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I created a horizontal table of contents template which is based on Wikipedia's TOC templates. It currently supports three rows, up to 26 items per row. See [[Template:TOC_Horizontal|the documentation]] for usage info. [[User:Tyler Henthorn|Tyler Henthorn]] ([[User talk:Tyler Henthorn|talk]]) 08:27, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

== Listen list vs. artist list ==

If there is a desire to keep a record of artists here who do not have working audio sample links, perhaps there could be an archived version of this page kept as a separate artist list. It may seem redundant, but I can't be the only person who was frustrated going through this the first time (at the time, I believe it still was an artist list), and having it take ten minutes of clicking old dusty links before finding new music. I landed here more than fifteen years after discovering microtonal music, so I would guess that I had more patience than someone stumbling on this website for their very first introduction to xen music.

Another thought, which I haven't yet solidified, is that I would love to see this list sortable by genre, but:

1. Genre is difficult to define, sometimes, and more than sometimes when it comes to xen music.

2. To be sortable, genre would have to be limited to a handful of "buckets," like: rock, new age, classical.

3. It might be nice to keep the information already here readily available, since it's more specific

4. It ultimately might not be a good idea.

Most of all, kudos to whomever came up with the idea for this page. I love talking about tuning and reading all of the information about fine details like what the ratio is for a "password comma," but at the end of the day, the most important thing is what the music sounds like, and a few seconds of audio will provide far more information than a hundred pages of words and diagrams. Ultimately, it would be ideal, in my opinion, to lower the barrier as much as possible for people to listen to some xen music, and then allow links to click on for further information. This page is a huge leap in that direction!

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 I created a horizontal table of contents template which is based on Wikipedia's TOC templates. It currently supports three rows, up to 26 items per row. See [[Template:TOC_Horizontal|the documentation]] for usage info. [[User:Tyler Henthorn|Tyler Henthorn]] ([[User talk:Tyler Henthorn|talk]]) 08:27, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
+== Listen list vs. artist list ==
+If there is a desire to keep a record of artists here who do not have working audio sample links, perhaps there could be an archived version of this page kept as a separate artist list.  It may seem redundant, but I can't be the only person who was frustrated going through this the first time (at the time, I believe it still was an artist list), and having it take ten minutes of clicking old dusty links before finding new music.  I landed here more than fifteen years after discovering microtonal music, so I would guess that I had more patience than someone stumbling on this website for their very first introduction to xen music.
+Another thought, which I haven't yet solidified, is that I would love to see this list sortable by genre, but:
+. Genre is difficult to define, sometimes, and more than sometimes when it comes to xen music.
+. To be sortable, genre would have to be limited to a handful of "buckets," like: rock, new age, classical.
+. It might be nice to keep the information already here readily available, since it's more specific
+. It ultimately might not be a good idea.
+Most of all, kudos to whomever came up with the idea for this page.  I love talking about tuning and reading all of the information about fine details like what the ratio is for a "password comma," but at the end of the day, the most important thing is what the music sounds like, and a few seconds of audio will provide far more information than a hundred pages of words and diagrams.  Ultimately, it would be ideal, in my opinion, to lower the barrier as much as possible for people to listen to some xen music, and then allow links to click on for further information.  This page is a huge leap in that direction!