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by saaaaaam 4y ago
The Huawei Mateview is exceptional. I was bothered by the price but eventually got one on sale. It’s so good I’m buying another at full price. (Unless it comes on sale again!)
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
You're welcome. You can query the ISWC database maintained by CISAC (the issuing authority) here: https://iswcnet.cisac.org/ The IFPI has the equivalent database for ISRC: https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
I’m not, no. Musicbrainz is amazing and I’ve known them for a long time but it doesn’t address this problem - which is to do with authoritative first party metadata that define rights ownership. What I’m referring to is the structural ide
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
Yes, please do. Digital Music News is full-on crazy pointy hair ranting click bait. The Music Tomorrow analysis is very flimsy (tiny number of playlists over a very short period) but at least it’s the source.
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
Musicbrainz is amazing but the problem is that musicbrainz is about attaching metadata after a track and underlying song has been released. The structural problem is about capturing and attaching metadata before that recording of a song is
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
There sort of is. But at the same time there absolutely is not. There have been various attempts to do this and they’ve all fallen flat because of vested interests and because the music industry is pretty bad at technology. There’s also a
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
A big problem with music metadata is that there are lots of silos in the music industry: the big split is between people who control and administer sound recording copyrights and people who control and administer song copyrights or publishi
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
I trialled Hey.com on a professional domain-based email address. I didn’t use it for any prolonged period - a month. However I found it utterly frustrating and like a fisher price version of email. The interface is obnoxious and intrusive a
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
I managed a major territory for one of the biggest digital music distributors in the world. Digital distribution is the bit that gets music into DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music, and processes the resulting revenues. There are a significan
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
This is a really badly written article. Six paragraphs in - and coincidentally just past the ad unit - before the author gives a very weak explanation of why the Ukraine factor has any impact.
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
Seems like you’ve successfully death kissed it.
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
I’m really surprised to hear this. Did you use Picard to do the tagging or something else? If Picard I suggest you email Rob and the rest of the team with details as this is entirely contrary to what Musicbrainz normally does and they’d alm
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by saaaaaam 4y ago
Absolutely. Children who are “difficult” - and “difficult” normally means “struggling with something they cannot process” - are plonked in front of screens. A lot of parents don’t care to examine why they are “difficult” or why they are str
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
The Effra Clinic is excellent. https://effraclinic.co.uk I used them after struggling for a long time trying to get diagnosed via the NHS (“you’re a successful young man! You can’t have ADHD!”) and have recommended them to sever
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
To be fair the congestion in that area is also because of a significant number of the side roads across Lewisham/Greenwich having been closed to enable the low traffic neighbourhoods - much needed but making congestion awful as a conse
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Yes the user experience on this site is AWFUL on mobile. The stand-first vanishes when you scroll but the bottom of it is cut off so you have to scroll to be able to read it. Then when you scroll a pop-up appears asking me to sign up to ema
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
A number of pretty important things missing from this article: 1. The administration of publishing rights is often really badly executed. Investors like Hipgnosis are really good at finding both historic uncollected revenues and making sure
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Snatches? I’m assuming they bought it.
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
There are a lot more in the way of costs than simply the application fee - which in the last round was $185k. For example you need to stick a significant amount of cash into an escrow account to guarantee the continuity of the registry if y
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
I use ClickUp as an overarching todo list combined with various automations based on email which I can trigger by applying specific labels or which are automatically triggered by filters and picked up by integromat. This then either delegat
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
An “unforgiving minute” suggests something like “the longest minute of your life”. “Sixty seconds’ worth of distance run” is alluding to the fact that running long distances is tough. And you force yourself to do “just one more minute” to k
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Largely from a B2B perspective. Marketing is product. If your product is a mess no one will buy. Most products are a mess. Get your funnels and acquisition flows right, but get what happens after conversion right as well. If you spend $100
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Radio is the most successful music discovery engine out there. TikTok is just the gen Z take on radio.
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
I was head-hunted to a 20 person startup in a senior (non-tech) role; I’d been sold a big vision, told the business was very well funded, loads of exciting stuff on the cards. First month in I discovered that the “significant seven figure i
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Not really sure what you mean here. All the business applications I use are proprietary. That’s the same for most businesses: you buy tools to get the job done! The advantage of these ones is that I can very quickly customise them to do exa
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Stacker is about $3000 a year; Integromat is about $1500; Airtable is $240 per user per year and I think I’ve got six users (but you’d only need one to do what I’m doing); Twilio is pennies - maybe $100 a year; Carrd is insanely cheap - $49
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
I’ve built a significant number of relatively sophisticated applications as internal tools and one public application (which is used daily by ~300 people) using Airtable, Stacker, typeform, carrd, twilio and integromat. I also use MagicBell
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Lower barriers to entry mean there’s more music than ever before. In the CD era getting music out to an audience was complex and expensive. Write a song. Go into a studio with an engineer. Record on tape. Multitrack. Mix. Master. Press disc
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
Nope. General comedic YouTube japes. Some singing but it wasn’t their primary thing.
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by saaaaaam 5y ago
If I understand it correctly, that would mean targeting very specific audiences based on genre and similarity to other artists a user listens to? Correct. Indie labels are beginning to realise this and the good ones are bringing huge retu

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