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bmccosar	Date: October 25, 2006 @ 6:18 PM In my recent exploration of the site, I have found many promising features. However, I have also hit a few potholes. How does one go about finding good, new music on DMusic? I do not mean ~popular~ music; I mean, music that suits ME. 1. Another thread implied the popularity rankings are flawed, anyway. 2. When I go to any given genre and hit "stream all", it just gives a site error and says I need a ticket (kind of like when you have to Buy a Vowel, or what?) 3. In an informal poll, 100% of the hifi streams tested under "browse" for a given genre returned the following error (or similar): Not Found The requested URL /genre/rock/music/stream/hifi/25945/stream.m3u was not found on this server. There must be something I'm missing here. Has to be because I'm new. Right?
jack	Date: October 25, 2006 @ 6:21 PM 1. They are. There is a note left in that thread- we're also working on it! 2. Noted. 3. Noted. I'll take a look at fixing this stuff. Thanks!
bmccosar	Date: October 25, 2006 @ 7:21 PM Hey, Thank You. That was fast. Is there any way to flag the tunes you've found? I tried "add to playlist" last night as well--it just executed a NOP. Maybe I'm the Harbinger of Doom?
jack	Date: October 25, 2006 @ 8:28 PM What do you mean by 'flag' them? Flad them for what? if you find some cool tunes but don't want to listen to them right away, Subscribers have a thing called a 'watchlist' which notifies you when your favourite artists upload a new tune. It also has a feature where you can add any track of your choosing to it (making it double-up as a reminder or musical TODO list).
starkid100	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 8:27 AM well I just listen to anyone's stuff what you making?
DaveWL	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 8:33 AM I think there are a few things since the re-design that make it harder to keep track of new music. You can no longer expand the list of recent uploads. Ten tracks listed only probably just represent the last few hours of uploads where as before you could go back as many days as you wanted. Useful if you hadn’t logged on for a while. Like wise with the lists in each genre and generally more difficult to browse and navigate between genres now.
jack	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 8:47 AM DaveWL: http://music.dmusic.com/recent/ There's a more... link at the bottom. That pages through the recent uploads with the same functonality as before. Browsing through genres is also pretty much the same. Click the browse tab, then click on a genre. Once you're in a genre, you can use the breadcrumb links at the top of the page to move around between subgenres or even back to the main browse page.
jack	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 8:49 AM Or alternatively, you can use the links under the 'genre' heading to browse through the genres if you're just looking for new music and nothing in particular.
bmccosar	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 9:22 AM Na, I was hoping for more a sort of virtual Dewey Decimal system to facilitate browsing. And by "flagging," I meant like on the Jamendo page, where you can star albums if you want to go back later for a relisten. I don't always get everything first time I hear it. Just asking.
DaveWL	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 11:31 AM Thanks Jack I guess it's just a case of knowing where to find things.

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