Song Contest 102 (Entries up, votes due 1/17!)

[Psyche]

would it be useful to others if i made a youtube playlist of past winners/high scorers

[Vijarada]

I actually started doing one of past winners yesterday. Some odd stuff for sure.

[Psyche]

i can make code that does it efficientlike

[Vijarada]

oh you should probably do that then.

[Psyche]

SHOULD I THOUGH
OR SHOULD I DO A DIFFERENT MORE IMPORTANT THING

[TheWayItEnds]

Yes.

[Psyche]

hmm
ok

I'll edit this post as a project log.

Step one

was to scrape all the stuffs from the song contest wiki. I did this by highlighting and c/ping. It was great. In general the script should operate on whatever songlist.txt one includes in the same folder as the script.

Step two

is to do a youtube search for each song using its title and artist. Google explains how to do this with python here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v ... by_keyword

The problem, though, will be searches that return the wrong song, or no song at all. However, I've found in some test searches that most songs that have performed well in the song contest are the first result of a search for their title and artist. It might be easier to fix songs as people hear the playlist and notice something's wrong than to go through the trouble of automating verification. If not, that can be added later.

Step three will be to enable some kind of filtering. We don't want all the songs on the list - just the good ones! One way to do that is by its place in its own contest (maybe, the top 3 of each contest? Or the best?). Another is by selecting some kind of score threshold (a threshold of even 100 would make a pretty hefty song list). Or one could do a mix of both. Or I could make multiple playlists. I will. I really will.

eventually

[Song Contest]

Entries are due by midnight pacific time tonight!

[Psyche]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 76LUWOx_gA

here's all the winners, i hope

[Song Contest]

Entries are up!

[Parama]

kek, swans

[Vince McMahon]

We've received exactly 26 songs?

Crazy.

[Song Contest]

We've received exactly 26 songs?

Crazy.

27, actually, but one was not eligible and the person who submitted it never re-submitted.

[TheWayItEnds]

Damn I didn't submit. I was gonna relisten to my artist to make sure I was entering the correct song and I ran out of time.

[Parama]

post it anyways so I can call it boring

[TheWayItEnds]

You'd call it boring and then give me 6 points anyway

[KuroiXHF]

post it anyways so I can call it boring

What if the song title was called boring.

[Parama]

You'd call it boring and then give me 6 points anyway

yeah that's about how song contests usually go

[Natirasha]

My goal this contest is to score more points than USA.

[KuroiXHF]

I'll try not to wait until the last minute to judge, so I'll at least do this in parts. I'm going to remove the songs I know I won't like, kind of like how I judged last round:

This list are songs I'll want to keep after this first round of judging by me:
Albania - Lycia - Drifting
Central African Republic - Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Belize - Oceana - Barracuda Capital of the World
Uruguay - Crywolf - Akureyri
Hungary - Chase & Status - All Goes Wrong ft. Tom Grennan
Spain - Public Service Broadcasting - Gagarin
Iceland - Ihsahn - Celestial Violence
Kazakhstan - Fantastic Negrito - Lost in a Crowd
Canada - Postmodern Jukebox - Colors of the Wind
Latvia - I:Scintilla - Taken
Cote d'Ivoire - Nana Mizuki - Glorious Break
Azerbaijan - Tre Mission ft. Thes - Stigmata
USA - Dean Fujioka - History Maker
Burkina Faso - A Camp - Algebra
Greece - Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart

I have fifteen songs in this list. The next time I get the chance, I'll cut this down to ten.

[Parama]

Heck yeah KuroiXHF might give me 2 points

[KuroiXHF]

Heck yeah KuroiXHF might give me 2 points

What's your country again? I want to know so I'll

never give you points

make sure to give you ten points.

[KuroiXHF]

So I just found out which country you are and to be honest, this was one of my favorites. You're almost assuredly in my top ten, and quite possibly in my top five.

[Parama]

thanks Einar

[ConManMick]

Listen to my song goddammit it's beautiful