PhillyPu wrote:Can somebody fill me in as to why MotD shouldn't be removed? (impeding shit-storm coming starboard side~) I personally don't think we can compare MotD to Drawfriends considering that it takes a lot less time to appreciate each drawing than it is to appreciate each song. If Drawfriends had 20 images, it would take, what, 10 minutes tops to go through (that's an average of half a minute for each drawing, and I'm pretty most people don't even take that long to look at every drawing). Whereas if MotD had 20 songs, and say a person listened to three minutes most for each song, they would be spending an entire hour.
If MotD is really a method for "lesser-known musicians" (I hate that term) to gain "exposure", to be bunched up with 19 other people doesn't cut it. While the current system for EQD Music does look broken, to be seen on the "new music of the day" would be enough to jump start anyone's video to the point where if the song is mind-blowingly awesome, it would spread by word-of-mouth (I personally believe this is the main method by which people gain "popularity"). I do agree there needs to be some sort of quality control in place, and would elevate EQD Music to be a much better place to look for new, fresh pony-related music, much more than the current EQD system of irregular blog updates.
That's, again, my two pence. I expect some reaction to my response, but I'd like to discuss this in a civil manner as well.
Its fair to answer this in whole.
MOTD benefits not only the small but also larger brony musicians too. It's really not an "unrecognized musicians" pitty party. These are the
good tracks from the community for the day. There's only
145 musicians with ytubes subs over 1,000 and only
52 have more than 5,000 (with 4 musicians at above 10x that). Everyone else (multiple hundreds) fall below that. I really don't know what qualifies a midtier musician in this community anymore. But each artist that doesn't below a certain amount won't have a lot of a "fanbase" as a default to get heard. But each artist on MOTD has put out a track that was MLP oriented and good enough quality to get by the listeners. They all deserve a chance TO be heard. Most MOTD spotlights can get about 1,000 listens in a week and they can take off from there if its a superior track. Without it that music wouldn't even be on the shelves to be heard by the community and would have a much small fraction of that number by default.
That's why it benefits the artists. While MOTD DOES have a lot of music it does allow people to see the genres, see the artists, see the track topics, and images (such as characters involved). If people don't want to hear an Orchestral track, a Dubstep track, or a Vocal Pop Track they'll move on. People get to choose a lot just on the way EQD displays the music. If they hear a few seconds and say "yuck, thats not what i want" they can move on to the next. No one is listening to 20 tracks in a row in its
entirety unless they are a true die-hard or a pre-listener (and then they also hear the rejects too and only focus on a few min). Listeners might be checking to see what artists they recognize and focus on those (allowing for those who show up with good tracks consistently to get repeat listens and to build a "fanbase"). Either way this is the "Music of the Day" for EQD and for the community as a WHOLE, it represent exactly what WE have to offer them, and its up to the fans to decide what they like and don't. It's also archived like the rest of EQD is, so that people can show up and backtrack if they weren't on the site on a given day. It's ON EQD (not a sister site) because everything that's pony related is on the main site. Bronies don't have to show up every day but you can always see what the newest good tracks from the community are or from the days or weeks before.
That's why it benefits the listeners. That's also why i do not want to see MOTD go unless ANY replacement really can replace ALL of those awesome features. I don't see that EQDMusic is set up to even attempt half the things there. If it does something different that's not a bad thing and I'm up for additional sites to make it easier for people to find music they want to hear, but do not axe something that IS working for a large majority of the community, listeners and musicians for new music. Why would that be a good thing?
