Featured albums suggestion

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   I've noticed that the featured albums for Renaissance only include two 

studio albums, the other two are live albums which only have three and 

six ratings. Now an album like "Ashes Are Burning", which has 21 votes, 

falls short of being a featured album.

Would the admins consider factoring in the number of ratings? I can't 

think of an algorithm that wouldn't make it out of proportion if an album 

had a large number of ratings. Perhaps an album can only be accepted as 

a featured album if it has two reviews, not just two votes. Because I've 

seen it's not uncommon for albums to have 5 star ratings, because it was 

a compilation released late in the artists' career and only one or two 

prople have rated it.

Also I've mentioned this in another thread, I'd love to see half stars in the 

average ratings, it's good to have the exact value added recently but so 

many artists have mostly 4 star albums. I'd love to help make it happen in 

any way, scripting, making the half star image, anything.

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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Topic: Featured albums suggestion Posted: February 11 2005 at 23:06
	I've noticed that the featured albums for Renaissance only include two studio albums, the other two are live albums which only have three and six ratings. Now an album like "Ashes Are Burning", which has 21 votes, falls short of being a featured album. Would the admins consider factoring in the number of ratings? I can't think of an algorithm that wouldn't make it out of proportion if an album had a large number of ratings. Perhaps an album can only be accepted as a featured album if it has two reviews, not just two votes. Because I've seen it's not uncommon for albums to have 5 star ratings, because it was a compilation released late in the artists' career and only one or two prople have rated it. Also I've mentioned this in another thread, I'd love to see half stars in the average ratings, it's good to have the exact value added recently but so many artists have mostly 4 star albums. I'd love to help make it happen in any way, scripting, making the half star image, anything.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Posted: February 12 2005 at 21:43
	Another example is King Crimson, of the six featured albums, two are live with 8 ratings and one is a compilation with 5 ratings. An album like Lizard has a good rating of 4.20 with 51 ratings.

Sweetnighter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 24 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1298	Posted: February 12 2005 at 22:42
	I was just going to post a thread concerning this. It seems to me that the "featured album" idea should lead those who are unfamiliar with the band to a good starting place... it should act as a guide to what will introduce the band nicely... so somebody interested in discovering, say, ELP, won't go out and make their first ELP purchase be Love Beach (god forbid). With so many "featured" albums per band, it doesn't really do this effectively. Take Echolyn... the band's entire output is more or less featured! If I wanted to get into Echolyn I would be clueless as to where to start. I would suggest a system like this: albums released by band featured albums 1 to 5 1 5 to 15 2 15 to 25 3 25+ 4 ...or something along those lines. That would guide newbies (and longtime prog fans too) along in their prog discovering adventures.
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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Posted: February 13 2005 at 05:50
	That's also a good idea, the key albums would be meaningless if there aren't many albums to choose from. Speaking of Echolyn, they're high on my list of bands ot get into. I got the song "High as Pride" months ago and I've finally gotten 'round to listening to it, and ejoying it. I've also downloaded the available tracks from here. What album are you planning on getting?

Sweetnighter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 24 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1298	Posted: February 13 2005 at 20:14
	I already own As The World, and although the album has some great songs on it there's a lot of stuff to weed through. The title track, How Long I Have Waited, One for the Show, and Audio Verite are the best tracks on there IMHO. I'm considering getting either Suffocating the Bloom or Mei, as both have the band playing longer pieces... but I haven't decided which to get!
	I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Posted: March 16 2005 at 23:31
	Just wondering if the admins think anything of half stars? There are better examples, but here's Yes' firs three albums. I feel that half stars would be much more reresentative of the quality of the albums. Just an idea...