![]() ![]() Putting in artist updates and new artists takes way too long as well. I'm tied into the classical community, and would like to add works and releases, but it's a crapshoot if anything gets done. ![]() I've been getting requests for updates or clarifications about release updates this past month that I submitted in late 2020.Īdding Classical releases is a complete mess. However, there are some things that wear on me, and discourage me from really engaging.Ĭorrections take forever to get done. I'm not big on writing reviews, but I rate a fair bit. It's also a film database and almost a video game database if that's your deal. There's the more general toxic free-for-all brawl comment boxes (and certain threads) but even those are good fun if you don't have an unhealthy relationship with the internet. People are very willing to talk about virtually anything media related (and often not media related). Even if EDM (for example) isn't getting the adoration of indie rock, EDM is still getting the ratings and submissions that it deserves. You've got people of all demographics and genre inclinations. Being a nerd site, there are for lack of a better word "pseuds" and gatekeepers but it's not a bad community. A lot of people who don't conform to conventions so you can definitely find someone who writes in the same mental language. The user curated lists are great and there are some great reviewers worth following if you're willing to dig through fluff. And there's ample tools to manipulate data even if you don't have premium. Well it's the best database of music on the internet (but don't take that to mean perfect, there's massive gaps). You're just not gonna find this amount of data, be it reviews, ratings or just sheer volume of artists, anywhere else. I'd still heavily encourage anyone who has an interest in music and discussing it to use the site. That was seven years after they were founded, with three full-length albums under their belt. Waving the Guns is a good example here - they're a moderately successful hip hop group from Germany but until I made a page in 2019 they just weren't on the site. It's all community-driven after all and if no one bothers to make a page then there's just not gonna be one. All the big stuff is there, but if you get into more obscure releases outside the anglophone world you'll soon find that the site has its limits, especially in contemporary releases (there seems to be a really active community for adding and cataloguing classical music for some reason). It's also lacking in international releases sometimes. This got fixed around December last year - a good 11 years after the AA page was created. The RYM page for Asking Alexandria had The Irony of Your Perfection listed as a release by the modern incarnation of the band when the only common member is Ben Bruce and he considers the two bands separate entities for example. This is done for QC but a lot of questionable stuff still slips through. I create releases where I can and sometimes even artist profiles, though it's always an inner conflict on whether it's worth it because it's not uncommon for anything but image uploads to sit in queue for more than a month. Lots of backend stuff is still kinda clunky. Hip Hop only got popular in the last few years and a lot of the Pop ratings are still far from where I'd see it, as well as having a bit of a bias for Metal music because that's popular among that particular demographic. Which means that it was largely populated by young, white, somewhat nerdy men for the longest time (DAE OK Computer is the GOAT?) and that still shows in ratings. You know, the times where naming sites "Internet Movie Database" or "Rate Your Music" instead of Letterboxd or Sonemic was a thing people actually did. The site was there during the Early Internet. I do rate pretty much everything I listen to and I write reviews sometimes (one of them even got featured on the front page once!). It's probably the best music cataloguing site I've come across so far as far as the intersection of UX, userbase and comprehensiveness is concerned. ![]()
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