Motorpsycho DB

[Blashyrkh]

Thanks for your feedback, Crunch!

A map view is something I’m already exploring. The only challenge is that I don’t have all the exact addresses, so I’ll need to search by venue, city, and country. This could be tricky if a venue no longer exists or has changed its name.

I’ll also check out the Guided By Voices website.

You can still use the dropdown filters on the website by typing into them.

[grindove]

Awesome work! Super nice!

“I think the dropdown lists are sort of unusable (on Vivaldi/Chrome),they are too long anyway”

That was the first thing that hit me. I’d rather type in “oslo” then press enter and have all results on a new page than a 90 line droplist. But that’s me (using Firefox).

[Blashyrkh]

Yeah I understand what you guys mean with the very long dropdowns. The idea was that you are able to type a city or venue, … but that you are also able to select multiple.

[Blashyrkh]

I’ve also noticed the issues with the sidebar filters. I was using a very large screen, so the problem went unnoticed on my end. Now, navigating through the filters should be much easier.

New functionalities:
– Songs played for the first time now receive a “debug” label.

– Songs returning after several years get a label “Back after X years”. This label appears only if the song has been absent for at least 5 years.

• This reply was modified 1 week, 2 days ago by Blashyrkh.

[crunch]

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.

[Blashyrkh]

Thanks Crunch for your feedback — I totally agree. I’ll look into how we can achieve this.

For now, I’ve made some small/quick changes to the homepage to show more modules without requiring a lot of scrolling.

[crunch]

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, NORWAY

Again, 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!

[Blashyrkh]

That’s great feedback, Crunch. Thanks!
I fully agree with the header section and have already made some changes there.

I’ve also improved the search results. For example, if you type “A Pacific Sonata”, you’ll see that the results are now split. This makes it clearer what type of content you’re clicking on: Gig vs. Clip.

I’m not sure if it’s really that relevant to know how many songs they’ve played, but it was something I wanted to know when I started this project. Now, it’s just a fun little statistic.

The idea behind “On This Day In History” was to use textual blocks as a “tease,” encouraging users to click to see all the information. The faded year in the background is just a small design touch. I’ve also removed some redundant text.

[Blashyrkh]

Can anyone help me to list all the tour names from now until 1990 ?

I working on creating separate pages per tour (per year). I guess that in most cases it is just the name of the album that came out that year.

I already have all the data except the tour names.

Update:
This is how a tour detail page could possibly look like:

Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite Tour 2026: Initial Operational Sequence

Any requests what you want to see more on a tour “report” page?

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