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The main issues with sc:

1. Different audio levels between songs, there must be some "automastering" function (or, simply listen to mixes, like i prefer to do) 2. The awful "comment at time" system which hasn't been fixed for years 3. The endless spam of shitty songs from people you're following, I can barely follow anyone now a days since the general quality of the stuff they repost isn't very good 4. The lack of premium incentive, also the price (which is too low). I have premium since I'm a producer, but there's not incentive for the average user to pay any money to either sc or the producers

Possible solution: 1. Implement some sort of "for a fee, automaster the audiolevels so they're somwhat the same within the genre". This shouldn't be hard at all from a technical standpoint, spotify is doing it, why not sc? Alternatively have a crew of "quality ensurers" which listen to songs and deem if they get the "sc mark of approval" or something like that 2. Implement direct donations to the users, direct payment to buy songs, where a small fee goes to sc themselves (become the beatport for the unsigned, basically)



> Implement direct donations to the users, direct payment to buy songs, where a small fee goes to sc themselves

I can't believe this doesn't already happen, even some sort of flatter/tip function.


How would you fix the "comment at time" feature?

And about that "automastering" thing, it would be sufficient for them to implement ReplayGain loudness leveling. Of course it's a solved problem.

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain




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