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Regarding the purchasing of special Tracks I mentioned: You may be able to look into lala.com's legal model for their web songs (10 cents per song for unlimited playback online). I assume it'd be something vaguely similar for loudcrowd. I'm not sure how it works, but it may be a start. Good luck!

I was about to post something similar, glad to see others have beaten me to it.

Hopefully this will be less troublesome as more Tracks are released, but for now the amount of requests are, at times, ridiculous. (Perhaps it's just new users from the public release feeling things out a bit?).

I agree on both fronts: it'd be a great idea to implement a system to keep the same song from being played over and over. Whether or not it's something that tells you the Track is already in the request queue, or even more preferably, something that tells you the song's already been played within the last 30 minutes (or hour even?)

I also really liked it when you used to run guest playlists every 3 hours, and during the playlist no user requests could be made. I realize you're now going in a different, daily direction with playlists, but it'd still be nice to have a few hours spread throughout the day where you could hear the new playlist tracks without being interrupted by 27 remixes of Hold On or Underwater.

I'm sure you guys can figure something super creative out.

This is a great point and idea.

I'm not sure what (if any) the issues are regarding why some tracks are available to be won, while others aren't, but I'd also probably shell out some cash to be able to purchase the 'unwinnable' tracks to store in my collection and request. There's several songs on the guest DJ playlists that I'd like to hear after their playlist has expired.

And yeah, a little documentation would be nice. I have no idea what the ! points are for, I only hope they're good.

Turns out the person may not have received the wrong whisper, it may have just shown up in the wrong tab window.

no kidding – brad, on February 26, 2009 04:29

This happens to me as well dancing on crazy.. not sure if it's present at the other difficulties....

This happens to me too if I'm dancing when the song changes. What I do is just press arrows until the groove meter drops and I fail the dance.

Nevermind about #2, I found it... It's at the top of the Playlist in case anyone else out there is lost like me. Maybe move it back to the main page? – Brad, on February 10, 2009 04:47

I like the default whispers... maybe you could change their color/font to distinguish between default and REAL whispers?

Here are my thoughts on the new layout/flow; there's several things I like, but a few things I miss:

1) Can we get the option to not be on the dance floor back? I liked being able to come to the site when I was at work to listen to some good tunes without having to hop on the dance floor. Now I have to hear that little chirp, neglect people, and feel like a total jerk when I'm at work. Perhaps a 'Leave dance floor' or 'Invisible' button? That said, I DO like being able to view profiles, change clothes, request tracks etc. without having to leave the dance floor, like before.

2) Where'd the volume/mute button go? If I'm listening to the music, but (for example) want to watch a video on youtube, I've now got to close out of the entire game page to stop the music. =' [

3) I, too, miss the scoring aspect of the dance game for reasons similar to those stated by marykate and foofad. Even if it is a social site, that competitive aspect kept it interesting. I DO like not being forced to view a recap and accept/decline loot (if applicable) after each song, it could take a while sometimes, and ate up time that could be spent on the dance floor. However, it would be nice to have scoring back, and have the option to review scores from the last song (it was also nice to be able to see what difficulty everyone was dancing on)

4) I like the Dare system rewarding activity to win sweet loot. I like how it lets me choose the items I'd like to play for so I don't keep winning Crew Cuts and Swayzes when I'm all set with the Fro.

5) That said, why does my activity meter keep dropping every time I log on? Last night it was at 45 or so, today it was at 35. When I had to close the page to watch a youtube video it was at 24 when I logged back on, and now it's at 17 after the page didn't load correctly and I had to reload. I don't mind it dropping according to how long it's been since my last activity (sort of like a half-life or something), but dropping 7 points within 2 minutes is a little ridiculous.

6) Still on Dares: I don't think I'm a fan of how it throws out dares if you don't complete them before gaining another activity level. For example: If I'm at 17, and then get to 20 before taking time to attempt/complete the dares for 18 and 19, I lose those dares. It'd be nice if I was still able to complete the dares for 18 and 19, even if I'm at level 20.

7) Last one on Dares (I promise): Is the difficulty of the dare in any way related to the loot you can win? If it's not, then that'd be kinda cool.

8) Does dancing at harder difficulties reward you in any way (aside from personal gratification)? Similar to how you use to be able to score more points for harder difficulties.

9) Thank you for adding the option to change difficulties mid-song, without having to leave and re-join the dance floor.

10) Thank you for making the dance floor one big room. It'd be nice to be able to select which members show up on the bottom scroll of the dance floor so I don't have to click on 'Show Everyone' to dance with someone I was just dancing with a minute ago.

11) I agree with Foofad that it's a pain to have the player's mini-card replace the entire list, instead of just popping up at the top like it used to.

12) Also, it'd be nice to have the player's # of dances show up again so you could be selective about which auto-whispers you send to new players, as some are a bit strong.

13) I miss the auto-whispers; I know you can still hit the Generate button, but they were fun. Even if they weren't personal messages, they still kept you from dancing in silence, which may have a hand in the 'impersonal'-ness Foofad speaks of.

14) I think the tiles for both the Playlist and Log are twice as big as they need to be. Cut the Purchase Track buttons in half and stack them on the right side. And for the log, hopefully you plan on re-incorporating players' profile pics instead of that dancing flower; they really help to quickly identify who's doing what. Oh, and maybe make non-dance whispers easier to identify; as it is now, they're not very noticeable.

15) Thanks for adding the Purchase Track option; It's already come in handy.

16) I like the new Playlist, but I also miss being able to quickly look at which song is currently playing. One idea is to replace the music-note icon above the Playlist to display the album art of the current song. There's probably a better idea out there too.

17) Thank you for adding a scroll bar to the Playlist and Log!

18) Did I thank you for not making me leave the dance floor to view profiles, request tracks, and change clothes?

Hopefully this doesn't sound like too much of a bitch-list. I think the positives of the changes really do outweigh the negatives.

Please keep up the hard work, you're doing an awesome job.

This is a great idea. Perhaps a section of the site that lets you view Fucci's playlist, as well as all the past and current Guest DJ's playlists? Sample clips of the songs would be awesome, but not necessary. As would links to purchase from Amazon.