This is a really interesting phenomenon. People already assume that the most popular (in terms of downloads) tracks are some of the best. That's why there usually is some kind of automated or manual curation on this kind of platform.
I can say that the first thing that I did when I knew about LSP was to download the most downloaded tracks, and I was pretty disappointed by the result. This is an issue if you think about it: some of the best tracks I found on LSP are mostly 2 weeks old. Then these tracks are buried beneath the ever increasing rate of tracks submits, never gaining traction to be the next "most rated/downloaded track". Since there are something like 4-10 (my feeling, I check LSP 3-5 times a week) new tracks added every day we could have a webpage that implements a curation mechanism to present the "best" tracks for the last 30 days. This algorythm can be very simple: download quantity, rating, etc. Just having the period filter would help a lot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
