Hey my DSound tribe! :)
As promised, here I introduce all of you to the first important news of 2018: DSound curation delegation and strategy! :)
HTTPS://DSOUND.AUDIO
What is DSound?
DSound is a decentralized web application, developed in Javascript and React, that allows anyone to upload, listen and discover music and other sounds stored on top of the IPFS Network. It uses STEEM blockchain as a persistent database, and by posting the sounds the authors can earn rewards in STEEM cryptocurrency, when other users like their content, which can be exchanged easily to US Dollars, Euros or any other currency, similar to Steemit.com for blog posts.
Check DSound Intro post for more details
@dsound delegations and curation
My huge thank you to everybody who delegated to @dsound, more specially to @ned and @misterdelegation who delegated a big stake to help build the DSound community and reward good work built on this platform! :)
So I've put online a set of curation and voting bots that will be constantly analyzing the published sounds and the response from the community and based on that will upvote the sounds that are getting more interest, as well as others that follow certain incentive metrics that I cannot disclose to make it more fair.
This will only be a helper to the manual curation that I always like to do, as a music lover personally, as well as other curators that are being selected. I listen to DSound all the time! From podcasts to DJ sets or cool original tracks, I've found great stuff there and is getting better by the minute! ;)
So my beloved DSound tribe, the @dsound account has began to upvote your content, when you post those amazing sounds of yours! I bet some of you already noticed...
I'll also put together a table of honor for the delegators to @dsound on my updates.
And this gets us to...
DSound Discord Server (the tribe gets connected)
Please join me at our the Discord server at:
There you'll find a few channels to have everybody from our growing community getting together and making DSound even better. The steemit.chat channels will continue but will be less checked from now on...
- # announcements: Official announcements from DSound (read only)
- # general: General community chat. No sound or post promotion
- # suggestions: Suggestion of new features or improvements for DSound
- # support: Support requests and general help for using DSound
- # promo: Promote your sounds freely here... Only DSound links please!
- # submit: Submit tracks and artists/bands for consideration on vote bots... Please don't spam, max 1 per week per user!
With this our tribe will be much more connected, and much more to come using this platform...
Well, and rules...
Curation rules for the bots and curators
The curation bots are in fact just faster and restless helper hands to put in place what me and the curators envision as fair incentive to musicians and content creators on DSound platform, so it is based on consistency and quality of work and not blind.
As a music producer and DJ myself, I am running my own label for some years and I'm counting on my A&R people to help curate DSound content with the same professionalism and dedication. :)
So the rules will be that there are no rules, but a set of principles that can guide you:
Quality is much better than quantity
In fact quantity in small time window will be useless, as the bots are aware of who they voted and will ignore people that just post because they can... So I would advise you to post once a day or so, to get the maximum love that the bots can give. :)
Discussing curators decisions will not get you anywhere
The bots are following orders of flesh and bone human curators, so don't go down the spiral of trying to find technical reasons for your track not being picked... I would suggest to look at this from a humble perspective instead and be happy when your track is picked! In the end it is the curators call to pick a track or not, and there is nothing I can do either.
Begging for votes will not be tolerated
Track listening and appreciation take a load of time and effort from the curators, so it's useless to beg for votes since the vote is only the last part of an entire process. It would be much more interesting to put your energy in producing better content, recording it better or being more creative. Then submit your work again and try to score that so deserved vote! :)
Submitting content or creators to be appreciated by curators
Content and creators submission will only be accepted through the # submitDiscord channel created for this purpose. Please do not discuss anything on that channel, only a post of the content or creator will be enough for it to be checked by our curators. Don't get anxious or demanding, you'll not get any reply. Our curators will examine not only the piece of content you posted, but the entire profile on DSound and decide. If you see a vote, then you'll have your answer...
Every single vote is manually checked by curators
All the votes are manually checked for content quality and is the curator call to remain with that vote or not if it was automated. So if your content changes radically or if that particular content is of lower quality then the curator expected, the vote may be removed. Again, take this as an incentive to become better at your content production. You can always get selected again in the future if you continue improving! :)
Attempting to circumvent this process will only get you blacklisted
Continued insistence or attempt to get excessive gains by "hacking" this process will not be acceptable! This is in place to give incentive to the community and to reward great work. It is not to be tried on. Please be respectful and humble. Any actions that may be interpreted as such will result in blacklisting those users and no more votes going in their way... Please don't choose this route...
Final words
Together let's make DSound that platform that frees us all and allows us to do what we love: music, sound design, recording, remixing, mashups, podcasts, or whatever is your thing... :)
I am positive about this curation incentive, as the needed fuel to bring DSound to the masses. Please pass the word to your friends! If they produce great content, they will produce even better in this platform...
Let's see DSound get to the next level, tribe! :)
TL;DR
DSound has some big delegations and is now curating the content properly.
If you would like to delegate to DSound, please do so. The community will be very grateful!
Also please vote for my @prc Witness here. Thank you!
Thanks a lot to all fellow members of DSound tribe, all steemians, developers and music addicts like me for your support and encouragement on this project!
Peace! :)
"Music is what feelings sound like"
DSound <3 Music
I'm very excited about this project. I hope to be uploading some music or other audio soon. I've voted for your witness already. All the best
Hi Steevc, I've just made my first visit to DSound. Have you got any of your music on here yet?
I came here as a young local band I know are interested. I'm looking for two or three bands to show them the potential here.
They were from west Wales but are now in Bristol trying to make a full time profession out of their music, gigging and doing part-time jobs to pay the bills. So I am hoping DSound might be a perfect fit for them.
I've found @danieldyemusic and @edprivat to show them. Have you come across any UK bands that are doing well on here?
I've not got anything there yet. When I do some proper recordings I'll try it. I'm not aware of many bands on here yet, but I'll encourage them to sign up
Hey Steve, I did sign up and on Musicoin as well. On dsound I am seeing a lot of copyright infringements. I was wondering how you think we should handle this as artists. A lot of samples are not cleared I am guessing.
I haven't got into that yet. Copyright infringements are inevitable. Youtube is full of them, but now we have platforms where they are almost impossible to remove. If I develop my own music more I need to look into this more.
would be interested in what you think of what i posted yesterday.....thanks bud . Please dont upvote me...since i am asking you to check it out....
Thanks a lot @steevc! :)
hello please help I can not log in dsound always wrong key
But is right what am I doing wrong many thanks
Please where can I contact I can not log in Try it for days please ask for help
These are awesome news for us musicproducers & dj's @prc!
I am looking forward to see what will become of DSound in 2018.
I just joined the DSound Discord group ^-^
Thanks a lot bro! :)
How I get it:
DSound is basically a Soundcloud Clone, but without all the Nonesense: No Advertising, No Upload Limitation, No Centralisation
right?
I am quite new to Steemit and have found it very confusing but I get at least one "aha!" moment every day so I'm getting there! :-)
So I can't say I understand everything you have talked about here but I am very excited to be part of the DSound revolution!!
I am uploading my back catalogue at a rate of about 1 track a day and now that I know about the discord channel I will start using that today.
I am also inviting members of my website AtomCollectorRecords.com (2735 registered musicians currently) to sign up but I am doing it slowly rather than sending out a mass email.
The main thing I hear from our members is that they don't have the time to get involved in yet another website/app/service, etc. so I have started a VLOG to show them which channels they should concentrate on. You can find my very first episode here: How To Make Money As An Independent Musician, Episode 1 - an Introduction.
Really excited to see what 2018 brings for independent musicians and thank you for your efforts! I have upvoted your Witness thing even though I don't really know what it means! :P
JJ.
Good to have you as part of DSound tribe! :) Thanks a lot! :)
This is one of the greatest news I have heard on steemit. I am so happy for this. Please watch out for me. You would always love to hear my sounds. 😁
Also I just voted @prc as a witness. Cheers!!
Thanks a lot! :)
@prc - Thank you for the phenomenal work you do on DSound. It holds so much promise and I'm very happy to be a part of that community.
These are more awesome updates! I'm waiting for some of my previously delegated SP to come back and I will be reallocating it to DSound.
I very much believe in the vision - you guys do great work. Thanks again!
Thanks a lot man! Continue to share great content! :) Loved your remix of @soundlegion...
I also greatly appreciate the work being put in here and I am happy to delegate to dsound. Huge love to you@prc you are sparking new hopes in us artists. You as an artist yourself know how much heart and time goes into good sound creation. all day love
Great news and initiative. Dsound is amazing!
Thanks! :)
Just joined up on the discord server. Super pumped to mix up my content between dtube and dsound...im having a blast making videos but good lord are they time consuming. Being able to bang out some live modular synth jams and have the immediate gratification of putting them up is going to do wonders for my output consistency.
Perfect combination! Cool! :)
Finally got my first DSound submission done in the nick of time in the hotel lobby before getting wisked away to the next venue. Was too excited to get involved not to!
I've only just started uploading my catalog to @dsound and I've already received your upvotes. Thank you so much! I discovered @steemit because I was curious about releasing my new projects on a blockchain and this experience with dsound has only been encouraging. Thank you for the opportunity and the inspiration!
If you received upvotes, then you deserved them! :) Keep on with the great content... Thanks a lot! :)
Thanks so much! Have a great weekend!
I'm having a hard time signing up! Need help?
Did you figure everything out?
Please join our Discord server as written in the post above and ask for help in the # support channel. Thanks! :)
Id like to know if it possible to upload with a smartphone since i havent got a laptop
Not yet, besides really small files... But in the next version it will! :)
First of all, muito obrigado por ter criado DSound! é muito bom mesmo essa iniciativa. Although I did upload my last sound through my smartphone!!!, however today after editing the Steemit post, all my tracks lost the thumbnails, and my latest track is nowhere to be found. I don't knwo if it was because of uploading from the phone, of because the steemit post had more than 5 tags. However it's gone. Here's the link to the post I had to edit after the problem: https://steemit.com/dsound/@greencross/unlazy-live-jam-take-techno
I though maybe you would want to know about this.
And by the way, it doesn't let me save any new sounds, although the upload process goes correct.
Valeu abração!
@greencross
Wonderful your music my dear.... and sound also good, i like this post. thanks for sharing art..... all the best...
Right on! Sounds great man! Keep on keepin’ on! Good luck in the coming year!
Thanks! :)
Yesss nice one!
So here i can say thank you for the vote dsound :) I‘m looking forward to post my music on dsound and find other creators to hook up and make stuff together!
Future is bright wooopwoop :D
Don't thank, the merit is yours! Keep on the good work! :)
<3
Good information
Good work best wishes for you
Thanks! :)
Awesome! I am excited to upload a lot of new music to DSound in 2018.
And the world is happy to listen to it! :) Thanks a lot!
Hi, My friend i want to upload a padcast to dsound but it can not complete the action. for 3 day i can not upload a file with 3 Mgbyte. please giude me
The upload will be a lot better soon... Please stay tuned! :) If you want to try in the mean time, please head to our Discord server and place your issue in # support channel. There myself or other people can help you for sure... Thanks a lot! :)
This is the beginning of some real awesomeness
Yes it is! Thanks a lot! :)
very good news!
Yes! :)
Great things happening here!
Steem is like this... It never stops! Thanks! :)
Really looking forward to this! Already voted for your witness. Best of luck!
Thanks a lot! :)
I am still very new with this platform, but so far enjoying the things that I have found, and noticed new people enjoying my music, win win! This is all exciting news, I look forward to its future!
Thanks for being a part of this! :)
Thank you for explaining how this works. I've really been enjoying DSound!
Thanks a lot! And thank you for sharing your work on DSound! :)
Wow loved your post...loved reading it....it's amazing....thank you for sharing have a good day
Great content! Best dsound
Thanks for the update @prc. Imagine my surprise when I saw an @dsound vote drop on my podcast. I'm having such a BLAST experimenting with dtube and dsound to bring my considerable gardening following over to decentralized platforms and this type of support is a wonderful encouragement!
~ Kevin
Thanks a lot Kevin! Continue the great work! :)
Very good post, Greetings know me new in steemit, please help if there watu please see my post
This is great. All the best with taking dsound forward, @prc!
Thanks a lot! :)
Cheers, doing my bit for the site too by uploading mashups! :D
I discovered dsound a few days ago and I must say I'm loving every bit of it. Big thanks to the developer(s) and curators. BTW, I love that tagline "Music is what feelings sound like." 🎶
Thanks a lot! :) Yes, that tag line is my preferred for ages, I think it describes what music is for me... Just wanted to share it to the world and for people to understand the 'Ethos' behind DSound and its love for music!
Its great post . . . . i have followed you and upvote, follow me too please :)
These curation news makes it a lot more fair!
Great stuff prc!
Thanks a lot! Looking forward to your sounds man! :)
The information I've been looking for.
Thank you so much @prc
Thanks a lot! And welcome! :)
Ah now im more excited to start posting music and audio content there ^^ thank you so much for the very insightul post !
Thanks! Please do so... :)
<<<<Currently uploading all my music and over 100 podcast episodes to DSound. THIS ROCKS!
Thanks for getting your content to DSound! Just a hint, you upload great content and DSound would like to have your content supported, but you just upload loads of content at once... I really think it would be more beneficial for you to upload once or twice a day, so that the curators could get your content supported. Please think about this! :)
Bring it all baby!! this is great. you are working your butt off and its paying off DSound is off the charts and I only see it getting better and picking up more engagement. huge motivation to the community and will be continuing to support. DSound is part of my physical promotions for my music and my collaborative artist music house.
Thanks a lot guys! You have been such an inspiration and motivation for us too! Your sounds rock!!! And it fills sooo good to see DSound getting so much great content so fast and getting to be a real monetization platform that is helping fellow musicians around the world... Big thanks to you guys and your promotion of DSound! Keep on rocking!!! ;)
Just voted @prc as a witness - steem on!
Thanks a lot! :)
woow excelente idea
Great, thanks! :)
This is very helpful! I am a huge fan of this platform. I have a question I was hoping you could help with, can you contact me @prc? Email [email protected] I am having an issue with the steemconnect, allowing it to Cross Post onto steemit or the API calls for steemit itself to post from another site. Can you assist? Thank you for all your work on dSound !
Join me on Discord server, as described in the post. We can chat there and see what I can help you with... Thanks a lot! :)
learned about Dsound only yesterday and am very excited about this platform. For musicians and producers, it seems to be much more promising than Soundcloud
Soundcloud is good when you have a huge following and for archiving content. DSound rock in the monetization part and building a following! :) Thanks a lot and looking forward to you content! :)
Hi! been enjoying checking out tunes on dsound and plan to start uploading. Just wondering if the Dsound integration with MUSE is still happening
Looking forward to the evolution of MUSE... Let's see what the future brings... :) Please do so, we love new content! Thanks! :)
I am already preparing my first steemit upload! I am very excited about this! I voted your witness too! Keep up!
Thanks a lot! :)
Thanks so much for the update! It's been great being a recipient of the curation votes already. I'm very thankful to you and the DSound team for maintaining it as another great way to access the STEEM blockchain.
I look forward to continuing my podcast series on DSound, and I hope to publish music there eventually as well. Best wishes!
Thanks so much guys! Keep on the great work! :)
This is SO dope! I can't wait to release my album on Dsound!!! Congrats & well done on the hard mahi (work)
Mihi koe! :)
Looking forward to your content! :)
Thank you! Nice Maori ;)
Thanks for setting up this project. The whole decentrailsed ethos of dsound is a really exciting prospect for musician. Have loads of music to upload
Thanks a lot! Looking forward to your content! :)
This is awesome. I know a few musicians here on Steemit!
Thanks a lot! :) Please spread the word... DSound has a lot to offer! :)
Hi @prc I would love to contribute sounds that I record from all around the world to Dsound. I have a Steemit account but I cant login or create an account. It also shows me invalid private posting key.
I clearly make something wrong or what am I missing?
Best Marcel
Great to know that you found your way in! Thanks a lot! :) We loooove your work and it's an honor to have you here! Looking forward to your uploads! :)
I just came home from an incredible sound recording! I went into a lighthouse in Vietnam what was actually built by the France in 1912 buy a Company called BBT Paris. Incredible sound that you may know from Horror Movies! I will publish this sound tomorrow! :)
That is really cool! Looking forward to it... :)
Iam working on it right now! Will be available on my Website in about an hour and tomorrow I release it here on Steemit. Quality over Quantity but I am more than happy to send you the link before.
Here is the link from the Recording inside the lighthouse. :)
https://freetousesounds.com/recording-sound-inside-a-lighthouse-from-1903-son-tra-da-nang-vietnam/
Really excited for all the updates @prc!
The progress of DSound and how quickly others are adopting it is incredible and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down.
DSound is showing the signs of valuable community.
Not only is the content great, but the contributors, artists, and listeners are are too, and I’m happy to be apart of it.
If you haven’t signup up for DSound yet, do it now and be on the ground floor of this fantastic sonic community.
Thanks a lot Mario for your support and interest! :) It's so good to have people like you in the community!
loving DSound so far! excited for further opportunities to connect, listen and share great sounds from around the globe!!
Thanks a lot! :)