I just open sourced my music collaboration site
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Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#2Hey, two quick suggestions, mostly related to the actual beatoftheday.org website:
1) Put some info on your homepage about what this actually does. When I first landed I wasn't sure what the purpose of the website was. 2) Resize your images! For example your header logo is massive and took a good 5+ seconds to download. You have a max-width of 994px, but the image itself is a whopping 14,976px wide!
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#3Great idea!!
But please don't cave in to the trend and don't introduce NFTs...
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#4Hey, two quick suggestions, mostly related to the actual beatoftheday.org website: 1) Put some info on your homepage about what this actually does. When I first landed I wasn't sure what the purpose of the website was. 2) Resize your images! For example your header logo is massive and took a good 5+ seconds to download. You have a max-width of 994px, but the image itself is a whopping 14,976px wide!
Some info would go a long way. I'm still not sure what kind of collaboration you are referring to. Are we talking collecting mp3 files? Curating playlists? Or creating music?
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#5Hey, two quick suggestions, mostly related to the actual beatoftheday.org website: 1) Put some info on your homepage about what this actually does. When I first landed I wasn't sure what the purpose of the website was. 2) Resize your images! For example your header logo is massive and took a good 5+ seconds to download. You have a max-width of 994px, but the image itself is a whopping 14,976px wide!
Some info would go a long way. I'm still not sure what kind of collaboration you are referring to. Are we talking collecting mp3 files? Curating playlists? Or creating music?
There's a link tucked away in the upper right (on desktop) labeled "Info" that explains the site. I agree with you though that at least a sentence or two on the main page would be smart.
I'd like to be able to sort by 'liked' and by 'baked'. If I'm looking for a new track to collaborate on I want to see the ones with the fewest 'baked' ratings.
Also, I'd love for there to be a way to see the full lineage of a given track. Perhaps even be able to fork it if, e.g., I liked what contributors 1, 2 and 3 did, but not #4, I could work off of #3's rendition.
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#6How does this work without the 'source code' of the tracks being provided - e.g. the Garageband files or Logic files or Reason files or even just the 'stems' (separate audio tracks).
Like its really hard to, say, change the drum pattern on a track if you dont have access to the underlying files that were used to produce it.
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#7Great idea!! But please don't cave in to the trend and don't introduce NFTs...
Why not? I see music rights as a great use-case for NFTs. The owner of the NFT unambiguously has those rights—however you may define them e.g. exclusive usage rights and sub-licensing rights—and you can trade it like any other good on any exchange.
Edit: Added an example for the rights.
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#8How does this work without the 'source code' of the tracks being provided - e.g. the Garageband files or Logic files or Reason files or even just the 'stems' (separate audio tracks). Like its really hard to, say, change the drum pattern on a track if you dont have access to the underlying files that were used to produce it.
the "source code" is know as "stems". These days more DJ equipment has support for stems as DJ sets become more hybrid with on-the-fly remixes.
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#9Great idea!! But please don't cave in to the trend and don't introduce NFTs...
Why not? I see music rights as a great use-case for NFTs. The owner of the NFT unambiguously has those rights—however you may define them e.g. exclusive usage rights and sub-licensing rights—and you can trade it like any other good on any exchange. Edit: Added an example for the rights.
If you want to authentify an artistic piece, you can just sign it with a private asymmetric key.
NFT is just built on the artificial market for rarity and currencies made of pure energy use... useless.
Re: I just open sourced my music collaboration site
#10How does this work without the 'source code' of the tracks being provided - e.g. the Garageband files or Logic files or Reason files or even just the 'stems' (separate audio tracks). Like its really hard to, say, change the drum pattern on a track if you dont have access to the underlying files that were used to produce it.
the "source code" is know as "stems". These days more DJ equipment has support for stems as DJ sets become more hybrid with on-the-fly remixes.
But does this app allow for the uploading of stems? From reading the 'info' page it doesn't seem to work that way.