JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum So Where Does Your Song Rank On Ourstage?

We've discussed the number of listens on the Ourstage partner post I believe. This is why I wanted 1 single Ourstage post to discuss all this stuff. It gets too confusing when we're carrying on multiple discussions it seems. Originally this was supposed to simply be a place to tell folks where you had songs posted and how they were doing, but it got off track and has been all over the place. The post on the mentor board was better suited for tech discussion, but that has also gone all over the place. Then there was a new one on the general board for May songs.. which fortunately should have run it's course.

Any listens you have come from folks clicking to hear your song outside of judging. I wouldn't post the vote totals there because then folks would complain if one category had a larger number of votes (or one song over another) and who needs that drama. The number of votes will not likely be exactly the same. There's going to be variation.

If there's 2000 songs in a channel, I think it would take 1,999,000 votes for each song to face each other 1 time. You can imagine as the site grows and grows it will be very tough to generate the votes required to get multiple matchups for every combination. This month they cut it to 1 song per channel to help some with that. I think the next move, when needed, will be to switch to 1 song period. But they might have a while before they need to do that. I do know that membership is growing steadily there since Daniel got involved (as well as JPF). Now people have heard of them who never had in their first year. As any software starts ramping up with exponentially higher numbers, there are always glitches and problems. Something that works pefectly with a few thousand users will work very differently with 10K or more.

I think we've aleady had enough JPF members doing well to indicate it's a beneficial site for our members. There are so many positive ways to use the site that go beyond just the final results that I think you need to look at the bigger picture. And don't forget, for those of you who have entered the JPF awards this year, their support (along with TAXI, CD Baby, Disc Makers and BMI) is critical to even making it possible. Let's help them make the site a really positive thing for the community and perhaps be a little less focused on condemning it when there are problems. Believe me, I've brought more problems and issues to their attention than anyone else. Certain things are easy and obvious to fix, other things are much more complicated technically and also politically within any company. (Anyone who works in a corporation knows that just because one hand wants to change something, someone in another area may have their reasons they don't want to change...). Daniel has been working very hard to win the battles he can win and move the other issues closer to resolution where possible.

We have quite a few JPF members in the running right now... so lets hope another one wins the 5K again.

Brian