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The Neverending Story
Sunday, 07 March 2010 17:49 | Written by Dylan 'YouSir' Orchard
Another day, another plug for the forums, which are woefully underused. Anyone's who's started a forum before, for any purpose, will know just how hard it is to breathe life into a new community. To start with there's the unavoidable catch 22 of dragging new users in; nobody wants to join a forum which isn't active, no forum is active until people join so I'm asking all those folks who poke their heads round the door (and there are quite a lot) to sign up before leaving. Numerous free music forums have failed in the past by virtue of a lack of participation and I still don't believe that there's no call for such a thing, just that the challenges in creating it are too time consuming and, generally, depressing for people to stick with it. Nothing in our scene works without your participation, yes, you, sitting their reading this with supreme indifference. No label can survive without listeners downloading and spreading the word, no blog can survive without people showing their interest and sharing, no distribution site without uploaders and downloads and definitely no forum without contributors. The NetLabel Coalition, the forums as a whole, sure, the scene in general, these things are only as worthwhile and interesting as you're willing to make them and my obsession aside it'd be a shame to see all the genuine enthusiasm and intent contained within our scene diminished and depleted due to a lack of participation.
No fatalism though, the NLC is building up nicely, the forums will, eventually, follow suit but like the whiny bastard I am I've once again assumed the role of prodding people into action. So go, sign up, post something, even if you're just telling me I'm a tit.
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Dan Tindall - HarrisburgSunday, 07 March 2010 15:50 | Written by Dylan 'YouSir' Orchard
Libre.fmFriday, 05 March 2010 18:38 | Written by Dylan 'YouSir' Orchard
Just about the only use I've had for Last.fm since the advent of Spotify is to sit, wide-eyed, marvelling at the vast amount of excellent music I listen to, a testament to my immaculate taste and musical wisdom. Now though I've discovered the (very new) Libre.fm, which is, surprisingly, the free music alternative to it's slightly defunct commercial alternative and which has the very obvious advantage of only covering music which is free to download. Plus it represents, or rather could represent another move from the CC community to set itself up as a viable alternative to the commercial distribution system, which is a nice idea at the very least. Anyway, the site is still very much in it's infancy and that shows in the primitiveness of it all but everything has to start somewhere. Well worth a look regardless. Add a commentLafi - NeighborsFriday, 05 March 2010 16:34 | Written by Dylan 'YouSir' Orchard
Project MUSIFMonday, 01 March 2010 17:01 | Written by Dylan 'YouSir' Orchard
Just discovered this new group looking to spread the free music ideal, only in it's infancy at the moment but they seem to have a good theory going on; localised, personal stuff like this is a cracking way to spread understanding about what we're all doing so best of luck to 'em. "MUSIF is an acronym for My Urban Soundtrack Is Free. Musif is a crazy new physical music distribution method which aims to produce high quality CD's which will be given away for free throughout the city (Dublin currently but if this takes off hopefully more cities). We aim to distribute in as many crazy ways as we possibly can including treasure hunts, leaving the CD's in obscure and unlikely places like wedging them between books in the library or sticking them behind posters or signs on a wall or along the street. These locations will be defined on the web and people can search their local cities for these discs. Droplifting has also been considered, this is in a sense the opposite of shop-lifting, instead of taking things you leave things. MUSIF aims to release CD's of Creative Commons content, to heighten awareness of CC music both to producers and consumers of music. To this end, we are asking artists if they will release tracks for inclusion on this basis, to raise awareness of CC as a means of distribution." Add a comment |
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