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Hello dear, you can't compare Spotify ot YT with this v4v music system...it is a monopoly ....here as an artist you feel free and you get feedback, you get rewards for your music...there is no system that rips you off here.....this is just wonderful....@jasonb
Hey @haleen, your track sounds great!
Personally, I make all my money playing live gigs or recording for other people. In the studio, even with bands I play in full time, I charge big money upfront and just sign everything away, even with music I wrote. If I'm recording my own material, I just always assume it's going to be mostly for promotion of gigs and posterity/art's sake.
The solution I made for people that want to try to finance their own recordings (or books or sheet music or art) is Direct Current. @haleen, I think it might be a perfect thing for your current fans. Whereas Fountain and Wavlake are probably nice for finding fans, my setup is more like bandcamp but with voluntary fees. It's what you can send to people that already want your music forever and are happy to pay for that.
While writing this, I also checked out the dance version of Free Your Mind. Very cool!
@jasonb Hi dear soul, we are on https://directcurrent.space/ i have a few questions, when you click the link from a track that you are selling, is it normal that you are not able to hear the track....and another thing, i have upload 3 songs....but are they somewhere visible? Thanks for your help?
Hey! Yes, the site is creating a paywall for you file, so it's not a place where the customer can preview. It's more like selling a cd. They can't listen to it on the direct current site, but when they buy it, they have the file forever and can listen to it offline. On your dashboard, you can find both an embed link that you can put on your website and a standalone link (click preview) for each product. You can sell individual tracks or a whole album (although you'd need to zip it into one file).
Here's a sample website that I built with a direct current embed in it:
https://two-little-tracks.vercel.app/
Here's the standalone link to the "album" (it's just two old tracks I had never used):
https://directcurrent.space/checkout/two-little-tracks
Before sharing, double check that you've got your full NWC string in there and that it's a read-only string. You should be able to click through and see a QR at the checkout on your preview page. That's exactly how your customers can pay for a track or an album.
I wonder how that compares to Spotify and YT payouts! Maybe one day, v4v can replace the insanity of middlemen and rentseeking, and actually sustain art scenes.
May need a revolution or 2 for that to become reality, but the more it's used, the better.
Also: let's tag @jasonb as our resident solution provider for sovereign musicians. Jason - you got any tips?