Originally posted by ELIZIUM:Isn't it far easier to listen to the excerpts provided and then make a preferential choice?
Originally posted by ELIZIUM:Isn't it far easier to listen to the excerpts provided and then make a preferential choice?
Originally posted by Elefartion:[..]
In older tours not all gigs have an excerpt. The rating system makes it difficult to search on U2start.
Originally posted by Elefartion:[..]
Yes, but it does not affect the mod voting.
Originally posted by hoserama:Considering the amount of money we all pay for the downloads, I expect a perfect rating system!
/sarcasm
But seriously, no rating system is perfect. At the very least, it's a free download and you can delete if you disagree
Originally posted by Elefartion:[..]
I agree. Don't get me wrong. But I prefer the sites, the recordings are downloaded from, like Dime and U2torrents.com. The u2start rating system is annoying for all the tapers hard work.
Originally posted by Elefartion:It's not fair when you search for bootlegs.
Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
The revision, in my opinion, should consist merely in removing the terms "proper" and "audience" before the word "recording." Not so much because the term "proper" is somewhat confusing - as it is not so much meant as qualification, but rather to denote line-in recordings (e.g. soundboards) - but because in practise the 4 to 5 range is used to rate (and mark) recordings with a very enjoyable soundquality.
And because the u2start recording archive is managed by various crew members over the years, I think a practical use of rating system is far more sustainable than a theoretical - or technical - sound one. Above all u2start is about "sharing the passion" for U2. As such, the ratings for recordings can be understood best as encouragements, not as fixed categories.
So, back to the issue of "proper" and "audience," while effectively most 4.5 and 5 star ratings fall to soundboards, iem and/or iem-aud matrixes, it shouldn't be closed for audience recordings per se - or any lower ratings for sbd and iem.
As far as disagreements with ratings go, I think a rating is sound when various opinions are a 0.5 star off (e.g., person A rates 4.5, person B thinks 4, and person C gives a raving 5).
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
It's 2017. We all have -at the very least- DSL connections that turn a 180MB download into a matter of minutes, if not seconds.
Downloads are readily available for free to everyone registered in our site.
Not to mention that we work hard on having an ever-growing number of both newer and older recordings have a representative sample - something that you can't even imagine how time consuming is.
And you think it's not "fair"?
You can't be seriously serious. Like, seriously?