apart from some bad timing i dont feel this thread should be closed. I dont personally join in the ID contests a) due to my dated knowledge of trance and b) i dont have time considering everything else i do around here.

Mart i dont believe Jason meant this in anyway negatively about your contest but if some of the ideas from this thread were considered for future ID contests then it may improve them.

re-opened.

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Originally posted by Coup apart from some bad timing i dont feel this thread should be closed. I dont personally join in the ID contests a) due to my dated knowledge of trance and b) i dont have time considering everything else i do around here. Mart i dont believe Jason meant this in anyway negatively about your contest but if some of the ideas from this thread were considered for future ID contests then it may improve them. re-opened.

no worries...we actually already talked about it in PM. and yeah i think i closed it prematurely hehe ... i was going to reopen it, but obviously can't in this forum hehe

Thanks for re-opening the thread, Coup. I know that it wasn't an attack on my contest but briefly took the criticism personally as I so often do (though not to the extent Jason thought when he closed the thread!). It'll be interesting to see whether anyone can propose something that satisfies everyone...

because i dont get 0 day releases

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I've always listened through the IDs in every contest so far but never entered.. for various reasons.

Even if i've been listenin to EDM as long as i can remember, I suck sooo much in IDing and trainspotting overall, especially in the type of trance alot of people want the contest to be like, unless i don't own the tracks myself or have listened to them recently. I tend to remember random bits and probably unnecessary info here and there but straight IDing isn't my thing at all. That's how my mind works. Sadly.

My mind is also too much of a perfectionist so i won't enter if i don't get a somewhat reasonable score, reasonable IMO of course depends on the contest and if i'm sure how much am i gonna get, possibility not to win isn't the reason why i haven't entered.

As i don't collect nor listen mp3s much at all and so don't have terabytes of mp3s on my HDD, it's a bit too much of an effort to browse through my whole record collection to find some particular tracks i'm sure i have.. takes too much time which i never have enough for a task like that.

I think the contests shouldn't last so long but rather like a week. Then for most of us there wouldn't be much time to make a thorough search for tracks in online stores and mp3 collections but just to get a first impression and just listen and listen the IDs over and over again if you might remember it.. and then send the ideas in. If not, then you would be like me. Hahaha! Maybe even Chris or you Jason would have chances to win the contest then because the lack of mp3 resources wouldn't be a disadvantage anymore.

I might have entered Mart's contest but i'm too much of an insider, had some tiny little part in the making of this contest so it would have been cheating if i'd entered.

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because the prize sucks. seriously, seems like a pain in the arse to come up with a new contest. add a CD or vinyl and you'll get more entrants.

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Last edited by Spacey Orange on Apr-07-2006 at 18:03

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Originally posted by GrimReaper Hahaha! Maybe even Chris or you Jason would have chances to win the contest then because the lack of mp3 resources wouldn't be a disadvantage anymore.

hey you just wait to see my score buddy...i'm gonna give jan a run for his money

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange because the prize sucks. seriously, seems like a pain in the arse to come up with a new contest. add a CD or vinyl and you'll get more entrants.

I've got plenty of duff compilations from over the years.

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Originally posted by [MaRt] I've got plenty of duff compilations from over the years.

crap! i was just going to donate one of my shitter ones too.

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Am I the only one who thinks more samples are better? It's more gratifying because you can ID more, and it allows a larger range of scores. If you had 30 samples, then you'd probably end up with a very crowded scoreboard.

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i think i'll be able to pull off 10 of the 60... how sad

i'm already enjoying the ID contest though...

would like to see shorter contest periods though...

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Am I the only one who thinks more samples are better? It's more gratifying because you can ID more, and it allows a larger range of scores. If you had 30 samples, then you'd probably end up with a very crowded scoreboard.

yeah i mentioned that earlier...early on in the competition we had ties and stuff. i think the more samples over more genres allows for a great diversity of tunes and therefore a greater diversity in results...