What is happening with Steemsongs?
Today I spent a few hours with the web designer working on Steemsongs (please follow @steemsongs).
As well as functionality to allow any artist to display their releases and charge a certain amount of SBD/Steem per release we also hope to display any posts from that artist/band that fall within the last 7 days. Your vested Steem Power will also allow you to own the music by simply up voting a determined number of a particular artists posts.
This project is designed for fun and to provide a way for people to spend their Steem and SBD without cashing out to other currencies. To that end we plan to distribute 100% of earnings back to the artists.
To help @Steemsongs monetise we will post features on artists that have uploaded music to the site. This leaves the artist free to create their own posts and sell their own music without us taking a cut.
If you would like to sign up for updates visit http://www.steemsongs.com
If you are an artist or potential user please follow @steemsongs
Any thoughts or ideas please comment below.
Idea: a way to be able to upvote to own?
I DON'T know if this is a feature yet, but it would be cool if you could upvote a certain percentage according to your SP, so that way you can keep your SBD. The artist still gets paid, and the music is pretty much still as free as streaming services.
IDK just an idea.
I plan to use this service, so definitely keep me updated.
Hey cant wait for this!, been waiting for a while! :D
I know. But unlike todays culture of release and ICO immediately I'm actually trying to put thought into this.
Cool dude!, i bet it will worth the wait... Seems good so far... :)
so artists can upload albums there? I have friend who is trying to promote his albums (country music)
Yes, absolutely. But it will be part two of the roll out.
We'd certainly be interested in this happening. We already post songs to youtube/facebook and other places. Some are Creative Commons so they're already free to share and remix. :)
ok thanks, I will follow the updates
when do you expect that to happen?
You can use the #steemradio-country and #steemradio-music to promote your music!
Great initiative. I'll add a link to this new post to my next Steemit Open Mic post to get the word out. Also will Tweet it and add it to the new Steemit Musicians Facebook page and Discord channel as well as the @music-trail. Thanks for doing this project. It's a great idea!
such a cool idea!
thanks @sulev !
Very excited for this. Resteemed and ready to participate as soon as it's open.
It would be nice to have a licensing functionality so we can use the work in videos, blogs, advertisements, content, etc.
I agree but it is a much later step that will be an add on. It's not core functionality. It might even better for Steemsongs content to be represented by a third party licensing company... will think more on this.
This looks great! Can't wait to discover some new artists!
Sounds great, I wasn't expecting that when I signed up. As a songwriter, I'm definitely keen to participate.
Awesome! very I excited to see this come to fruition. Will users also have the option to download music?
This will be the only functionality. It is not a streaming service.
Will streaming become a part of it at some point?
No plans for that at the moment.