icecreamjunkie 2017-03-26 23:43:15

yeah, i play gd and i make my own music, but really, i've seen some undiscovered artists and 30% of the titles is related to GD. Super Annoying!

FireWolfenn 2017-03-27 00:13:37

Yeah, this is Annoying by the Fact, it's from a Game, and it's like Stealing Music from it! But little do they know, they get Banned from the Audio Portal, which is good, People should really Understand what they Post on here!

and lucky you're not like that Man, just stating my Oppinion

JustAPunnyGuy 2017-03-27 00:40:53

Annoying AF

KORAII 2017-03-27 04:20:15

yeah dude this has gone a tad too far by this point 7_7

Troisnyx 2017-03-27 05:15:54

It does me head in just as well. I mean, it is one thing that the Featured Audio in the footer refers to popular audio. It is another thing that the Frontpage feature, which is done entirely by mods, could bypass the Geometry Dash problem but not get as much attention because there seems to be no incentive for people to look at stuff which isn't related to GD.

Thoughts @Mich @NekoMika @LexaHergon @EDM364 @TomFulp?

ADR3-N 2017-03-27 10:03:10

@botnot435 Actually, the music in custom GD levels is all from Newgrounds, not the other way around. However, people are stealing music /for/ GD, which is why they get banned. It's a lot of workload to keep up with.

@Troisnyx Yes, I've noticed this. I'd be fine with mods searching through to find good stuff daily but we already have a lot of work. If the feature went by scores, not views, that would sort everything a lot quicker I think. Shitty stuff would get bumped down, etc. @TomFulp, what do you think?

My thoughts, just another example of the GD crowd by and large using NG as a song dump, and I'm tired of it. When I see a shit song featured at the bottom of the page, I make sure to give it an appropriately crummy score, just like I would any other piece. If it's point blank awful/spam, 1 or 0. If it's borderline cookie cutter, 2. Basically, I look at these view exploits like I do the "How To" memes, depending on the quality.

Tp56Official 2017-03-27 12:35:48

It doesn't really annoy me. I'm making a song for Zyzyx, and it's a GD soundtrack for you guys to use. It depends on what kind of music it is.

Gusearth1 2017-03-27 15:24:57

YES omg, it's basically the newgrounds equivalent of clickbait, and it's really annoying. I run a music channel, and I look through the top audio sections to find good songs to upload, and recently there's a ton of crappy songs cluttering it up, just because the title has GD in it, or the picture is the Demon Level symbol. Annyoing asf.

Hallow 2017-03-27 19:05:45

@EDM364, there's one issue with scores choosing the features, and that's that if the GD players like it, they will vote, and even though many of them probably have no vote weight, there are just too many for anyone else to get up there.

Looking at Best of the Month right now, we have an Xtrullor song at the top, which probably would get on the chart anyway, but the other five that aren't GD clickbait probably would not garner the necessary 50 votes and/or not get a high enough score.

Best of the Year is a bit surprising to me in that some of it isn't *just* there because of GD, but in the end it has definitely influenced all of these songs. Hinkik wouldn't even be on Newgrounds if not for some GD player pestering him. TheFatRat too.

This is what has driven me away from this site somewhat. Unfortunately, there's really no way to compensate for it beyond mods handpicking songs, which is what we already have in features on the front page.

I would say just have the features at the bottom reflect the front page. It's confused many people that both are named "Featured Audio" anyway, so having them be the same would be a bonus.

Miyolophone 2017-03-27 19:19:41

Definitely. I guess I'm glad Geometry Dash users are being encouraged to make music as general principle, but the clickbait is irritating beyond belief, especially because it earns them underserved views and shoves users who slave over tracks for a long time (like me!) out of the running for featured audio. I don't have any bitterness over my lack of success alone, but the fact that these songs succeed instead irks the hell out of me.

Skiddle 2017-03-27 19:38:52

Yeah, this does annoy me greatly. Like, no offense to JordanKyser, but Dubstep Machine is one of the worst Featured audio I've ever heard. And I've heard plenty of terrible songs on this site. It's not fair that people like you or @Miyolophone are getting pushed to the side while songs like Dubstep Machine are getting all the attention. I agree with you 100%, Zy.

troPSDNUORGWEN 2017-03-27 22:08:56

This isn't just annoying, it's disappointing.

LexRodent 2017-03-28 05:39:02

Annoying indeed my good fellow, almost as much as all those boobs, butts, pretty gals and bordering hentai thumbs on most generic ass electronic music videos on youtube. x_x

iamwontolla 2017-03-28 16:39:10

Terrible. Shameless clickbait whoring. None of the tracks are up to GD standards, so I doubt any of them even made the whitelist, which makes it dishonest too. You have every reason to be annoyed that no-effort My First Cracked FL Studio Projects are crowding out tracks like yours.

Rebelled 2017-03-28 19:44:14

Yes. That "clickbaiting" technique is kinda old, actually.

iamwontolla 2017-03-28 21:03:34

I mean, it's nothing against new producers. We all have to start somewhere, and my first projects were awful. But this gives people the expectation that they don't have to LEARN to maybe, one day, make something on par with their idols, or even listenable. Just clickbait it like the trick they are and BOOM FEATURED

K-oztron 2017-03-28 21:29:50

Hell yes. It is so annoying that people are using the games popularity to get more plays, etc, instead of people who put hard work into what they make. It pisses me off a ton.

Kattlarv 2017-03-29 00:26:23

Yeah, stuff like this is honestly really annoying.
But people will exploit about anything for a cheap boost.

... semi-reminds me of the worthless use of "lesbian" in the 18+ community. Considering like, barely 50 % of the pics in that category are even remotely relevant to it. Granted, much broader issue. But like... why the fuck do people keep doing stuff like this? ... ok, we know the answer is views, but yanno...

Deep-Blue 2017-03-29 22:46:50

Honestly I used to play gd, and all of my spent time really was a waste. I probably would start producing (actually good) music, but I need to figure out how to get fl studio and all of those plugins to work (someone help me pls). Btw I don't really want to make music for gd, just good music in general that people will actually like.

EMBL3M 2017-10-23 20:47:35

I agree with everyone else... it's annoying as literal crud.
I came from GD because I thought this was the perfect place to upload my music and get better, but I don't want to get views, scores, etc. because I have GD or something in my title, desc., picture, etc.
I try to avoid linking to my GD on NG, but I do advertise my NG on GD 8)
when I browse the popular audio section, I want to hear good music.
So yes. Save the Audio Portal from clickbait!!!!!