Cakewalk Songs Forum: Should someone administer Last Rites?

While I will fully admit that I have not been in a posting mood the last month or so (lotta listening, just not a lot of commenting), it does seem that this board is dying. A post from SEVEN days ago still on the first page?  A week old post? I have never seen anything like it in the 4 years or so I have been visiting here.

What the heck is going on?

I have thought similar things. The songs board has been really slow recently.  Maybe it's just the summer...everybody busy with vacations and weekends away... or just to hot to record.... give me a hammock under a shade tree and a cooler full of Sam Adams........

I too, have listened to a few songs  and made some comments and sandbagged on the others. Mostly due to being busy with family and other things since school got out.

I've been reworking and rewriting a few tunes that were "almost" there, and that takes more time actually than the original recordings took.   For example:    This song

BUT... all that aside, this is still a much more active and alive place than the Taxi songs (peer to peer) forum.

I can post a song in both places at the same approximate time and check back in a few hours on each and the Cake site has many visitors and a number of good comments, where the Taxi site might get one or two comments after several days. So this is still the best place IMHO to get decent feedback on the recording process.

BTW: just checked over there.... same length of time on the boards.... I have ONE comment over there. And it's about the order of the words.

I think it's more about the season.  People are out and about for summer with vacations and possibly working gigs that may not be available the rest of the year. 

Personally speaking, there's a lot of factors that have kept me from the Song forums.

First, I lost my recording partner that did 95% of the vocals. He lost interest and gave up. Second, it's not the same for me since an incident a few months ago (not the thing with Zungle.). The entire forum hasn't been the same for me because a lot went unsaid that was louder than what was said and it's made me feel unwelcome.

Also, I'm losing what little voice I had, so it takes forever for me to lay a vocal track I'm happy with and finish up a project. Plus, this whole X1 debacle. It works fine for a while, then acts like a hacker got in to my system and is screwing with me. Then I come to the forums and get told from the top to the bottom that it has to be my system because X1 works awesome for everyone else but me. So, I spend hours and hours and hours troubleshooting a DAW that runs 8.5.3 perfectly to no avail. Then I switch to 8.5.3 and get the itch to try X1 again, and get burned and lose my project. It's a vicious cycle. I get almost OC trying to make X1 work.

I try to comment on as much stuff as I can, but there hasn't been that much stuff lately that I could comment on without hurting someone's feelings so I skip a lot. I also skip some posts that have certain people involved. Plus I seem to miss a lot too. I don't know if it's the server or what, but I check the Song forum every day and sometimes there will be a post that is 4 or 5 days old that I missed. At that point I feel funny commenting since it's so old.

Anyway, that's where I'm coming from.

Bub

EDIT: What's really funny to me ... I get an email from Box.net whenever someone listens to one of my songs. I have hundreds of 'listens' on Bub's Rap but certainly not that many comments. Another one I get emailed on at least once a week is a Christmas song I posted in Nov/2010 called Carol Of The Guitars. Someone must like it because it's got a ton of hits on it too ... yet no comments. It makes me wonder if someone linked to them on a web site somewhere? I don't use the free version of Box.net so I can't see where the traffic is coming from, all I get is an email saying someone listened and it keeps a running total.

Gee, I think America is shutting down. Actually I never thought that a creative endeavor was a 9 to 5 job, but I think there is a song about that as soon as I find it out there in cyberspace, probably utube or something like that, even a movie. So assume that there may be more so-called creative endeavors that may not be to your liking. Take mine for instance, in the link down-below-there. Is it real or is it just another memorex tune? And then ask, if I could not do it better if I practiced more, for I am sure I could, but then, there is no money involved and it is free, and I am retired early, so ya, people are worried about what the mafias are doing, I mean political parties and people who promote them. I just promote a song, so yes, I wonder if the missiles are aimed at me.


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But you can have the end of the world as you know it:
(It's a long story, but then there has been many discussions about JT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKKPtfBffE8

bapu


It's all part of the MasterBapu plan to rule the song forum by The CHB.

Oh wait, we haven't posted a song in awhile either.

It's all part of the MasterPhilz plan to rule the song forum by him, TheBapu and DannyDanzi.

All your forums are belong to us?
 
Alas, but philz has no plan, is lucky he has Outlook to remind him what day it is, and is not profligate prolific enough to rule anything. 
 
But seriously, Bapu, I'm surprised at you.  We are trying to have a serious thread here, and there you go with a CH-like derailment.  And here I thought I taught you some Etty-kett during your visit to LawnGuyLand.  Next thing you know we'll have Strummy, Bubba and JB up here, and then it will be lights out for sure.  I'm counting on you to keep 'em down on the farm now.

oh my.  the humbleness of it all!

rockinrobby


I'm about to release a new one that I believe will revitalize the forum. 

Just you wait, men will humble themselves? Women will weep openly, children will look to the skies with wonder... I expect in the fullness of time that religions will form in the future based on this event, and I'm not exaggerating... It's a Robby/Janet colab.

Really? I can't wait. But of course I won't comment on it unless you personally ask me.

bapu


James you wait to asked?

I hold out for begging.

Money always greases the skids....

jamesyoyo

bapu


James you wait to asked?

I hold out for begging.

Money always greases the skids....

Spoken like a true LawnGuyLander

I think what we are looking at here is number of factors:  Spacealf hit one important note, that is, music is becoming less and less important in a world that is by all intents and purpose failing.  It is a sad indictment that a world which is pretty sick the one thing that can heal it is slowly being turned into a sad pastiche of what it once was. Lady Ho Ha anyone.

The other thing that someone brought up is The X1 factor, how many people are making their computer and program work rather than making music????

Yes and the other factor is people (me) posting and not reciprocating and I think we must all try and rectify this, one way would be to listen to one song every time you sign in or every time you post a song.  If we had that level of commitment maybe this board would again start moving.

Ok I am off to listen to my one song.  I have made a commitment and I intend to keep it.
Just remember I am not going to moodle coddle you if I think you have done something great I will tell you but if it is crap I will tell you and I expect the same from everyone else.

Peace

jamesyoyo

bapu


James you wait to asked?

I hold out for begging.

Money always greases the skids....

..... and I might add... the amount is directly proportional to the quality and enthusiasm of the review.

And I'm sorry, but there are just so many people now who post songs? And "never" comment on anything outside their own thread? They probably do the same thing on 20 sites... It's all about getting their hit count up? So I can see what they're doing? And why they are doing it? But those posts should sink without comment... "really." But somehow, they don't many times :-( And some of it could be that these people may have multiple logins? And comment on their "crap." Some of it may be that they bump "their crap" until people do comment? And people do? I see it as a negative thing, but that's JMO. 

Look at them? They have either no? Or very few posts on the forum at all? And they post songs, they want feedback? But they refuse to listen and give any :-( It's a reflection on our modern culture unfortunately :-( "It's all about me." Me being a pronoun and not a proper noun. It's unfortunate, but describes the problem perfectly, and in a nutshell...

Well Bobby for example? His name is not Bobby, he said as much during his last dramatic exit... I know for a fact that he posts here "as multiple people..." 

So some sick bastages here, get several, 3? 4? 10? logins... And they try to manipulate the forum, by burying posters with whom they disagree or do not support? And promote others with whom they do? Multiple handles... And for sure in some cases, "multiple personalities..." 

It's the Internet? It's open to all? And let's face it, there are people out there who are "hurting units..." there are sociopaths? Look at that guy who gunned down all those people at the Giffords(sp) congress woman appearance? There are sick people :-( Now they're in the minority? I think most people are good people? But there are people with substance abuse problems, and people with actual real mental disorders :-( And I'm sure they populate this, and other forums...

And I don't claim to be the most well adjusted person who posts here? But I have a desire to be a better person... As do most of us? And a reasonably high IQ, so if I set my mind to it, I can improve. As can you? You're intelligent. But my point is, (rambling, sorry) there are people here who post using several, (1/2 a dozen, maybe more?) different logins... The example I used (Bobby?) is just the most obvious.

Ben, listen to my latest? MFer! (That's not a comment toward you, that's my latest? It's called MFer) :-) And it's pretty good?