Beaker wrote: 
Thanks. Will fix.

Just noticed that the 'more' button at the bottom of the page in the My Submissions view doesn't load more of my submissions, instead switching the whole page to the Newest view.

Also the new/maybe/sorry/added buttons in My Submissions have never worked for me which I didn't mind at first but with the growing number of past submissions it would be nice to be able to use them.

I have submitted some songs using this new system and it was easy to do.
It would be nice if RP is able to make a Spotify list from the submitted songs. Then I could listen to them in one move/mouse click instead of opening/starting every song manually.
Now I notice that I only vote on the songs I already know. I believe more people do this because the more known tracks receive more and faster votes.

The second thing is that I would like to make the 'new' view the default view instead of the popular view. With the popular view the usual suspects that receive votes more easy are getting a second boost while the more rare and maybe very nice songs are ignored by most listeners.

Also the list seems to be very large. There is no 'sliding window' like in the old process. After some time (2 weeks?) Bill should make a final statement and the song should be removed from the list.

The last thing is that I think Bill has a certain personal view on the music he plays here. I don't say thats wrong, because the site/radio is a big success so obviously he is doing excelent work. But I would like to see a more democratic process. Why not remove the first filter process and let the user decide about the quality of the submission? Bill has the final decission obviously but he might be influenced when the actual listener really likes a certain submission while Bill would instinctively decide to say no on the first glance.

Edit: I think I found a bug within the edit submission process. I tried to change the thumbnail. The link changes and gets saved, but the shown thumbnail stays the same.

I was wondering if a Bandcamp link could be one of the options in the future? I know many indie artists have their music (or at least most album tracks) only there. I think they have an embed option too.

 olivertwist wrote: 
Submissions are not immediately visible. They go through an initial review process, and are then either immediately added, declined, or added to the user-review list (status: "maybe").

Is the new song submissions system down? I ask because I submitted two songs this past Saturday, and I don't see them under the new listings.

Not that my song suggestions are all that important... but I noticed that the newest submission since Saturday has been Toto's "Africa," and I can't hep but think that other listeners have tried to load new submissions since then as well.

 Studley wrote: 
OK. Fixed that for you.

You're right, there's a very, very short window during which interrupting the page load can have unpredictable consequences. I'll see what I can do about that.

Love the "new" system (apparently I don't submit that often, as I've only just noticed the switch).

Something went wrong with one of my submissions though. I clicked the Submit Song button and nothing seemed to happen, so I clicked it again. Apparently it was half-way through processing the first one, as it appears to have butchered the first submission.

The OCD freak within me would like the second one deleted, though might be worth seeing whether you can replicate the problem - looks like it's specific to if you interrupt the page while it's in the process of stripping-out the important bits from the YouTube embed.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Fixed that a while back.

 Beaker wrote: 
Gotcha.  I'll add that when I get a chance.

There's a fine line separating songs from each other; comments for a song open up below that line. If there's already a comment, it's not confusing but with no comments, it is, a little.

 kurtster wrote: 
It is not brain surgery.

If you can throw a music file and a nice image in (Windows) Movie Maker, then you're halfway there.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
Uploading to Youtube is something I have yet to do, ever.

Maybe its something to consider down the road.  I have absolutely zero experience working with video at any level.

 Beaker wrote:
 
OK. This is fixed. If it gets a match on the exact search term, it returns that. If not, it does a partial-name search.  It also accepts "and" and "&" interchangeably.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
Thanks, Richard.

& good point on that last item.

 BillG wrote: 
FLAC is lossless, so by definition there shouldn't be any audible difference across compression quality settings. The only difference would exist in the final size of the FLAC file, as well as the CPU power used/needed to encode/decode the FLAC when it's created/played. There are some non-standard encoders as well, but I suspect GNU FLAC (which I don't know) and encoders based on libFLAC are the most faithful to the standard. The other implementations should be avoided for compatibility purposes.

I tend to use level 8, however in a few tests I did I found no difference in file size compared to level 6.

 kurtster wrote:
It's pretty easy to get/put a song on YouTube.

 BillG wrote: 
Cool, thanks.  

 

 kurtster wrote: 
I've never done any tests on FLAC quality levels. I just use the default settings in the GNU FLAC encoder, which I *think* equates to quality level 6. I doubt that there's any truly audible difference, but I'd avoid the —fast (level 0) preset.

You're right that the new system does eliminate the ability to upload some obscure older material that's not on any of the 3 platforms. You can email us directly in that case.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yeah, pretty much everything is on youtube by now.  Just have to look hard enough.

 kurtster wrote: 
I think that version of "In Your Eyes" is on the playlist, but some more obscure stuff could be pretty challenging to find in an 'up-loadable' format, though that's not new.