I dont care about rating my music....Theres a link below: if you like it - Great! - but if you dont like it, well that's fine too

instead, Id be very grateful if someone can point me to "Rate This Bukkake"...........

Bukkakes are nasty and ****ed up..........but that's what makes them so nice :)

You've been added to my friend list. :)

And I think there is a "recommend" button on the profile pages, but I've never used it.

I gave up on RYM a few months back and it was probably one of the most musically liberating things I've ever done. I realised that rating and cataloging every single thing I listen to was completely pointless.

I think that they should change their rating system so that you can only rate an album a year after its official release. This will give time for people to form a proper opinion of a release instead of rating it after only one play. There also seems to be a serious genre bias in the charts. There's no way that there could be so many atmospheric black metal, death metal or progressive rock/metal albums rated so highly compared to other genres of music. Don't get me wrong I love a lot of that stuff, but when you see very average atmospheric black metal albums being rated over the best dream pop albums of the year I really do raise question as to how people rate albums.

Considering I only started listening to full albums 5 years ago, I sort of want to keep track of everything I've listened to. Maybe people can get an idea as to my tastes. And I have rated mine, but I guess you don't need to. I don't see how it can be that bad. Luckily for me, I have only listened to 173 albums in my lifetime, so it didn't take that long to compile. I'm sure it can't be that hard to quickly go onto RYM and add an album you have just listened to. It's also good as a place to discover new music, and receive recommendations. I can't really see any downsides to it. Each to their own I guess.

It's not really to do with the effort of rating albums, I have 1,500 albums/EPs/singles rated. But it just gets boring after a while and feels like a pointless exercise. It's more to do with the motivation of doing it. The only thing I do use RYM for these days is if I wanted to know more about a particular genre of music, so I'd look at the charts for that particular genre.

odd, I find that the number of metal albums on their rankings refreshing. I mean I don't think theres an outrageous amount of those genres compared to the usual suspects. Especially when I look at publications year end lists, it always annoys me at the lack of any metal (last year it was Sunbather or nothing, this year it's been what Heathen on a few, The Satanist maybe.. not much there). So RYM having some metal compared to other sites is nice. That being said, I don't take their ratings very seriously anyway.

its impossible to be completely equal for all genres anyways f.ex RYM is not a good resource for finding ambient or drone albums amongst their lists.

in terms of using it, I tried to catalogue all the albums ive heard there (the ratings weren't as important to me, it was more of a reference point for what ive heard so I don't forget). But I abandoned that like a year ago. way too much work and I hadn't even finished rating all the stuff I had heard in the past, let alone continuing to listen to.

I use it as another music community. Have fun, chat with people and get awesome recommendations. I also disagree with the idea that you should have to wait a year to rate albums because they end up getting rated after one listen... I disagree because albums released in any year are given the same treatment.

Also, it's the best site on the web for cataloging the music you have listened to. I primarily use RYM when looking for tracks to play in plug, for example.

I think I might be too quick to rate the music I hear. I've rated 560 albums (including EPs), but a lot of them I barely even remember (I couldn't name a Meshuggah song if my life depended on it). Sometimes I get the urge to remove all my Nickelback ratings simply because I didn't really pay attention while listening to them and remember just about nothing.

It's there as a reference at least. You can always go back and change it.

I use it to check discographies, genres, and what people consider the best albums on that site. I also like to check reviews every now and than.

I made a new account 6 days ago, and spent hours adding all albums I have to my RYM Library, at least the ones that are on RYM.

Geez, that took a long time. https://rateyourmusic.com/~dylstew2

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Thanks for the heads up. We'll be sure to ban you when you post the inevitable self-promo.

Wow, at least try to hide it dude.

But isn't it more fun banning them before they get the chance?

According to last.fm I have listened to 12,321 albums. I know these results are skewed because of tagging, and individual tracks counting as one album, so I'd say I am somewhere around the 10,000 mark in reality. Problem is, I've only rated around 3,700 albums on RYM.

This annoys me a great deal.

Every so often I scroll through this, and add a few more albums, but it's an absolute pain in the ass. I wish I had started RYM at the same time as last.fm.

Also, I am thinking of making a list of "Musicbanter members on RYM" so hit me up with your links (even if I have added you or it's in your sig) so I can add you if you want.

It's so difficult to to catalog. Tough thinking of all the albums you've heard off the top of your head.

That's why last.fm and RYM go hand in hand for me.

I'd be lying to myself if I said I remember all 10,000 albums I have heard.

I've cataloged all albums I have that are on RYM, and rated everything I listened to...
It took a very long time, but I'm glad I did it because if I would've waited with RYM even longer than eventually I'd have Goofle's situation where it's just too much. My collection is currently 2,700, a few are missing since they're not on RYM. My ratings are 1,762. A few are albums I didn't fully listen to but thought were total **** though. Some are EP's, but most of them are albums.

I think LastFM and RYM do really work together really well. One is about what artists I listen to and how much I listen to them, and the other is more about what albums I have in my library and what I think of them.

Cool idea. Here u go bruh

But do you rate albums you know you've listened to even if you can't remember how any of the songs go?

If I remember the album when I look back through my history I do. If not, I'll either listen again or forget about it.

Zarathustra_1323

:)

Alright I've got nothing to do today so time to start a RYM account.

mine is in a serious need for an update

Can't be bothered to rate stuff, I just use it as an online list of stuff I have.

A'ight for the Music Banter on RYM

https://rateyourmusic.com/~ifyoucanhandleit

exactly

Does registering at RYM unlock any usability features?
What I'm specifically looking for is the ability to sort albums of a specific genre by rating.
Or is this possible anyway and I'm just missing it?

Go to charts and make sure that it's set to top albums of all time (or whichever decade you prefer) and type in the genre name next to the "only include subgenres) downtab. It ranks them by rating.

Cool. Thanks!

Linky: https://rateyourmusic.com/~sidewinder03

https://rateyourmusic.com/~Wpnfire

I've had one for a while now, but it was a little messy so I didn't want to post it here. I just catalogued all of the CDs I have available to me, so now I'm satisfied.

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