I now have two albums on Spotify!
I'm a big believer in decentralization and when I saw Choon I was super excited. Choon was a centralized/decentralized mix that promised to pay artists in NOTES (their own currency) every time their music was streamed! At the time I was pretty adamant that I wanted to keep as much of my content off centralized social media and streaming platforms so I could support some hopefully disruptive technology.
Well Choon failed. Probably at no fault of their own, the long bear market was tough on many start ups and in the end they couldn't keep going.
Since then I haven't had my music streaming anywhere other then @jukeblox (MSP-Waves Broadcast channel in the PAL server) which made it difficult to link or share with people.
I finally decided to do the thing and get on Spotify.
To do this I used a service called distrokid. You pay around 20$ a year and you can add your music to spotify and a whole host of other music streaming services, yay!
I have two albums currently, Psychic Transmissions:
and Pneuma:
I started with my oldest first and am adding progressively newer albums.
I have about two more to go and a few single that don't really fit in with anything else.
If you care to follow me, here is my Spotify profile:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/03eCEy26BeASQ7yFE8ToYO?si=F3iSdCznR9K9cOW2KLhSkw
To follow on twitter, personal account, Alien Community account <3
Can't wait to check it out. I'm gett Spotify next month again and will check it out when I have.
I've heard so e of your work onmsp before and its brilliant. 😀
Awesome!!!! Congrats!🎉
to be honest, I do not have spotify because I see no reason if I can find most of the stuff on youtube, soundcloud and bandcamp, but I am curious about payment & withdraw system over there. Is it similar to youtube model, where you need to keep certain level of old & new subscribers, as well as views and comments, or it is more similar to choon, where you're paid for every listener. or maybe something completely different. Could you please share some details or link to the place where I could get some more info?
btw. obviously I will listen to your tracks soon :)
AFAIK you're paid per stream but it's a very tiny amount, I'm not putting my music there to make money, I just want to be able to share it, it also pushes to about 40 services like itunes, apple music, youtube etc
I like spotify on mobile because you can listen in the background unlike youtube :)
listening in the background is indeed a huge issue on youtube.
thanks for your reply!
I already subscribed to your spotify . Keep it up. Im looking forward to your new releases.
You ought to consider doing a music video series or something for each album or for songs, and launch the audio / visual combination on Kickstarter. Might end up finding more people that you haven't met yet and get some money.
Same for Vache and Geko, and Isaria, I think.
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You could probably make it a collection with your pre-existing music video work, and then add a couple of new ones, and then re-package / represent. I'd bet the audience would be mostly unique, and at the very least, you'd be able to offer some unique thing to share for that project -- some new addition.
You could also try to figure out the High end MP4 Music Video NFT Minting on Makersplace.
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I'm not there yet with the project, but I'm closing in on a PDF completion, which is excellent. I'd anticipate having all of the files ready for an NFT release within a month or so.
Patreon exclusive streaming was not enticing for people, even though it's been useful for my productivity.
Also, at some point I wanted to give you this link:
https://www.ifixit.com/Kits
You'd have to look into your computer, but I upgraded my mac mini to 64 GB RAM.
It's a beast, and if you do it yourself, you can save a bunch of money.
Still can't do what geko does, with 3d, and still gets hot with streaming for hours, but I'm working with 1GB+ 90+ Page Photoshop File Sizes. without crashes, or slowdown, or glitches, or anything. If you've got a compatible mac mini - and could ues the RAM upgrade, it might be worth checking out.
Cheers.
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