RE: Steem for Creatives [Sndbox + Steemit Inc. at the Mondo NYC - Music and Blockchain Conference]
@sndbox The opportunities you are writing about is only true if the dapps actually work... 🤔
We recently joined the Steem blockchain with our record label to share most of our discography in a decentralized fashion. Already in our few days here we have heard back from Steemians telling us our uploads on @dsound wont play back for them!
Some of our main members like @xtetrahedron have been trying to use the DSound platform for around 1 year now without it ever working like expected for anything other then with very small mp3 files; like a single track or a preview. Playback of anything has also always been buggy for him on the platform 😕
For now our workaround is to turn our music into videos with the album cover being the visual aspect, and upload them to @dtube. DTube seems to work fine for us so far, but a dedicated music platform that worked would be the best.
@xtetrahedron voiced earlier today in a different comment thread here on Steemit how he would be interested in taking part of building a new music streaming dapp interfaced with the Steem blockchain and make it work like regular users expect from a 2018 music streaming website; if some other people are interested to join in on the project... 😶
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We need more of this sentiment and a deep focus on the essence of what Steemit can help us accomplish here and beyond. I find it absolutely important that new social media networks follow the fundamentals set in by legacy web platforms like Youtube and Reddit in order to smoothen the transition of populations. Initially, this will signal more of a mainstream audience, as well as catch on to a rising group of content creators emerging in the increasingly accessible technologic ecosystem.
More people are spending time online, either actively communicating or passively consuming media, such as with popular online streaming music services that tie the listening experience now across multiple environments where consumers exist. People are flocking to cultivated media channels like Youtube is for video and Instagram is for mobile images, content creators (read: developers) must establish first contact in public forum-private company relationship.
As for sources like @sndbox and @creativecrypto, I envision a link between visual arts and technology. Much similar to music, since the advent of the Internet, all other forms of media have been in a sort of identity crisis, a schism between the creators and the company has now split the convention of royalties and copyrights on its head. How do we maintain the integrity of such property? Why should art be protected? Is it for history, for humanity, or something else? Hopefully, as more people from all walks of life can plug into the concept of cryptocurrency will more mean of increasing its utility abroad many capital needs in the so-called real world. Virtually, anyone who makes decisions in life must be an artist; at the least, those who are hard working must remain inspired.
Thank you @sndbox for the updates!
Hi @alfheimr-records, thanks for your comment - no doubt, these tools need to get better. They are a long ways off from centralized platforms like SoundCloud or Youtube. The fact that you're interested in rallying a team to build a better DApp is a testament to the utility of this blockchain. And the ability to express feedback and critique is super important to make those discoveries and improve / educate the community.
The fact that - as an artist - you can log into this blockchain, share feedback / critique and can then be rewarded for that feedback is pretty exciting. (i.e. comments receiving upvotes.) Artists have never had that kind of a voice before.
Across the whole blockchain world today - we're a ways out, and there's a ton that needs improving. But, progress is being made, devs are building new tools everyday and users are challenging those tools in an effort to improve them. Steem has been laying a powerful infrastructure and our hope is that more artists (like you) dive in and hold the developers to a high standard. Anyways, thanks again for your thoughts and feedback!
We haven't been aware of the problems with dsound but we also haven't had a reason to be interested in music streaming or playing yet. I don't think it would be terribly hard for us to extend our capabilities into a music playback platform that would crawl through all music posted with correct tags. Initially at least only working in browser but a relatively simple set up for discovery.
Additionally, you can use our platform to make music VRideos or place music on Augmented Reality... like a link to play the music meant to go with an art piece or tell it's story.