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Some suggestions / debugging
• Many clips have the same date when looking for it, maybe it shows the upload date instead of the show date (“Lucifer” gets 3 times 12 of February)
• “use MP mask overlay” => “Use Roadwork template” ? The masking and overlay are terms not everyone is familiar with, even if it pretty straighforward.
• The “Preview sleeve” button could be maybe be aligned with the image URL field? To “validate” the URL instantly.
• Ember Tape, Glacier Drift, Oxide Echo, Signal Burst could maybe be nerd out a bit? With references to MP or Norway? Silly for sure, but it’s just to maximise the hardcore psychonaut aspect of it all.
“Snah is god”, “Trondheim chill”, “Space out”,…• Maybe the “Release builder” and “Create Roadwork” could be left for readability.
• On the created Roadwork page, the first right container has “ROADWORK” on top of the title. This might be redundant.
• On the artwork preview, the short description should maybe be a little smaller (since the description is anyway on the right), and it will avoid the overlay on the image.
• Maybe some sharing options on the creacted Roadwork pages?
• Wouldn’t it be more logical to have Roadworks (plural) in the menu and section title? “Psychonauts Roadworks” even?
Lastly, how about a donation button with a disclaimer about hosting and DNS costs?
Sorry for the specifications aspect of these, but it’s such a cool tool to have fun with. None of these suggestions and remarks are in any way mandatory. The experience is already beyond cool.
I mean, isn’t that a feature that any fan of bands with a bootlegging community would dream of?Mmm I just tried publishing one, and it did not show up. After clicking “publish roadwork, it went back to the homepage, and nothing was saved or published.
This is brilliant. Looks dope.
While trying to make a Roadwork of live versions of the 2025 Motorpsycho album, I noticed the field to choose the clip isn’t showing some results. “Lucifer” has one entry, “Laird Of Haimley” has zero, etc.
Aslo, run time is indicated as such :
Runtime
01:23
Maybe ’01h23″‘would make more sense?I would recommend at some point posting a new dedicated thread on this forum to inform the community about this Roadwork feature, maybe on other socials (I don’t follow them, dunno if facebook is still a thing for the Psychonauts). This is too good not to be promoted widely. Thanks again for doing this.
Good call on the link to external image.
Do you think an image masking that fits the official Roadwork artwork would be possible?
Kind of the ones that – I believe – Francesco is doing when uploading the recordings on the internet archive?
https://archive.org/details/mp2023-09-16The masking would be applied to the image linked, so it would be more visually consistent.
Also if the linked image somehow breaks, the masking can simply be applied to the selected banner color, it will still look cool and consistent.
Def not necessary
Sorry for dropping suggestions like that, I know it’s a lot of work but it’s fun seeing them being completed!
Holy shit that was fast! Will test it out from the airport today!
Good call on limiting to 3 roadworks per user, it will ensure some careful consideration in building these playlists.Adding artwork isn’t that necessary indeed, especially if we can have a generic template adding the title of our own roadworks.
For Discogs, that may seem redundant for our own collection, but the GBVdb.com for instance is mostly focused on the extended discography of Guided By voices more than the shows. It would make sense to me to have a MPdb that all the bands data, including their releases. Definitely not a priority tho.
The community roadworks would be already quite a lot of fun.The current version of the MPDB site is pretty complete, and awesome in many ways. Love the maps, the footprint and such an easy access to clips and recordings.
Brilliant all around. Thanks again for allowing this to exist in such a cool format and for taking into consideration the feedback of the community.There are some other things that could be considered like gamification of show attendance or activity on the forum, etc, but I don’t think it’s very much the vibe between psychonauts.
Maybe one fun thing : create your own “Roadwork”, where we can create playlist of selected live songs from the available recording we think are at the Roadwork level, and make our own little online bootleg. “Psychonaut Roadwork”, sorta. With an option to upload our own artwork for it.
It could allow the creation of fun concepts, like for instance 10 chronological live versions of “Mountain” over the span of 20 years to see how much it evolved through the years, or something like covers only playlist, or “best of live Reine”, rarest live songs, etc.
Just thinking out loud, hoping this makes sense.Edit : also, why not adding a discography section? Lifting up most of the data from Discogs but with maybe higher resolution images? And an option to also indicate what we have in our collection (with even more data, like % of LP own, % of 7″, etc)
I think the map could be right under the first container, since it is a cool visual overview.
The Motorpsycho footprint background color is maybe too similar to the Dig Deper section, it would benefit from being more prominent.
Maybe as tabs? One tab for the map, one for the footprint?I noted this while quickly browsing :
Personal footprint
Most Visited Country
belgium <—- no caps in the countryTours page
Link to https://mpdb.no/stats/tour/?tour=2025 gets a 404This is so cool, I’ve been reading setlists of shows I forgot I attended thanks to adding them to my stats.
For instance this show, which was an absurdly good and fun show :
This is brilliant. Can’t wait to use this feature.
Congrats on adding the map for the tours, it’s such a cool visual gimmick.
Will there also be a map on the personal stats like a fitness tracker? So I can sell my touring attendance to my wife as personal exercice.Thanks for all the great work.
Is this AI thing that bad or problematic? I find it sure surprising but somehow enjoyable and goofy enough. It fits the song nicely IMO.
Sure I would prefer this AI stuff to have more creative post-editing, but it’s no big deal in my book.Hey Dennis,
Some more feedback and random thoughts/suggestions that are purely subjective, since the MPDB is already more than awesome as it is! It’s just thinking out loud at this point.Header :
The “MPDB” in the header should be fully “Motorpsycho Database”, so the “Motorpsycho database” above the search field could be remove (redundancy, improve readability)? Maybe a white Motorpsycho logo instead of the text would work too (like a third of the width size of the search field).Search field section :
Not sure the number of songs played live is truly relevant. Sure the number of gigs performed and clips available are part of the fun of this DB, but maybe without the songs played live box, the 3 remaining boxes can be aligned with the width of the search field.On This Day section :
– “On this day in XXX etc” might be redundant as well.
“A recording is available form this show” might be overkill since the microphone logo is clearly visible.
– I only noticed today that the year is in the background of each block. Could the full date be the first line with the location as second line?
So the content of simplified boxes would look like :
March 18 2011
Byscenen
Trondheim, NORWAYAgain, just some food for thoughts.
Been enjoying a lot going again through the old set-lists of shows I attended 20 years ago. What a cool/fun site/tool!
This is great! Thanks again Dennis. Really cool having such an easy access to this massive history and recordings.
While browsing this morning I noticed for the first time the other sections on the homepage.
Suggestion :
Having smaller containers for these modules, placed in two sections instead of one? Kind of the Discogs modules.
One section with two containers – Latest (5?) Gigs on the left, then latest (5) clips on the right, and under the On This Day In MP History section in one larger container?Just to avoid missing out the extra content that is available.
