You are onto something here. A Steem powered bandcamp-esque platform, as others have mentioned, would not only allow artists to earn from people buying their tracks, but also from upvotes and the whole "social sharing" aspect.
The biggest issue I can see currently, is that whoever builds this thing has to store the music somewhere, somehow. Shoving FLAC files or even MP3 files into the blockchain in bulk is a really good way to mess things up catastrophically in short order by hugely inflating its size...
Direct integration with bandcamp would be best I think, no need to create an alternative service, bands and artists are slow to take up new platforms and bandcamp already has a huge library of material. Also hosting files is not a problem as the chain would only need to contain direct links and maybe some metadata to the material being pointed to. @kevinwong you may be onto something here.
Yup it makes perfect sense. I do wish steemit would partner with some decent projects, but I suppose we need to get the scam out of the name :D and grow a bit, act more professional and all :) it will be a while unless we fuck up somehow. It would be great to have a real social platform where we can share and earn :) but even if this is what we are, there are still problems that need taking care of, if we didn't have any half of the earnings should be going to support projects like wikileaks and wikipedia, .. small sites and whatever producers and developers we are fans of, it would be nice to fund and develop independent projects. Imagine getting some of the sites some stable support, although things are pretty much ok, they get by on donations, or they can go google ads :| but why not steemit content :)
Yup the best is direct integration, they've done a great job on the 3 pillars of their platform too :)
can't steemit get developed as a "offshore" app, basically download it, it links to the chain, you have your wallet and account and you can get upvoted and transfer funds. All that should take is some C/C++ or some other new shit language and a internet integration with the chain.
I guess with the account issues right now and the whole lack of a big team we shouldn't be expecting and embedded player for steemit to link in other sites. Or a desktop app where we can do peerplays :D I guess EOS :D
So rather than copying everything like some unimaginative "artist" couldn't we just integrate the net with steem we for sure will win, I would like to have more people use steem and it could be just like patreon, or yt now, but instead of adds we can support with content, I'm sure that would get the "mainstream" on our side and dash and eth will have a hard time catching up.
If only there was a way, I guess stan and dan need heroes :D
https://steemit.com/bitshares/@stan/bitshares-hit-by-cat-5-miracle-of-heroic-proportions
hence EOS sidechains and different tools for different cases. oh and don't tell anyone there is soulseek :)
Centralized services that store data themselves could still implement this to their site. Maybe even Bandcamp would be interested.