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~ February 5, 2007 at 21:32 by epopisces (Views: 145)

Hiya all! First off, great service, love a number of the features. My only problem with it is that literally half of my music isn't in the database. Now I realize my music tastes are perhaps (well ok, no perhaps about it) a little more eccentric than most: I heavily favor soundtracks and film/tv/video games scores. These seem to be lacking in the database: nearly all my tracks that are found are from compilations and collections, only the highlights of a given album, not the actual soundtrack.

Anyway my question is this: Is there any way to upload track listings for albums so that I can see and tag my songs, especially the less mainstream ones? Being able to do so would benefit others as well I believe: I'm not the only eccentric music lover out there. . .I hope lol.

I do understand you can't let everyone just try to upload albums, it would cause chaos pretty fast. But maybe submitting the tracklist for review, or even a suggestion thread in the forum so whoever is in charge of the database there can know what albums others are waiting for?

EDIT: I seriously hope I didn't just paint 'NEWB' on my forehead with this post heheh. Is there a way to do this sort of thing already?

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DJ_Elzzish ~ February 6, 2007 at 19:23

epopisces, thanks for the great feedback. Be assured that your forehead is safe, there currently is no way for members to explicitly add tracks to the catalog. However, when we do see tracks being played that are not in our catalog, we make a note of them. If the same track is seen from several different users, then we go ahead and add the track to our catalog. BTW, you can tell which tracks (or albums or artists) those are when you see this message on the right-hand side of the page.

In fact, a track you played recently, Now We Are Free on Gladiator by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard is one such example.

We understand this is not a completely satisfying solution and members would like to see everything they play, even if they are the only ones to ever play it. We're working on it!

Thanks again for the question, glad you're enjoying the site.

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Funkafonik ~ February 8, 2007 at 13:35

Thx for this answer, I'm sure LOADS of people have had this question in mind for some time. Great to see there's some kind of way to add underground/unknown artists.

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