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Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

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Re: Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

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Post by david-given »

hit8run wrote: post #21

I feel the pain for many musicians that release tons of music and nobody ever listens. I release music for fun from time to time and I only got traffic on my I See Fire Drum & Bass Remix because I added (Hobbit End Credit Song) to the title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__d0M400nM But if you think you can just put something up on Youtube or Soundcloud and get famous and rich you certainly should do a reality chec…

Bet you just got a tonne of hits. (It's pretty cool.)

(I did actually try arranging _Fire_ for one voice and a mono accompaniment a while back, based on a piano score off the interwebs. I had enormous difficulty reverse engineering the chords from the piano score; the accompaniment is astonishingly minimalist, frequently just one note plus an octave-shifted melody line. You did a much better job than I did.)

Re: Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

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Post by petejodo »

quinndupont wrote: post #30
Disruptive_Dave wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

shameless plug time We're not an all-you-can-eat type of service, but with BoomboxFM[1] we've been working on something like this. Every week we send you 3 songs from 3 different independent / undiscovered artists, personalized to your genre preferences. Songs are free to download. That's it, nice and easy. We're one week from demo day in our accelerator (TSF in N.C.) and actually use the "4mm songs have never been p…

Looks awesome. I'm signing up now. (Unsolicited advice: the green "Click here to join!" call to action has a kind of "spammy" feel to it... I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like between the color and the font and the generic wording I feel like I'm about about to sign up with a spam service. The orange call to action below it is much better. My 2c.)

I agree. I think it's also because the button is a non-flat design on a rather flat designed page and sticks out

Re: Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

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Post by jcurbo »

stkni wrote: post #9
angerman wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This a good question. But this hits a very interesting point. Let us discard crappy songs for a bit. And focus on marketing and other reasons. Marketing plays an important role. Yet there are artists who cannot afford the marketing or (and this is very sad in my opinion), the produced a piece that was ahead of it's time or just didn't fit the current market trends. These kind of services allow us to explore the full…

>> Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development. Debatable, surely. Especially since House of cards on NetFlix was a remake of a BBC drama from 1990 [1]. Suggesting that diversity exists because someone could be bothered to make it, presumably without data-mining. The point is that this diversity is, predictably, not in the mainstream. [1] http://e…

Which was originally based on a book!

Re: Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

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Post by Disruptive_Dave »

quinndupont wrote: post #30
Disruptive_Dave wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

shameless plug time We're not an all-you-can-eat type of service, but with BoomboxFM[1] we've been working on something like this. Every week we send you 3 songs from 3 different independent / undiscovered artists, personalized to your genre preferences. Songs are free to download. That's it, nice and easy. We're one week from demo day in our accelerator (TSF in N.C.) and actually use the "4mm songs have never been p…

Looks awesome. I'm signing up now. (Unsolicited advice: the green "Click here to join!" call to action has a kind of "spammy" feel to it... I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like between the color and the font and the generic wording I feel like I'm about about to sign up with a spam service. The orange call to action below it is much better. My 2c.)

I can't argue with that! And appreciate the feedback. The site is actually built on a template service (Strikingly), so we're a bit hindered right now. Working on that, though.

LOTS of things we'd like to improve upon with the site and overall product, but we're tackling things in our wheelhouse first (I'm a marketing/BD guy, non tech). Enjoy the tunes!

Re: Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

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Post by realusername »

Disruptive_Dave wrote: post #28
quinndupont wrote: post #22

The problem with these "never heard before" apps (there was one prior... I can't recall the name) is that they effectively end up just playing musical spam. If you look around at the bottom of the barrel you have all these horrible companies that have either purchased rights to songs, or recorded cover versions, all under the guise of being the real thing. It's basically the Walmart DVD bin, or the "Just like CK One"…

shameless plug time We're not an all-you-can-eat type of service, but with BoomboxFM[1] we've been working on something like this. Every week we send you 3 songs from 3 different independent / undiscovered artists, personalized to your genre preferences. Songs are free to download. That's it, nice and easy. We're one week from demo day in our accelerator (TSF in N.C.) and actually use the "4mm songs have never been p…

Thanks for putting this here ! It looks really good and it's exactly the kind of service I was looking for, I'm subscribing ! (If I can provide some feedback, the Join button looks a bit strange, it looks a bit like some advertising so I did not even see it first)

Re: Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before

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Post by Disruptive_Dave »

Disruptive_Dave wrote: post #28
quinndupont wrote: post #22

The problem with these "never heard before" apps (there was one prior... I can't recall the name) is that they effectively end up just playing musical spam. If you look around at the bottom of the barrel you have all these horrible companies that have either purchased rights to songs, or recorded cover versions, all under the guise of being the real thing. It's basically the Walmart DVD bin, or the "Just like CK One"…

shameless plug time We're not an all-you-can-eat type of service, but with BoomboxFM[1] we've been working on something like this. Every week we send you 3 songs from 3 different independent / undiscovered artists, personalized to your genre preferences. Songs are free to download. That's it, nice and easy. We're one week from demo day in our accelerator (TSF in N.C.) and actually use the "4mm songs have never been p…

TIL - our join button sucks. Good to know, will get on that! Thanks guys.
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