A beginner's guide to emusers
NOTE: some of the tips about forum code further down this thread don't work any more since we upgraded the forum...
Here's a brief primer on the main threads that weave their way through our little board: <p><a href="http://www.emusers.org/emusers.net/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1689/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now-homer-simpson-discovered-higgs-boson-14-years-before-cern#latest">What are you listening to right now? (Part 14)</a><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">- The most active thread around. Currently on its 14th incarnation. Previously:</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.emusers.org/emusers.net/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1590/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now-13-indigenous-grandmothers-are-praying-for-the-planet/p1">What are you listening to right now? (Part 13)</a> (May 2013-March 2015) (Closed)</p><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.emusers.net/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=1570">What are you listening to right now? (part 12)</a> (March 2013-May2013) (Closed)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What are you listening to right now? (part 11) - February 4 2013 - March 17 2013 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 10) August 19, 2012 - February 4 2013 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 9) - April 14 2012 - August 19, 2012 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 8) - November 5 2011 - April 14 2012 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 7) - August 14th 2011 - November 5th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 6) - May 29th 2011 - August 14th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 5) - Mar 29th 2011 - May 28th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 4) - Feb 12th 2011 - Mar 29th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 3) - Jan 10th 2011-Feb 12th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to now? (part 2) - Sep 23rd 2010-Jan 10th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? - Jan 30th 2010-Sep 23rd 2010 (closed)
We like to retire these threads after they go over 1000 posts so the current thread has recent listens.
emusers' standard lecture on good free stuff - Formerly amclark2's lecture, but he set it free for all just like the music found inside.
New & Notable releases - This thread should be used WAY more than it is.
Listen before it's gone (NPR, Spin, etc) - Brand new albums streaming free for a limited time (usually until release date).
Mixtapes? Sites for making online mixtapes and discussion thereof.
RIP - To discuss the recently deceased.
Store Specific
Amazon Daily mp3 Download Deals - Pretty much any deal you find at Amazon, but mostly used for the daily deals that really grab your attention. You'll also notice monthly threads pop up when they've got a number of good $5 offerings.
Bandcamp Goodies - Not just for freebies! Any great finds you come across while surfing the magical land of Bandcamp go here. Please check the first post for some pointers.
Throwing Punches at the Hurricane: Jazz at Bandcamp - This thread is like the Pitchfork for jazz on Bandcamp.
Guvera - Oh great Guvera, please send us more of your magically free mp3s.
It's All About Me
Hello - New members, introduce yourselves!
About eMusers
The lunatics run the asylum. We are crazy about music. We do not seek a cure, we look for more rabbit holes to explore.
This is not a place to find downloads for hit songs you heard on the radio. If that's what you're after you should leave quickly, because the disease we all have is catching.</span><br></div>
Here's a brief primer on the main threads that weave their way through our little board: <p><a href="http://www.emusers.org/emusers.net/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1689/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now-homer-simpson-discovered-higgs-boson-14-years-before-cern#latest">What are you listening to right now? (Part 14)</a><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">- The most active thread around. Currently on its 14th incarnation. Previously:</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"> </span></p><p><a href="http://www.emusers.org/emusers.net/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1590/what-are-you-listening-to-right-now-13-indigenous-grandmothers-are-praying-for-the-planet/p1">What are you listening to right now? (Part 13)</a> (May 2013-March 2015) (Closed)</p><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.emusers.net/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=1570">What are you listening to right now? (part 12)</a> (March 2013-May2013) (Closed)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What are you listening to right now? (part 11) - February 4 2013 - March 17 2013 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 10) August 19, 2012 - February 4 2013 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 9) - April 14 2012 - August 19, 2012 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 8) - November 5 2011 - April 14 2012 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 7) - August 14th 2011 - November 5th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 6) - May 29th 2011 - August 14th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 5) - Mar 29th 2011 - May 28th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 4) - Feb 12th 2011 - Mar 29th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? (part 3) - Jan 10th 2011-Feb 12th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to now? (part 2) - Sep 23rd 2010-Jan 10th 2011 (closed)
What are you listening to right now? - Jan 30th 2010-Sep 23rd 2010 (closed)
We like to retire these threads after they go over 1000 posts so the current thread has recent listens.
emusers' standard lecture on good free stuff - Formerly amclark2's lecture, but he set it free for all just like the music found inside.
New & Notable releases - This thread should be used WAY more than it is.
Listen before it's gone (NPR, Spin, etc) - Brand new albums streaming free for a limited time (usually until release date).
Mixtapes? Sites for making online mixtapes and discussion thereof.
RIP - To discuss the recently deceased.
Store Specific
Amazon Daily mp3 Download Deals - Pretty much any deal you find at Amazon, but mostly used for the daily deals that really grab your attention. You'll also notice monthly threads pop up when they've got a number of good $5 offerings.
Bandcamp Goodies - Not just for freebies! Any great finds you come across while surfing the magical land of Bandcamp go here. Please check the first post for some pointers.
Throwing Punches at the Hurricane: Jazz at Bandcamp - This thread is like the Pitchfork for jazz on Bandcamp.
Guvera - Oh great Guvera, please send us more of your magically free mp3s.
It's All About Me
Hello - New members, introduce yourselves!
About eMusers
The lunatics run the asylum. We are crazy about music. We do not seek a cure, we look for more rabbit holes to explore.
This is not a place to find downloads for hit songs you heard on the radio. If that's what you're after you should leave quickly, because the disease we all have is catching.</span><br></div>
Comments
Let me know what you guys think. I don't want anyone to feel like I'm trying to take over anything or take credit for all of the great posting that goes on here, I just think that it might be better if the only things up top permanently were the Ground Rules & FAQ, Suggestion Box, and a guide like this.
If it makes sense, then everybody can just post comments about what threads they feel should be included and (if people agree) I'll update the first post to reflect that.
EDIT: Okay, back to my post...
The main page is showing everything that's stickied on the site, regardless of subforum/category. I rather like Thom's idea of unstickying a lot of those threads, and then putting a sticky on this thread with relevant links to other threads.
Miscalaneous Band/Artist/Album/Label features:
Emusers guide to Ilia Belorukov
Ben Frost
Miasmah @ Soundcloud
ITSNOTYOUITSME . . . . .
MYRNINEREST . . . James Blackshaw & David Tibet of Current 93
Rok Vrbancic, Neuf Meuf & Automassage
From Squarepusher to Reich: Swiss Post-Jazz Trio Plaistow
The Big Beautiful Dark and Scary Thread - (Bang on a Can 25. Anniversary)
Gems from the Touch Radio Archives . . .
The Koppel Family and related . . .
Current 93
Emusers guide to Charlie Morrow and New Wilderness Audiographics
Emusers' Guide to Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
Emusers' Guide to Makunouchi Bento
Emusers Guide to Æthenor
The Magic World of Ergo Phizmiz & the Chinstrap Netlabel
Joe Frawley
SOBRE A MÁQUINA
Our Brother the Native
Nick Didkovsky & Doctor Nerve
Private Dreams and Public Nightmares, Daphne Oram reworked by Andrea Parker & Daz Quayle
I Heart Lung and related. . .
Classical Composers, Performers and Labels:
Emusers guide to Fausto Romitelli
Emusers Exclusive Bang on a Can & Cantaloupe Music Thread
Giya Kancheli
Erdem Helvacioglu
American Composers Orchestra
Noah Creshevsky - Weird Music For Connaisseurs . . .
Free albums from Innova Recordings
Michel Redolfi - Composer, creator of “Underwater Music”
Alive and Composing - A Barry Schrader portrait . . .
Alexander Berne
Raymond Murray Schafer
Ingram Marshall
Julia Kent
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Gems from the New World & NWCRI catalogue
Arnold Dreyblatt & Crash Ensemble
Jexper Holmen
Kreng - (Somewhere between Classical Composers and Electronic Artists)
Electronic Artists:
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Emusers Guide to Damian Valles
Janek Schaefer
Dave Seidel, aka Mysterybear
Philippe Petit : a musical travel-agent
Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son of Rose)
Bas van Huizen and the Etherkreet Label
Marihiko Hara
Mike Sheridan
Netlabels:
Passage
Absence of Wax
Test Tube
Just Not Normal
Resting Bell
Clinical Archives
Old farts remembering things:
Those were the days
Psychedelic pop appreciation thread
Done, I hope
Ah, I see your point now, I think. You either want to revamp the Categories by Use rather than genre or maybe you just want to add additional Categories?
EDIT: Personally, I find the current Categories helpful. Usually I go into Jazz just so I don't have to look through a bunch of Afro-beat or Classical or Ambient.
A lot of the other discussions come and go and probably shouldn't be linked to. For instance, there have been multiple threads regarding the future of the music industry. If someone wants to talk about that, they're better off starting a new thread then jumping into one that hasn't been active for months.
Once again, this is all just my opinion, and I understand if other people feel differently.
There are, IMO, too many categories that don't really help filter the kinds of discussions that go on. Maybe I'm a bit tyrannical, but I think five broad forums really ought to contain all our discussions. I certainly understand the convenience of having a category/forum for Jazz, but I don't think a thread on Jazz would be as easily lost if there were a single rubric for recordings themselves that included "listening to now", "good free stuff", "Japanese lunch boxes from Romania", Bandcamp goodies, etc. Those are all active categories that are added to almost daily because they are inspired by our love for music. On the other hand, some threads can lay dormant, only to revive dramatically: threads about how eMusic is changing, coupons and daily deals from Amazon, new streaming services, new credits at Guvera. A separate forum for personal experiences actually might enliven discussion: going to shows, living in ____, raising kids with music. My own music life is not limited to downloading and listening. It includes some constant jamming around the area (although I greatly refrain from divulging details about my life that might identify me--I've been burned doing this.)
@Bad Thoughts - you've really got we wondering now......!!!
Apology accepted ;-)
As for categories, I like categories - they're especially handy if the thread title is a little, shall we say, opaque. As someone who used to spend a lot of time working on subject-based indexes, though, I think the current category system is awful. There's 445 threads under "General", then 267 under "eMusic New Releases", and everything else is in double or single figures. So "General" really should be split up into, well, whatever - Bad Thoughts has mentioned a few recurring themes and I'm sure a few more will present themselves.
Thom's original idea is good, too.
But then what would be talk about?
Oh right, music!
Carry on.
now let's celebrate with some music
Cool!
And I will never get used to color rather than colour!!
Hmm... It doesn't work with extra voawels.
[colour=aubergine]to be fair, yipee ki-yay is pretty purely American.[/color]
and it doesn't recognize aubergine, my favorite British colour, with or without the u..
Hey, it works!
100
1000
Um... apparently there are no limits?
{color=#614051}{b}aubergine or eggplant{/b}{/color}produces aubergine or eggplantreplace curly with square brackets...
Unfortunately background colour BBcode does not appear to work (probably a good thing).
The yellow section above is using {code}...{/code}
Probably the best display of web safe colours is Designing for colour-blindness by using safe web colours, which also shows what they look like to those with colour-blindness.