In this post, we'll introduce the cXc Music NFT standard first draft, and welcome your feedback
Making Music NFTs work for all artists
Background
There's been a lot of talk and anticipation on Music NFTs across the whole blockchain space, not just WAX. On WAx, we've seen a few music NFT projects take shape, including Uplift, YoshiDrops and Shawn Dall (all friends)
Currently, Music NFTs are near-monopolized by big-name artists, but we want to change that.
Every artist should be able to mint a professional Music NFT with little effort, and without all the guesswork + technical knowledge.
In cXc Beta, we're going to offer a NFT builder that gives you the option to mint to your own collections by duplicating our schemas for you, or, if you meet the requirements of minimum Ups on cXc.world, you can mint to our exclusive collection that will give you added credibility, yet is within reach of every artist, whether just starting out or already a local legend.
cXc's Music NFT Specification
Our goal is to empower the ARTIST, including promoting their centralized platforms (that usually pay for streams) and also set up the NFT with useful geospatial information that future Dapps can use, meaning this NFT could have a long and useful life, even outside of cXc.
Keep in mind all of these are OPTIONAL. Meaning if you don't want to have the location information, or don't have a promo image, that's okay!
See an example asset with a song from cXc's founder here and an updated template with the changes we added here (most accurate example)
The NFT Data
name: name (Example: Bluebirds [Beat by Ours Samplus] [Scarfinger Remix])
type: text
name: img (This is the main image, and will show first up by default)
type: image
name: audio (Only one audio file. We may release another specification that allows multiple audios later on)
type: ipfs
name: video (One optional video, like a music video, uploaded to IPFS. You can also skip this for youtube, but it won't show up on the NFT)
type: ipfs
name: backimg (Supposed to be like an album back cover, but flexible to your use case )
type: image
name: promo (Optional image which you can use to put more information about the song, a QR code, whatever you like )
type: image
name: about (Any text the user wants to add about the music)
type: text
name: credits (Put all your credits here, not in the title. Example: ["Artist: God Sol One Love","Beat: Ours Samplus, Scarfinger"] Note: You provide the credit 'type' and 'name' We'll format this in the NFT builder on music.cXc.world)
type: text array
We've put our three supported players separate from other platforms to highlight them, but you'll have to option to ignore these and just include all links in the "platforms" field later if you prefer
name: youtube (Just a link)
type: text
name: spotify
type: text
name: soundcloud
type: text
name: platforms (This is another text array [like credits] which we'll format from your links using our built-in NFT creator. You can put any platform's links you want, not just those supported by cXc)
type: text array
name: nation (Example: USA. This is a ISO standard abbreviation, and putting it here means future dapps can sort your music better)
type: text
name: locale (Example: Accident, Garrett County, Maryland. Optional, and allows other dapps to organize your music, plus shows others where you're creating from.)
type: text
name: geoloc (Example: [75.355, 15.256] You can share the recording location info here, just if you want! It's a GeoJson point, so it can mean your NFT can be put on any map in the future)
type: text
name: license (Can be a link or symbol [CC])
type: text
name: rarity (Can be set automatically by cXc by the max, or manually set for custom values)
type: text
Requesting your input
Tell us what you would like to see in the spec that you don't already. I'm also curious what you think about putting the SoundCloud and Spotify and YouTube links separate from the other platform links. This is optional, but still shows opinionation in our standard.
Chances are, you see things we donβt, so donβt hesitate to share!
You may notice that we don't have a cXc link by default. That's because we are going to suggest that users put it as one of the platforms, but not force anyone to include their cXc link if they don't want to. Weβre making this to help artists first, no matter how they want to represent themselves.
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- Edit - Added License, Rarity and About fields
Cool read. I like how cxc is progressing from a localized map to a more robust system. I wasn't aware of your friends Uplift, Yoshidrops and Shawn Dall. I will have to look into those as well!
Thanks @amphlux!!
Yes they are some of the WAX music NFT pioneers, check them out!!
YoshiDrops first drop is May 27th
So far, I have two additional considerations for he standard.
name: license (Can be a link or symbol [CC])
type: text
name: about (Any text the user wants to add about the music)
type: text
Adding
aboutmay not be needed, but will surely be a requested feature, so having it from the start may be wise. All fields are optional, so no real harm adding it.Licensing, and adopting a standard way of abbreviating licenses may help any future Dapp sort music by this (and cXc too). cXc.world can add this based on the user's selection and also give the option to past a URL.
Also added License
cXc just uses third party players (Spotify, etc), and doesn't reward plays, strictly actions (Ups) and charting (sorted by Ups).
Also, this is a NFT standard, so it would be up to the dapp / person to monetize it as they wish. We plan to just allow peole to make templates for free from our site and hold drops, etc to make money. Simple NFT stuff, not rewarding plays or even adding special tokenomics for NFTs. We'll just put them on a map ha ha, and invite others to do the same!
Great idea. I feel like with AI data processing too, it would be possible to read the files and prevent frauds. Even re-route money to the correct account on the protocol, crazy!! Talked to someone in that field yesterday, cool stuff. Could get messy though with automatic incentives ha ha.
I've been mulling a protocol that would allow people to specify geotemporal rights and licensing for $$, but hadn't considered the payment part much.
No, we don't (yet?). We allow user to sign in to Google (youtube) account to prove ownership of a youtube channel ID, linking their WAX account. Then any video on that channel on a piece of cXc content will get rewarded at the blockchain address.
Thank you so much man, I really appreciate it. Standards are the foundation for all music blockchain projects to grow. I'm happy to obsess over it and share what I come up with, I hope it helps and inspires others to explore more hidden primitives to help all fields of creatives and share those openly.