Rate Your Music

Rate Your Music RYM or ( English review for your music ) is a free, built up of members online database for recorded music and sound recording, record companies and movies. It was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle.

Structure

RYM 1.0, the first version of the page, allowing the review and cataloging of music recordings, writing reviews, creating lists, and the feeding of artist names and albums in the database. Other functions were gradually added, such as the introduction of user forums in 2002. On August 7, 2006 RYM 2.0 was introduced, a completely new version of the website which or even more functionality as typing tracklist, label, catalog number, concerts venues, bot.

Due to high operating cost rate Your Music is not only funded by user donations since 2006, but also receives income from other sources. Specifically, these are commission based links to online music services and contextual advertisements from Google AdSense ( which can turn registered in users). This step was previously subjected to open a democratic vote in the user forums.

In May 2009 began Rate Your Music, integrating films into its database.

"Custom Charts " and Music Recommendations

A special feature on RYM are the so-called Custom Charts. These are numerical compilation of rankings of the various images and movies in the database, where the user can open these leaderboards by any criteria individually. So you can see the plants with the highest, but also arrange with the lowest ratings among other things after year, decade, format or country. The album with the best ratings in the global all-time best list is Radiohead's OK Computer (January 2011).

Also, recommend any other user movies, artists or recordings a user. There also exists an automatic function, the new recommendations are the user based on its previously assigned ratings.

Scope

In December 2011, there were at Rate Your Music about 370 000 user accounts, with about half of the users from the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom come. The other half of the users are mainly from Western and Northern Europe, especially Scandinavia and the Netherlands, as well as Poland, Russia, Mexico, Brazil and Australia.

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