1. Most people are below average intelligence, especially musicians 🤣
2. Most people are not technically inclined and do not know the difference between a client, a platform and a protocol
3. Most people go with the flow and do what everyone else is doing
4. Most people prefer a service to do things for them or a centralized platform so they can just focus on music or be lazy
I know right, I feel like that’s new though.
But underground music has always rebelled against the bullshit in music industry, like the velvets, or R Stevie Moore sending direct cassettes albums to anyone who mailed him. He was his own label. It seems natural for savvy indie musicians.
But I think you’re right, musicians are built different now. It’s all done for you on a DaW with AI and people wonder why musics lost a bit of soul haha.
maybe its just society in general has been trained to become more dependent, and to question things less. But if you look at mainstream musicians, decades ago they used to be anti-establishment or whatever, now they are completely dependent on the establishment 😕
Hopefully this means that only more intelligent people and/or music makes it way to these new platforms. I’m still figuring out which App is best for music. Or for uploading my music I should say. Wavlake seems cool. I see ppl using fountain.fm too. Not sure what else
I bought an iPod and download all my albums again. So much better. If I love an album to bits I buy the record to match it. Downloading is my online shopping for records I want to buy.
I love that. I [finally] own a record player so that’s kind of how I am with vinyl. I’m only buying stuff I love, OR completely random stuff and going along for the ride. Which is how I used to be with CDs
Yes we are figuring out a way to get away from Wavlake to be fully decentralized music (demu). Once you host and control your own RSS feed (like holding your own private keys, or taking your bitcoin off the exchange you bought from) you are truly taking advantage of the censorship resistance. Wavlake I see as being a good bridge between the world of traditional streaming and demu. It makes things easier for the artist and maybe a bit easier for the fan, since you can send them a link and they can just start listening. Also checking out some things like nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyps9xsatxmuxw7sdxhm78puj00d07jy2j2eawflm9fpu7754w0ydgjv44mc and nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7ctvvahjuat50phjummwv5q3vamnwvaz7tmzdaehgu3wv9a85ctdduhxuet5qqsfff483fdwhwayp0g64g3rfqgpxtpdsqzthythv9kyz0fuph0nyrs0uhu6a
Are you
Saying like only having fans listen off your own website? Isn’t that an RSS feed?
I mean any app/site technically could censor your music I suppose. But seems Wavlake / fountain is better than mainstream ones. And you connect e Nostr which is cool.
I’ll check out those other 2 you suggested !
Yes, so instead of uploading the music and album art to Wavlake to host and make the rss feed, you can host it somewhere yourself and build the rss feed. I have been experimenting with hosting on a nostr server. Once it has a URL you can take that and input the info into msp.podtards.com and create the rss feed. Then you input the rss feed into podcastindex.org.
