What's going on with Song Fight! Live 2013? It's "only" 4-5 months away now. Has a location been chosen? If not, anybody volunteering to host?

Happy birthday Spud!

Jim, both BSS entries have the same vocalist, the guy you said reminded you of The Clash in your out-of-band reviews. We've also been attempting to try to take your feedback into account to whatever degree our time constraints and inspiration can accomodate. With the guitars, I think Ken didn't mix ...

Hello World has deals on a couple of very sweet guitar fx pedals. One is the tc electronic Flashback delay, which I have, and think is super awesome. They've got it for $139, which is $30 less then the Musician's Friend price. http://www.hellomusic.com/Items/flashback-delay The other is the tc elect...

Spud and fluffy, did something change about the way the archive data is being stored for the last couple fights? My code for parsing the archive text file database seems to be having problems getting the votes, fightmaster message, winner(s), etc. EDIT: Seems like maybe there is something weird/wron...

A thread for brainstorming whatever things occur to people that they think would be cool for somebody to build, related to Song Fight!

This is probably mostly around apps or Web sites or other software, but hey, if you have hardware/building/event/etc. ideas put 'em here too!

You can Facebook like individual songs on the Jukebox currently. https://www.facebook.com/sam.douglass/activity/10200653570965501 I haven't made it as easy as I'd like it to be yet. You have to go to the song's page, which you can really only get to easily by going to the list of all songs or search...

So I was thinking about adding some stuff to the Jukebox, like playlists, "favoriting" a song, etc. I already wrote all that kind of stuff for SomeSongs though. So it occurred to me, what if I set up a version of SomeSongs that I then piped all the Song Fight! archive songs into somehow? W...

For any programmers out there, I moved the Jukebox source code into a Git repository hosted on BitBucket ( http://bitbucket.org/ ). It's a private repository for now, so if you want access to the code you'll have to sign up on BitBucket (which is a great service, like GitHub, only you get free priva...

17?!?!?!?!?!?! Ack.

This Mother Funker entry for "Baba Ganoush" is a pretty good instrumental entry, especially the sweet slap bass solo.

http://sfjukebox.org/songs/baba_ganoush/Mother+Funker

Oh my God, she's 16 now?!?! I feel so old.

Hey you clowns, get out of my thread!

Sounds cool! Let me know if I can help out somehow, like if you want to put something on GitHub or BitBucket and get some contributors. On the other hand, if you're curious about the Jukebox or somesongs.org code let me know. somesongs code is in BitBucket private repo, Jukebox code is still in an o...

There isn't really a unique id for each song in the official archive, unfortunately. Fight "key" (e.g. "canadian_girlfriend") plus artist name seems like it should be unique but when you dig in you'll find that is not the case because "fluffy porcupine" entered "So...

I think we're in an environment, like what Jim is describing, where other songwriting competition communities like Song Fight! are bound to appear. It's not that unique of an idea frankly. Some people will think "Has this been done?" and for those people we should be trying to make sure th...

I started up a Twitter account ( http://twitter.com/sfarchivist ) some time after I built the Jukebox where I was tweeting songs that I liked from the archive, and also started a "Deep Cuts" thread on the boards here somewhere. I guess there is a chance somebody might think that discussion...

I guess there isn't really a fair way to determine it via the Jukebox. For whichever fight pushes the count to or over 10000, maybe the fightmasters can provide insight onto which songs were submitted in what order, to determine who's #10000?

According to the (potentially inaccurate) count on the Jukebox, the archive currently has 9934 songs. We'll hit 10000 some time soon. Who will have song #10000?!?!?!

That seems pretty lame. It's not like he's completely unaware of Song Fight! I think it would be perfectly reasonable to request that he at least disambiguate, e.g. "Song Fight (not to be confused with "Song Fight!" at http://songfight.org/)". Beyond that, though, it kind of seem...

Last year I bought a pedal steel guitar. It's a crazy beast of an instrument and my skills on it remain quite rudimentary. I haven't been practicing as much as I'd like, so I thought that offering to track some for folks could be a good way for me to spend more time on it. The pedal steel guitar has...

Jim, thanks a lot for taking a bunch of time to provide some honest feedback about BSS. I pretty much agree with all your points. Here's a quick history of BSS. Years ago Ken separately enlisted me and Erin into his band to play gigs with him, then we started making songs for Song Fight! together. G...