Nope, still getting the message. It's specifically the wavlake.com/studio page doing it. /studio/artists, /studio/albums and /studio/analytics, are working fine.
Something going on with the site, nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg - I keep getting this when I try to access studio. Everthing else works: analytics, artists, etc.
#wavlake
Have coaxed my friend Jeannie Wilde onto nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg with a jazz standard track written and co-produced by me.
If you like it, give it a zap and let's make her feel welcome! And maybe she'll agree to put up the other tracks we did! 😉
#tunestr #v4v
https://wavlake.com/album/99b8647d-9e71-48bb-84ca-557acab8b40f
Oh, wow: sitting at number 17 on the top40! 🙏
nostr:note1cnm395nrmrar86xevw0akk0whm230mg94c94znyzdrsemgxc3rys93h0cs
Apparently I'm also in a hard rock power trio. I'm sorry. Or ... you're welcome? 😉
Please share/zap if you dig it.
#tunestr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/ed11c7b0-b73a-4580-b7c9-57d94dfc7561
Well this is an absolute banger. The vocals are ... *chef's kiss*
Full disclosure: I only supplied the beat and don't really deserve a producer credit. But that's how they role in hip-hop land.
#tunestr #v4vmusic
https://wavlake.com/album/19e0a198-9188-47c5-ae2d-b46a7f55079e
Have coaxed my friend Jeannie Wilde onto nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg with a jazz standard track written and co-produced by me.
If you like it, give it a zap and let's make her feel welcome! And maybe she'll agree to put up the other tracks we did! 😉
#tunestr #v4v
https://wavlake.com/album/99b8647d-9e71-48bb-84ca-557acab8b40f
If it was the occasional non-matching across apps, that's one thing, but we're talking multiple posts, likes, comments and zaps simply failing to propagate.
So if you're correct, Nostr will never be anything but niche. Which is fine. But it won't ever be anything I can, with a clear conscience, drive people to use. Especially people who might never see an important comment on their post, a journalist, say.
And to be clear: I love Nostr and what it offers. But I'm open-minded enough to understand why a lot of people are choosing Bluesky.
So, this is interesting. I have multiple posts going back over a month or more that I made via nostr:npub1nz64zngcqm8vj8nhrdkcjpfwn2rcaqysnxec88tqfclp5afrpglsqm0w5y that have never shown up in nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg. Also, I was receiving zaps that I couldn't find the origin of. Opened Amethyst - a whole bunch of notifications on zaps, likes and comments, none of it ever showed up in Primal. It was similar with some stuff going Primal -> Amethyst.
I've been sitting on my username over on Bluesky with 2 followers for 8 months. In the last week that's ballooned to 100+ followers, all of them music friends/colleagues, fleeing the X dumpster fire. What most of them seem to want is an *old* twitter replacement, that simply works and has their tribe and connections, whichI totally get.
Even though I'm extolling the virtues of nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg over there, realistically, Nostr itself just isn't ready yet. These are working, professional musicians/songwriters, not developers or tech geeks. They don't have the time or brain space for "relays" and "nips". And I suspect that's the case for many fleeing X.
I think nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z might be right; pushing apps instead of protocols might be the way. Abstract the backend away, unless you actively want to tinker. But if a bunch of your posts, likes, comments and zaps aren't populating across those apps, that's a UX nightmare that will drive users away.
At some point, this stuff with smooth out, but we're absolutely not there yet.
Back in the '80s, when I was first starting to figure out this music and songwriting stuff, these two books were invaluable.
Songwriting for lyrics and song structure(s).
Play Rock Keyboards for chords, progressions, inversions, etc.
Their importance to my early development cannot be overstated.
#music #musicstr #musicbooks #songwriting
So I have a SoundCloud account I've never really used, but music industry types kind of expect it. So my current strategy is to post some tracks over there and use it to gently push people over to #wavelake instead.
SoundCloud and Spotify are still the standards, alas, but we just need to keep pushing forward.
https://soundcloud.com/echonull
#v4v
That's #wavlake obviously. Oy.
nostr:note1ykpaaw958nngv8f7js4yl233h8dd34p4q2hlrchuh4lxrz5wc33q7nvy68
That's a "YES!" from me!
So I have a SoundCloud account I've never really used, but music industry types kind of expect it. So my current strategy is to post some tracks over there and use it to gently push people over to #wavelake instead.
SoundCloud and Spotify are still the standards, alas, but we just need to keep pushing forward.
https://soundcloud.com/echonull
#v4v
Meant to say, the marks around "producing" are because I have no idea what the heck a producer does in the current music landscape. All I did was lend an outside perspective and try to get them to the best music they were capable of. I certainly had a lot of fun.
nostr:note14vvha2jlupr9y44atgpvl6nvnnp4mzwps729svmzqwl0xwswqa8qlutnr5
Yes, I'm still here. I haven't jumped ship to one of those corporate silos. I could tell you were all worried. /sarcasm
I did take a much needed holiday and have been "producing" music for, and with, other artists. Wasn't planned, just happened. And a collab with a friend. All incoming. Have convinced all of them to give #wavlake a shot. Next step, get them on #nostr.
There's also a great scene in MI: Ghost Protocol, where they have to go up the outside of the Burj Khalifa and it suddenly dawns on Ethan Hunt that he's the one that has to do it (the rest of the team have other jobs). And he walks over to the open window and looks out and the colour drains from his face and the fear and panic set in. And then he tries to talk his way out of it.
A brilliant, humanising scene for a "superhero" character and beautifully played by Cruise.
This was while back. I think I had a white MacBook with Ableton Live and NI Guitar Rig and an NI audio interface that the guitar (an Ibanez RG421) went into. Drums were done in Propellerhead Reason. Everything was done independently but brought together for this track.
Not intentionally influenced, but yeah, a fan of old school Maiden, but also Vai, Satriani and Jeff Beck, which I'm sure were swirling around in there somewhere.
This was intended for a video game, but things didn't quite work out. Still has a nice a kick to it. Enjoy.
#music #musicstr #nostrmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/5614b3fd-71ea-4b35-8e61-7b966278b231
Yeah, it looks good in theory, but is a little too old skool Meccano for my tastes. 😉
Honestly? Nope. My whole life has been screens. TV -> cinema -> handheld game consoles (Pacman!) -> computer -> phone/tablet.
And I'm old. Well ... oldish. 😉
Not gonna lie; what we need is more shamanistic pagan music in the old languages. Because, sure, why not?