DJs and Streaming music via Beatport LINK discussion

303abuser

Mad_Cyril yeah that’s my point. from an artist’s perspective, it’s the best way to panhandle online and keep more of what people are willing to pay. from a user perspective, it needs to be better, especially as a streaming platform (although that’s probably not their goal).

Mad_Cyril

303abuser

There’s definitely a gap in the market. For me need something that caters for all 4 of the following;

Easy to browse
Easy to organise shopping (build lists etc..)
Decent recommendations (a tricky one!)
Doesn’t rape the people who make the music.

jonattonyeah

Mad_Cyril

Agreed. It’s fine if you know exactly what you’re looking for, but for browsing/exploring it’s utterly useless.

303abuser

Mad_Cyril that would be ideal, i’m just not sure anyone has the motivation to create it.

Amps

Mad_Cyril Are you not just describing Beatport? Feels like the most easy to use of them all imo, and so far it’s all been purchases from me, not rental / stream etc.

hugopal

zackster Mauro Picotto’s UK chart climbing hit “All Night”? I

I did a quick search on youtube to see what you were on about - how were you even aware to begin with that such a monstrosity existed?!

Oh Mauro, how the mighty have fallen!!

zackster

hugopal fallen? He’s #9 on the UK pop dance chart. He’s Back! 🦎

jonattonyeah

TUNE

hugopal

zackster still, how do you even know that?

An ‘F’ for Mauro…

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BlackJadedGuanaco-size_restricted.gif

303abuser

zackster is that the shame lizard?

zackster

hugopal jon made the mistake of reminding me that I used to be into MP, which lead to a night of me getting 3 sheets and playing his old records, which lead to me following on all forms of social media, which lead to All Night entering my IG timeline, which lead to it becoming part of my riffs package. Very organic.

Smallman1

Like the pose and white headphones that Mauro is rocking in that shot.

zackster

Smallman1 Like the pose and white headphones that Mauro is rocking in that shot.

Its the best. Been trying to find that screen shot as a pic; I’d love to use it as an avatar, but so far no luck.

Mad_Cyril

zackster
Zack. If you say MP is cool, that’s good enough for me

hugopal

zackster Its the best. Been trying to find that screen shot as a pic; I’d love to use it as an avatar, but so far no luck.

Amps

Mad_Cyril Agreed, all feels a bit early 2000s somehow. Even when you get the page / artist / track you want, it’s not clear what you are getting or meant to be clicking on. Their designers have no concept of hierarchy or pertinence when it comes to layout.

Mad_Cyril

Amps
Beatport does 3 and 4 poorly.

To be fair, recommendations based on metadata will always be shite and robotic unless you are allowed to pick your own, eg. Genre, key, bpm range

Most just seem to be heavily artist or genre weighted. Juno pushes shitloads of Nu Disco at me for some reason I can’t fathom!

zackster

hugopal 👌🏼 The board isn’t currently allowing avatar updates, but one it is….

hugopal

I honestly think it was my earlier attempt to upload that Picotto photo which caused the board to break - it happened the second I hit ‘post’ previously.

Amps

Mad_Cyril I admit I don’t know a huge amount about how they pay, but as they are outright purchases I figured they can’t be that bad, but I could be wrong.

As for recommendations, I agree about algorithms, but I think Beatport does a good job of filling the page space with lots of options such as charts, and what other purchasers also bought etc. I don’t feel like I have to go too far for similar inspiration.

303abuser

Amps I admit I don’t know a huge amount about how they pay, but as they are outright purchases I figured they can’t be that bad, but I could be wrong.

i haven’s sold anything on beatport, so this is all speculation, maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in. my understanding is that you have to be a label to submit to beatport. which means from an artist perspective, the cut of money from every sale goes first to beatport, then to the label, then you get whatever is left over after mastering, promo, and distribution cost. which is likely nothing.

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