I’ve got an idea that tries to combine all these factors.
Imagine this category structure:
- Music
- Tracks
- Albums
- Artists
Now let’s focus on the main Music category and the Tracks subcategory.
The Tracks subcategory works with the system you propose: people submitting their tracks must come with a story. One track one topic. We offer a default template that people can follow or throw away an explain something about the track however they wish.
The Music main category includes two monthly topics where even a link without any information is accepted (conditions apply, see below):
- Bitwig Music Radar - December 2021 - Anyone can post links to anything produced with Bitwig. They must be published during the month and there needs to be a reasonable indication that it has been produced with Bitwig.
- Bitwish Music Compilation - December 2021 - Same as above, except that users submit their own works.
The technical features of these monthly topics would be the same as Bitwig Video Guide Selection - December 2021
- An opening topic explains what this is about and what you can do as a publisher of new entries and as a listener.
- One track, one reply.
- Listeners can
, comment, and upvote each track (upvotes are limited)
If there is enough participation, at the end of the month we will have two topics filled with tracks, ranked by votes just for the fun of it.
This means that we have three levels for music submissions:
- Radar is very casual and maybe even noisy, but it’s cool because we get quantity, and maybe people discover Bitwishj when they realize (or someone tells them) that someone has featured their last song.
- Compilation is still very casual, but the creators are here, and therefore people may feel more encouraged to leave casual comments.
- Tracks is more involved, is about conversations, exchanges, advice… a community of creators.
From there we’d jump to Albums and Artists, more involved, deeper connections.