Yeah but you listen to your CD 2/3 times or however many times you feel is acceptable to review. Then whoever sent it reveals it's theirs and what all the songs are. You can still go and delve further into their work after? You can still do all of that, but post it after rather than with the CD.

 

yeah good point. less work for me if i dont provide information about the music with my CD.

I might remove all the track/artist info from mine, but write all that info in a word document of some kind, then if whoever gets it, wants to know the info, they can have a look :)

I guess people mostly forget to lose tags of their songs, I will do the tagless one, it adds mystery :lol:

im liking the idea of it being tagless more and more, makes the reviews more interesting aswell.

Removing tags always worked best for me, you always had that thing where you liked something you were listening to but with the fear it could be an old b-side by boyzone or something. :D

 

 

Removing tags always worked best for me, you always had that thing where you liked something you were listening to but with the fear it could be an old b-side by boyzone or something. :D

 

Definitely! And you can expect this from my playlist :kink:

 

It's great to find that you love something and then discover it's by an act you couldn't care for at all!

thing i if you know the tracks then you can go and find more music by the acts you like on it, although i suppose with untitled it gives no biasedness, but i was planning on including a bit about each track/act in sleeve notes and where you can find more etc.

I was planning on doing Sleeve notes as well.

 

I might still do them and send them to the recipient of my CD if they want it after the review/unveil thing has gone ahead

Definitely! And you can expect this from my playlist :kink:

 

It's great to find that you love something and then discover it's by an act you couldn't care for at all!

 

A great idea removing tags. As due to this current musical trend for recycling the early 1980s I could use obscurer tracks of the real thing and some of you wont be any the wiser. :kink:

I was planning on doing Sleeve notes as well.

 

I might still do them and send them to the recipient of my CD if they want it after the review/unveil thing has gone ahead

 

I tend to offer in depth info about each track in a quote to the review given - either way I shall post up the blurb on here :P I reckon I'll do what I did last time and just do a selection of tracks, although try to give it a good flow by putting songs of similar genres next to each other. However, I probably won't include any of my BJSC entries seeing as there's a high chance of someone participating in that getting my playlist.

I tend to offer in depth info about each track in a quote to the review given - either way I shall post up the blurb on here :P I reckon I'll do what I did last time and just do a selection of tracks, although try to give it a good flow by putting songs of similar genres next to each other. However, I probably won't include any of my BJSC entries seeing as there's a high chance of someone participating in that getting my playlist.

I have no idea if i'd include any BJSC entries. I might include artists i've discovered as a result of my search for BJSC entries tho.

I had an idea in my head before the putting them up untagged thing came up that I would do like a page of the sleeve for every track giving some stuff about the track, what the whole album it's from is, why i picked it, what else you might like if you like the track etc, or I was going to do a word document style thing instead of it being sleeve notes, i might still do but give it post-review.

just out of interest if it does happen this way with removing all the songs info, is it just a case of deleting the title, artist and album or is there something else cos i don't understand what a tag is. and if i make a playlist for my songs and then delete all the information will the information also be lost in the main itunes or only in the playlist?

 

also if all the information's removed and we review each song surely it'll be like track 1 - (review), track 2 - (review) and no one reading the reviews will be able to compare the reivews with their own tastes because they don't know the tracks. because if i read a really good review on a song that someone had listened to or a couple of people had been given the same artist and had all said good things about them then i'd be able to check them out myself. or am i missing the point?

I was planning on doing Sleeve notes as well.

 

I might still do them and send them to the recipient of my CD if they want it after the review/unveil thing has gone ahead

 

This sounds perfect. The way it used to work was that the review was posted by the recipient, then the creator of the playlist posted the tracklisting with reasons why they were chosen or some notes on the acts involved - your sleeve notes sound exactly that sort of thing to me.

just out of interest if it does happen this way with removing all the songs info, is it just a case of deleting the title, artist and album or is there something else cos i don't understand what a tag is. and if i make a playlist for my songs and then delete all the information will the information also be lost in the main itunes or only in the playlist?

 

also if all the information's removed and we review each song surely it'll be like track 1 - (review), track 2 - (review) and no one reading the reviews will be able to compare the reivews with their own tastes because they don't know the tracks. because if i read a really good review on a song that someone had listened to or a couple of people had been given the same artist and had all said good things about them then i'd be able to check them out myself. or am i missing the point?

 

i think the best way would be to make duplicates of all the tracks so it doesnt hassle tags of your actual versions, so edit the tags of the duplicate ones (so you still have the proper tags of your original. and then ofcourse change the file names.

 

they will be able to compare the reviews with their own taste once the tracks are posted/

:lol:

 

I didn't receive that one but I remember getting Elly's album with featured four instrumentals. The only bit that was slightly baffling whilst writing the review was that I was writing things like "one minute in and still no vocals. The song has finsihed. It was an instrumental? Oh!!! :( ". :D In those cases a second listen was required to write a better review of the track. :lol:

Elly! :wub: I miss that girl.

This sounds perfect. The way it used to work was that the review was posted by the recipient, then the creator of the playlist posted the tracklisting with reasons why they were chosen or some notes on the acts involved - your sleeve notes sound exactly that sort of thing to me.

Yeah i was gonna put firstly why it was chosen, then a little about the band, who they are and their influences etc, then like Chris said list some similar sounding material.

 

If people just used to post that after the review then that is what i shall do ^_^

A great idea removing tags. As due to this current musical trend for recycling the early 1980s I could use obscurer tracks of the real thing and some of you wont be any the wiser. :kink:

 

 

That was going to be one of my themes. Find all the artists that have influenced today's pop music - but mine would be current but obscure artists and not the 80s equivalant.

just out of interest if it does happen this way with removing all the songs info, is it just a case of deleting the title, artist and album or is there something else cos i don't understand what a tag is. and if i make a playlist for my songs and then delete all the information will the information also be lost in the main itunes or only in the playlist?

 

also if all the information's removed and we review each song surely it'll be like track 1 - (review), track 2 - (review) and no one reading the reviews will be able to compare the reivews with their own tastes because they don't know the tracks. because if i read a really good review on a song that someone had listened to or a couple of people had been given the same artist and had all said good things about them then i'd be able to check them out myself. or am i missing the point?

 

In a way, yes. :P

 

The way it worked on ChC was that once you got your album and gave it a listen (or how ever many times you wish to listen to your given album), you then write a review of each track - be as critical as you want or just completely rave about how genius the song is.

 

After you've posted your review, the person who compiled the album you reviewed will post the tracklist. Then you can stay in complete shock when you realise track 4 which you loved was by Westlife. :lol:

 

All the albums are given their own names. Eg; my best album was titled Fused. At the start of your review you give the name of the album you've got, then write your review. It's easier for the compiler to identify who has reviewed their album.

Edited April 7, 201015 yr by Hitstastic

One foolproof way to lose the tags, as far as I know, is to burn your compilation to cd and then rip it again.

Edited April 7, 201015 yr by tonyttt31

Yeah the more and more I think about it the more I think removing tags should be required / highly recommended. Makes the whole thing wayyy more fun; to think if I liked a couple of Eurovision tracks...