["Brad nails":http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2005/09/26/brad-sucks-podsafe/"] some of what’s been chafing me about all these online music/artist directories. He, like me, dislikes uploading a song instead of being able to just link to it, and rightly despises the half-assed blogging “features,” favoring RSS syndication instead.

I’ll add one of my own: online gig calendars. IMO this is the biggest PITA of all these sites. Hardly any of them support any decent kind of batch uploading tool for gig dates, forcing me to use some ridiculous submission form for every single gig. Stupid. At the very least, include an option to upload a CSV file or RSS dump or something.

I’d rather these sites focus on doing just a few things really well than a whole bunch of things poorly. I’m still waiting for a service that incorporates Flickr-like tagging instead of jamming all of us into convenient little genre boxes.

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