there would be six 'subratings' where Originality, Clarity, Diversity, and Effort could be. Four would be filled with the previously mentioned defaults, and two would be left blank. The reviewer could replace any of the four with their own 'subratings' and add their own if they so wish. They would even be able to set their own defaults on the account options page, so they don't have to reenter them every time.

This would definitely increase the diversity of reviews, and the better reviewers would get more reviews asking for a review from them, because their unique style of reviewing is especially appreciated/popular/wanted/etc. Overall it would definitely increase the importance of reviewing here at the Audio Portal.

Actually, it could even be applied to the Flash Portal, as well...

It just shows how much we care about the portal.

Again, I was going to say something long and mean. But I found it to be not worth it because it's a suggestion.

=P

Right, disarming smiley.

The rest wasn't bad idea, I could see it working with less analities.

Hello my friends, i have recently been thinking of a thoughtful idea for the newgrounds audio portal. Allowing peaple that aren't logged on to vote (Including non-Ng members) why? Usually are hard work has been downvoted mostly by people who i call "Arseholes". Our work is usually downrated by people who rate our music unfairly just because it's not their taste of music, or because of the title, or maybe for the heck of it! If we allow non-NG members to vote our music. They would probably rate it fairly (Since they're not of competition to be the best of the Ng audio portal), but what if they would be to rate it a 0/5 like the other unfair raters? Well let's see, if you rate a song logged on the rating of the song will go down by the Voting Power the rater has. If you rate logged off, or not as a ng member, it will only go down slightly, or it will increase slightly. So those people can download our music, but also rate it by their freewill. If some of you don't know i live in Iran, and take english classes for next four years i will be heading to america for a future career. Thankyou for reading now i must get back to my homework. May Allah be with you :)

Hmm. I don't quite think that would work - because if you didn't need an account to vote, then scoring would be all even worse because of all the people who could vote and who would 0 vote random songs or 5 vote their friends' songs because of an unreasonable bias or for no reason at all whatsoever. I think it could be a good idea, but their voting power would have to be significantly diminished. Something like half or one quarter of a normal vote.

I think certin music in the audio portal should get BLAMED like in the flash portal.

At 2/7/07 09:51 PM, AndrewGlisson11 wrote: I think certin music in the audio portal should get BLAMED like in the flash portal.

Certain*, and blammed*.

Learn to spell >:[

At 2/7/07 09:51 PM, AndrewGlisson11 wrote: I think certin music in the audio portal should get BLAMED like in the flash portal.

Imagine all the zero voters.

They wont be called zero voters.

They'll be called massacre blammers.

Imagine having every and any piece of music you submit blammed at it's very conception.

Good idea still?