Very cool.
Churbleyimyam
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Thanks for the link - been down a rabbit hole for the last hour or so! Really interesting. I've never really dealt with crypto but direct transactions look awesome. The fact that it uses open protocols is great too.
Have you released anything on it or are you a listener?
Ok! How has your experience with them, and releasing in general, been?
Ok, thanks for the info 👍 I was looking at their site and it said $1 per release - are there different tiers?
I'll do that too but I would like to get actively involved in a music release pipeline that I think could be really positive. I guess I want to give to the listener as directly as possible.
I don't think you're wrong. I think the big corporate music streaming platforms are basically a low key scam. They are effectively pointless (beyond free file hosting), unless you are one of the 0.001% of artists that are heavily promoted on them and are an insult to musicians everywhere. More musicians need to reject the proposition of being one of the bottom stones that holds up their pyramid. I would rather my music was unknown on independent sites than unknown on theirs, where it will only add value to an exploitative business model and help to further entrench it.
Use KeepassXC with Syncthing for maximum autonomy or Bitwarden for maximum ease. Both are FOSS. That's my recommendation and also seems to be the consensus among those who share your needs.
I commend your generosity! I would like my music to be as free as possible but to retain some control over who gets to make money from it and how. If another poor artist wanted to use something in a sample or piece of video or performance art I'd be inclined to let them use it for free or cheap but if a powerful and exploitative company wanted to use it I would want to extract a price from them or deny it's use if I didn't like what they did.
What are your thoughts on Jamendo from an artists point of view?
Nothing is released yet. I would be happy for people to download my music to listen to without restrictions, which is why I'm looking into making it available as torrents.
Is Soundrop the distributor you use? I'll have a look.
Just saw on Mastodon that the Resynthesizer plugin will be ready to use with GIMP 3.0
Along with other third-party plugins developed for GIMP, like G'MIC and BIMP, Resynthesizer is so integral to our workflows that it's easy to forget that it's not part of the core project.
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Yes, have updated the post. I would probably be happy with 2 in the case of this application and plugins - do you know how I can launch a gtk application in this way?