Right, thank you haro, that was quick.

I'll leave it open for discussion how / whether to enforce the ratio of giving/receiving critique.

One way would be for me to simply note down who's entitled to getting critique based on number of critiques given. That would work right up until the point when the number of members becomes too large to keep track of.

Another way would be to not enforce a ratio, but to encourage a fair share of each. Of course, I'd keep an eye on things and if they got out of hand, rules could become more strict.

What do you think? If we agree on a system, we could be rolling within the coming week.

I personally think tracking the number of songs a user critiques, and then based on that allowing him to post his own song or not is the best. The honor system won't work on the internet, have moderators try to keep track of it will eventually not work once it becomes too popular. I really don't see another way to go about it, unless you just let it run free.

Sounds like a good idea, but I could imagine that bandwidth would be rather high, especially if people start to hear about it and then people would just use it more for file storage! Maybe it would be an idea if people used their own storage, and this forum could recommend the best free or low cost places that could host files?

Something similar to: http://www.ephotozine.com would be good, also having a page for a top 10 list or similar to get some possible promotion for the better tracks?

There are already communities like this. I'm surprised you haven't found them yet. For instance, ocremix.org, soundtempest.net, and soundclick.com. At any given time, when I'm working on a piece, I know there are at least a dozen people ready to give me feedback on what I'm working on - either through IM, the forums, or IRC. And I didn't know anyone from any of those sites a year ago. They are very friendly communities with lots of knowledgable people who love listening to and writing music. I suggest you join one of them.

Thing is, at least ocremix and soundclick are very genre-limited. Dunno about soundtempest. I think there would be an advantage in making a critique board spin-off from this board, because it would be focused on music for games. You'd be able to get criticism on whether your music is suited for a game soundtrack - as well as general quality, of course.

For example, I can't use soundclick or ocremix because they don't have anything for orchestral musicians. Hence, there might be a need for a board which doesn't focus on certain styles only, but which focuses on all types of game-related music.

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Thing is, at least ocremix and soundclick are very genre-limited. Dunno about soundtempest. I think there would be an advantage in making a critique board spin-off from this board, because it would be focused on music for games. You'd be able to get criticism on whether your music is suited for a game soundtrack - as well as general quality, of course.

For example, I can't use soundclick or ocremix because they don't have anything for orchestral musicians. Hence, there might be a need for a board which doesn't focus on certain styles only, but which focuses on all types of game-related music.

SoundTempest is dedicated entirely to original video game music. :) I share my creations there all the time, and you will find no shortage of other people doing the same.

Also, what makes you think OCremix has "nothing for orchestral musicians"? There are tons of orchestral works posted there. But I wasn't referring to video game remixes when I directed you to that site; I was more pointing you to the COMMUNITY. The community on IRC and the forums are, in general, friendly and knowledgable. A year and a half ago, I didn't even know what the word "synth" meant, but, with the help of lots of people from the OCremix community, I'm now a fairly advanced synth programmer, for instance. I've learned countless things about every aspect of digital music there, including many things related to orchestral music and software.

I wouldn't be opposed to the creation of a new music critique site for game music, just reminding you that there is a resource for that already (ST) and a related resource (OCR).