I was wondering if there was any way to create a virtula harp-l compitlation.
The last "real" one did not manifest to say the least.
Anybody got any ideas?
A number of us thought this'd be a great idea for us back in the '90's, and
it wouldn't have been technically hard even back then. Now it'd be a total
snap.
However, the possibility of this leads me to some ideas for making this
much more useful, though I think a straightforward one-song-per-player site
would be a great way to start. Especially if one could switch out one's
own piece now and then, say once a month. That way it wouldn't get
stagnant. Every month on the first of the month you could check and see
who's got something new up. That sounds like fun to me.
This gets me to thinking about Digg and del.icio.us and Reddit. Those are
'social news' sites where members vote on the news of the day and the most
popular stories get voted up to the top. (There's alot more to these
sites, but what I just described is what I like about them.) It happens
that there are a number of websites that make it pretty simple to start
your own social news site. I believe Mark Andreesen, who headed the team
that created Netscape, has such a website. This technology is free.
I think it might be neat to be able to vote for your favorite pieces every
month. There could be charts, like Most Popular Piece Added In The Last 30
Days, or 60 or ever. There could be a chart All The Number One's This
Year. One could make personal playlists and then upload them for
others. One could slice and dice, as in Favorite Originals, Favorite
Covers (since no money is changing hands rights become less of an issue).
There's so much to be learned from this kind of endeavor. If you're not
quite at the professional level and are trying to improve, I can hardly
imagine a better way of sharpening up than by listening to the recordings
that got higher on the charts than yours, and trying to just outdo the ones
that were a little higher than you. (I'm a serious advocate of competition
as a way of improving your work.)
Every piece would also include a link to the player's website.
Further, we could save most bandwidth costs by simply uploading our tunes
to YouTube and then linking on our site. Then YouTube pays the bandwidth
costs.
THAT BEING SAID: I don't have time to set this up. If anyone thinks this
kind of thing would be interesting AND has time and the computer skills to
work on this, I have put the idea out there.