I can see the request thread getting very long and as time goes on possibly multiple requests for the same songs.

Is these just a thread to appease the people that request songs. 

The older way of having a search facility with a voting system seamed more effective to me

The goal of this thread was to appease people after we got rid of our old system because it was abandonned and totally out of date.

 

As long we don't have anyone that is willing to manage a proper system for request, this is how it'll be. We don't have enough developer workforce to create a request system at the moment and our primary goal is to work on the search engine.

 

Anyone that is willing and capable of helping us achieve our goal faster is welcome and if someone feel capable of creating a system for request, we'll be more than happy to integrate his work and help him in any way we can.

 

But spoiler, we don't find people like that often.