***Genre work Round 2***
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Posted by peachygurlADMIN on May 3, 2008 at 11:04 PM
I'm going to post this msg in a couple of different areas. PLEASE don't move it or consider it Spam.
YES! We are finally going to work on Round 2 of the genre sorting. This is a MASSIVE project and I have agreed to spearhead it.
If you have ever wagged your head at how a song is classified, now is your chance to fix it. PM me!!! Let me know how much work you are willing to do on this project.
Round One (what we have now) was based on artist classification for the most part and THAT has errors. This round will be based on INDIVIDUAL SONGS
PM me PLEASE with your offer of assistance.
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Reply by Binky-GOLD on May 3, 2008 at 11:56 PM
hey woohooooooo im so glad tooo but hey peachyyyyyy there was so many of you last time that did awesome job.....im willing to help i will pm u too
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 4, 2008 at 12:06 AM
Binky, this project is gonna be massive. The more peeps helping, the better.
I will be the gatekeeper so to speak and try to keep it coordinated.
I answered your PM.
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 4, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Yea weren't actually that many folks last time at all
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Reply by scarlettohallGOLD on May 4, 2008 at 12:26 AM
Hmmm
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 4, 2008 at 1:37 AM
Is that the sound of pondering whether to or not Jo? eheh
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Reply by sanneGOLD on May 4, 2008 at 3:31 AM
i'm not that good to do that...so peachy i can't help you.
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM
WOOOT! This train is rolling with 8 peeps so far. We need about 5 times that many though!
Come on folks! HELP!!!! The more folks that are helping, the faster we can get this done.
We need a "love songs" expert. Also need a metal/heavy rock expert. How about classic rock? True alternative would be great. Holidays anybody??? What genre do YOU feel you can handle and know well?
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Reply by scarlettohallGOLD on May 4, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Whoever does "holiday", please don't put "Hard Candy Christmas" there. Listen to the song...it ain't about Christmas.
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Reply by Binky-GOLD on May 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM
lol well that might be true but the movie and song were for christmas release's in 1982 so beside's country I guess that christmas was where it fell into the last go round :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Candy_Christmas
very interesting info there about it ......
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Reply by ladylikepsychGOLD on May 4, 2008 at 4:26 PM
ladylikepsych is gone (not ignoring anybody)...life is chaos right nowhmm...
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Reply by ladylikepsychGOLD on May 4, 2008 at 4:28 PM
ladylikepsych is gone (not ignoring anybody)...life is chaos right nowclassic rock or love songs....not an expert but not a putz either....
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 4, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Holidays should be very easy to cover because singsnap has a list of most of them on facebook anyway
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Reply by Sadie on May 4, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Connie, if you're still here, check your PMs please :)
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Reply by bipolarbettyGOLD on May 4, 2008 at 7:24 PM
bipolarbetty is happy.How about a genre of adult (overly abundant that is) lyric songs? (I mean by lyrics only, not the songs message-curse words that are EXTREME and repeated many times in the same song). I know they fall in many categories here, but people could identify which ones have OBVIOUS explicit lyrics, and have subcategories within that genre.
Like: Adult-/ rock,blues,rap,love,etc....
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Reply by Binky-GOLD on May 4, 2008 at 7:30 PM
ahhh great idea betty :)
O Mel when you have minute will ya pm me too plz
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Reply by Sadie on May 4, 2008 at 7:35 PM
I never understood this either. It has nothing to do with Christmas, but she made a holiday video and it's played at Christmas. Weird ppl
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Reply by donnyxxxGOLD on May 4, 2008 at 7:39 PM
donnyxxx has now retired from singingim pretty knowledgeable on country music so if i can help at all, you only gotta say
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Reply by PerSTAFF on May 4, 2008 at 8:45 PM
I think we definitely need someone to break up the Country genre into smaller ones if that's even possible?
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 4, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Folks, the first volunteers are busy debugging the process and we are working out the kinks. Soon as I get them rolling along smoothly, will add the next batch of ya to the mix.
Donny, contact Connie to see about Country. She is heading up that part. Sadie and her are already working out the details. If they need help, then I will glad to send ya the form to fill out.
Betty, Love your idea about explicit/adult as a genre. Sad thing is most of my fav rap/hip-hop songs will go there. LOL
Thank you folks! So far there are 12 peeps volunteering. This rocks!
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 4, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Lady,
If ya wanna tackle a genre, send me your email addy via PM. Soon as I get these other folks going smoothly, will add in the new folks that have offered.
Donny, dang, sounds like I was blowing ya off and that ain't the case! Is just that Country is already in the works and Connie has done this before. That is one more HUGE genre though and she may want/need help. Just let me know. And if she wants to leave it as is for now, if you have another area you wanna tackle, let me know. PM me your email addy if you have Excel. That's how I'm going to maintain this stuff.
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Reply by Sadie on May 4, 2008 at 9:31 PM
I still have to work out details with Connie, but so far I have....
Classic Country
New Country
Western/Swing
Country/Pop
Bluegrass/Country
Outlaw Country?
I think that will break it up quite a bit
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 7:41 AM
Oh here's where all the honky tonk talk is going.. :)
Sadie Let's have all the outlaw Legends under 'Classic'
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Reply by Binky-GOLD on May 5, 2008 at 8:18 AM
G'morning Folks okie dokie that all sounds gr8 so far for the country but wow i did not realise how Huge country was lol
so happy i picked lil'er genre's hahaha ok back into the depths again bbsoon :)
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Reply by melGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 8:21 AM
Rock definitely needs to be divided in sub genres! When I started reclassifying songs yesterday, I noticed that by now you can find about ANYTHING in "rock". However, ...
Elvis does not equal Nirvana does not equal Led Zeppelin does not equal Pink Floyd does not equal The Stones does not equal ozzy Osbourne does not equal AC/DC etc etc etc etc etc etc
I can't do it though!
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 8:49 AM
Lol Binky, yes wise girlie wise!! Much easier to scan and find a new genre cos ya can easily miss and nobody knows the wiser.. whereas we got the list of the ones we need to re classify.
Yea anyway incase anybody is interested Sadie and I have compromised and what is easiest for both of us to classify.
Bluegrass
Classic Country
Country Pop
Contempory
Country&western/Swing
TADA!!
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Reply by donnyxxxGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 8:53 AM
donnyxxx has now retired from singingwhat genre would you put country ballad/love songs then
or will that have a catagory of its own
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Mel, Rock is covered. No worries.
Donny, this is first pass. We will refine it again later. Maybe for Round 3. I do have a category in mind that you should be able to help out wonderfully.
Folks,
I'm updating the master file for this project. Hang tight and pause what you are doing until I'm done. Then I will send you a NEW file where you will only need to fill in the proposed genre.
Sorry for all the changes but as this goes along, I'm finding better ways to make it go more smoothly.
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Reply by Binky-GOLD on May 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
pause um did u say pause really or perhaps *paws* ok taking a short break for breakfast then lol
Peachy i really like smooth better too ;-)
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Reply by JacquiGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Jacqui says: laughing stock:- cattle with a sense of humor.Wish I could commit to helping out, Peachy, but time doesn't permit right now :-(
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Reply by melGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Yipie!!! :)
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Reply by melGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Can you tell that I am bumping this topic on purpose?? lol
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Folks please bare in mind that if you are using a blank excel sheet and not using the song catalogue available for the information, and depending on what Genre you are taking on, if you browse by the singsnap 'browse by' pages you may not realise that songs are not being made available to you on a search because they are not available in your region.
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Reply by Binky-GOLD on May 5, 2008 at 4:57 PM
ummm is that for the LIC songs? Im using both the list on here and the cataloged (sighs) i sure wish i could spell.....
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Reply by milesofborgGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 6:16 PM
milesofborg wonders what'll happen as "homeless" is 3 months old today!!Also if you're using an Excel document you can only get 16,348 rows!!!!
I now have TWO Excel documents open with 11,788 & 9,851 rows respectively on them!!!
& I've tried to correct ALL the spelling mistakes & put "The"s & "A"s at the front where they belong!!! lol
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Well I have an excel sheet open filtered with all the country songs in the catalogue 18,049 and it will let me still let me scroll down....
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM
miles perhaps check with Per that the changes will not cause any conflicts with the way the songlists are processed on snap.
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Folks, if ya will hang tight, I'm fixing all those Excel headaches fast as I can. There are limits on older versions for how many lines in one document. I'm busting it up into smaller files.
Hang tight please. This is part of the formatting nightmare that drives me batty trying to merge all the stuff you send me back. I'm working on it. HONEST! :-)
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Reply by bipolarbettyGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 7:45 PM
bipolarbetty is happy.Yayyyy! LOL...heh heh...I'm chomping at the bit.
:o)
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Reply by Sadie on May 5, 2008 at 7:48 PM
I'm hangin', thanks Peachy :)
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Take the time to enjoy life whilst ya still can LOL!!
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Yeah Connie. If they only knew what they were getting into. LOLOLOLOL
Actually, I'm trying really hard to set it up so it will go very smoothly for the volunteers this time. Last time we had NO starting point and that made for heaps of challenges. At least this time, there is a sorta structure to start from.
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Reply by SunshineGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Sunshine just 3 more days to go!!!!!!!!! think i am gonna be in trouble!!Hey Peachy....I know I volunteered on another thread and you have told me what genre I will be working on! I gather from your last post that we are not to do anything regarding spreadsheets, etc...until we hear from you!! Correct???
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Reply by SunshineGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Sunshine just 3 more days to go!!!!!!!!! think i am gonna be in trouble!!You said it Connie.....but it was fun....wasn't it??? LOL!!!
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Correct Dianne. I'm setting up files to make it a bit easier for all of us this time around. We have a starting place this time whereas before we had nada as far as a place to start.
I'm shocked so many peeps that helped last time with the headaches it was are back for more. Sure am glad to have ya though!
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Reply by conniegADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 9:14 PM
Cos we luv it! Peachy knows that last time It helped me cos I needed something to focus on at the time.
Yea the way we started out on this particular one here needed that stop cut wait! I immediatley felt the drawbacks of it.
At least the smaller files will keep it on track and at a steady pace for submittal and perhaps will allow more volunteers to take on a part.
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Reply by milesofborgGOLD on May 5, 2008 at 9:17 PM
milesofborg wonders what'll happen as "homeless" is 3 months old today!!& it's nice to give something back to the site too :)
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Reply by Binky-GOLD on May 5, 2008 at 9:39 PM
yah it really is thrilling for me to volunteer any way possible
pst Dianne and Mel you've got mail too ;)
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Reply by Andragon on May 5, 2008 at 10:24 PM
You said it!
How's it coming along?
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Reply by mystikangel999GOLD on May 5, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Cuz we're all gluttons for punishment!!!
Haha...just kidding...;-)
Glad to help last time...and I'll do what I can this time. Just waiting on the file thingie from ya.....and I'll be off on my merry way....sorting away..lol
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Reply by peachygurlADMIN on May 5, 2008 at 10:49 PM
I have about 900 more songs to "clean". Then I have to bust them into groups. Sometime tomorrow the files will be ready.
Sorry but this is taking a bit longer coz of artists that have more than 2 names. GRRRRRRRRRRR.... special formating for those.
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