Almost half the tunes played by my favourite DJ, on his Wednesday night show this week, were on Bandcamp. Exquisitely musical they were too. https://www.rte.ie/rnag/an-taobh-tuathail/programmes/2020/0826/1161249-an-taobh-tuathail-wednesday-26-august-2020/?clipid=103478524 On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:28:17 -0600 Paul Davis wrote: > I don't really make music, and I certainly don't distribute it. > > But as a serious consumer of music, I don't see how you (or anyone else, > really) can do much better than Bandcamp. > > I'm not interested in streaming music, and as a musician I can't really see > why you would be either, given the absurdly tiny revenue it generates. > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 1:45 PM Andrew A. Grathwohl <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Hello Linux Audio folks! > > > > I wanted to see if I could get a conversation going about the future of > > music distribution. Given that we are people who make creative works with > > free software, I figured this is as decent a place as any to discuss what > > is out there, what is possible, and what should be avoided. My own personal > > approach to distribution is detailed below, but I invite others on this > > list to share their own methods and ideas. > > > > By now, most of us are probably resigned to the fact that the music world > > will look quite a bit different going forward, compared with prior eras. > > Many musicians feel that today's points of engagement with music fail to > > provide adequate revenues, and are taking to social media to criticize > > Spotify and the ilk for not being better "stewards" of music. > > > > I largely agree with those sentiments, which is why I have been taking the > > opportunity to construct a solid home base for my music project > > <https://multipli.city>, which is fully operated on my own physical > > hardware and some AWS cloud services at a cost of $7/month. It's just a > > simple jekyll template <https://github.com/SacredData/pRoJEct-NeGYa> > > hosted on GitHub Pages. However, by publishing my music releases to my own > > jekyll page one time, I get the added benefit of also publishing to all > > desired locations on the web simultaneously, including to a podcast feed > > <https://multipli.city/podcast.xml> compatible with Apple's podcast > > network. > > > > It's weird to me that we are still trying to unit-price music in a world > > where it's cheaper and easier than ever to record, produce, and distribute > > it. I am not necessarily interested in profiting from my own musical > > endeavors, but a friend of mine is a rather popular independent > > electronic artist, who has pointed out to me that despite millions of > > annual streams, streaming services alone don't provide him anywhere near a > > livable income. In my opinion, this shouldn't be so. There's also the > > issue of being beholden to the whims of private firms who run various > > online music services. Anyone here miss SoundCloud Groups, for example? > > > > I've begun to wonder if solutions like mine could be the foundation for a > > new kind of music distribution approach - perhaps one where musicians > > maintain podcast feeds, where monetization vectors are much more profitable > > and much more flexible for individuals to exercise without betraying their > > own values. > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
