Klondike Audio 2.0

Hey guys! Some of you might remember that back in April, I launched my music site Klondike Audio. After running into problems with maintainability, and to be fair, a slippage of motivation, the site eventually languished. So, I have gone into a hidey hole for the last couple months and made some important design and feature improvements that should rectify all of these problems. Plus, I think the site looks a hell of a lot nicer than before.

http://www.klondikeaudio.com

I've put a lot of work into this and I'm really excited about this site. As I've said before, I have very fond memories of Bigmog's website back in the era of Web 1.0, and I found many a great song and leads on more music from there. I aim to provide just that, and to give a place where other fans can celebrate songs together. I totally respect and love Song of the Week, and I find new songs from them all the time, so I'm happy to hop into the same world with my own approach.

The site is starting fresh with 12 posts, and 27 songs in total available for download. To start, I will be posting 4 songs per week, which usually equals about 10 MP3s. I've made the posting process a little easier on myself this time around, so hopefully I can increase this as time goes by.

I have a user login/registration system, which is *not needed* for downloading songs, but if you do register (and I made it about the simplest thing you can imagine) you'll be able to post comments on songs, and you'll even get a personal little message from me, along with other benefits to come in the magical future. I don't ask for any personal info, even your email address; the process is completely simple and exploitable, and I look forward to thinking up creative anti-spam measures in a couple months from now (if that!).

So check it out, tell me what you think. Even the diehard game music fans here will likely find something they haven't heard, and perhaps find new joy in some they have. I hope you guys like it, and hey, maybe add it to your podcasts.

Enjoy!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Elorin, I left Bigmog a message last night letting him know about the site, so I think there's a strong forecast of YES.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'd like to bump this thread, since I've continued working on the site and added a place to make requests, and the ability to go through the whole archive of songs. There's well over 100 songs available for download now and I think the site is looking pretty good.

I'm still working regularly on it, so if anybody has any suggestions or complaints, this is a good time. I'm looking into making some kind of rating thing for songs, but currently I'm not sure how to implement that in a clean way that actually increases the value of the site for users.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It'd probably be better to begin the rating system while the site's song database is still small, too, so that there's fewer songs in the archives that people would have to go back and rerate. Hmm.

Commenting on news posts is definitely a plus. I've given myself some inconveniently strict UI limitations though, so I'd probably have to cave and make the news post and comments go into the main frame of the site. I know, a tragedy.

I'm still interested in developing and updating the site, but I've been a little disappointed at the traffic plateau I've reached. I'd like the site to be just a little more lively. If you know anyone who would like the site, please tell them.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Oh, I wouldn't mind that at all! By all means

Avatars might be nice. If I do it, it'd be small -- probably about the size of that chocolate bar in your signature. A little bigger than Digg's, but not much. More generally, I could definitely expand "user profiles", and I've been meaning to do more with the User Profile box to the left of the news bar than just giving everyone a personalized message. Thanks for jogging me on that, and thanks most of all for your words of support!

I was speaking idiomatically.