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Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

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Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

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Post by acidity »

I cannot seem to figure out how an Indian startup has mostly foreign artists. I am asking because couple of years back, I tried to do the same thing and licensing was the biggest issue. Have you got funding in India?

Moreover, most of the artists and songs I see up there are just at bandcamp.com and no where else. Are you just scrapping Bandcamp and reselling their music. E.g. googling for the album "Creatures" on homepage (https://www.google.com/search?q=creatures+new+campaigns&oq=c...) loads up only from Bancamp and other albums too.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#46

Post by sakbhatn »

lux wrote: post #42

How long do artist song approvals take? I submitted a second one about an hour ago, but the first took until the next day. Just curious :)

They usually take a day. To maintain quality, we curate all the music that comes in, being that we are not just a store but a discovery platform and user experience is very important to us. We just have too much music coming in and we are way behind on curation.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

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Post by sakbhatn »

acidity wrote: post #41

I cannot seem to figure out how an Indian startup has mostly foreign artists. I am asking because couple of years back, I tried to do the same thing and licensing was the biggest issue. Have you got funding in India? Moreover, most of the artists and songs I see up there are just at bandcamp.com and no where else. Are you just scrapping Bandcamp and reselling their music. E.g. googling for the album "Creatures" on ho…

We don't scrape anything from any of the sites. All the music that comes in, comes directly only from the artist through musicfellas.com/artist

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

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Post by lux »

sakbhatn wrote: post #46
lux wrote: post #42

How long do artist song approvals take? I submitted a second one about an hour ago, but the first took until the next day. Just curious :)

They usually take a day. To maintain quality, we curate all the music that comes in, being that we are not just a store but a discovery platform and user experience is very important to us. We just have too much music coming in and we are way behind on curation.

Cool cool, good to know! :)

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#49

Post by Sprint »

lux wrote: post #40
Sprint wrote: post #38

Hm, I get no music and no indication why. Any chance that you would add free music aka music by people who want their art listened without anyone having to pay?

Looks like you can just set your price to 0 and it becomes free.

Sorry, I meant music under free licenses like creative commons. Free means at least free to share to me, not free to download for personal use.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

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Post by whiddershins »

onion2k wrote: post #2

Two points of feedback; 1. No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together. On the initial "Hot Songs" page, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to get by clicking on the Play button for each song. I went from a weird electronica song to an "alternative" song to an acoustic guitar song. 2. Also, there seems to be quite a lot of stuff on there. As a new user,…

>> No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together

I do agree, can you help me understand what distinguishes independent music from regular music? It isn't hard to be added to Spotify, so why would you have any music Spotify doesn't? Or is it simply that the compensation model is different.

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