Almost half the tunes played by my favourite DJ, on his Wednesday night
show this week, were on Bandcamp. Exquisitely musical they were too.
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@grathwohl.me>
> 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.
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