Musicoin? Is that still a thing? Thought that died off when they seemingly didn't give a shit after Cryptopia and their main exchange collapsed and they didn't even bother to address any concerns that all the community had!
Choon, obviously don't need to say any more but a real shame because features were rolled out rapidly and the site was functional, fast and had something for fans and musicians. But they f__ked themselves... Royally!
Emanate I'm just starting to look into more and looks like they have got great backing from Deadmau5 who is a big name in electronic music. Like you say, slow progress at the moment and I heard they have been in development for over 2 years too? But I think they are on the right lines from what I've seen and looking to spread artists around. Hope they don't fall in to the same pitfalls as the others
Right now I'm sticking with Hive and sharing my tunes on here as it's been a far more social experience and developments with peakd are lightning too with spotify support now enabled.
Hello @nickyhavey,
For Musicoin, you point to a very important aspect, communication. The artists and the music lovers remained on the expectation. They were both expecting an easy-to-use website with all the necessary options. On telegram, they repeated over and over again that this site was in development and that it would arrive soon. Instead, at one point, they released a Mobile app that was nothing more than the website clone. Not functional from a standpoint of today's standards. And no communication.. Then things went on.. A slow dying.
Choon, despite some mistakes in strategies made, in my opinion, it was a lack of money that caused the project to sink. And probably differences of opinion within the founding team. The ICO that had been pushed back should have been made to raise funds, keep the ship afloat, and continue to develop the planned functionality: merchandising, license, etc. But what a functional site!
Emanate is promising, but so low to build up. For the moment this is just a simple demo. For many months, indeed. I seem to have read an article on your music there, by the way. A Focus. I do not think that having a "big name" changes anything to the problem that a site must be operational quickly, both for artists and for music lovers. The future will tell us. It's also a bit of a special time that we're all going through right now.
Yes, Hive is a good platform to spread the word, to meet people.
Oh, I wasn't aware, Spotify is now supported. Great news! Hope Bancamp will come soon, too!
Have a fantastic day! :0)
Thanks to take time to leave a message.
Yes I got featured on Emanate and I'm grateful for that. I do occasionally listen to some music on the site but I think content discovery could be a bit of an issue if it's done by "mood" rather than genre types like everywhere else. We'll see but as we've pointed out, the reputation of blockchain music platforms is pretty tarnished and put off quite a few of us who've been around for a while.
Maybe the slow rolling out of features from Emanate is a good thing but you're you're right, I'd say the experience should be more focused on the fans. Once they allow comments, that will be great but I think they have a good position in that they see other projects failings and can learn from them.
For Spotify embeds on Hive, you need to get the share link/embed link from the DESKTOP app, otherwise it won't work and will just be a link. I know this works on @peakd but if you want Bandcamp and other embeds like Mixcloud, they are still looking in to it I think. Or at least it can be suggested. All it is at the end of the day is an iframe and keeps the user's retention on Hive.
Look forward to the next edition of your series.
Hello @nickyhavey,
Thank you for your feedback! :0)
Much appreciated!
He joined mine.
"to attract music lovers, the site must be attractive, ergonomic, functional. Some of the music platforms that emerge on the blockchain forget this second part, which is probably the most important for a viability in the medium and long term: music lovers!
Musicoin never worked on it, for exemple.
Thank you to keep interested by this article serie.
Have a peaceful sunday.
