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lreznik	Date: May 21, 2002 @ 10:38 AM I am out to create a better Dmusic. Any suggestions? Email tech@leflaw.com
pog	Date: May 21, 2002 @ 10:29 PM Let me get this straight... you say you're out to try and create a better dmusic. In other words, you're asking dmusic members for their support at trying to make another site, that does the same thing. Are you're really expecting us to do such a thing, i.e. make the original dmusic which we all redundant for you, a member that's been with us for 8 days ? You've got to be kidding, mate ! You obviously have missed the whole point in that it ain't just the guys making the site that makes this possible, but the members too. And these members are pretty darn loyal (well I am, and I think I can safely say most of us are). Therefore, in conclusion I'd like to answer your question with a good luck, dood... But I'd do a bit more homework, if I were you.
Syndicate-1	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 3:46 AM yeah im loyal, actually quite like dmusic apart from it's little bugs here and there.
Fozzie	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 8:16 AM get the old staff back and it will be better. otherwise, shut the doors... because it has all gone to
smelv1n	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 12:53 PM there's still staff here?
pog	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 8:06 PM come on now, Foz... don't be like that Dmusic still beats the hell outta most sites i've been to lately, donchya think ?
princess-angry	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 8:57 PM hey fozzie please don't be so negative....
princess-angry	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 8:57 PM pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzze
princess-angry	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 8:58 PM thank you
valkyre	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 10:03 PM Staff? Nope!
simoncowells...	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 10:24 PM there will never be a music site as good as d music! I still want a heavy metal bin though!
pog	Date: May 23, 2002 @ 11:33 PM lol Lets just monopolise the rock bin till they got no choice !
Frawgster	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 9:50 AM I hate to go against everyone here...but I agree with Foz
simoncowells...	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 10:01 AM well theres alot of us here that would like to see the old staff back but if you dont come back we still dont want the doors to close! no offense
milladrive	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 10:10 AM Like Frawg says, Fozzie's the only one here who has a clue.
backmann	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 2:17 PM www.newdmusic.com" id="9919">www.newdmusic.com
backmann	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 2:17 PM
thumbtack	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 2:44 PM Updated would be more the phrase to use... What types of things would you like to see?
jackmax	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 4:03 PM d music is the best who would want to make a better one .i would say let him try he wont get near dmusic any way
weaponzero	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 5:35 PM does he mean make a new one by IMPROVING this one.. or making an entirely new site? this site (and devart) have pracitcally changed the ways communities function. the change from a bland phpnuke style layout is inspiring, so in that case I can't see how you could make dmusic any better then it is right now. but then again, i guess i don't have a clue
leflaw	Date: May 24, 2002 @ 9:22 PM name a few artists you'd like to see have live chats............
smelv1n	Date: May 25, 2002 @ 10:42 AM more." id="9955">"What types of things would you like to see?" more.
weaponzero	Date: May 25, 2002 @ 10:53 AM i'm confused
MrXero	Date: May 26, 2002 @ 8:44 PM heh... hmm New Dmusic... from larry... heh... Can I tell the secret?
smelv1n	Date: May 26, 2002 @ 8:48 PM tell your secret
MrXero	Date: May 26, 2002 @ 8:50 PM Aw F-It I'll tell the secret... that person is Lenora Reznik and she works for Larry Feldman who is also known as leflaw, who also happens to own this particular website. I think she was asking for suggestions on how to make this D-Music better... There's an easy answer to that one and she knows what it is. For my end of things though I need more friggin companies to send me mp3 players. The ChomeX was that last thing I've had. I had a HUGE list before that. I was supposed to get the MXP-100 but eDig just stopped taking my calls. Any I haven't been around lately much because I just moved home and am working 40 hours a week. I haven't even had time to set up my computer... Anyway that's a bit of the story kids now that y'all are informed.
backmann	Date: May 26, 2002 @ 11:56 PM Oh, I didn't notice. 'leflaw' appears in the email she gave at the beggining.
yellowbeard	Date: May 27, 2002 @ 12:02 AM Zeropaid.com went to crap when they started letting anyone and everyone post uninformed stories against the RIAA. The reason I liked the old site was because it had great news and sweet hardware reviews. There was no one else out there covering this stuff and no one really reviewed mp3 players. I remember when I was looking for an mp3 player and the only site with information about the Treo was Dmusic. They had tons of other reviews which i could use for comparisons in order to decide which one I wanted. Now the hardware reviews have been minimized and almost every post is a bitchfest against the RIAA. Not that I like the RIAA but I've read it all before and think it really hurts the site's credibility. I know this site has always tried to emphasize its artists (that's probably where most of the revenue is anyway), but I think past polls (from the old Dmusic- it may have changed since then) have shown that most visitors aren't intersted in that. It seems most people come for the news, reviews, and community." id="10060">Eh, all the sites like Dmusic and Zeropaid.com went to crap when they started letting anyone and everyone post uninformed stories against the RIAA. The reason I liked the old site was because it had great news and sweet hardware reviews. There was no one else out there covering this stuff and no one really reviewed mp3 players. I remember when I was looking for an mp3 player and the only site with information about the Treo was Dmusic. They had tons of other reviews which i could use for comparisons in order to decide which one I wanted. Now the hardware reviews have been minimized and almost every post is a bitchfest against the RIAA. Not that I like the RIAA but I've read it all before and think it really hurts the site's credibility. I know this site has always tried to emphasize its artists (that's probably where most of the revenue is anyway), but I think past polls (from the old Dmusic- it may have changed since then) have shown that most visitors aren't intersted in that. It seems most people come for the news, reviews, and community.
MrXero	Date: May 27, 2002 @ 1:06 AM Well there used to be like 3 or 4 hardware staff members... Now it's just me and I'm busy with other issues in my life. I can't handle doing more than say 2 or 3 reviews a month and I'm getting a bit out of the loop as far as new players are concerned because I just don't have the time to research.
MrXero	Date: May 27, 2002 @ 8:34 PM Do you think I should Do Dmusical notes again?
smelv1n	Date: May 27, 2002 @ 8:46 PM yes, those were good.
lreznik	Date: May 28, 2002 @ 12:47 PM Thank you guys!!!! I am going to look over your suggestions and I will contact my tech staff and we will start working on them as soon as possible!! Thanks!
lreznik	Date: May 28, 2002 @ 12:48 PM We are looking for more genres - any ideas?
MrXero	Date: May 28, 2002 @ 5:49 PM http://hardware.dmusic.com) PLEASE!!! It looks like :poo: " id="10128">I say a entertainment Genre... but that's what Dmusical notes was I say we need a WAY better Staff Team... I'll admit I alone sucks as a hardware division. If we had say 3 to 5 hardware guys we would have the most bitchin site in the world. That includes a crack team of high quality reviews and writers. Hardware is what hooked a LOT of members to this website including yours truly. You want high traffic again you bring in good writers and lots of hardware reviews and the hits will come in. Until we have a lot more content this site will continue to go downhill. I also wouldn't mind expanding into other forums of entertainment besides music, a little bit of movies and video game stuff would work quite nicely as well. Oh yeah and have somebody redesign my hardware site ( http://hardware.dmusic.com) PLEASE!!! It looks like
backmann	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 12:17 AM gnutella.com, but if so, please fix the smilies on the forums!!!" id="10146">I don't know if this site has anything to do with gnutella.com, but if so, please fix the smilies on the forums!!!
yellowbeard	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 12:46 AM Heh, maybe Dmusic should become to music what Deviantart is to art. This would involve a complete format change for the site and would probably result in a lot of the current visitors leaving, but if it could achieve what DeviantArt has done it would mean tons of new visitors. However, this would depend on the submitters of music becoming part of the community instead of simply having Dmusic host their music. Perhaps there could be a concept section where people submitted working samples of tracks or just something cool they made messing around with their instrument/voice/computer/whatever. The question is whether there is a significant audience out there that would compare to the digital art community. There's also the issue that sound files are bigger than image files and not everyone has broadband or the time to download them. Not to mention that it would probably be more difficult to hold people's attention with sound files to download as opposed to shiny pictures. Whether you go with my crazy idea or something else, it would seem that something has to be done because the current system does not seem to be working. People stop visiting a site when there aren't daily updates and both the news and hardware sections (understandably) have been lacking as of late. Changes for the site would almost certainly require more staff and revamped sections. Whatever changes are ultimately made, they should be based on the strengths of the site and its staff. Without a full (perhaps paid) staff and without going all out on the hardware section, for example, it's obviously going to be difficult to obtain test units and churn out a steady stream of reviews. News of course is a lot easier to do almost entirely with member submissions, but there should be a focus on keeping the material fresh and different from all the other websites (especially avoid cut-and-paste stories). Occasional features written by the main editors of the site are crucial in order to give the site some originality. I think Dmusic has the community part down pretty good, though. The shoutbox is cool and original, the site design is pretty great when enough members participate (it was my second favorite aspect of the old Dmusic after the hardware section that drew me in from search engines) and the forums are also cool. It's great that everything is integrated together instead of having a separate forum that looks differently than the rest of the site. The member features such as avatars and all the other features in the members section are all top-notch. I could see the point system really taking off with enough users. In conclusion, I have really strayed from my initial comments. This is just some stuff to consider I guess. Oh, and free Red Bull is always good too.
pog	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 12:53 AM I got some suggestions for the site, like a suggestion box Also, I have some genre ideas... well the styles I know about anyways. Rock needs to be split into Heavy, and Commercial and Alternative. Punk needs Old school and New school. Techno needs a Drum and Bass section with the 4 sub genre's Dark, Happy Hardcore, Trip Hop, and Jungle. Hope these are of use.
MrXero	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 1:02 AM eh I have never been a news writer type guy hence Dmusical Note's Cut and Paste format. DMN is made to be a little bit more entertaining than news worthy. As far as hardware... Well first up the section really needs to be done for it to be effective... I mean I can do 1000 previews this week but no one will look at them because 1st it's damn near impossible to get to the hardware section from the home site. 2nd The HW site is F-ugly... actually it's nice looking but it looks so out of place now that it doesn't even seem like a new site... not to mention the site physically can NOT be updated because that option was removed in January hence all hardware news is now GearUp news. I've kept up the hardware section mildly decent the month of April and early May. Which even though isn't saying a lot but I did keep a steady pace and released a bit of nice news and reviews.
MrXero	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 8:16 PM That's part of gear up but I know little about software... I'd give you access. But I don't have that power.
lreznik	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 8:38 PM Great stuff guys!! Keep it coming!! Mr. Zero I will get you a staff of three but you will have to tell them what to do.
princess-angry	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 8:49 PM dmusic is cool. i hang out here alot....
MrXero	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 8:53 PM ok sweet!!!
MrXero	Date: May 29, 2002 @ 11:16 PM oh? Dee. if you want to ever just post news or write an article about Freeware by all means go ahead I'll authorize it! Be sure to notify me though if I don't have it posted up in a day or so because I don't check the unauthorized articles too often. Just every once in a while.
backmann	Date: May 30, 2002 @ 12:19 AM Yes, I fell the gear up section could be improved. The rest is great.
MrXero	Date: May 30, 2002 @ 1:22 AM Am I allowed to do that? Dee, Send me all your favorite DLs and I'll DL them and post them up somewhere to be DLed on the Dmusic server and then I'll put up a link.
lreznik	Date: May 30, 2002 @ 2:52 PM Software section is coming back! In the near future - any ideas about how to bring more people to dmusic from other sites?
lreznik	Date: May 30, 2002 @ 3:38 PM Would anyone be intersted in a REMIX Section on Dmusic? Just a suggestion!
princess-angry	Date: May 30, 2002 @ 4:01 PM me!! definatly!!!! I love remixes!!! I am looking for a dj prog and I'll get one as soon I as move to my new house... I'll submit my work here after I'm done with it!!!
weaponzero	Date: May 30, 2002 @ 5:49 PM this is scary and confusing
weaponzero	Date: May 30, 2002 @ 6:09 PM one way to make dmusic better would be to give me a golden lightning bolt
Fproano	Date: May 31, 2002 @ 2:41 AM D.MUSIC is very cool. " id="10292">D.MUSIC is very cool.
smelv1n	Date: May 31, 2002 @ 9:49 PM http://extremetracking.com/open?login=smelv1n" id="10340">pay me or give me free high bandwidth hosting and i'll post links to dmusic all over my website i only get 1000-2000 unique visitors per day with approx 20,000 page views per day Haven't updated the stats in a while Date/Time Page views Percentage May 01 20240 14.45% May 02 24612 17.58% May 03 21582 15.41% May 04 20747 14.82% May 05 25491 18.20% May 06 22151 15.82% http://extremetracking.com/open?login=smelv1n
smelv1n	Date: May 31, 2002 @ 9:49 PM the extremetracking link only tracks unique visitors, the page views is from my personal webserver stats
smelv1n	Date: June 1, 2002 @ 11:19 AM www.spepisodes.com" id="10360">www.spepisodes.com
lreznik	Date: June 1, 2002 @ 12:20 PM I will notify Larry about the offer and we will contact you.
smelv1n	Date: June 1, 2002 @ 12:58 PM cool!
prevail	Date: June 1, 2002 @ 2:55 PM i need some cool music any suggestions?
smelv1n	Date: June 1, 2002 @ 6:51 PM what kind of music?
simoncowells...	Date: June 1, 2002 @ 10:18 PM the guppy killers or pog if you want heavy metal!
cype	Date: June 1, 2002 @ 10:40 PM A BETTER DMUSIC? no way!!!!!!
simoncowells...	Date: June 2, 2002 @ 12:57 AM yes way!
simoncowells...	Date: June 3, 2002 @ 6:08 PM how bout some sound effects when some one sends you a note or writes some thing in your shout box or when a new song is added to the site or some thing!
TheWitchingHour	Date: June 3, 2002 @ 10:02 PM Best suggestion..please remove all my information from this hideous site!
pog	Date: June 3, 2002 @ 11:23 PM Cheerz for the nice wordz, gupster Yoo rock 2 man That'd be cool if they released a program like icq or yahoo messenger for dmusic. Then you could have features like auto-refreshing threads that work like a chat
simoncowells...	Date: June 3, 2002 @ 11:45 PM rock 0n pogster!
pog	Date: June 3, 2002 @ 11:48 PM /me is moshing around the room like a freak
simoncowells...	Date: June 3, 2002 @ 11:56 PM Im to sick to mosh but it sure sounds fun!
MrXero	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 12:30 AM eh... What do you mean Witchy?
TheWitchingHour	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 12:38 AM I wish to be removed from this site...I see no removal option so please remove me.
-X-	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 10:41 AM P.S. Kiddies.. I may be more actively involved in DMusic once again as I was before. It's about time we push DMusic to the level she was about to be at before Scour got attacked by the entire entertainment industry. -X-
princess-angry	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 10:46 AM I really want the gear section to be the same as the old dmusic.... to be that deep and that style... I would be glad to do HW reviews!!!
creativetim	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 12:14 PM I say have a and a and shut the F_CK up! There is a lot of stuff happening to this site that not many of us know about, but still, there is no need to worry about creating a better site than dmusic! I win!
Chad	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 6:26 PM Uh.... DMusic was to bands what Deviant Art is to artists...except we had a quality filter in the form of DJs in place to prevent time-wasting and frustratingly bad MP3 downloads.. it didn't work the way we all wanted it to. ~Gagarin
Chad	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 6:28 PM And.. just look at the lreznik dude's email address.... he doesn't mean ANOTHER site.. he means.. a differant DMusic.
smelv1n	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 8:24 PM he or she?
TyRaNt-X	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 8:37 PM I'm new here and all I can say the uptime alone compared to soundclick has made me choose this as a hosting choice for my audios.... I'm sure my home rap boards members will come here to host their audios, not sure but is there a VB board or some shit, that'd be nice anywayz pz... and that was a lot to read SO STOP POSTING IN HERE (j/k)
TyRaNt-X	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 8:37 PM I'm new here and all I can say the uptime alone compared to soundclick has made me choose this as a hosting choice for my audios.... I'm sure my home rap boards members will come here to host their audios, not sure but is there a VB board or some shit, that'd be nice anywayz pz... and that was a lot to read SO STOP POSTING IN HERE (j/k)
TyRaNt-X	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 8:39 PM neg.dmusic.com" id="10553">ok disregard the VB board comment... I just found it and realized I am already posting in the fourm, lol peep my ish neg.dmusic.com
smelv1n	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 9:02 PM uuuh....yea.....
Bluenevus	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 9:15 PM smelv1n you rock big time! It took me a long time to put 2 and 2 together. I've been going to your site for a while for my SP fix. Thanks to you, I get my SP fix any time I want it. Awsome site...Awsome Thanks
simoncowells...	Date: June 4, 2002 @ 10:32 PM creative tim sucks ass with his last comment on this thread! I just needed to say that

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