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How do you “connect the songs”? Simple! When you play a song, any four consecutive letters in the artist/title of your song must match four consecutive letters in the artist/title of the song that was played before you.
For example, if the DJ before you plays:
“Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl”
You could play:
“Otis Redding – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long”
“Irving Berlin – Blue Skies”
“Marvin Gaye – Distant Lover”
The “connect” is the letters VING.
(You could alternatively connect with GIRL, DEAD, BZOM, etc.!)
Click here for some more examples.
Rules
- Your song must connect to the previous song. See above for explanation and examples.
- Music only (usually). Any genre is OK.
- If you fail to connect a song, please verify that the next DJ is ready and then skip your song (regardless of how awesome your song is).
- Please try to keep songs under 7:00. If your song is shorter than 2:30, it’s polite to warn the next DJ so they have time to find a connect.
- Before playing your song, please try to remove extra words in the artist/song title (like “(official video)”/“uploaded by beiberfan2014”) by clicking on the pencil icon next to the song in your playlist.
- To join the DJ waitlist, type .eleven in the chat box. If new DJs ask for this command, tell them they can find it here, in the rules, by typing .rules. This way people will read these before DJing.
- Be nice. Be respectful. Listen to the mods.
- Repeated refusal to follow the rules may result in a ban at the discretion of the mods.
FAQ
Q: Can I connect letters in an artist name to letters in a song title (and vice versa)?
A: Yes. See the examples.
Q: Do the connecting letters have to form a real/whole word?
A: No.
Q: Are symbols (. / – etc.) counted in the connect?
A: No, you can ignore them.
Q: What about accents and diacritics? Is “ž” the same as “z”?
A: This one is tricky. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Connect at your own risk!
Q: Can I connect things like “(remix)” and “(live)”? What about the same artist?
A: It is discouraged.
Q: What is a “streak”?
A: It’s how many times we’ve successfully connected in a row. To see your personal streak, type .mystreak. To see the room streak, type .streak. To see the all-time room high score, type .highscore.
Q: What is a “dunce”?
A: The last person who broke the streak. We’ve all been there.
Q: I messed up/my computer crashed/Plug glitched. Can you reset my streak?
A: No, sorry.
Q: Who/what is Holly Refbots?
A: Our score-keeping, trash-talking bot.
Q: How can I suggest changes to Holly?
A: Please speak with a mod.
Q: I have a question or problem that isn’t addressed here. What do?
A: Feel free to ask a mod or another member of the community. If you have a complaint, submit it here and we’ll do our best to address it.
Suggestions
- Any genre is OK, but remember, Plug.dj is a social experience. Try to play music you think the other DJs might enjoy!
- Friend our DJs! They are nice people.
- ★ our room (at the top of the page) so you can find it later.
- Join our Facebook page.
- Follow Holly on last.fm.
- Use the PDX script to easily search your playlists.
Perhaps a suggestion that users fix their tags… for example, if initial artist field is AFIFan1998 and title field is John Atlas(He Who Laughs Last), where the information in parentheses is album title. So proper tag would be AFI – John Atlas . Also please remove crap like (Live London 1979) and (Original Mix).
Just a friendly suggestion
Rule 5 😉