Like digg for music (for good or ill)
August 14, 2009 1:04 PM Subscribe
thesixtyone is a site for the "democratization of music": tunes submitted by artists are voted up and down by users, digg-style. Standard Web 2.0 bling (Creative Commons, RSS and Twitter feed) is integrated with some nice features, including keyboard shortcuts and in-browser visualisation.
That's actually very well put together. Damn.
posted by chunking express at 1:12 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by chunking express at 1:12 PM on August 14, 2009
Also, the current top song, Can't Stand the Rain, is pretty damn good too.
posted by chunking express at 1:14 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by chunking express at 1:14 PM on August 14, 2009
This site is really cool. I put up a page for the band I used manage, and the songs rose modest levels without any kind of stat gaming. A keen site for a lot of pure music lovers.
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 1:19 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by Christ, what an asshole at 1:19 PM on August 14, 2009
A double, though the site has changed a lot in two years.
posted by nanojath at 1:20 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by nanojath at 1:20 PM on August 14, 2009
One of the members of my band set us up there a while ago, although it looks like he hasn't added any of our most recent (better-produced) stuff...
posted by COBRA! at 1:26 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by COBRA! at 1:26 PM on August 14, 2009
t61 is great. It's currently the only music site that I use other than good ol' MeFiMusic. I've made $2.50 in donations so far, which is pretty cool. Might get myself a soda pop.
posted by ageispolis at 1:30 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by ageispolis at 1:30 PM on August 14, 2009
And now i'm listening to JAHBIL, which is also kick ass.
posted by chunking express at 1:39 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by chunking express at 1:39 PM on August 14, 2009
and the songs rose modest levels without any kind of stat gaming. A keen site for a lot of pure music lovers.
And unfortunately, there's the rub... How long before this does turn into a race to see who can best game their way to the top of the stack (either by brute force social hacks or by other more technical hacks)?
Despite being a lot more commercial friendly than this, OurStage at first seemed to do pretty decent job of sorting the good to the top of the heap, but before long, the games began--I personally know of artists who've tried to cheat their way to the top on those charts with some degree of success.
Just give it enough time and the same corrupting tendencies will come to dominate here, too. People can't stand letting selection processes run their course naturally without f-ing it all up by forcing their preferred outcomes.
posted by saulgoodman at 1:44 PM on August 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
And unfortunately, there's the rub... How long before this does turn into a race to see who can best game their way to the top of the stack (either by brute force social hacks or by other more technical hacks)?
Despite being a lot more commercial friendly than this, OurStage at first seemed to do pretty decent job of sorting the good to the top of the heap, but before long, the games began--I personally know of artists who've tried to cheat their way to the top on those charts with some degree of success.
Just give it enough time and the same corrupting tendencies will come to dominate here, too. People can't stand letting selection processes run their course naturally without f-ing it all up by forcing their preferred outcomes.
posted by saulgoodman at 1:44 PM on August 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
I'm not sure if the "quests" are really stupid, or if I'm just annoyed because I'll have to complete them all.
posted by Gary at 1:46 PM on August 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Gary at 1:46 PM on August 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
Wow. I'm letting the "radio" for this site play, and have heard a more consistent run of excellent music than on just about any other similar website.
I don't know what to say about the possibility of people gaming the system. I hope it doesn't happen. It seems to be working perfectly right now. Perhaps it will rely on security through obscurity. Or maybe we need to send jessamyn and cortex over there to help moderate votes. (They don't have anything else to do, right?)
posted by hippybear at 2:03 PM on August 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
I don't know what to say about the possibility of people gaming the system. I hope it doesn't happen. It seems to be working perfectly right now. Perhaps it will rely on security through obscurity. Or maybe we need to send jessamyn and cortex over there to help moderate votes. (They don't have anything else to do, right?)
posted by hippybear at 2:03 PM on August 14, 2009 [1 favorite]
I love t61. I've been listening to it for about a month and a half, and I leave it running whenever I'm sitting at my PC. There is so much quality stuff on there.
tunes submitted by artists are voted up and down by users, digg-style
I was not aware that there was downvoting...?
posted by threetoed at 2:20 PM on August 14, 2009
tunes submitted by artists are voted up and down by users, digg-style
I was not aware that there was downvoting...?
posted by threetoed at 2:20 PM on August 14, 2009
I like the screensaver/visualizer that comes up after a while when you leave it alone
posted by robinhoudt at 7:30 PM on August 14, 2009
posted by robinhoudt at 7:30 PM on August 14, 2009
HTML by The Hot Toddies. You are swell like DSL.
posted by chunking express at 8:19 PM on August 15, 2009
posted by chunking express at 8:19 PM on August 15, 2009
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