Changes in Equestria Daily For Music

[Freewave 1,145]

Not sure if this was seen on EQD yet but:

 

"Way back in November of last year, we started up a Music of the Day series to help out the swarms of musicians who weren't being posted here on Equestria Daily.   The goal was to give them at least a small bit of traffic, and hopefully help motivate them to keep on improving over time.  It has largely been successful in it's goals, and we saw a large amount of new music entries because of it.

But instead of that, we thought of a neat idea in August about a site that lets you, the community, decide on what music is awesome via an alternative to Music of the Day, with the secondary goal of displaying all the new pony music as it came in.  After a call over to our coder buddy Hypermark who wanted a new project to bash his head against, EQD Music was born! 

Head on down below the break for a full FAQ, or just go experiment with it yourself!

Update: Until we are done being flooded, Music of the Day will remain, expect it for about another few days to a week! 

What does it do? 

It's easy! You can upload any pony track you wish from Youtube, label it from a selection of genres with Acoustic and Electronic being the primaries, and then send it in for moderation.  Once it is accepted (no quality control outside of  greater than 1:00 length and it having to actually be a pony track), it will display on the front page to be voted on by the community.  Top lists will be generated daily, with weekly and yearly following shortly after. 

What about my Youtube Traffic? 

This site is supposed to be Google level simple,  and focused on retaining the musicians Youtube traffic as opposed to moving it off site.  Because of this, we wanted to avoid accounts altogether, linking instead to the actual Youtube song page for the usual comments/subscriptions/ect.  This aspect is experimental, and we may end up integrating an account system and community features later on down the line, but we would prefer to keep the beam focused on Youtube's already massive musician army and their swarms of subscribers. 

How will this effect music on EQD? 

Outside of Music of the Day migrating over there, spotlight music posts will be business as usual.  You are free to submit to both the EQD submit box, and EQD Music. For now, these sections are not shared, so be sure to send it to both if you want your music on both. 

As time goes on and things stabilize (and the site hopefully doesn't explode too bad), we will most likely start using it as an extra source of input for the spotlight music posts here on EQD.

Will new music be lost in the flood?  

As with sites like Derpibooru, there will most likely be a pretty large amount of older pony music invading the site initially.  We have two and a half years to cover after all!  EQD gets anywhere from 15-30 new tracks a day, so once EQD Music catches up, we will hopefully avoid too much of a flood from there on.  Use it to catch up on stuff you may have missed!  We were originally going to limit it to music from 2013 onward, but decided against it. 

 

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So what does this mean for smaller to mid size musicians trying to get your music into EQD? Well its going to get tough again.

 

There's a lot of Q&A on my little remix in terms of why this is happening and what realities of this situation are, Many of them actually rather eye opening:

 

Biggest issue is that EQDMusic right now is very buggy and is being used as an archive to not to highlight new music but also for all music (like derpibooru) and right now there's little fucntionality other than what briefly hits the front page. Also its the popularity system again with old classic tracks all over the front page. Sure, it's in beta but it's a mess even according to many EQD staff's own words.

 

The other thing is that Seth is organizing this new site while the listeners are trying to get rid of the "anything goes" of music of the day (their words not mine) by upping the standards, as a lot of "bad tracks" are making it onto EQD. They'd like to have an EQD spot mean something again (not necessarily a bad idea). So what may occur is that a lot more tracks won't make the cut again. Instead of having the listener make the choice on what's good on MOTD it's back in the listener's hands, and the standards are going up again.

 

Anyway read the thread it's a good eye opening read. After you've digested it, it comes down to what are your thoughts about rolling back MOTD despite so many musicians wanting to get on EQD and whether the new site is even designed to function in any way to help those same musicians or not.

 

What are your thoughts?

 

Again if you make music this is important stuff.....

[IronPuddinG 249]

I don't really go on Equestria Daily enough to care about it.  If I'm looking Brony music, I pretty easily find it through YouTube.  I know most of the artists, so EQD and it's music section is pretty useless to me.

:S 

Edited March 21, 2013 by -sYGQ-IronPuddinG

[NavelColt 22,880]

This thread appears to be related to the My Little Pony franchise and/or the Bronydom in general. Thus, it has been sentenced to Sugarcube Corner.

 

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[PinkiePie Forever 65]

I like this idea. Mostly because I don't like how all this crappy music floods EQD now. I would just recommend cleaning up the site layout.  Thank you for this!

[Leafeon 2,702]

Yea, heard about this a whiiile ago. 

 

I don't trust EQD. At all. They tend to only put stuff in round ups and such if they are sent at the time they make the post. Even their "Music of the Day"s are more "Music of the hour"s. Plus: they also tend to put in big names in a post by themselves; for mass attention and views. Regardless of quality (Remember when

 got it's own post? Yea...).

 

That said: I'm not sure how much this will change that. If it does; then I'm all for it. If it stays the same...

 

Meh.

 

This doesn't help us art people; regardless, though.

[Freewave 1,145]

In EQD's defense they've been talking about how MOTD is stopping musicians from advancing or perfecting their tracks. That they work on a track get it so far (or recycle presets on prev tracks) and then say "goo enough" and send it in to get it on there. They were more concerned about quantity then quality which is a bad attitude. I was assuming they still had quality controls DURING this motd period and through out filler material but maybe it has become more of a glut then i give it credit. All i know is that my tracks and a few of my friends were actually getting some spots and we were finally feeling better about EQD. I hate to see it go back to its original state of more rejects w/o rejection letters and more unhappy musicians again.