At #FediForum, @n00q discussed a Federated music service for #BandCamp refugees. After a few days of drawing up requirements and specs, and a couple days of code, something interesting is taking shape.Here's a too-fast-tour of a hypothetical album pag...
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Ariane :btfly: Noxiereplied to Ben Pate 🤘🏻 on last edited by
@benpate @n00q please, very please like absolutely please, have the share links be like the new tidal ones !
It's good to show the service, but providing links to what people already use is just awesome! In the week since tidal added that I've seen multiple friends considering switching because of the ease to share stuff with people on other platforms. Music unites, music services should follow that lead :ablobcatheart:
For everything else I feel the success of the platform will be rated primarily by the phones apps and experience. I am no android (or iOS) dev, but I really hope they work great, better than the webui.
Like seriously Deezer had a better web UI than Tidal but I switched because of the app....
I wish you all very VERY good luck, loads of success and an amazing adventure! :ablobcatheart:
(Tidal share link example) https://tidal.com/track/52105469?u
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Ariane :btfly: Noxiereplied to Ben Pate 🤘🏻 on last edited by
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@benpate @n00q Yeah, that was a big brain dump! In terms of priority order, I think I'd prioritise my own needs like this:
1. Hear about artists' new releases
2. Listen to artists' music
3. Help financially support artists
4. Download artists' music
5. Discover music related to albums or artists I already listen to
6. Find out about artists' upcoming gigs
7. Discover music from genres I'm not familiar with
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Ben Pate 🤘🏻replied to Ariane :btfly: Noxie on last edited by
@Ariane @n00q I regret that I have but one “Like” to give for this post...
But yeah, lots of OSS has horrible UX. I think it comes from well-meaning developers “scratching their own itch” instead of listening to the needs of regular people who are very much not like them.
Commercial stuff can be better, depending on management.
I’m aiming for something half community driven, and half design driven. That’s usually worked out for me in the past.
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@chriswood @n00q Thank you, yes. I absolutely will reach out.
Cards on the table: This has gotten way more attention than I expected, and I HAVEN’T thought through the important details yet.
But there’s obviously interest in having something like this, so here we go
We have discussed some kind of Federated discovery service. That’ll come next, once I have basic profiles working.
Payments were out of scope, but we could do that, too, with enough interest.
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Robert Riemann 🇪🇺replied to Alison Wilder on last edited by
@alisynthesis @benpate @n00q Why have you chosen to start a new project over making audio-only content better working in #peertube @joinpeertube?
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Ben Pate 🤘🏻replied to Robert Riemann 🇪🇺 on last edited by
@rriemann @alisynthesis @n00q @joinpeertube There’s some aspects to #Emissary that aren’t coming through in this 10s video. Emissary is not an audio platform. It is a programmable #ActivityPub platform, and this is just one of many “apps” or “themes” that can be loaded onto it.
Yes, there are tooting/blogging/photo/video/audio apps out there. Emissary is fundamentally different. Flexible, customizable like nothing else out there.
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This set of #Emissary templates is ready for developers, but not regular users just yet. I’m actually sitting at my desk right now working on band profile pages, and I hope to post another video with more progress really soon.
You can check out Emissary at https://emissary.dev and follow my feed to see when this band profile is ready.
I’m thinking I might even offer hosting for it if I get some interest in that.