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  • DJs and Streaming music via Beatport LINK discussion

Dubman not sure if i’m typical, but my ration is $1 earned for every 34 hours of my music that is streamed. given each record takes 10-30 hours to produce, not including thousands in gear costs, that’s a bloody expensive hobby.

    Cant be that hard to come up with a workable / intuitive UI, cover hosting, storage and management costs with a very low %age and build a model where the artist gets >60% at a bare minimum

    • Amps replied to this.

      303abuser How difficult is it to start a record label that Beatport would recognise? Could you start your own and self publish through Beatport? What would you need? An email address, company reg and a logo?

          Amps
          Not hard.

          Couple of hundred quids to set up a Ltd. company

          • Amps replied to this.

              Mad_Cyril You would need upwards of 80k to cover the development and design fees and thats before hosting and promotion, and assuming you can get your first iteration out the door in under a year.

              I would also guess that whet the artist gets after an ‘online sale’ might be down to their contract, so even though you drop your fee, the label might just hoover up more of the cut and still give the artist fuck all???

                  Mad_Cyril I though they had some hoops to jump through once you where signed up, like, units shifted per month or something?

                      Amps
                      There’s cheaper ways to do im sure.

                      Was thinking a basic hosting / transaction processing model with a good UI.

                      Most of that can be set up as a service now.

                      Advertising could be done effectively and efficiently without subscribing to standard models.

                      Be good to break the norms

                          Amps no idea, but unless you’re able to everything yourself, it’s likely going to be cost prohibitive anyways. let’s say you could do it cheap for a few hundred dollars, you’d have to shift so many units to just break even, i can’t imagine it’s worth the hassle.

                          maybe if you could set up a collective where you have several good artists, a mastering engineer, maybe a couple of people into graphics/video/etc. and you’re all willing to work for the greater good, it could be viable. maybe.

                              Last call for questions related to Beatport Link today then I’m gonna put together the answers/live and tell you guys a few days in advance when it’ll be 🙂

                              Mad_Cyril There’s cheaper ways to do im sure.

                              Was thinking a basic hosting / transaction processing model with a good UI.

                              Bandcamp just needs to improve their visibility and on-site navigation really.

                                303abuser As a bit of a walking one stop designer type (jack of all, master of non), I reckon I could box loads of it off myself bar the actual music / mastering / audio side of things. Dunno the costs on mastering or such things… how many units to be in profit you reckon? Thousand? Five thousand? Ten thousand?

                                  Mad_Cyril I think getting a good UI that you are happy with, that tests well regards debugging and then with audiences for usability, plus a strong database / storage / server, you are looking at employing at least one full time developer / coder and one full time designer for a year… Please don’t find a better way of doing it, you’ll have me out of a job! 😆

                                    303abuser maybe if you could set up a collective where you have several good artists, a mastering engineer, maybe a couple of people into graphics/video/etc. and you’re all willing to work for the greater good, it could be viable. maybe.

                                    You just described a record label 😛

                                        mono-stereo yeah, but my though is more a collective that’s transparent vs a hierarchical structure. probably semantics, definitely a pipe dream.