Here are the features I would like to add to the site, if you find them interesting. For some of them, you will woon be able to vote to show your interest. I will publish surveys as well to know your opinion and to make the site evolving the way you prefer. Some features only need time, other will need financial contributions. If you want to help with the financial contribution, details are here.
(Total overhaul of the site)
Realized on 01/07/2021 Cost : 250 euro Personally funded. The site has been rewritten from scratch with an interface working correctly on modern resolutions and devices (computers, tablets, smartphones). Some features have been removed to make this overhaul easier and faster. They will most probably be added in the future on this new version depending on your advices (polls and surveys)
(Integrated mp3 player )
Realized on 01/07/2021 Cost : 50 euro/week Not yet payed by the financial contributions. The cost is a bit omre than 30 euro per week for the copyrights fees (the site is considered as a streaming platform) and a bit less than 20 euro per week are used to by the drm-free song files on qobuz. This feature is the main reason for which I decided to set up a financial contribution system, because I cannot afford to fund alone such important amount of money. This is as well an excellent test to check if this financial contribution system will work or not.
(Request page)
Realized on 03/09/2021 Cost : none I decided to remove this feature because I received too many of them and I did not have the time to process them. Since I succeed now to write and publish one song a day, I processed all of them and I can consider to receive new ones.
(Contact form)
Realized on 03/09/2021 Cost : none I will add a way for you to contact me. I love to receive your kind messages and your constructive opinions about the site. It's is always a great pleasure for me to read your messages.
Surveys
Priority : high Cost : none You will be able to fill these surveys to give me your opinion and help me to choose between the features to add.
FAQ
Priority : high Cost : none I will add a page with explanations on subjects for which I often receive questions : - more detailed explanations about the different points present in the legend of the tablatures - explanations on the way I work and on the tools I use
Countdown before the music starts
Priority : medium Cost : recurring time For some songs, the bass starts immediately at the start of the song, so it will be nice to have a countdown to have some time to take your bass after you click on the "play" button.
Other languages translation
Priority : medium Cost : unknown I would like the site to be accessible to everyone, regardless of age, country and language. I would like to make the site available for the most spoken languages on the internet. I don't have a clue if I will pay a professionnal service for that of if some people will be able to help me. Anyway I have to wait for the textual content of the site to be finished, or at least more stable than now because I am adding many textual content at the moment.
Additional sorting for the lists
Priority : medium Cost : none These features were discontinued with the new version of the site, but I will publish a survey about them to know if you want some to be back, mainly the sorting by musique style, by year of the creation of the song, by popularity, by celebrity.
Search feature
Priority : low Cost : none Given the growing number of songs on the site, a search feature would be useful.
"Rocksmith / Guitar Hero" type videos/animations
Priority : medium, but depending of the success of the financial contributions Cost : to be defined Here is a small mockup I built manually to show the idea I got in mind. I don't want to do some very nice stuff, but something practical to learn efficiently. I found now which technology I will use (svg) and I will be able to develop myself the program which will convert the tablature informations to generate automatically the animation, except the real time sync with the song. The costs that still need to be defined are : - price for the original design of the picture and its composants (I will ask that to a professional designer because it should be a bit nicer than my mockup. - the additional time needed for each song (so each day) to sync the speed of the animation to match the song.
Guitar Pro file generation
Priority : low Cost : recurring time The midi file are already available on the site, but the Guitar Pro files would be interesting because they contain the informations of which fret and string are played. The priority is low because this is not a purpose by itself (except if many of you really want that feature, future poll/survey ahead), but the purpose is to realize the next point :
Rocksmith game "custom song" generation
Priority : low Cost : recurring time Rocksmith game is like Guitar Hero, but you use your actual guitar or bass to play the songs. Here is a video of a song in the game if you don't know it yet (it is really awesome) It is possible to import your own songs in the game (custom songs). And it seems that it should be possible for me to generate a "custom song" file for each song of the site to be able to play it in the game, thanks to the Guitar Pro file generation. As with the animation idea above, this feature will require additional time every day to sync the musique to the in-game animation.