Friday, November 16, 2007

Task 19 Pick a Winner! Discrevolt!

After looking through quite a few, the music sites interested me and I clicked on Pandora-but it is out of bounds to countries outside USA so I spent only 20secs there. Discrevolt seemed a likely name so I clicked on it and noticed its colourful first display, noted the easy, search buttons and the logical set up. As not the greatest techno on the block, I was impressed the screen divided into Artists, Fans, and Features. Clicking on search flicked up more possibilities- if you knew the artist's name you could enter that- but if you could only remember the artist's first initial(surname) or the initial of the group, entering it popped up all the artists and band groups with that first letter. I put in U and Discrevolt suggested Umbrella Tree at the top of a list of eight. Further click on their name and I had a short but relevant bio of the group The name of their first release - would you believe "What kind of books do you read?" and the title of the one currently being readied.
To sign up the form is user friendly but I clicked on the "agreement" and found an enormous sheet of legal terms and details which I stopped reading after four minutes. There is another one for Artists and it is clearly designed to protect the owners od Discrevolt from claims etc. As it seemed to be USA based I decided not to go ahead- however anyone can use the site to check up on country, rock, electronic, heavy metal etc. For library staff it would be good to be able to check on popular american groups and their past and current releases.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great work, nearly there