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[eagles051387]

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New ideas:

• Notifications if @mention
• Collaboration. Because you can make amazing things out of just native LMMS and use it across different platforms, collaborations have been fairly easy compared with other DAWs. The LMMS artist group Avelocity shows this best. I have read text messages from FL and Ableton users who states that with LMMS collaboration is so simple. I reckon that collaboration can be one of the benefits with LMMS compared with competitors. Now follows sub paragraphs:
  • Option to upload mmpz as a collab-file. This will mean anyone can download the file and then upload their modifications. The project will evolve through a number of artists! When a person download the file the file will be locked (24h) so no one else can download it while it is being worked on. Three last versions should perhaps be available in case anything goes wrong. To prevent that anyone uploads a completely different mmpz maybe each song from now one could get their own random number stored in the mmpz?
  • Secret collab mode. Only people with the link can download and upload the mmpz. This can be done through other free services right now... but if there are going to be a collab mode on the lsp, why not?
  • Collab forum. Where people can talk and brain storm about the mmpz.
• Play songs online. Alternatively if SoundCloud embedding is allowed, a click on that widget will also count as a download.
• Artist page with description and submitted content.

[eagles051387]

I like the collaboration mode idea. It would be like a mailing list, only with music and a mechanism to prevent forks. However an option to fork a track would also be cool. I wonder if we could work with mmp files (uncompressed xml it is) using GIT? That's a geeky way I know, but - who wants to try it with me? :D

I can't wait until we would be able to embed samples (maybe also images?) inside project files. I think it would boost the collaborative aspects even more. LMMS could become the demoscene tool of tomorrow!