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2/06/07 07:38am
Eric and I have been busting our asses on the 2.0 redesign. Sadly though, it's still a long ways out. Who knew programming could be so much work?

We are both really excited about our progress though. We've got a lot of neat ideas that should make the site far more addictive and fun. Additionally, we will be improving the overall experience that exists now, fixing bugs, and much more.

However, since we have already overshot our original estimate by a month, and foresee many more months before it is released... we want to know what you guys might like added to the site in the interim.

We don't want to add anything substantial to the 1.0 code because it will have to rewritten almost immediately in the 2.0 framework; but everyone has been very patient with us and we want to offer some sort of reward for that.

Any ideas anyone? Anything glaring that needs fixing, or maybe some bitching feature we haven't even thought of?

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awarded on 2007-02-10

Level 9
apart from personal gifts, i've always made mixtapes just for playing, they're generally much nicer than bought cds. so, to complete the transition from html to tape, i thought something like this http://www.papercdcase.com/ in this site would be good, using the track info and cover picture that are already uploaded.

i'm completely addicted to this site guys, keep it up.
2/12/07 03:36am
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awarded on 2007-02-10

Level 9
could it be possible to edit the track descriptions and liner notes of a mix that's been created? anything but the tracks themselves.

also, people associate someone with their icon much more than their name, if badges are used instead of user icons when posting tags, it's easy to mistake one person for another, unless of course, you have a very unique badge (i'm looking at YOU galaxiepi :p ) maybe just show off badges in the userprofile?
2/12/07 03:10am
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awarded on 2007-07-17

Level 17
More photo's perhaps!

And also maybe a random photo, along with all the other random stuff (profile, mix, etc.).
Thanks!
2/11/07 11:41am
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awarded on 2007-10-11

Level 14
Mixing while pooing would be pretty sweet...
2/10/07 09:32am
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Now, get off the damn computer and go hit up the bars.
awarded on 2007-06-23

Level 28
make this shit work on my blackberry so i can mixtape while i poo... since thats the only free time i have anymore.
2/09/07 09:04pm
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awarded on 2007-07-17

Level 18
how about once and for all, posting the point amounts required to reach each level? you'll probably shoot this down, but it would give us a clearer idea of what we're working towards.
2/08/07 09:59pm
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awarded on 2007-06-29

Level 24
Oh, unrelated, but for 2.0, we should be able to choose whether it's meant to be on a CD (80 min, 400x400 px. cover art), 2CD (160 min, 400x400 px cover art), or tape (60, 90, or 120 min, whatever size the tape is px. cover art) during the making of a mixtape. Because quite a few people have some 90-120 min tapes that won't work out in the current format, and occasionally someone will make a 2CD mixtape (why I'm not sure). It also would provoke new users to get creative with their mixtape timing.
2/07/07 06:56pm
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awarded on 2008-08-17

Level 36
I jiust might
2/07/07 06:15pm
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Special thanks to those that embraced the Collective on this most sacrilegious of holidays. Mix on, you vile tormentor of souls!
awarded on 2006-06-06

Level 20
sledge... the long distance makes it so hard... I know that if we start doing that, then I'll get attached... and man, I hate long distance relationships.

Sorry dude...move back to portland and we'll talk.
2/07/07 06:27am
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awarded on 2008-08-17

Level 36
What about my request?
2/07/07 12:41am
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Huh?!? Where did this come from?
awarded on 2008-08-14

Level 26
Corey, you're the greatest!
2/06/07 05:56pm
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awarded on 2006-06-06

Level 20
galaxiepi: we don't have the infrastructure in place to give out special rewards/awards for the contest... but I went ahead and added a little indicator of what rank the mix got. It's not much, but it's something =) Don't worry, we are going to be flushing out the awards and stuff greatly in 2.0. It should be awesome.

nathunder: I went ahead and added that feature in. if you go to 'my relationships' it will show the 20 most recent mixtapes added by your friends/foes.

shinyobject: we won't be switching to a third party database primarily because it forces us to depend on other's database design, operations (our site goes down if their's does), etc. Plus, we would lose a lot of freedom with how we want to implement music data. We know it's a pain to add music to the database, but every track that gets added is one less track to add in the future!
2/06/07 05:46pm
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Level 13
Any way to tap the music search into some database where the add process could be simplified? I sometimes have a great idea for a mix. But the time it would take to key in new bands/new tracks outweighs the reward of doing so.

Brilliant work so far nonetheless. You guys are mensch...Is that plural?
2/06/07 12:33pm
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awarded on 2007-07-17

Level 18
it would be kinda handy if you would be notified when users on your friends list made a new tape...i mean, you could just check the "most recent" thing, but...handy.
2/06/07 10:24am
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awarded on 2006-07-07

Level 14
a mtc game where you're a monster little tape and you chomp songs in order to make a killer mixtape!!??!! BUH-ZAOH

but don't do that
2/06/07 10:21am
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awarded on 2008-08-17

Level 36
Free BJs.
2/06/07 09:05am
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Huh?!? Where did this come from?
awarded on 2008-08-14

Level 26
I think this has been discussed before, but putting a little star or something next to "award-winning" mixes would be nice. And then having appropriately color coded stars on our profile denoting what place we took in contests is great for instant bragging rights. I mean I know we have badges, but this would be... different? Ok, it's still early and I'm not making a great argument for myself, but at least having a system showing off the award winning mixes would be nice.
2/06/07 08:23am
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