I was asked to make an account on Kompoz. Apparently, this is supposed to help us collaborate on a scoring project.
EDIT: I know it looks like you should be able to click on the upload part of this box… Nope.
I created an account and found the existing project I was supposed to contribute to. But I couldn’t figure out how to contribute! Where’s the upload form?
Meanwhile, I’m being bombarded with pictures of “attractive” people posing with musical instruments.
Puke.
Hate to say it, but this is so not musical. At least not to me. It looks more like a music discovery tool.
OK, fine. I can deal. We musicians need to market ourselves too. But where do I upload this re-edited sample, quantized to 107 BPM? Oh look! She’s kinda pretty.
And a Cover-Flow style album-browsing thing! That’s nice. But… where do I upload this file?
So…
Anyways, I spent more time looking for how to contribute to this ‘project,’ than I did actually manually editing a sample (of a phone being dialed) to make it a consistent tempo, so it can be more easily Re-Cycled etc! I could have easily FTPed it somewhere by now.
I like the idea of an online, social app for music collaboration. This isn’t the idea I like though.
And LastFM seems like a smarter place for an upcoming musician to spend her time building a brand.
Arrgh!!!
It’s like… I came here to work, not to be advertised to! And I can’t seem to get any work done here, so what the fuck is the point?
Maybe I’m missing something. I’ll check back on this service later maybe. Maybe I was just having a bad day for finding upload forms. That’s possible.
bassfass wrote on December 16th, 2007 12:53 pm :
Find the project, click the “Tracks” Tab, Click “Upload Track”.
Jay wrote on April 2nd, 2008 9:56 am :
well I’d say you are definitely missing something. All of the songs that you see on kompoz.com are the results of online collaboration on that site. As each of the collab sites operate a little differently, there is always a learning curve. Looks like your patience wore out before the curve dropped. This is definitely one of the best collab sites aith a very active and talented community. I hope your blurb doesn’t discourage new musicians from checking it out. There really is not much to figure out there at all. Not sure why you had such difficulty 
JPass wrote on July 25th, 2008 6:06 am :
Kompoze is great! Jay is right. You should spend more time with Kompoze. I spent about one afternoon (3 hrs.) listening, downloading tracks etc. and it begins to make sense.
The advertising is necessary so the guys don’t go broke providing a free high quality website that flows fast with the large music files be swapped.
musicianmatch wrote on August 17th, 2008 6:40 am :
Hey,
There are some cool sites out there but do require a learning curve. Some may be just to complicated. Kompoze has some good stuff on it but at times, I cant figure out where I am.
I have been developing a website, http://www.musicianmatch.com/, that will launch in Sep 08 that concentrates more on matching musicians with each other with customizable profiles, http://www.musicianmatch.com/flight409, and promotion of said profiles. We will have a very basic Virtual Projects feature just so folks can audition each other and build a band. You may find a home here but as we all know, any musician trying to make it should use every vehicle out there. Good luck to you.
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Check out MyOnlineBand.com. This is a real cool music collaboration site. They offer a simple collaboration model that is easy to use. They also offer private collaboration spaces for free. They are the only site using Microsoft Silverlight. This allows you to use high bit rate WMA files rather then MP3s in your collaborations.
Check it out and let me know what you think. If you have any ideas on how we can make the site better for real pros, please let me know.