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Rating songs made easy. Perhaps.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:13 pm
by jast
So I'm currently working on my music website and just for the fun of it I want to make it easy for people to review my songs. To that end, one part of the review things I want to include is a set of scales people can rate things on. Now I ask myself, what scales make sense?

For the last two rounds of reviews I used the Arbitrary Review System as invented by myself. It rates songs separately in five different aspects: composition, lyrics, feeling/vibe, performance, mix/engineering. Made sense to me when I thought it up, but can you think of a better or more interesting set of categories? Or anything else that might be interesting to see in reviews that people tend to forget to ask about?

Re: Rating songs made easy. Perhaps.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:03 pm
by Henrietta
The catagories themselves might depend on who your audience will be. Nearly everyone on SF is a recording musician, and so our reviews take mix & engineering as seriously as performance or songcraft.... but I might not expect the average listener to have the same appreciation for certain technical details that we involve ourselves with around here.

Re: Rating songs made easy. Perhaps.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:09 pm
by jast
All categories would be completely optional, i.e. everyone would be encouraged to rate only those things they feel they have a valid opinion on.