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Originally posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 We're not in it for the money, we're in it because we love and appreciate the music.

werd. i don't believe swamper was thinking about the millions he could make when he made this website.

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Originally posted by Enfuse Dub Its not broke, but neither is Microsoft or nVidia...but their always looking for new ways to inovate and make what they have better.

you mean microsoft is constantly looking for new ways to leech more money.

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Ima business mind...which is I dont think you kids know what im talkin about.

i am not a kid and i know exactly what you mean. however, i don't believe tranceaddict is in it for the money and neither is it a first priority.

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But to To take it further, TraneAddict is a decent brand, If I was TA Id be fixing to make a Compilation series, start a lable, find a decent DJ(even one of our own TA DJ's) to mix and compile the first one, and put it out for the masses to enjoy and buy. I mean who knows Trance better than the people here at TA? Im trying to say, TA can be bigger than what it is, and it can move forward if it wants to.

do i smell a sellout?

why are you even associating mp3.com with this website? we don't offer mp3 to make money or whatever they do there. its totally different. when mp3.com was made, its intent WAS TO MAKE MONEY. when tranceaddict was first around, its main purpose was to share livesets/singles and the trance music that swamper liked. there was this dinky little forum that not many people used until swamper put in the UBB (i think) in late august 2000 and then it started growing as a community.

enfuse dub, just because i type long in-depth posts that explains my point of view, doesn't mean i am angry at you. don't think so highly of yourself. you aren't important enough to me to make me change my mood. when i start calling people names and start flaming, then you will know i am pissed. ok?

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Last edited by Mark on Feb-18-2003 at 07:31

The website has attracted tens of thousands of music enthusiasts from all over the globe. The one thing that started all this is probably trance.

Personally, I don't think there's a better name than tranceaddict since trance is music we fell in love with. Yes, a lot of us have moved onto other types genres, be it progressive, techno, breaks, or whatever, but deep in our hearts, trance is what we truely love.

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Originally posted by uwmadtrance we could just rename it leechersaskingaboutsoulseekanddc.com or usethefuckingsearchbuttonaddict.com But that would be just as pointless.

LOL ! what about howdoIgetOnTheTaDirectHub.com

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Trance covers many forms from tech trance to hard trance to progressive trance or Psy Trance , therefore tranceaddict is fine, if you don't like it go off & make houseaddict or n00baddict or leechaddict.com orwhatever cos it's fine as it is here, Tranceaddict rules cos it does what it says on the tin

Whoopsie, double post again, me bad

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Dude, wheres my car? Can you relax for a sec. Look at a site like Mp3.com, do you think mp3.com would do 1/100th the business or success if it was called TranceMp3.com, RapMp3.com , RockMp3.com? Trance is not the only topic or type of music that is discussed here, All types of Electronica is, so it only make sense for benefit of this site and its patrons that it be called what it truly is, an Electronica Dance Music Forum. Im a bit of a economics and market research guy so I guess I see things on the macro level...you seem like a traditionalist and thats fine...but there's nothing wrong with Change dude...o yah and some new colors would be kool for the site haha.

This is a site for people who like trance music. Of course most of those people like some other sorts of music, and sometimes other sorts of music are discussed. However, we still know that everyone's top genre or at least very near the top is trance. By commercializing this site and introducing other kinds of music, the forums would get very diffused by people who don't like trance and by topics which aren't about trance. Tranceaddict is a community which is connected by people's love for trance. If you would bring other sorts of music here, the only common thing here that binds us all would be lost. You would first experience a drastic fall in interest of many tranceaddicts who visit this forum, me included. The new members wouldn't be so hooked, so the number of visits to this site would fall dramatically, and you would have two solutions. Either coming back to what was and wait for a long time to rebuild the old stuff, or going even more commercial to attract new masses. The second one is obviously a better way from your point of view, so you'd get a general music discussion forum. Most of tranceaddict community would either disperse, or a new site would be created where we could all meet again.

Commercialization is only good for making profit. Pop fans don't have any sort of community, and pop singers are in it just for money. Cheesy trance artists are out there just because they share your philosophy. It seemed to them that they will make more money by producing cheesier music for the larger masses, but I really doubt that Ian van Dahl is earning more money than Tiesto. And I am absolutely sure that his fans are nowhere near as supportive for him as Tiesto's are.

How would this site profit from commercialization? It is not selling anything, on the contrary, it is freely distributing mp3 music and videos, and that is against the law. So you'd have only forums left, because other sections of the site would have to be closed to insure no legal action will be taken against the site. Maybe swamper would get more profit from the sponsors because of more clicks on the site. But that is also very questionable. A successful transformation from a trance-community+mp3 sharing+music videos site into a popular music discussion forum is a very questionable not only from a financial point of view. Not to mention that there is a bigger issue here, and that is everyone on this site loves trance and I think you are pretty much alone in wanting to expand this site into supporting other forms of music. Although big sites and forums are diverse and are covering most of the subjects, smaller one-subject oriented sites still exist and will always exist, because whenever a site like this turns into a site that covers more subjects in a less in-depth way, a need for a new such site arises, which attracts the same people that were on the previous one. Basically the transformation wouldn't do anyone a favour.

P.S. And I like the colors, I think they're really nice and topic-related in a sort of way. I suppose you'd also want them in a more popular public-oriented way?

P.P.S. I don't like the look of the trancesystem site.

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if this will be called progressive addict or split the forums in technoaddict.com or something they members will split and nobody will discovers something news it's good that trance people have to see some progressive now

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Hi I'm a business major at my local college, and I wanted to show off all the concepts I learned in Econ 101 last semester. And I think that none of you could possibly understand what I'm talking about, because I am business oriented.

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Originally posted by uwmadtrance Hi I'm a business major at my local college, and I wanted to show off all the concepts I learned in Econ 101 last semester. And I think that none of you could possibly understand what I'm talking about, because I am business oriented.

BUDDY!!!!

thats perfectly fine... i'm doing the same shit... if i got some new software that would speed up the servers, i'd be the first to share it with y'all ....

but the POINT here is that WE'RE NOT IN BUSINESS, that's what we've been trying to explain to you... this is just a community which shares a common interest...

it's like me asking you to break a leg climbing up your classroom stairs and pretend it was an accident and sue your university/college... but you're not there for the money are you??????????????

well, maybe if you're that business oriented then this is a sweet idea for you eh?

anyways, basically ... you're there for an education ...

this was not the perfect analogy but i hope u get the point ...

cheers to trancesystem.com
but im still a TA!!!

WTFaddict

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maybe instead of changing the name we could add a few more catagories in the forums. I think if we change the name, then we will get alot of new members and soon the place would turn to a flame war (cough isonews.com cough). I think its a good idea to keep the name but if it means more organization maybe we should add like a house catagory and stuff in the forum.