That's a very good question you ask! I personally am not bound to a specific genre or style of music, and love to discover music from many genres. I don't know what the best direction is for music platforms, but I would like to see all-inclusive, meaning: All music on the same platform. Each genre/style could have its own section, with some general sections and features to entice users to get acquainted with and exposed to other genres and styles. Not sure how such service will look like, but in the end this will be a combination of blogging and a full fletched music platform (music database, playlists, artists profiles, gig lists etc). For Reggaejahm, it may not be possible to fan out to all styles and genres, due to the name of the service. Though I would advise to onboard more genres/styles, since still today, all the crypto-based blogging is so tiny, it has hard times to get more traction.
ps What is your personal take to drive ReggaeJahm blogging service towards integration with music platforms to create an better experience than just keep this service as a blogging alone?
I myself love all types of music and love to hear the new in any genre but Reggae is a genre that doesn't get as much representation as others and in my mind specific content communities are gonna be the thing. The platform is just an extension of the community but yes there are very few people here now on hive but looking towards the future a community or tribe is gonna be like a Facebook group but tokenized. But what do I know, we could be saying the same thing 5 years from now.
You know all the blockchain music sites I used to use, none of them really gained traction, it's sad. But look on dsound , choone ( which changed to... and then I lost track ) opus.. etc! Let me know which ones the musicians using now cause I don't know. But reggaejahm is more then just the music, it’s the culture but yeah the integration of a music player would be something awesome.
Musicians really need a dedicated site on blockchain With all those features like you described. So I’m guessing this is your dream and vision for a project?
You know now I’d love to do so much more with Reggaejahm besides blogging but it’s like I am limited to dream at the moment as even the simple things I want done takes a lot of time as an available dev isn’t easy to find as you know. But good questions and insight that has me thinking. I may need to look off chain for a dev and invite them to Hive.
You made some very good points.
Regarding the crypto based music platforms, I agree with you: None of them a success, and I think none will become a success. They are all made for artists, not for the fan. But without the fan, no audience for the artists therefore no success for the service. Only when somebody sees the light and create a music platform that is super for the fan, it has chances to win. Think for instance: Bridge soundcloud through a crypto rewarded music platform as an extra to own content. Or strike a deal with Spotify or TIDAL, to mix their catalogue with own content. Next to that, provide the compeling features a music fan is looking for.
Would be great of FB experience can be converted to ReggaeJahm, for instance. This is not only blogging, but also includes an ecent section. In crypto space, the Slovenian based Viberate created something really interesting. They dont have a blogging section yet. I had the opportunity to talk with the CEO behind this service, but didn't do this, because the dynamics of HIVE doesn't fit the professional approach of Viberate. It's a shame, since the promiss of HIVE could very well benefit Vibrate service.
That is very true, there is no space for the fans of the music to get all the value they would want. Excellent point, none of those services catered to the fan, I was a bunch of musicians trying to earn extra income.
Striking a deal like that would make sense as it would bring the best of music streaming to a blog/social media. But even the simple integration of say a soundcloud or tidal that is able to be played and paid from a blogging site that it seems highly integrated could work withou even a partnership. Right now the tribes can't even play a soundcloud, apple music or Spotify embed. Really bareboned. It would be cool if the tribes and even communities had plugins that could be installed with he click of a button.
Viberate seems interesting. https://www.viberate.com/
I even found myself there, also with another artiste with a similar name.😄 Have to dive deeper into it.
The thing with HIVE is many are still scared of decentralization, they want to be in control, but the narrative is changing though.
You think people at HIVE are scared for decentralisation? Can't be the devs :)
What I see is that the devs are not interested to create professional services, and they seem to have a hard time to work along with none-tech people with good ideas and network to make things happen, like a blockchain based music platform with own content and the soundcloud frontend embedded to create a service that can actually be interesting for the music fan. I'm still puzzeled by the fact that some of our devs and witnesses who launched a tribe with own token, are not open to suggestions, or don't understand their service needs to be further developed to be attracive for whatever market they initially launched the tribe. A got responses like: edje if I would have to develop your idea, it'll gonna costs me at least 10 to 20k US$. No response when I suggested ways of getting such money on the table (let alone these guys didn't float all the tokens they setup to the market). Sure, some exceptions to the rule :)
Viberate: They initially launched with the community uploading content to the database. Along the way they started to integrate with exisitng event databases. They also have created a few different apps. The guy who started this service was a club owner of the biggest club in whole of Europe, Ambassada Gavioli in Izola. He got the support of a few electonic artists to promote the service and provide input for the servive design, such as Umek. Super professional approach which I would like to see at HIVE. None of our home-projects is handling it like Viberate did. A shame though their token is not valued a lot.
Not the devs but people outside like the platform you mentioned.
That is true, it may be hard to work with non tech people as what we imagine may be very technical behind the scenes. I hope eventually there will be some focus on the tribe/community feature. But then it seems like the communities maybe be the focus and the ones getting Smart media tokens, who knows but businesses looking to transfer from the old to the new will wont their own website and a pool of tools they can plug in like leggo. I guess it is early days yet though.
Viberate sounds interesting. Club owners know what fans want. Ok, there is a token too. Didn't realize that.
Just saw a new audio streaming blockchain platform in a trading group, apparently about to pump massively 😆 called https://audius.co/
lets see of they cater to the fan
Audius: Some of our users at HIVE already using Audius. Last week downloaded the desktop app, but still need to install it.
Viberate: Indeed, they launched a token back in 2017. They used it to award content contributors. Back then, everybody could provide information. That caused to much spam resulting in too much work for the Viberate moderation team. Since then they still reward content contributors, but one first need to be quialified to become one. Since 2017, Viberate also integrated with a set of 3rd party services/databases, pulling event and artists content. VIB token is a Ethereum token btw.