Hello Everyone,
I think the site is finally at the stage where all the basic features are working and it has enough initial content for the public launch!

I've created our official Youtube channel and uploaded the first introduction video that describes how this site operates and everything I've been working on for the past 2 years, I think it turned out pretty entertaining and informative, I'm curios to hear what you think and if my vision for this project aligns with yours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7yDEOR4KzY

Thanks!

I was hunting for a Style today after a request on facebook. Google AI actually did a thing and showed me your YouTube channel. Now I am here. I have a few thousand styles (including some oddities and rare things) and happy to share them.

    Ed's Evil Twin Awesome. Manually uploading a thousand files might be a challenge, if you have them organized in some way (maybe have a text file with corresponding song names, or something like that) I can write a script to bulk upload them for you.

      Hi there! I also have a lot of nice styles for uploading! Maybe I should also use this bulk upload option. It may be worth to elaborate further on this as many users will face the same problem if they are happy to share their style collection with us: a how-to guide or a tool to bulk upload would be nice I guess!? đŸ˜‰

        FabiOh Yeah I was thinking about it, the challenge here is how to attach additional information to those styles in bulk, like song and artist, what keyboard it is for. Simply allowing dumping thousands of unknown styles will kind of defeat the purpose, we will go back to a style dumpster, only move it from a hard drive to a web.

        This would work if style files were accompanied by a spreadsheet lets say, with columns like "stylefile, artist, song, keyboard". But I doubt anyone has something like this, and putting together such a spreadsheet from scratch would be about the same amount of work as just submitting them one by one.

        Maybe anyone got some suggestions how to handle bulk uploads?

        Though we can totally open a "dumpster" section on the site and just let users dump all their styles there in bulk without any info, and then hope that other users who try them out will add some metadata eventually. This actually might be not a bad idea.

            2 months later

            StylePlayer Maybe anyone got some suggestions how to handle bulk uploads?

            Again I mention Peter Wierzba's program, PSR Style Database. A CSV file of a folder can be exported from this, and the columns adjusted for the information you might want. Worth a look... it is easy to use and free, and would submit the same information in the same format every time a bulk upload is made.

                i know, group styles by genre and have maybe folders like the psrtutorials styles converters... like so

                aprilla Thank you, I will make a note to look into it. Maybe we can also export our database into this format. We need to adopt some style metadata standard that we can import from/export to, as currently all the metadata lives internally only on the site and once you download styles from the site they turn into disorganized dump of files again. That's something we would need to put a good thought into.

                  23 days later

                  I'd just like to comment that you and whoever may have found to contribute have done and are doing a marvelous job at providing a repository for the rest of us. I just want you to know it's not a thankless job in fact, my hat is off to you and others who take the time to contribute and comment.

                  I'm one of those (gifted or disgusting) players who can just sit, play and handle the vocals to most anything. Even though I did well enough 3 nights a week as my "day Job" and keep myself in some very expensive Instruments, I still marvel at, maybe am a little jealous of, actual musicians who can read and play anything set before them.
                  When asked I just say "I play for my own amazement". You can too!

                  I'll try to get together some contributions mostly from my KN7000. ( A decade ahead of it's time. ) Most came from conversion software but they all needed to be tweaked for the Technics and now for the Genos to be up to par with commercially available styles.

                  I hope to see this vision of yours evolve into an almost living self-sustaining entity. The site itself is superb!!

                  Wishing you and all those here the best for the coming year.


                    Stu Girlock Thank you so much! If you have some content or time to contribute to this project that would be all I can ask in return.