2015 Playlist Exchange

[kate_nepveu]

Okay, we've got more than ten people, let's do this.

What

Sign up to (a) get a song playlist from a person I will match to you and (b) give a songplaylist to a person I will match to you, based on prompts and preferences you both provide. The playlist should be at least thirty minutes long (no maximum), and may be "songs in a specific order" or "songs to be put on shuffle." You'll provide me with the songs (edit: by which I mean, the digital files) (and playlist order, if applicable) and then I'll distribute them to the recipient.

If you don't want to commit, but are interested by this idea, I'm asking people whether they give me permission to make their sign-ups public, in case a non-participant is inspired. You can find those here (I've put mine up as a demonstration). If you end up making a bonus playlist, email me (knepveu@steelypips.org) to let me know.

When

• Sign up through Sunday, March 15.
• Assignments out by Wednesday, March 18.
• Playlists due by Wednesday, April 8.
• Playlists distributed by Wednesday, April 15 (sooner if everyone has a playlist before then; I'm building in a week's grace in case pinch-hitters are needed).

How

Sign up at this Google Docs form. Comment here if you have questions (no DW account necessary to comment or to participate).

This is going to be so much fun, y'all. Thanks!

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

This only occurred to me now -- in the poll regarding interest for this, you said uploading is fine, no physical media needed... but is uploading *required*? For me that's no problem & I prefer it -- but I know a lot of people like to, say, make Spotify playlists. I don't do Spotify, so if I essentially just received a text list of songs, I'd almost certainly never get around to assembling them myself. -_- Sorry, I should've thought of this before I signed up!

[kate_nepveu]

My plan was that people would upload songs. I will be sending email when sign ups close to clarify that and say if people match on Spotify-preferred people, that's fine, but it's not the default. Thanks for asking!

[littlebutfierce]

Phew, cool! Thank you for clarifying!

[yhlee]

Kate, I'm worried that this is going to be hard depending on the matchup--some of these signups want specific things out of the lyrics (which is fine! I realize most people don't have my lyric-disability) and in general I don't have any idea what the lyrics of songs are. :( (Obviously I can Google them, but if I have to go through my collection song by song it suddenly becomes much more time-consuming than I had counted on.)

[kate_nepveu]

I can take that into account in your match, if that helps? Or you can drop out, no harm no foul. Up to you.

[yhlee]

If you'd take it into account I would be most grateful! Thank you. :D

[bibliofile]

Brilliant idea, and thanks for organizing it (even though I'm not participating this time).