Hi Eric, > I'm a user. I don't like bundled audio tracks with my software. It's a > waste of my time and bandwidth.
I agree. We should make sure we keep a close eye on the size of the packages and if it's a significant increase in size we should offer a no music option for those on low bandwidth connections. > There is no quantifiable feedback for labels who bundle artists' > tracks with Mixxx. > > I would like to see this in the form of unlockable content. Register > your copy of Mixxx (a short survey to help developers) to generate an > URL. Visit the URL to receive updates and downloads of virtual crates > of featured artists' tracks. I have a couple of comments about this. Obviously more quantifiable feedback could be valuable but I don't think asking users to register adds much in this sense. Even if the user registers and downloads the track, you have no idea if they have actually listened to it. Another concern is privacy, we decided we didn't want to force people to be tracked in order to listen to the music. We were thinking of adding some degree of stats tracking but on a purely opt-in basis. > I look at shoving tracks into Mixxx distribution as extremely lazy. > Keep the ideas coming, but don't dare add bloat and legal > complications to the Mixxx distribution! I think we would like to be careful about package size as I mentioned above. I don't believe that any additional legal complications are introduced. But you do have a good general point here that there's scope to be much more advanced, however since developer time is limited as always, I think we'd like to start with this as the simplest possible implementation and then iterate to improve things. As long as we keep a close eye on the disadvantages (package size being the main one in my opinion) then I think this is a reasonable approach. Thanks, Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
