[mb-devel] Objective/subjective thingy

[Aaron Cooper]

On 4/1/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/4/1, Paula Callesøe <spacefish at spacefish.net>:
> > Aaron Cooper wrote:
> > > On 3/25/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> 2007/3/25, Robert Kaye <rob at eorbit.net>:
> > >> > I'd say lets finish off the tagging system and see how that starts
> > >> > working. From that I think it will be clear if we should add another
> > >> > web site or leave it as is...
> > >>
> > >> I don't see why it would imply duplication. It could be just a simpler
> > >> front-end for the same database. From there, interested users could go
> > >> to the "objective" side.
> > >
> > > How about this:  Instead of making a whole lot of work for us
> > > developing a rating system and duplicating work that other sites have
> > > done (like rateyourmusic.com) - is there a way we could
> > > rateyourmusic.com's information for ratings etc?
> > >
> > > It would be awesome if we could just enter our RateYourMusic.com
> > > username into our MusicBrainz profiles and have our ratings imported
> > > automagically.  We would have to figure out how to map their
> > > "releases" to our but no one likes having to enter information in two
> > > places.
> > >
> > >
> > I would rather not go outside MusicBrainz to get the functionality I
> > want. I'd be interested in ratings, but I don't use RateYourMusic. If it
> > could be set up so that one might be required to register at RYM for
> > ratings at MB to work, that would be okay (i.e. rate my music at
> > MusicBrainz but it updates some RYM database). Even a ratings import
> > (RYM > MB) would be cool for those folks that actually use
> > RateYourMusic. I just don't want to have to go outside of MusicBrainz to
> > get this functionality. It should be as seamless as possible.
>
> I agree. I understand Aaron's point of view that users who have
> already started rating elsewhere would be reluctant to redo it in MB,
> but I think that ease of use should stay one of our priorities. One of
> the reasons I like the idea of incorporating a music rating system is
> that it would attract users. If the rating were done in another web
> site, I think new users would simply go to there and wouldn't bother
> to look at MB and all it's complicated rules.

Good points and I agree with you.  I just thought having ratings
elsewhere would be an obstacle for potential MB-ers.  We'd just have
to make it very easy for them to import their ratings.
-- 
-Aaron