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Re: Rate Your Music

Ironic Karma — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:46:26 GMT

Author: Ironic Karma

Posted: 07/28/2010 21:46

I like that site a lot now! I like how you can add comments to the albums in your charts. Interesting concepts all over the place. I joined as Ironickarma, here's my page:

http://rateyourmusic.com/~IronicKarma

Re: Rate Your Music

videoheadcleaner — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:02:40 GMT

Author: videoheadcleaner

Posted: 07/27/2010 10:02

http://rateyourmusic.com/~harkan

Re: Rate Your Music

cartoken — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:17:28 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 07/26/2010 16:17

the problem with RYM is their charts ! sometimes completely irrational. but what i like a lot in RYM is the map of the artists it would be super-great if this was available in BEA.

i think that RYM and BEA are complementary, plus Metacritic for new music

Re: Rate Your Music

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:44:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/26/2010 15:44

Freddie55 wrote:

an_outlaw wrote:

Something that's annoying me about Rate Your music right now is that my ratings don't seem to have an effect. I'm reading over and over about the weighted system, ratings dropping because I gave high ratings etc before going to forum. I may of missed something.

Here is a good example:
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/tasmin_archer/one_more_good_night_with_the_boys/

Maybe part of the site is that I can't see the effect I have on the ratings 😕

Other than that the site is fantastic. Motorcycle Emptiness in the top 300 singles of all! :D

Don't pay too much heed to the ratings 😄 I clicked on your link and looked at the names of the 4 raters. A fellow named "almofada" is listed twice. I clicked on one of his names, then his ratings and looked at 5.0 ratings. He had managed to rate Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks five times by changing the media format of the album. He probably did that with lots of albums. He has 10,000 ratings. How many others are doing the same thing on RYM? That's a big data integrity problem unless the administrators have built consideration into their formula!

I hadn't noticed that before. I could see how that could mess with the ratings on the site and skew the overall ratings for them. On the other hand, even with him ratings twice, I believe I should of had a little effect on the rating. As all 3 ratings are rooted at 3.0, my 5.0 should have had a visible effect. Although I enjoy the site a lot, It feels a little disheartening knowing I may not have any effect on the ratings.

Re: Rate Your Music

Freddie55 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:33:56 GMT

Author: Freddie55

Posted: 07/26/2010 15:33

albummaster wrote:

I'm finding this discussion really interesting. Both sites are approaching things from different angles.

RYM is attempting to catalogue (and rate) every single release in history and BEA is attempting to just surface and bring attention to the ones that are worth a look (we are not interested in filler).

Both sites use different mechanisms to rank their albums, RYM uses a ratings algorithm and here we use charts.

We are going to add genre data into the site (a lot of the background work has already been done), so hopefully we can make the browsing experience even more rewarding once this is live.

I consider BEA to be a community for interaction and discourse. RYM is a huge library of music reviews by listeners.

Re: Rate Your Music

Freddie55 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:21:37 GMT

Author: Freddie55

Posted: 07/26/2010 15:21

an_outlaw wrote:

Re: Rate Your Music

albummaster — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:13:36 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 07/26/2010 15:13

I'm finding this discussion really interesting. Both sites are approaching things from different angles.

RYM is attempting to catalogue (and rate) every single release in history and BEA is attempting to just surface and bring attention to the ones that are worth a look (we are not interested in filler).

Both sites use different mechanisms to rank their albums, RYM uses a ratings algorithm and here we use charts.

We are going to add genre data into the site (a lot of the background work has already been done), so hopefully we can make the browsing experience even more rewarding once this is live.

Re: Rate Your Music

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:59:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/26/2010 14:59

Something that's annoying me about Rate Your music right now is that my ratings don't seem to have an effect. I'm reading over and over about the weighted system, ratings dropping because I gave high ratings etc before going to forum. I may of missed something.

Here is a good example:
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/tasmin_archer/one_more_good_night_with_the_boys/

Maybe part of the site is that I can't see the effect I have on the ratings 😕

Other than that the site is fantastic. Motorcycle Emptiness in the top 300 singles of all! 😁

Re: Rate Your Music

CellarDoor — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:16:54 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 07/25/2010 21:16

Freddie55 wrote:

I see the two sites as complementary.

I agree.

I use both sites to find new music : I usually browse through the different genres on RYM, and I love the BEA chart concept.

http://rateyourmusic.com/~CellarDoor85

Re: Rate Your Music

Freddie55 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:44:10 GMT

Author: Freddie55

Posted: 07/25/2010 20:44

I see the two sites as complementary.

Re: Rate Your Music

Applerill — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:22:13 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 07/25/2010 19:22

I just spent a half-hour looking around RYM, and while there were a few things that I liked about it (three Black Sabbath albums in the top 100? W00T!), other things, such as all the negative Little Earthquakes reviews, made me want to cry.

All in all, I definitely prefer BEA.

Re: Rate Your Music

Cryptozoologist — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:15:12 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 07/25/2010 17:15

I like their "greatest of all time" chart, Abbey Road at #1!

Re: Rate Your Music

RFNAPLES — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:35:39 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 07/25/2010 14:35

Yes I have an account there too but hardly ever visit it. I prefer Best Ever Albums.

http://rateyourmusic.com/~RFNAPLES

Re: Rate Your Music

cartoken — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:20:03 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 07/25/2010 14:20

Yes "Catoken" too !

here's a link to my page: http://rateyourmusic.com/~cartoken

Re: Rate Your Music

Freddie55 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:17:58 GMT

Author: Freddie55

Posted: 07/25/2010 14:17

http://rateyourmusic.com/~FredinWhiteRock

Rate Your Music

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:59:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/25/2010 13:59

Excuse me if there is a thread like this elsewhere.

Are there any people on Rate Your Music here? My user name on that site is the same as this one. 😄