How about a new addition to every posting made?
I love the idea and use it on AudioCircle. Occasionally I will contact a member based upon their listening preferences and I usually find out about music I need. I would also like to be able to list the music in reverse chronological order when looking up a member. Currently listening to Joe Sample: Soul Sessions |
GREAT IDEA Sean! I've always have enjoyed the 'music' aspect of these forums and have had some great recommendations come from reading here. It would also help understand different members musical tastes/leanings which is an important aspect of understanding their preferences in gear as well as music. Not listening right now as I'm on my way out the door, but you'd find Mindy Smith in one of my system and a wonderful recording of the Dussek Concerto in B flat for two Pianos and Orchestra (Centaur - Toni and Ros Grunschlag duo piano, Paul Angerer conducting the Vienna Volksoper) would be in the other system. Marco |
Not my idea. As mentioned, i liberated it from Audiocircle, so someone over there deserves the credit. I'm glad that others appear open to the idea. I would ask that if you like this idea, let's come up with exactly what features we want to be able to take advantage of. In order to keep it simple for Agon to institute, my recommendation is to just list the band, the name of the disc and the format being played. If one continually sees interesting musical info being listed by individual posters, it would not be hard to click on a few of their more recent posts to see what they've been listening to. Using this approach, you may be able to find others that share similar listening tastes. This in turn can be used to spread the word about good discs and / or less popular finds that are worth checking into. I've always liked finding music that i enjoyed that was off the beaten path and i'm sure that others do to. Such a system would give us the opportunity to do so with one additional line of text. As mentioned, this should be optional, so if you didn't want to bother with it, you would do nothing different than what you do now to submit a post. Did i miss anything? Remember, Agon already has their work cut out for them, so let's try and keep it simple. Sean > |
Seems to me they could accomplish that with a footer field that would run at the bottom of the post - similar to the header field that carries the subject. Just limit the characters to a bit more than the subject header since some classical titles can be fairly lengthy. Not really sure about the importance of the format. Personally, in looking for musical tastes/trends in a member, I would not give that particular detail any weight at all. Others may have more interest. The label may be important. I suppose whether the the item is in print or not would be good to know, but you can find that easily by going to target=_blank href=http://www.gemm.com>Gemm, or other websites or search engines, or simply email the A'goner off the thread. Yeah, so title, artist, label in a footer would be my suggestion. Marco Jim White, "Drill Another Hole in that Substrait and Tell Me What You See", Luaka Bop |
