New shiny slice the pie thread

champie

I had started reading from the beginning of the thread, then skimmed some pages and when I did not find the answer I started reading from the end and worked backwards.
Thank you Jasonwatkins and darlo_fan for giving me some pointers. I don't mind reading but I could did not have time to read through all the posts to find the answers.

sarahs999

Nic25 wrote: »

Sarah, how many tracks are you at?

About 1200 I think.

Also, I think I've only ever given a 10 once and that was ages ago. Got smashed for it too.

When I was on five stars I only had 1-9 in my range. Never give 0 either.

jasonwatkins

sarahs999 wrote: »

Never give 0 either.

what do you rate covers then, or haven't you had any ?

sarahs999

TBH I haven't had any for ages and ages. I did rate one at 0 once and lost about 5%. Was not impressed. I think I'd just refresh now if one came up.

champie

As I do slicethepie I will come across lots of hiphop/rap and they do seem to make up quite a large section on there, I would like to become more knowledgeable on that kind of music. It would be unfair to the artists concerned to get a scout rate him who did not understand anything about his work. In order to give fair credit when it is due what would make a good hiphop/rap song?

juliesg

anyone having trouble today ive got 2 tracks that i just cant pass one thats only 8 sec so i cant review it the other one is 1:14 and gets stuck when there only 8 sec left keep refreshing and they keep coming back

rach1989

I cant even review today. I can get in the scout rooms and press play yet nothing happens.
Anyone else having this problem ? Its annoyign as I havent been on for a while and the day I do, I cant grrr

Also, the payments have been reduced again? eughh

sarahs999

Yeah JUlie, I'm stuck on those ones. You can go and play in the Gibson room til someone fixes it.

JASON? Can you do some fixing please?!

jasonwatkins

champie wrote: »

In order to give fair credit when it is due what would make a good hiphop/rap song?

Ok, answer this and i'll answer that - how long is a piece of string ?

rach1989 wrote: »

Also, the payments have been reduced again? eughh

Yeah, a week ago - was announced in the update forum.

sarahs999 wrote: »

JASON? Can you do some fixing please?!

i've got the 1:14 track that crashes on 52 secs as i type so i'll sort that and see what happens and if i get the rest of them

darlo_fan

champie wrote: »

what would make a good hiphop/rap song?

This isnt easy to quantify, as hip hop/rap has a lot more scope for variance in style than say country / blues / jazz / rock (IMHO)

the best way to approach it is that you try to review as you think fans of the genre would. Try to think about what is successful in the charts, and work out why you think that is, then apply that to the track you are listening to and rate accordingly.

Obviously its a little deeper than that, but generally it boils down to your normal exposure of the genre, if you dont listen to it, and hardly ever hear it you arent going to do wither yourself or the artist any good.

I'm lucky, as hip hop is generally where my musical taste lay, however STP certainly tests my limits on occasion