User profiles
Picard @MrClon and streaming @PierPiero, bear in mind that several different user profiles do co-exist on MB, I guess.
For myself, I listen to music with physical CD in one of my music sets, basically a regular CD deck plugged on amplifier (no streaming, no Picard), press PLAY.
And I use MusicBrainz, mainly for:
- Encyclopedic purpose, learn stuff about the artists who make the albums I like, see in what other bands or albums they are involved and try them too
- Keep track of my collection, to ease my life when I am in flea markets / second hand shops, I can know if it’s worth or not to buy this or that album, do I already own its recordings in another release?
Homepage
When not logged in, it’s a must to see the brief description of MusicBrainz and maybe a few release examples (like we already have).
The design can be redone but I think we already have all the important elements.
When logged in, even if I don’t really use the homepage myself, I read about having a dashboard.
We used to have a pre-NGS dashboard that was focusing on trying to increase votes (and thus more reviews) on current edits.
Here is a look at how it looked like (but most data is missing in this snapshot, pre-NGS classic site was already offline): MusicBrainz Dashboard.
- Hot edits
- Need love edits
- Expired edits
- Recently changed artists
- Recently changed releases
- Recently changed labels