down with streaming services
| Why focus on aesthetics on a music streaming/sharing platform?
| >>1059701 Would you rather listen to lo-fi music with:
Very fast flashing images with subway surfers and candy crush rnning in the background
OR
a girl reading in her apartment at sunset with headphones on
The environment in which you listen has a huge impact on the music. AMVs (anime music videos) make songs waaay better if they're made correctly. Porter Robinson's "Shelter", for example. That video helped make the song popular.
| It’s sort of like how taste is affected by your environment too I think.
| i am sorry for my absence
here is what it looks like right now.
i am still figuring things out.
https://files.catbox.moe/6bstog.png
| i am leaving for sweden tonight
do i bring my laptop ?
| Omg I love it! I think u should if u want to use it but not if u want to do not laptop things
| example of album page
https://files.catbox.moe/whrea5.png
| I decided not to bring the laptop. i will keep this thread active with ideas tho.
Idea 1 : set up a 24/7 radio that plays music from the site ranging from more esoteric to popular songs. Higher a Jamaican to dj 18 hours a day
| >>1059864
Be careful about streaming music without a license though. Depending on your country you might get a fine.
In Germany for example the law states that you're not even allowed to stream your own music that you made yourself without paying a license and 100% of the proceedings goes directly to the 4 biggest record labels. It's fucked.
| >>1059923 cool it with the antirecordlabelism chvddie, your license fees fund our greatest ally israel
| >>1059926
I LOVE THE STATE OF ISRAEL!!!
honestly though OP i just pirate music and play them on my 2005 Sandisk Sansa e260
| >>1059983
I'm trying to facilitate more people downloading their own music like in the mixtape era.
This website is going to be primarily for unknown artists and just general music enjoyers.
| Idea 2 : have a prominent map on the site for people to connect locally.
Idea 3 : integrate Tumblr like system for all users
| I am in Stockholm
What do?
| Idea 3 : banners like on 4chan and here for people to promote their music. Application is free but the banner must be extremely aesthetically pleasing
| >>1059983
I HATE THE STATE OF ISRAEL!!!
honestly though OP i just buy music on bandcamp and play them on my 2004 iPod
| I've never used a streaming service for music. I just download all my songs and listen to them on an ad free music player app.
| This isn't meant to replace streaming services Im just tackling a different issue of aesthetics.
On Spotify/apple music,etc artists can't really show/control visual aesthetics.
The site needs to be like "a vibe" if you will.
| Bump.
I will be back from Stockholm soon
| I really do like the old decentralized internet.
Back when album covers were really really fucking weird.
| Idea 5 : heavy emphasis on user profile customization - whether artist or fan people should be able to make their page sick.
Idea 6 : artists can choose a highlight song that plays on their profile, fans can do the same
| You know what. I really like this idea because it might bring back that futuristic aqua aesthetic from the late 90s/early 2000.
| >>1060319
Basically yeah
I really like the idea of people just straight up releasing a mixtape "on their own page"
I have great distaste for people who pay for their own music to be on streaming services (distrokid has ruined all indie music)
| Idea 7 : this is a little one but for your notifications the count will be like this : "[count in int] ([count in words])"
So for example : "2 (two) notifications"
| Tonight I return from Stockholm. First screenshot I will post will be the profile page
This thread is closed.
| i am tired of streaming services and basically all centralization.
heres the idea : bandcamp but democratized. kinda like those old ghettoe mixtape platforms but with a large focus on aesthetics.
i will use this thread to document my progress. I have never done any website shit but i have a good feeling.