New Ideas For MySpace (Relating To Music)

Here's some ideas of mine that I think could improve MySpace's music services. I'm fairly new here so let me know if I've suggested something they already do! Feel free to add your own - I'll give you full credit and link to your page. To save you wading through the lot I've starred my favourite ten ideas in red. I'll send all the ideas to MySpace to see if they'd like to introduce any of them. Let me know what you think!

* Random Music Selector: This can be added to your page and all the time you are online it picks different music totally at random from the site, plays it, and shows you the band/performer who played the music. (A great way to discover new music!)

Random Music Selector for friends: The same as above, but you opt to hear only the music of your friends

Also: Random Music Selector that plays just music added today to site

Bands/Performers Template: Exhaustive list of possible information bands/performers can add to their pages. For example: songwriting influences, ambitions, favourite musicians, expression of willingness to cover songs not written by the band themselves.

* Popular Music In Your Area: A feature where you type in your postcode and see which bands/performers near that postcode are getting the most plays on MySpace.

Most-listened Chart: A chart (a top ten) showing you who, from among your friends, is having their music played the most

The option to make a list of "friends whose music I recommend the most"

As well as being able to update your activities and mood in the "friends status" box, the option to add "music I'm listening to now" or "music I really like at the moment".

The option to see all the comments you've added to others' pages and where(already done?)

In addition to having a music player of their own music on their page, bands could have a player that features some of their favourite music from MySpace.

* Some pages are very hard to read - especially when someone has added a photograph to the background. There could be a "readable" button that changes the page to black text on white background. This could also be a default setting.

Collect "Top ten promotion tips" from each performer and compile a list.

Option to put messages on your default logo without changing the logo itself

* Local "Battle of the bands": All the bands within a distance of a certain postcode are included on a page that has every band's music (or maybe the songs the bands choose as their "best") on a player. MySpace contacts every account holder within a certain distance of the postcode to ask them to vote to find the winning band and song.

The option to add comments to your friends pics on your page. Eg: "great local band" or "great influence of mine" etc.

When you join MySpace, in addition to having Tom as an immediate friend, you also get one called "music lover" who features the best songs from the site, or the best songs from bands living near you.

MySpace, in a kind of "fame lottery" could pick bands to be added to new MySpace accounts as friends in addition to Tom.

Bands can pay to be "automatic friend" of anyone that joins with a postcode within five miles of themselves.

"Thumbs up/thumbs down" ratings for every song on every music player

A "Music Vault" could be created each week - a kind of record for the future with bands getting the most plays and bands getting the least plays.

Create a chart based on repeat plays of songs, not single plays (if one person plays a song ten times, does this not mean more than ten people only playing once?)

An easy means to hear all the music added today in your area.

An option to receive email alerts when one of your friends adds new music.

Gig Finder Facility: You put in your postcode and are told about gigs upcoming in your area.

* If you add a group as music you like (say, The Beatles) you are automatically told if there are people near your postcode who listed The Beatles.

* Complete Listens Chart: A counter next to a band's player that shows how many complete listens there were compared to how many "aborted" listens.

A rating that shows you your average position in people's friends lists

The option to have an additional friends display that lists your top ten friends purely by how much you like their music.

* "Ten songs I like": On your profile, the option to list your ten favourite songs. You are then alerted to people who have ten identical songs, then nine, then eight etc. Great for music lovers and performers alike.

On their players, bands could have option to highlight "Our Star Song".

MySpace could give bands the option to have live feeds from gigs.

* Each week, MySpace could ask an established singer or musician to pick out "my ten favourite bands/songs on MySpace this week".

Bands could be given the option to add comprehensive "tags" about a song to aid others in searching. For example: rock/guitar/sounds like Nirvana/similar to song X etc.

Compile a list of "average song rating" for each band shown on their page. So a band with two songs rated at 5/10 and 10/10 have a rating of 7.5/10

Bands page has statistic showing number of friend REQUESTS this week.

* A "Stats Box" for every band showing statistics such as: number of friend requests this week/year, number of song plays, number of friends etc.

* A discussion forum for every band on their page - so that people can start conversations and ask the band questions that others may like to hear answered too.

The option to order friends lists (yours and others) by different criteria: eg - number of plays of their songs, number of friends, number of profile hits etc.