After some much-needed feedback, I have decided that the sheer volume of known, semi-known, and unknown artists that constantly flux in and out of the Dropbox can be daunting to say the least. In response to this, I have created this mini-blog hoping I can make user experience more focused, knowledgeable and efficient.
I really have only a few specific, focused goals for this site and I am MORE than open to suggestions and feedback about this site and what function(s) it best serves.
Aims:
1. Improve artist/genre recognition
I want people to be able to read up on artists, their genre(s), label, discography and be able to sample music from the web before they commit to dragging a "physical" digital copy on to their hard drives.
I think this will best happen with periodic artist bios that I plan on writing myself, or cut and pasting from elsewhere from the innernetz. I will label these and post the labels on the menu on the right hand side for easy navigation.
2. Improved communication between subscribers
Thoughts on an artist or album on the Dropbox? Do you want to see if anyone knows any other artists in the same vein or similar style as an artist in the Dropbox? Want to battle out top-ten lists (pff.)? Well there should be a forum for you to do so.
So, to do this there are a number of options as I see it.
1. Insert some kind of third-party message board onto the site.
2. Have good tracking mechanism on site to track subscriber comments
3. Give subscribers posting credentials on the website.
I am not married to any of these, and encourage your feedback on this issue.
3. Foster innovation of service and increase in scope
Honestly, I think this little service model has a good deal of potential, but I think that things need to get to a point where it is sufficiently concrete (i.e. with a site like this), in order to begin to think about how to grow it.
I want subscribers to take a more active role in this and try to make it something truly more special than one guy who enjoys neglecting his more pressing responsibilities in order to get the word out about artists/albums/etc.
4. Better managed Request Folder
This one is self-explanatory. Creating a request list or something comparable would definitely best serve subscribers.
5. Improved monthly mixtape information and presence
So I do take quite a bit of time out of my day to compile the representative tracks of artists in the Dropbox in a given period of time. My thoughts on this was not only is it sort of a best-of (in my opinion), but also it gives people a good jumping-point into music they are not as well acquainted with.
Check back often for improvements and additions/features to the site, and as always if you have any feedback, please give me a shout.
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