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I just open sourced my music collaboration site

38 points by broooder 5y ago

jasongrishkoff 5y ago
Hey, 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!
- geoah 5y ago
  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?
  - maroonblazer 5y ago
    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.
- broooder 5y ago
  Thanks for the tips, I’m having a designer come up with some new mocks in the next week or so!
- broooder 5y ago
  New mocks here ~> https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38 https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38
henearkr 5y ago
Great idea!! But please don't cave in to the trend and don't introduce NFTs...
- amingilani 5y ago
  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.
  - henearkr 5y ago
    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.
    - amingilani 5y ago
      I just want to point out that the use-case that I was talking about was around music-rights, the one you're discussing is art-works :) but that said, > If you want to authentify an artistic piece, you can just sign it with a private asymmetric key. Isn't this exactly what NFT-artwork is though? The difference is that the signature is now in a publicly accessible space, like the ethereum blockchain rather than an email. And you now have the option of selling that artwork forward because, unlike an emailed and signed piece of art, there is only a single NFT. > NFT is just built on the artificial market for rarity and currencies made of pure energy use... useless. Every time I've tried to address comments like these, the conversation is less-than-constructive. I'm not sure if it's the backfire effect coming into play, or if there's something wrong with the way I'm presenting my information. Regardless, despite my best efforts it ends the other person saying things like "beanie babies", "cult", or "I don't care", and so I've just stopped trying.
      - henearkr 5y ago
codeulike 5y ago
How 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.
- comprev 5y ago
  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.
  - codeulike 5y ago
    But does this app allow for the uploading of stems? From reading the 'info' page it doesn't seem to work that way.
    - broooder 5y ago
      It does allow uploading of anything you want in the attachments section.
taylodl 5y ago
Please provide a license when "open sourcing" a project.
- broooder 5y ago
  I will add one thank you :)
broooder 5y ago
I broke the site 2 days ago by swapping my AWS key... fix coming soon. And I’m having a designer make new mocks for the site, will post before we start building!
broooder 5y ago
New mocks are here, going to start building this soon -> https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38 https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38

38 points by broooder 5y ago

Hey, 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!

geoah 5y ago
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?
- maroonblazer 5y ago
  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.
broooder 5y ago
Thanks for the tips, I’m having a designer come up with some new mocks in the next week or so!
broooder 5y ago
New mocks here ~> https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38 https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38

henearkr 5y ago

Great idea!! But please don't cave in to the trend and don't introduce NFTs...

amingilani 5y ago
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.
- henearkr 5y ago
  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.
  - amingilani 5y ago
    I just want to point out that the use-case that I was talking about was around music-rights, the one you're discussing is art-works :) but that said, > If you want to authentify an artistic piece, you can just sign it with a private asymmetric key. Isn't this exactly what NFT-artwork is though? The difference is that the signature is now in a publicly accessible space, like the ethereum blockchain rather than an email. And you now have the option of selling that artwork forward because, unlike an emailed and signed piece of art, there is only a single NFT. > NFT is just built on the artificial market for rarity and currencies made of pure energy use... useless. Every time I've tried to address comments like these, the conversation is less-than-constructive. I'm not sure if it's the backfire effect coming into play, or if there's something wrong with the way I'm presenting my information. Regardless, despite my best efforts it ends the other person saying things like "beanie babies", "cult", or "I don't care", and so I've just stopped trying.
    - henearkr 5y ago

codeulike 5y ago

How 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.

comprev 5y ago
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.
- codeulike 5y ago
  But does this app allow for the uploading of stems? From reading the 'info' page it doesn't seem to work that way.
  - broooder 5y ago
    It does allow uploading of anything you want in the attachments section.

taylodl 5y ago

Please provide a license when "open sourcing" a project.

broooder 5y ago
I will add one thank you :)

broooder 5y ago

I broke the site 2 days ago by swapping my AWS key... fix coming soon. And I’m having a designer make new mocks for the site, will post before we start building!

broooder 5y ago

New mocks are here, going to start building this soon -> https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38 https://github.com/dezman/beatoftheday/issues/38