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So. Grooveshark. Music site. Listen to things, compile playlists, express yourself.

And now they've got a collaboration feature. I'm still looking into it, but it seems like basically anyone with an account (don't worry, it's free) can save playlists and turn collaborations for that list on. Essentially this lets your friends onsite see your list and make edits... they can add to it, change orders of songs, and remove things.

Now everyone listens to music. It's universal, it's basic. It's the language of the world. So in a sense, your playlists can be viewed as a sort of fingerprint of your identity, something that describes you and that the world can understand. What if all our members collectively formed something that would represent our community? Obviously there'd need to be rules, and honesty, and there's probably limitations that we'd need to deal with, but I think it would be a cool thing to attempt.

Opinions, anyone?

Also, totally didn't know whether this should be in Media or what, since we don't really have a music forum... just move it and things if it's not actually in the right place. Thanks.

CHAU EDIT:

Important stuff down here

So, toying around with Grooveshark, Brando and I have successfully made a playlist. A few things to point out though.

-There is a couple minutes delay with the sync, so if you add a song on the playlist, other people won't be able to see it for a few minutes.
-The collaboration feature currently can not be accessed on the new Grooveshark format, but can be used in the retro format seen here.
-Because it's not accessed from the new one, I don't know if the retro version will last long, or if it will be in the new one. I hope it is though!
-NOTE: Don't subscribe to the playlist! For some reason, you can't edit as a collaborator if you're subscribed to it.

So basically, how it works is this. First you have to create an account. Then, you have to have mutual following with the person with the community playlist. Currently, that's me. So find me, (Aznchau4ever) and follow me, and make sure you know I know. Then I'll follow you back, and after that's done, I'll add you to the playlist. Afterwards you can add songs! Keep in mind that even if I notice right away, there's still a few minutes delay between the following and the adding into collaboration.

http://retro.grooveshark.com/#!/playlis ... t/87381551

That's the playlist currently. I guess I would say this is just a beta version, and if there's any other options, I'm sure I'd be happy to try. But this seems like a fairly good program as far as I can see.

Moved to Media, bumped and revived.

Please make this be a thing. If you guys are interested in a community playlist respond with ideas of possible flaws and fixes to those flaws, as well as other ideas to throw around.

I've started listening to more music lately so this idea really appeals to me. It seems simple enough for anyone one of us to just hop in and add a track. It would be interesting to see what we come up with.

Might have to come up with some kind of standard and/or rules though. I worry that people might start adding songs that most of the group doesn't like or start removing songs for no good reason.

I will add a lot of Lapfox/Vulpvibe label and goddamn you will like it

(would there be any limit on genres, or are genres too interpretive to be a solid foundation for rules?)

Uhh, okay, so I should probably say this now, I am not good at music at all, and don't know how any of this stuff even works anymore (the topic is from nearly a year ago, after all :p). I'm looking into it, but if anyone more knowledgable about this stuff wants to take over that's totally cool.

I don't think there should be a limit of genres, but I also don't want the entire playlist to be only one person's music. I think there needs to be some sort of balancing system, so that there won't be too much of one person's music.

On the contrary, I feel like that would be more or less okay. If it's supposed to be sortof a snapshot of our community, then that bias toward people who are super involved with music would be an accurate portrayal.

So, toying around with Grooveshark, Brando and I have successfully made a playlist. A few things to point out though.

-There is a couple minutes delay with the sync, so if you add a song on the playlist, other people won't be able to see it for a few minutes.
-The collaboration feature currently can not be accessed on the new Grooveshark format, but can be used in the retro format seen here.
-Because it's not accessed from the new one, I don't know if the retro version will last long, or if it will be in the new one. I hope it is though!
-NOTE: Don't subscribe to the playlist! For some reason, you can't edit as a collaborator if you're subscribed to it.

So basically, how it works is this. First you have to create an account. Then, you have to have mutual following with the person with the community playlist. Currently, that's me. So find me, (Aznchau4ever) and follow me, and make sure you know I know. Then I'll follow you back, and after that's done, I'll add you to the playlist. Afterwards you can add songs! Keep in mind that even if I notice right away, there's still a few minutes delay between the following and the adding into collaboration.

http://retro.grooveshark.com/#!/playlis ... t/87381551

That's the playlist currently. I guess I would say this is just a beta version, and if there's any other options, I'm sure I'd be happy to try. But this seems like a fairly good program as far as I can see.

We should call ourselves the ABC's and turn this into Runouw Radio.

Oh hell I'm doing this tomorrow