Thank you @gribbles, @ryanprior, and @FnTm for joining the community!
Glad to have you here, and I appreciate your introductions in the space. Looking forward to building something great together!
Thank you @gribbles, @ryanprior, and @FnTm for joining the community!
Glad to have you here, and I appreciate your introductions in the space. Looking forward to building something great together!
Hi everyone,
Iām not a musician, only an active listener
I discovered Resonate recently (thanks Bandcamp !) and Iām quite enthusiast about this project.
First of all I discovered Bandcamp because I was not satisfied with the classic online music library model (Deezer, Spotifyā¦). So being able to listen freely to discover music on Bandcamp before having the possibility of buying it (especially in a physical format when available) was great for me and my vision of ācreating music has a cost and we listeners must pay for itās real priceā.
But as I listened to more and more music I was not able to buy all I wanted, so I was more and more using Bandcamp as an online music library, sometime even getting around the number of free listening limit by playing the album in a private browser tabā¦ I then started to understand that something was wrong.
So when I discovered the āstream2ownā concept it felt like the most natural way for me to pay for online music :
The only negative point that I feel in this model is that any track costs the same price, so for 15,25ā¬ you could get a 15 tracks album which could as well be 30 minutes of music or 60 minutesā¦ (correct me if Iām wrong). In my previous ways of buying music, album duration relative to its price has always been a criteria. So here something feels strange to meā¦
So now Iām a new Resonate user and of course with a lot of expectations ! So Iāll make a new user feedback here (feel free to tell me where I can put elsewhere so that itās useful). I know that building things takes time, I can measure the great work that has already been done (and Iām grateful to anyone who participated for it), so anything I say here must only be taken as encouragement ! This below would be for me the base functionalities of this kind of service :
On the long term Iād love to also be able to buy physical format of the music I like when available.
Anyway thanks to everyone !
PS : sorry for the long post and thanks for reading
Iāve made a proposition for this here
Donāt hesitate to say if you like the idea, if youāve got ideas yourself about how to improve, join the discussion!
Hello everyone
I have become aware of Resonate through an interview Kristoffer Patrick Cornils gave to a German radio channel. It was on the day that I learned that Bandcamp had been bought by Epic Games . Resonate seemed like the right way to do it to me, so I became a member.
Right now, I donāt use the platform much, but that is because I mostly listen to music that Iāve bought. Once the feature to download tracks has been added, I intend to use the site as a digital store on a regular basis.
In the middle term, Iām interested in helping out with programming. Iām an advanced Python user, but have very little experience with JavaScript and none with Go. Hence, I would need to acquire some skills before I can submit my first pull request.
@maphr What would be your preference: Purely random or guided by an algorithm?
Iād be interested to know: Has there been discussion in this community about this point, namely if Resonate should use machine learning for music discovery? I donāt know if I have a opinion on the matter, but Iād be curious to know because of the much maligned algorithms of some of the major platforms.
I was surprised that this feature was missing when exploring the site.
Hi @Zamomin, it depends of what you call an algorithm
Iām not talking about āAIā or anything here. Just simple algorithms that can produce a predefined playlist bases on search criteria (tags, year, countryā¦) in order to answer the following need : make me discover music based on my following search criteria.
Maybe to clarify my individual need : this is a necessary feature in my opinion if I want to use easily Resonate to discover music/artists. When I really like something I tend to buy it (if I can, when I can) and then listen to it locally. I personally try to limit my streaming use.
Hello! Iām Goaty!
I was introduced to Resonate by Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs (and other bands). Iāve been making music for years but only in the last month have I really gone so far as to start releasing it, and Resonate feels like a great place to do so!
Right now I mostly compose midi music, but I also play guitar and a couple other instruments.
Iām also not sure how to put the green circle next to my icon!
Hi Iām John and I sing in a duo called the Keynes Brothers. Weāre an acoustic duo based in Melbourne Australia and weāre normally a bit reclusive on the web and on social media. I have eye hand co-ordination issues that make typing a chore so please be kind if you see the odd typo or post that looks like it may have been intended to be worded differently. Weāve just released our first song āOld to Newā on Resonate and you can check it out on the player or you can check it out here
Most of our releases to date have been on Bandcamp and while itās too early to predict what will happen the sale of that site has made me realise just how important it is for co-operative communities like Resonate to thrive. Iāll probably go quiet for a time while I learn how things are done here. Still very new to this.
Feel very welcome and donāt worry, quiet and odd typos are welcome here! Thank you for sharing you work.
Hello you lovely people!
Iām Oliver from Germany.
Iāve been passionate about music all my life.
There was not much TV, social media and mobile phones in my childhood.
So we spent a good portion of our free time listening to the radio and playing records.
I was lucky my father had such a great collection.
I started playing keyboard in a shopping mall when I was 8.
Why in a shopping mall?
My mother did all the shopping and I stayed in the toy area and played around with the Yamahas and Casios of that era.
Later I took lessons and became one of the greatesā¦ no I didnāt.
Thatās almost 35 years ago now.
When I was 12 I bought my first synthesizer (Roland JX-3P) from money that I earned by delivering newspapers.
Then I played drums, guitar, bagpipe, harmonica, ukulele and many other instruments.
I had great times in bands. REALLY great times
Today with 40+ I go back to my roots.
Synths. Synths. Synths!
Iāve only recently bought new synthesizers and Iām excited about the modular approach for creating inspiring (and sometimes horrible!) sounds.
So how and why did I end up here?
If you like to join me on this journey, feel free to get in touch
Oliver
P.S. My music is still on Bandcamp, but I will move it soon!
https://elektrikinderluft.bandcamp.com
Just submitted my album āTaunusā.
The process was easy and Iām happy it will be available soon to everyone
Hi all!
psi, he/him, but they is cool too. Iāve been aware of resonate for a couple of years now, think back to 2018 when you all were still doing the blockchain thing (which to be honest was part of why I didnāt get more involved ). I was recently pointed back to it by BSA to help out (that alongside Bandcamp being bought by Epic Games ), and have had some spare time the past few weeks to help with front-end dev. Looking forward to digging into the API and code a bit!
About me: Iāve been a DJ at local and university music stations and am a pretty big music listener though I donāt make my own. Iām a web dev by trade and have kind of come off a very long burn-out period from doing web dev work in my free time. Hopefully Iāve learned a thing or two about pacing myself in the mean time. I like doodling and am pretty active with local organizing projects around dual power themes (mutual aid, tenant organizing, etc).
Hello everyone!
Iām a listener, not a musician. Late last year I realized I kept streaming the same songs over and over so I decided to start buying them instead. I also started looking for ways to find new music and have been enjoying several shows on a local community radio station.
I first heard about Resonate on the day it came out that Bandcamp was sold and finally got around to setting up an account. Iām enjoying it so far and look forward to finding new musicians to listen to.
Thanks for all the work, musical, technical, and otherwise!
Hi everyone!
My nameās Fuzzy. I play music under the name The Amazing Sloth Rider and Iām from Geelong, near Melbourne, Australia.
Iāll try and keep this brief, but I am pretty stoked to have found this place so I may be a bit overly enthusiastic.
Couple years ago I pulled all my music from Spotify and went with just Bandcamp. I had heard of the subscription model Steven Lawson uses and thought thatās how you do it, you donāt give your work away for free, you offer it at a reasonable price so people have the option of buying it. I have just been uploading things there but questioningā¦ everything about being an artist over the last year or two. I mean everything. The music is somewhere online but I havenāt been very āactiveā you could say. Well, Covid too of courseā¦
Anyway I started reading a book called Freeloading by Chris Ruen. Itās 10 years old now but it started resonating with a lot of issues I currently have with the music industry and how itās a very bleak future we have built for ourselves because we never solved the piracy issue with ethical streaming. I think the majors leapt at any opportunity that meant they didnāt lose out, even if it meant $0.004 per stream with Spotify, and we as a society have never reviewed that for some dumb reason. And at $15 for unlimited streaming, and a business model that doesnāt make profit presently but wants to be the āgo to place for audioā, itās obvious that Spotify isnāt in it for the artists either. Oh and letās not forget the whole data mining itās users part, one of the most worrying things about our passive society, along with our short attention spans due to this expectation of endless, free content.
I realised that the issue is that consumers arenāt paying enough to stream, and the argument thatās proposed is the threat that consumers will just āget it for freeā otherwise. Thatās entitled behaviour that we can change with communication, understanding, and ethical spending habits, but we need that to be an easy process. Hereās what I mean.
I find music I like on Spotify then seek out that artists profile on Bandcamp to support them, through merch or by buying albums. Often times itās not ideal to buy physical things which then adds shipping costs that arenāt going to the artist when really, I just want to support someone. If the work is on youtube, I might have to go and search for a patreon if they have one, and then sign up to that. I donāt always want to subscribe to that person indefinitely either, sometimes I just want to pay for that 10 minutes or hour that I listened or watched, and a thumbs up just doesnāt cut it as far as payment goes in my eyes.
All in all, thatās a lot of effort.
I thought what about having one place where you combine Bandcamp (albums) with Spotify (playlists) and interactions with fans (Patreon). In short, the listener buys credit at $1 an hour (pre or post paid), and the artist gets 1 cent per minute streamed, with the 40 cents left over going back into running costs for the website.
I went onto Reddit 2 days ago and posted in we are the music makers, as I figured my peers would like this idea. They really didnāt, and the general consensus was that musicians shouldnāt expect to earn anything from their work and that we should be touring T-shirt merchants. I became angry the more I read, people are undervaluing themselves without realising the control is literally in their own hands if they stropped giving their music away so cheaply.
I donāt want that to be the present, let alone a worse version of that in the future. Itās already pretty grim and I want to help to create a solution. So I decided that I have to figure out how to build a streaming service and implement all of my ideas. I donāt have the first damn clue how to do that so I started researching streaming, prices, programming and all kinds of things. Somehow I stumbled onto something thatā¦ Resonatesā¦ with me.
Iām sorry, I just had to.
The idea I had was a bit different to what Resonate is, but has very similar principles. But you have no idea the relief I feel at realising that maybe I donāt need to learn how to build a streaming site and where Iād find money for programmers if it already exists right here. Rather than rebuild the wheel, maybe I could add an axle so someone else can turn it into a vehicle of change you know?
So thatās my long and rambling hello.
Hey, I am Aaron. I live in Germany and I am currently working on an EP (ETA: 8th September this year) of some type of doomy power ballad stuff. This is going to be my debut, and it is also going to be a bit of a showcase for what is possible with free open source software (free as in free speech, not free beer). I have been looking at resonate for quite a while, and naturally I am going to try and put my music here as well, although I know it from a very different context: I make a living by working in a worker owned cooperative for IT services (programming, dev-ops, admin, ā¦) and I am very interested in making worker owned cooperatives a bigger thing, because I believe that it may play a huge role in making the world a little less f****d up.
Therefore, although resonate has not been working very well for me in the past from a technical point of view, I am not willing to let the idea die.
Hi!
Just filled out my profile, so Iāll just copy here what I wrote there as a means of introduction:
Iām David. Brooklyn, NY dad. Puzzler, nature enthusiast, guitar player and song writer.
I first encountered music at a young age, writing songs in my head on long car trips with my family, and learning to harmonize when singing with my parents. I later earned a degree in Music with an emphasis on vocal performance, and minor studies in piano and guitar.
Iāve had a career in product management, and am now in software engineering. I first learned to code in 6th grade where we made a āturtleā move around the screen with short commands. I practiced at home with Basic, and in elective classes in highschool, and eventually earned a degree in Computer Science. Iām now actively building web3 software, right now specifically for the Steem Blockchain to encourage more content engagement.
I began getting serious learning about cooperative governance organizations after joining the second cohort of āPlatform Coops NOW!ā via the New School in collaboration with start.coop and Mondragon University. Since that cohort wrapped in 2021, Iāve been working slowly to build my own platform cooperative, a place for professionals to come and go as they please in ad hoc project groups with cooperative governance, and web3 value share to incentivize sharing and evaluating work. My next step will be to build an onboarding flow to bring interested folks together into a community so that broader vision can be attended to piece by piece.
Iām so happy to have come across the Resonate community, and Iām sorry I hadnāt discovered it earlier! I have feelings about the corporate world in general, and I know that the music industry has gone through to become what it is today. With my technical and musical background, my interest in platform cooperative and big feelings about the way work happens today, and my vision for the future, it was a no-brainer to get connected and involved with this group!
Hey! Thanks for making your way here! Thanks for sharing your trajectory. Please speak up if you have any questions! There are plenty of ways your interest areas match work to be done. Welcome!
Thank you! Iāve been enjoying so far. Looking forward to the future of this platform.
Hi Everyone!
Former lurker here
I do not think I have introduced myself, so I am going to do it now, hopefully this is not repetitive.
My name is Diane (she/they/ella/ela), I am based currently in Brooklyn, NYC- but originally from Texas, one generation removed from Warri, Delta State Nigeria- I also belong to communities based in SĆ£o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, BR.
I love place, space, sound- im also geographer in training. I first picked up on these connections attending Bendel (former Nigerian State) Diaspora meetings in Dallas, TX. As I kid, I remember sitting next to these large speakers and hearing FELA blasting. I loved to see the dancefloor move, people make space- tables and speakers wobble and shake. Usually, if there is some bass and speakers are about to break, I am pretty happy. I have tinnitus now tho. lol
So I joined resonate to also participate in what I find to be an incredible space, as a listener, and supporter, maybe one day iāll be an artist here. For now, I am committed to contributing to the culture on the forum, and will be on trying to help assist with building out stronger teams for projects, opportunities for more space to get into the nitty gritty of technology and culture, and will help facilitate the community member team meeting as well as some other reading/study groups this summer.
I look forward to connecting with everyone!