Why aren't there any clear, objective criterion on their site for determining if a submission is correct and/or working satisfactorily (whatever that may be)?
Will occasional jumpy video and/or audio during playback disqualify a submission? How will such a measurement be quantified -- or will it be a strictly subjective determination? Would a partial implementation be acceptable in any way (the MPEG-4 standard is fairly extensive from what I can gather)?
If two or more submissions all "work" OK, what criteria will be used to distinguish and rate/rank them? Is this, too, something perhaps yet to be decided? Does the submission date/time take precedence?
Unless and until there are some very clear answers to these sorts of questions, I'd caution anyone against devoting too much time to it, unless you're absolutely not doing it for the money. You may find out that they awarded the prize to Mr. Heeza Good Friend rather than Ms. Sheez Justa Stranger...
Now, I download song X, but also shove the person on my "hot list" and look at what else they have...
Ha! That'd be fine and dandy if that frustrating teaser feature worked just one of ten times or so. It simply doesn't. So, in practice (at least with the current Napster server(s) & [Win95] client implementations) it's not a tangible feature -- only a theoretical one -- to locating previously unheard music you stand of better than average chance of enjoying.
Believe me, I wish I could post otherwise in support of your assertion that Napster does allow for finding new artists in that manner...
But hey, wait a minute! Those nose clippers really do work well -- they've only cut me once (and besides, the infection wasn't that serious). They even sent me two of them even though I only paid for one!
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Why aren't there any clear, objective criterion on their site for determining if a submission is correct and/or working satisfactorily (whatever that may be)?
Will occasional jumpy video and/or audio during playback disqualify a submission? How will such a measurement be quantified -- or will it be a strictly subjective determination? Would a partial implementation be acceptable in any way (the MPEG-4 standard is fairly extensive from what I can gather)?
If two or more submissions all "work" OK, what criteria will be used to distinguish and rate/rank them? Is this, too, something perhaps yet to be decided? Does the submission date/time take precedence?
Unless and until there are some very clear answers to these sorts of questions, I'd caution anyone against devoting too much time to it, unless you're absolutely not doing it for the money. You may find out that they awarded the prize to Mr. Heeza Good Friend rather than Ms. Sheez Justa Stranger...
Andy
Now, I download song X, but also shove the person on my "hot list" and look at what else they have...
Ha! That'd be fine and dandy if that frustrating teaser feature worked just one of ten times or so. It simply doesn't. So, in practice (at least with the current Napster server(s) & [Win95] client implementations) it's not a tangible feature -- only a theoretical one -- to locating previously unheard music you stand of better than average chance of enjoying.
Believe me, I wish I could post otherwise in support of your assertion that Napster does allow for finding new artists in that manner...
Andy
But hey, wait a minute! Those nose clippers really do work well -- they've only cut me once (and besides, the infection wasn't that serious). They even sent me two of them even though I only paid for one!
;)
You say it's a tax? I don't get it.
Andy