Hi DSound friends! :)
DSound has a few announcements to make and also moved to HIVE, so you can now experience the new chain with DSound as well! But this is not the only thing that is new on DSound, so please read on... :)
What's new in DSound version 0.4.3?
Well, so much... but let's start with the more apparent things...
DSound new domain dsound.io
This will be the new home for DSound from now on. All the new things DSound will happen here!
Everything has been ported, besides the few things that occurred from March 20th til today. But all accounts will need to log back in, as this domain is new...
Old dsound.audio domain deprecation
That's right, the old domain dsound.audio still contains the old app and is still connected to STEEM blockchain. The use of this domain and app is deprecated - you should move as soon as possible to the new DSound on dsound.io, as the old app will be shutdown after April 15th, and will begin pointing to the new DSound from there on...
HIVE as the new Blockchain behind DSound
This was a very difficult decision to be made... We all lost a bit of us with this departure from STEEM! :(
But, what really made us put things in perspective and move on was DSound name: the letter D of DSound means decentralized and since its inception back in 2017 DSound has been the most decentralized sound media platform in the world!
With the latest developments of the STEEM takeover, which we don't want to even start a convo on, it has shown that a single party had taken the control of a significant part of the chain, by placing most of the "elected" witnesses under their control.
This situation has shown that DPOS chains have a degree of resilience never tested before: Hard fork the hell out of centralization! :D
As most of the STEEM stakeholders, we also were very worried about the outcome of such an event, but now we have proof that it was a success! We don't mean that HIVE will be more valuable or less then STEEM, that is not the question. What is really important is that there's no network capable of keeping its community hostage for long!
As of now, STEEM has maintained this degree of centralization, and even made it worse, so DSound doesn't fit that network. Let's see what that community brings to the table in the future, but for now we moved on to the place that our community created as a consequence, and that so far has exceeded our expectations, and this is HIVE!
DSound HIVE Community
DSound HIVE Community has been created, with all bees and dsounders in our mind! :)
Please check it out here: DSound Community
You can also subscribe to stay in the loop about all new things DSound will bring...
All content published in DSound can be posted on the DSound Community or on the author Profile Page or blog.
Of course, a content published in DSound Community will reach more people and attract more curation, so we also enabled author repost that content on his blog, if he so wishes by pushing the repost button on the published content.
We will be integrating other communities that will be evolving in the future, as long as they bring more value and recognition to our users, but for now this communities HIVE feature is too recent to evaluate, so DSound only supports it's own community for now. If you represent a community, reach out to us and we can start a chat about that integration...
Post to DSound Community or User Profile
You already know, no more bloat to your blog if you have many other blog posts that are not music or audio related! But if you want to you can still post to your profile...
The default is to post on the DSound Community, but just change the drop-down selection next to the publish button when posting on DSound.
Better SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) for DSound content
Since the DSound focus will be user acquisition and retention, it makes sense that DSound turns more SEO friendly. No more strange URLs with #! in them...
But this is only the beginning, many other improvements will follow to bring DSound to the masses. Many documentation and marketing assets will be added to DSound platform to make it more usable and make new users more "at home" with crypto.
Fixes to Sound Engine and better playback on devices
The DSound native sound engine has evolved and is now capable of cope with more restrictive browsers, like iOS, and even continue playback when the browser is not in foreground. Still some work to improve the usability, but if you used iOS you'll notice the difference!
Even in Chrome if you placed a tab in background, when the current track ended the next would refuse to start... not anymore. :)
Author keeps more rewards now
DSound takes a share of the post revenue, it has been like that since day one. It has been part of DSound business model, but today we announce that this will not be 25% anymore!
From today on, the fee taken by DSound on any post is capped at 5%!
But there's more! We now have communities and DSound will grant it's community or any other approved community a 2.5% revenue share as well.
So, to clarify, here is a table of how the revenue will be shared:
| Post Type | Author/Curation | Community | DSound | Poster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSound Community | 92.5% | 2.5% | 5% | --- |
| Approved Communities | 92.5% | 2.5% | 5% | --- |
| User Profile | 95% | 0% | 5% | --- |
| Cross-post | 90% | 5% | 0% | 5% |
| Repost | --- | --- | --- | --- |
So our artists, content creators, communities and curators will have more room to build their strategies and DSound team will concentrate more on the development side and less on curation.
DSound new business strategy
The business strategy of DSound will be more on the front of bringing more people to DSound, by leveraging social media integration and building more features to ease the new user on-boarding.
The user attention is the currency on DSound, and our focus with the new IPFS network is to evolve DSound into a platform where that attention is incentivised to the max potential.
Also by reinvesting in the community we envision that a positive feedback loop can be created and all incentives will be aligned to discover more great content and make it more available to more consumers.
We've been experimenting with many strategies and we'll start to deploy those that we felt that had the potential to bring more value to DSound platform and its users in the long run. We're not here to make a quick buck. Our passion is to change the music industry for good, not just implement the same industry over blockchain! We think that we know how to do that, and it will be a lot of work, but that's what makes us get up in the morning anyway! :)
DSound Community Witness
The @dsound witness was ported to HIVE and is already producing and validating blocks on HIVE blockchain since the beginning of the fork.
This witness effort is comparable as other community initiatives that launch a witness node to promote network security and generate revenue.
In @dsound witness 100% of the rewards will be kept in @dsound account and used to vote the best rated posts in the DSound Community. The mechanism of evaluation will be based on attention generated by each post, and is still in design along with other DSound features, but the important thing is that 0 HIVE will move out of the @dsound account or power down - all revenue generated will be reinvested in the community by curation, either direct or through other approved music communities.
Please check below how to vote for the Community witness...
Start of the rollout of the new DSound IPFS network
The most important thing that we've been working on during this crypto winter has been the new DSound IPFS network. This version includes the basis for the rollout of the new network, and will be happening in the following months...
This new network will continue and improve the DSound ethos, as a 100% decentralized sound media sharing network, and expand its capabilities to things never thought possible. Stay tuned for the next versions... ;)
What is in the roadmap for DSound future?
- New IPFS network
- Distributed streaming of content
- Integrate other music curation communities
- Cross-post feature for other communities
- Account-less on-boarding
- Integrate with the best signer technology
- Integrate other blockchains and monetization strategies
- Post content from other sources
- UI improvements and mobile first
- Improvements to listening experience
- Playlists and playlist monetization
- Instant tips for artists while listening
- and many, many more...
the order of this list is not related to time at all... features will come out as they become stable and there is a demand for them. This is just a snapshot of some things that might be coming to DSound...
But, still don't know what DSound is?
It's ok... You are at the right place!
Let's share what it is with you right now...
What is DSound?
DSound is a decentralized web application that allows anyone to upload, listen and discover music and other sounds stored on top of the IPFS Network.
It uses HIVE blockchain as a persistent database, so by posting their sounds the authors can earn rewards in cryptocurrency when other users like their content, which can be exchanged easily to US Dollars, Euros or any other currency, with a look and feel very similar to Soundcloud.
Check DSound Intro post for more details
DSound Discord Server
The DSound discord server is being discontinued in favour of DSound HIVE Community!
We'll be using our DSound Community for concentrating all DSound communication in the same place now...
If you need any help, please post in our community and any other members or our moderators will guide you...
@prc
@juliakponsford
@jeffandhisguitar
@darrenclaxton
DSound Telegram
If you need to chat with us or with other DSound users, please join us at our DSound.io Telegram
We are very happy to chat there and our community will also be there to help anyone out...
DSound is this! <3
"Music is what feelings sound like"
DSound <3 Music
And If you think that DSound community brings value HIVE ecosystem, please give us your Witness vote to help us continue this journey...
Design by @aleister
You can vote for @dsound as a HIVE Witness here: Vote with Hive Signer
... but if you prefer the oldfashion way, please go to:
https://wallet.hive.blog/~witnesses
and vote for @dsound :)
Alternatively you can set @dsound as your proxy, so that you follow the witnesses we vote as well. This might be interesting for all of you that don't know that well which witnesses to vote for... To do so use this field:
Thank you guys! :)
ReBlogging this to Hive so i can ask @dsound if we will just be using the Hive COmmunity and IPFS @dtube style embedded audio/ Thatd be nice, to have an audio player iNSIDE hive and ALL the dapp front ends like @peakd i mean yeah, and a dsound mobile app or just @ecency and @dapplr supporting ipfs audio playback like it already does, thatl be nice, i know they play mp4s can it play ogg and mp3s etc?
Lets start this aKaZaA mp3 hive-engine coin Party Up!
i've been thinking about launching an audio platform, but always the problem is.. as we are going to earn enough money to sustain it since over time the most expensive thing is the cost of storage...
there is no certainty that when launching a proposal it will have enough votes, because in the end it is always the same ones who establish their monopoly.
haha thats where @telosnetwork https://dstor.cloud comes in hwere you literalyhave telos (like eos like steem or hive) nfts wheer sales or listens ort ad money goes direct to the freakin DSTOR storage costs its like really fast IPFS
also Dsound was great @dsound the old steem soundcloud clone it used IPFS so much innovation back then on steem seeing those dpos dapps emerge to fill economic needs, even if they were embryonic etc
HIVE!D
THANK YOU FOR NOT DOING YOUR BUSINESS ON DISCORD SERVERS!
@dsound I just moved over as well. Looking forward to getting my music up on your platform again!!! :-) I will look aroun to figure out how to do this.
Same... I'm having trouble getting an audio file uploaded
It's great that you're moving ahead with the project!
We've been working a lot this crypto winter... I know that there weren't much announcements, but all crypto is like that during winter season. But, we made some huge progress on the decentralized network of DSound, instead of going the way everyone went (making it centralized), we decided to go the hard way and decentralize even further! Stay tuned for the next announcements, they will be huge! :)
Great. All the best!
This is a new a to communicate and spreading with vision and mission of dsound- we are happy to hear this announcement.
Thanks a lot for your kind words! :)
Awesome news!
Been looking forward to announcing this to my tribe and community.
Best news I've heard all day, looking forward to creating on the new Dsound!
Thanks a lot mate! :) Looking forward to your creations in DSound!
Good to see dsound here. Good look!👋
Thanks! :)
Hell yea! Was waiting for dsound to come up with smth! 🙆
Thanks! Many other things to come soon, stay tuned... ;)
Oh Hi, good to see you around.
Thanks! Good to be here! :D
Rebloged!
Força prc! ;)
Grande abraço amigo! Obrigado! ;)
Sweet sweet bee juice.
ahahah :D Thanks! ;)
Great news!
Thanks! Stay tuned for more soon... :)
I’m so excited about this. I was literally asking about y’all today in Hive Discord. I’ve recently launched a podcast and really wanted to host it on Hive blockchain, so this is the best news! Thanks for all y’all do!
That's great news! DSound is the place mate... Looking forward to your content! Thanks :)
Nice information ☺️👌
Thanks! :)
Fantastic news... but not for Justin Sun. He's going to have a lot of trouble making Steem stay relevant without all the DApps. 🤪
Well... I don't even care about that... never liked the guy anyway. It's sad for STEEM, but that is the whole point of forks, right? And this fork has proven that DPOS has the same resilience as any other consensus on blockchain! And that makes me happy, as an early supporter of DPOS in the first place. Thanks my friend! Big quarentined hug! :)
Great! This has always been on my radar but was very buggy and slow at first. Seem to have improved now. Thanks!
On the other hand I must be thick but were is the voting button? is it the heart sign? and if so is it only a 100% vote?
Thanks mate! :) Yes, the heart <3 is the voting button for now... It will change with the new UI, as many things will, but for now it only supports 100% voting. Stay tuned for the next improvements coming soon... ;)
Got it! Yeah. So much potential. With some improvements and integration this will attract many new people to join. Really good luck!
Great news. I really would like to see DSound take off and become a top-tier platform for artists and fans. Congradulations on the transition to HIVE and wishing the DSound team continued success.
Thanks a lot for your kind words! :)
Great!!! So it's time to delegate a few houndret HP to you guys! Love it
Thanks mate! :) Delegation to @dsound community account is welcomed, but DSound now favours Music communities to be organised and those will be needing delegations. If you want to help the DSound main community, then a @dsound witness vote is the best way, as you already do, since that will gradually build up the community stake and will soon be used to vote the best content based on attention generated. Great to have your support my friend! ;)
My personal opinion is: dsound should recieve my delegation because you have proven to be trustworthy. I think the members of a community should delegate to the community and not a random guy like I am :P Oooor if the delegatee is a curation project like @curie or @diyhub is one I would trust. But I am pretty unsatisfied how my delegation have been used over the last two years when I delegated to communities. To much power, to many users in charge, to much greed, too many fights inside. I dont want to throw wood in the burning fire - if you know what I mean ^^
As you mentioned I of course voted for you as a witness! one of my favorites!
Great to hear you moved to Hive. I'll be using Dsound for my music and podcasts from now on.
Thanks a lot mate! :) Looking forward to your new content...
Yay!!!
:)
I was waiting for this to upload my new song! 🙂
Let's gooo 😀
Great work as always!
I have trouble uploading it tho 🙁 It says
And when I check IPFS settings I get a link to get started but the link does not exist 😕
EDIT: I got it working! 😁 All I did was de-activate the Brave Shield (something similar to adblock but integrated into my browser).
Maybe you can join our Telegram for faster support... please provide more details of the audio file, like encoding, duration, etc. Also check if the firewall is not blocking the upload... Thanks for the report. :)
Great! I was just looking for another place to put the audio from my podcast.
Great to have you with us mate! Thanks! :)
Already uploaded to the new site to support the move. Was very fast and smooth! Let me know what you think :)
https://dsound.io/@vicesrus/20200401t144556467z-hive-vs-steem
That's a cool RAP mate! :) Thanks a lot! Keep on creating... ;)
thank you for coming to HIVE !
Amazing to see our beloved Dsound migrating over to The Hive!
Thanks for your support these past few years @prc it is much appreciated my friend.
We are still actively using the Discord server, so head over if you want to chat about all things Dsound and music.
Let's get this community activated and rocking like it used to be.
Stay safe.
DC 🎼🙏
@prc
@juliakponsford
@jeffandhisguitar
@darrenclaxton
That's cool news. Congrats on your efforts!
thanks for information, I moved in dsound.io just today.
Good to see DSound is back :) Nice one @prc
Ohh! This just made my day better, I stopped using DSound 8 months ago because all these problems with steem and stuff, I'm so glad to see you are working hard to make it better and I will gladly go back to posting on DSound! Cheers and keep up the great work!
Not sure of someone asked, but I am struggling to find an answer.
Is there a possibility to get an rss feed from my dsound profile?
Not sure what is wrong but cannot upload to your DSound.io website now and all users posts appear to be ancient 16 days old or older what is going on please? I have remade the halloween theme song trying to upload it there and hopefully before the 31st of October otherwise it's no point uploading it really.