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Congratulation on shipping! What I love most about this is your "inner monologue" component at the bottom. > You're an artist. > A good one. > Nope, a great one. > But you have a sh*tty site. > You wanna make it better. > You call the guy. > Never replies. > ... IF this is true (I can't say as I'm not an artist on Spotify), then this alone can sell your product.
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I'm guessing you're thinking smaller independent artists would "need" this? Most artist's websites are created by their management/label/etc. They'll want to have tour information, and lots of other stuff than what Spotify might know about them. There's no way to add concert images/media and personalize it. This is just a reskinning of Spotify and drastically limits usability This seems like a nice experiment of "can…
Let's say you're not wrong! I've been in the music industry for a while and I know a lot of musicians and producers who wanna have a simple website to promote their music and social links. That's why link-in-bio services have become very popular between artists btw. The goal of Noise is to help musicians build simple beautiful websites without too much effort (think link-in-bio service mashed with Squarespace) and I'…
Very cool. Side note: the self-bios of lesser known artists are 99% painful to read. It would be great to use some kind of AI to suggest improvements.
Spotify does all kinds of tricky things to their music preview player. If you're not a logged in user, it only plays a preview of the tune, which of course does not count towards plays for artists. They also steer listeners away from independent artist links by playing completely different songs on shared links. I'm thoroughly convinced the platform is against independent music, and actively working to suppress the d…
Have you considered that's because of music licensing? Playing music costs Spotify money
Disclaimer: I work at Spotify, but this is true for anything streaming. If you stream anything beyond the preview, you have to pay the rights holder. Worse still, even previews often cost money (IIRC this is true in audiobooks). So Spotify really has no choice but only play previews for the non-logged-in users. And that's before we start with the usual problems of gaming the system, bots etc. if you count plays by non-logged in users towards artist plays.
really nice. am an artist, not on spotify, but i know my fellow artists often lack sites and the knowhow to make one even if theyd like to decouple from the big platforms like spotify to refer people to if they share their stuff to friends and fans. great idea really. perhaps you can implement it also to support other platforms than spotify as enhancement? (this is already totally cool tho as is!)
There's absolutely a need of a tool to generate artist profiles and manage its content. I'm not sure if basing that on Spotify is the right move for the target audience.
Small artists are extremely unhappy with the current situation and they all blame it on Spotify. It doesn't help that Spotify is implementing a new policy which removes money from very small artists [1].
I'm building something in the audio/music industry and I'm in contact with dozens of small artists. From what I've seen, most use Spotify as a necessity but they hate it. Many even have removed their tracks from Spotify or directly refuse to upload it there. Bandcamp seems to be what these artists use (although personally I'm not sure how long it will last).
[1] https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-...
Most artist have a pretty similar looking site map:
- Portfolio - by you Spotify integration. You could let the artist promote / highlight certain songs or albums.
- Live gigs - Could be done through a bandcamp or similar integration.
- Contact - Could be just a simple email or in the pro plan you could have a proxy email which is [username]@noise.site
It's a cool idea. There's absolutely a need of a tool to generate artist profiles and manage its content. I'm not sure if basing that on Spotify is the right move for the target audience. Small artists are extremely unhappy with the current situation and they all blame it on Spotify. It doesn't help that Spotify is implementing a new policy which removes money from very small artists [1]. I'm building something in th…
Great job! Really think there’s a need for this. Most artist have a pretty similar looking site map: - Portfolio - by you Spotify integration. You could let the artist promote / highlight certain songs or albums. - Live gigs - Could be done through a bandcamp or similar integration. - Contact - Could be just a simple email or in the pro plan you could have a proxy email which is [username]@noise.site