Comments on: DTS did not do it. http://blog.ambisonia.com/2008/05/18/dts-did-not-do-it/ Building Ambisonia.com, a communicty driven site about surround sound Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Etienne Deleflie http://blog.ambisonia.com/2008/05/18/dts-did-not-do-it/#comment-3618 Etienne Deleflie Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:43:08 +0000 http://ambisonicbootlegs.wordpress.com/?p=270#comment-3618 Hi Henry, The traffic statistics on Ambisonia.com show that a lot of new people do come to the site. Around 60% of visits are people who have never visited the site before (that's around 1100 newcomers per month). The bulk of people who happen on the site dont come back. I think having playback directly out of the browser should increase "stickyness". But your suggestion of having people record concerts and upload them to the site is actually what I am aiming for. That way ... there is a 'bond' between someone going to the site and the content on there (it is _their_ content that they want to listen to). This would make sure people go to far greater effort to listen to the work (they will install bittorrent, burn DTS to CD etc.). As ever, the design of Ambisonia.com (and the user experiences it offers) are far more advanced/sophisticated "in design" than they are online. The challenge is finding the time/money to implement the design... "making is happen" so to speak ... "delivering" ... "producing" ... "getting it out". that's what's been batting me over the head for almost a year now. Hi Henry,

The traffic statistics on Ambisonia.com show that a lot of new people do come to the site. Around 60% of visits are people who have never visited the site before (that’s around 1100 newcomers per month).

The bulk of people who happen on the site dont come back. I think having playback directly out of the browser should increase “stickyness”.

But your suggestion of having people record concerts and upload them to the site is actually what I am aiming for. That way … there is a ‘bond’ between someone going to the site and the content on there (it is _their_ content that they want to listen to). This would make sure people go to far greater effort to listen to the work (they will install bittorrent, burn DTS to CD etc.).

As ever, the design of Ambisonia.com (and the user experiences it offers) are far more advanced/sophisticated “in design” than they are online. The challenge is finding the time/money to implement the design… “making is happen” so to speak … “delivering” … “producing” … “getting it out”. that’s what’s been batting me over the head for almost a year now.

]]> By: Henry Myers http://blog.ambisonia.com/2008/05/18/dts-did-not-do-it/#comment-3614 Henry Myers Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:31:26 +0000 http://ambisonicbootlegs.wordpress.com/?p=270#comment-3614 Hi Etienne: I don't think that the format makes as much of a difference as "finding" your site. I found you a couple of years ago in a moment of boredom to see if anything was still happening in ambisonics. I knew about Ambisonics from the 70s; few younger people or people who where not involved in quad know about it. My suggestion remains that you (and the group of great musicians and recordists) on your site need to be more viral. If folk with ambisonic recording equipment recorded community and university concerts, while getting a listing in the program or giving out cards linking the recorded file to ambisonia, you might get more hits. Also if you can get universities and community concert organizers to put sample dts files on their web site (through a link to ambisonia), you would have another conduit to motivated eyeballs. Henry Hi Etienne:
I don’t think that the format makes as much of a difference as “finding” your site. I found you a couple of years ago in a moment of boredom to see if anything was still happening in ambisonics. I knew about Ambisonics from the 70s; few younger people or people who where not involved in quad know about it.
My suggestion remains that you (and the group of great musicians and recordists) on your site need to be more viral.
If folk with ambisonic recording equipment recorded community and university concerts, while getting a listing in the program or giving out cards linking the recorded file to ambisonia, you might get more hits. Also if you can get universities and community concert organizers to put sample dts files on their web site (through a link to ambisonia), you would have another conduit to motivated eyeballs.
Henry

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