DSound: 2018 will bring much more to DSound than you can imagine...

in #dsound7 years ago

Hello my Steemian friends!

I wish you all a great 2018 full of love, health and joy as we all deserve, and that together we continue changing the world for the better! :)

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HTTPS://DSOUND.AUDIO

What is DSound?

DSound is a decentralized web application, developed in Javascript and React, that allows anyone to upload, listen and discover music and other sounds stored on top of the IPFS Network. It uses STEEM blockchain as a persistent database, and by posting the sounds the authors can earn rewards in STEEM cryptocurrency, when other users like their content, which can be exchanged easily to US Dollars, Euros or any other currency, similar to Steemit.com for blog posts.

Check DSound Intro post for more details

What I have been working on?

My major work the past 2 months has been around facilitating the upload process and making DSound more user friendly. A lot of small bugs have been corrected and a few improvements will also shine, but I will leave that for the 0.3 intro post...

I have been working on other projects along side, a big one music related that I will announce soon and another decentralized app based on STEEM blockchain that will also join soon the offer of great dapps that our favorite blockchain has to offer to all of us...

But this post is about DSound and another thing that has taken a lot of my brainwidth has been around ways to make monetization of DSound more effective, so that I can dedicate more time to it and maybe hire some help, but most of all to make it cheaper to it's users, since DSound actually is taking a 25% cut out of the sound rewards, similar to many other STEEM apps, but it never felt the right way since the beginning to me...

And it is clearly not enough to make it sustainable, not even close! As you can see here DSound made about 150-250 STEEM per month, which is not even enough to cover my hours of work, let alone the marketing efforts needed to make it the full scale dapp for sharing music that we all want it to become, so that authors get more exposure and rewards!

This led to...

@prc STEEM Witness

The first part of this sustainability project started by strengthen my involvement with STEEM blockchain and becoming a STEEM Witness with state of the art equipment and redundancy prepared for longterm scaling as our Blockchain may require in the future.

Read the full witness proposal here

This not only allows me to contribute more and become a moving part of our ecosystem, but also allows me to get some rewards to inject into DSound and my other new projects based on STEEM blockchain.

The first part is done and I'm happy with my servers performance and still 0 block misses! :)

But for the rewards part I need to have more votes for my @prc Witness so that it can start to make more work and get more rewards to revert to these projects budgets... Every vote is hugely important!

Therefore I ask every single one of you that trust me and approve what I do for the Steem ecosystem, on my projects related to music, like DSound, and the more to come, please help me to make it happen! :)

You can give me your approval vote as a STEEM Witness here (and it's free!) :
https://steemit.com/~witnesses

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And another important part of this project is...

Delegation to @dsound

I will soon put online a curation and voting bot that will be analyzing constantly the published sounds and the response from the community and based on that will upvote the sounds that are getting more interest, as well as others that follow certain incentive metrics that I cannot disclose to make it more fair.

This will only be a helper to my manual curation that I always like to do as a music lover personally. I listen to DSound all the time! From podcasts to DJ sets or cool original tracks, I've found great stuff there and is getting better by the hour! ;)

So I ask all DSound tribe, please delegate the SP you can to @dsound, big stake or small doesn't matter, it will make a difference when all delegations come together on @dsound account and it begins to upvote your content when you post that amazing sound of yours!

I'll also put together a table of honor for the delegators to @dsound on my updates.

And all this gets to...

Ok, so what will be the benefits for DSound users?

The major benefits for DSound users will be:

  1. Have DSound improved in a more scheduled manner;
  2. Marketing on various music industry fields to bring more people onboard;
  3. Platform growth will mean more exposure of your sounds;
  4. More users on DSound mean more Steem users too;
  5. Progressively reduce DSound beneficiary reward downto 10%, or even 0% with DSound SMT's;
  6. Higher rewards on sounds caused by the more users and @dsound delegation votes;
  7. Introduction of contests and similar engagement tools based on growth of platform rewards;
  8. Potential media coverage when DSound gets noticed by mainstream as the first platform to effectively reward indie musicians for their work.

Final words

Ready to press those vote and delegate buttons? Come on guys, together let's make DSound that platform that frees us all and allows us to do what we love: music, sound design, recording, remixing, mashups, podcasts, or whatever is your thing... :)

My special thanks to these great uploaders on DSound. Please check them out!

If you still didn't give it a try, please do... You'll be surprised! :)

  1. @djlethalskillz
  2. @to-the-sun
  3. @humanabstract
  4. @steembirds
  5. @simgirl
  6. @jaybird
  7. @artbyclark
  8. @outoftune
  9. @soundlegion
  10. @immawake

TL;DR

I need your help to make DSound and my other projects sustainable and make marketing efforts to bring people from the music industry to Steem.

Please vote for my @prc Witness here. Thank you!

And please delegate any STEEM POWER you can to @dsound as it will be used as curation and voting for the best sounds on DSound platform.


Thanks a lot to all fellow Steemians, developers and music addicts like me for your support and encouragement on my projects!

Peace! :)

"Music is what feelings sound like"
DSound <3 Music

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DSound is great. I am always on there cause of @soundlegion they promote DSound BIG!

Thanks a lot! Yes @soundlegion are a legend! Love their sound and their help promoting has been great! :)

I'm sure you don't have time for tech questions, but I've been trying to upload to dsound for a while and I can't get it done. It always fails and suggests I install a local IPFS. I have done that and had IPFS running, dsound still says it can't detect it. Anyone have an idea?

Installing IPFS is tricky. It is discouraged for now. You should be able to upload without it anyway... But just wait a bit for the next release and upload will be like a breeze! ;)

Alright, thanks for the reply! I'll give it a shot when it comes out.

Can't wait! I have some LARGE (>250mb) file sized philosophy cassettes digitalizations (Allen Watts, Terrance McKenna, Carl Faber and Ram Dass) that would love a home on Dsound, tried with/without an IPFS and had no luck, but also tried running it on a mac and not terribly familiar with the process.

Thank you for the alternative to having to post on Dtube with a picture placeholder for 1hr at a time of listening!

no idea abt it brother

I can't seem tot log in with my steemit credetials into dsound. The private key does not seem to be correct when i log in . Am i the only ons with issue?

Please this post to learn about what key to use... It has to be the Posting Private Key as the picture shows:
https://steemit.com/music/@prc/introducing-dsound-a-decentralized-sound-platform-using-steem-and-ipfs
Hope this solves your problem, if not please get to the dsound channel at steemit.chat and ask for help there, me or other fellow users will help you out for sure! :)

Thanks! I've found it.

I'll be looking into using DSound this year for my music and podcasts. I think it's a great project and I've voted for you as a witness.

Thanks a lot @steevc! Looking forward to your feedback... :)

hi Jerry Banfield i`m newbie vote for you in the witnees, sorry to bother you! I wanted to tell you that I'm still working and I like it a lot. It would be honor for me to evaluate my post and my interpretation of the keyboard. I would be very interested to know if it is to your liking, thank you! https://steemit.com/openmic/@jetperalta/steemit-open-mic-week-66-got-a-match-chick-corea-cover-and-improvisation-by-jetperalta

I agree to your post, in addition this would be a great platform for us steemians to engage and well known in the music industry keep it up👍

Thanks! :)

Very very cool! I might have to try moving some of my old tunes off soundcloud over to this platform.

Please do! :) Thanks!

I love DSound and it's good to see that you only plan to make it BETTER this year. Let's see 2018 being the year that the "DSound Musician" becomes the new "SoundCloud Rapper" hahah. Somebody toss me a pair of clout goggles, we're going INNNNN

ahahah :D Together we'll make it the best music sharing platform on the planet! Thanks a lot! :)

I am slowly uploading my tracks to Dsound, the fact that it's linked with Steemit is amazing. I am not sure if it's just me being a noob but is there a way to post an EP or Album in a playlist/collection? I want to release my EP here as one post, not a few separate ones.

That is on my shortlist, but will not be in the next update for sure... Sorry! I gave priority to soften the uploading process, as the last was to make the playing faster and able to stream properly. It has to go one step at a time. Still a one man show... ;) But we'll get there soon! Thanks!

It's all good @prc, I just love there are alternatives that reward artists at least a little bit, soundcloud never gave me anything but other random songs playing after mine and lewd offers from spam accounts >.>

I just discovered this and love it! Wow I'm so excited to upload. If I upload would it also post on my page. How does it work. Found dtube made a post.

Yes, it makes. It's the way to get rewards on Steem blockchain... ;) You can get more info here: https://steemit.com/music/@prc/introducing-dsound-a-decentralized-sound-platform-using-steem-and-ipfs
Thanks a lot! :)

Im dedicating my 2018 to dsound.audio --> Team Work makes the dream work

Cool! :) Let's make it happen! ;)

is there a possibility of those modules being built into steemit so we can drag and drop these recordings into here?

Unfortunately no. Steemit is one dapp over Steem blockchain, maintained by Steemit Inc, and DSound is a completely different dapp over the same Steem blockchain. What may happen in the future is Steemit accepting integration of embeddable players on the posts... I've talked with them about it but it won't happen now due to security restrictions on their side due to openness of IPFS. :)