Popular Artists feature added to home page

Ok , i've changed the POPULAR ARTIST mechanism and it's now pretty LIVE, I mean it is based on the previous day data. So basically , it's showing the TOP 40 artists with most page viewed the day before today.

Please comments.

I like the new speaker feature, but agree with Finnforest that it should link to samples from the album that´s reviewed and not to songs from other albums by the artist.

I agree with M@x about the player, it's a great asset to any site, actually I've been trying to implement it on my future site/blog but as I'm a coding illiterate I crashed trying to read various tutorials

M@X wrote: Thanks to you guys for bringing constructive comments. PS: What do you think of the SPEAKER in the reviews now ?

Max, not to be too demanding today, but since you asked

I think the speakers are best left inside the artist page for one reason.  I notice that the tracks available will often not be tracks from the album being reviewed, thus, a noob who doesn't know the artist may click on the song and think they are hearing something from that album.  As we all know album quality varies wildly between albums.  (I realize the album cover is shown in the pop-up but not everyone will notice)

I think if the track was married to the album being reviewed it would be OK, but as it is now you could have a 5 star track present for one of the worst titles from the artist, giving a Noob the impression he was hearing that, assuming he's not bright enough to figure it out. 

But I realize how much work that would likely be, so feel free to ignore

You said you like feedback, right???

^No man, I know the copyright thingy, but bands that don't have mp3's the speaker doesn't show, that's what I'm reffering.

Wow! The speakers are great! Excellent idea M@X!!

EDIT: I know this is not the reporting thread, but as we are on topic, King Crimson's review/s appear with the speaker but really don't have mp3's, as far as I'm concerned.


Edited by cacho - February 12 2009 at 16:27

Too cool, M@X! Non invasive and it lets you explore the artist faster. Excellent!



(now how do we get one of those for interviews that have audio content attached to them? )

Thanks to you guys for bringing constructive comments.

PS: What do you think of the SPEAKER in the reviews now ?

I think everything looks beautiful now. Frontpage looks great and album review pages looks great too. A real treat.

Just my opinion, but I feel the reviews should stay at the top, not be pushed down by anything that was formerly in the "right" column.