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What I've been up to for the past year

616 点作者 pud超过 11 年前

58 条评论

sivers超过 11 年前
Well now he&#x27;s got the founder of CD Baby on board, too. ☺<p>This is amazing. This is exactly what I would have created if I didn&#x27;t sign a non-compete agreement when I sold CD Baby.<p>I just created an unlimited account on DistroKid and I&#x27;m uploading all of my own music in the background as I type.<p>I&#x27;ll be sending everyone I know to DistroKid now.<p>Congrats, Pud! You rule.
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aresant超过 11 年前
The simplicity of the distrokid landing page makes me weirdly happy:<p>* Clear headline right under the logo that explains the service.<p>* Dead ass simple call to action where you&#x27;d expect it.<p>* Clear benefits listed next to form.<p>* Complete explanation of the service &amp; FAQ on the page.<p>* Social proof from solid brands.<p>The style isn&#x27;t &quot;gorgeous&quot; and it doesn&#x27;t follow best practices necessarily - maybe too much info, not enough contrast, not enough focus on the call to action, etc but for some reason it&#x27;s jumping out at me.<p>Just feels honest and straightforward which is easy to over think &#x2F; over-design.
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DigitalSea超过 11 年前
This is the kind of disruption the music industry needed. You&#x27;ve eliminated one of the only two reasons a band should sign to a record label with this site. A feature (even if it cost a few dollars more per month) that allowed music to be submitted for consideration to radio stations that accept solicited material would be fantastic. The only reason really left to sign to a label is their generous press and album advance cash, but even those two conditions are easily bypassed going with a bedroom producer who is able to come close to a studio quality recording for a couple cartons of beer with a PC, mixing desk and copy of Protools.<p>I can&#x27;t applaud you enough Pud. I am envious of what you&#x27;ve been able to achieve, especially the agreements in place and easy no BS interface that allows you to easily upload music with any gimmicks. I&#x27;ll be keeping my eye on this, I have no doubt it&#x27;s going to be huge.
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sandGorgon超过 11 年前
Interesting technical question (disclaimer: I have no financial interest in these things). How is stuff like <i>&quot;Then stuff to automatically convert audio &amp; image files to the right formats.&quot;</i> usually done ?<p>Does the webapp push stuff in a queue and call a commandline tool like mencoder or something is there an industry standard tool ? How do you deal with concurrency (some kind of Actor model ) ? And most importantly, do you have to tune the linux kernel to achieve performance on this (just saw the LinkedIn NUMA post as well, so thinking about that)?<p>I am sure Youtube and all do it using the enviable Google infrastructure, but how does someone else do it
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thenomad超过 11 年前
Are you likely to do the same for movies?<p>If you think the music industry&#x27;s distribution model is broken, check out the movie industry. Currently it&#x27;ll cost me over $1,000 to use the easiest route to getting a feature into iTunes.
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drawkbox超过 11 年前
Excellent product and targeting, actually almost muttered &#x27;ooooh&#x27; after reading your post. I&#x27;d also add in some other promotional channels on next iteration like Soundcloud uploads. Promotional and general &#x27;radio&#x27; like stations, I find lots of new music at Soundcloud, get started <a href="http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.soundcloud.com&#x2F;docs</a>
acqq超过 11 年前
What are you going to do to protect the store from the spam? Especially with the &quot;upload for free&quot; feature? Looks like the potential for trouble and the inconvenience of all the users of the store.
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martinwnet超过 11 年前
First off, this looks excellent.<p>This undoubtedly trumps the likes of CD Baby in many ways, but one reason I could see people sticking with them is that, even though to upload an album at CD Baby is more expensive up front, it&#x27;s a one-off payment. You pay the $40 or whatever it costs, then that&#x27;s it, the music stays up there at no further cost. From the DistroKid FAQ, if you stop paying your yearly fee then the music can be removed.<p>Clearly though such users aren&#x27;t your target audience, you&#x27;re going after the musicians that want to upload songs all the time, as opposed to albums.<p>Good luck to you though, this is the type of innovation this industry desperately needs.
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forgingahead超过 11 年前
Congrats and good luck! Gonna say that you should charge more though, $20 a year unlimited is incredibly low.
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samstave超过 11 年前
So at first I was skeptical of <i></i>&quot;...a service where musicians can just upload songs whenever they want...&quot;<i></i>* -- where I was thinking &quot;How is this different than SoundCloud&quot; -- but with reading about how to submit to the various providers -- that is awesome!<p>Pud should provide an API for these other music hosts to channel user content to these providers.<p>What I am interested in though, more than the ability to submit, is to FIND -- If this service were able to allow me to find micro-artists in certain genres on the major players - that would be fantastic... or to create channels&#x2F;playlists of them.<p>I <i></i><i>LOVE</i><i></i> electroswing -- and it is dominated by the wonderful Parov Stelar -- but I have every track by him... so I&#x27;d like to branch out. If I could track a genre of &quot;ElectroSwing&quot; and have it look for artists across all the major vendors, and keep a purchasable playlist of these guys... that would be farking amazing.<p>Also, been a fan of Pud&#x27;s for years... don&#x27;t wind up on some fucked list ;-)
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hayksaakian超过 11 年前
Why is music still sold like this?<p>Why isn&#x27;t everything digital sold like apps?<p>What&#x27;s the point of these middlemen?<p>iTunes provides the store and artist provides the product. In 2013 why does capitalism and technology allow this to occur
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k-mcgrady超过 11 年前
&gt;&gt; &quot;We&#x27;ll put your music on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and Amazon&quot;<p>Are these the only services the music will be on? I can&#x27;t even list the services I get on with CDBaby it&#x27;s that long but you are missing some important ones:<p>Rdio Deezer Last.fm<p>I just looked through my sales reports on CDBaby and those are some of the most used services. I would love to use this but Rdio and Deezer in particular are too important for me.
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jamesmcintyre超过 11 年前
This is an impressive accomplishment, I would say almost more because of the deal-making and logistics of dealing with the online music stores than the coding but together these accomplishments show you really have your heart in the game!<p>I will immediately share this with the people I know who would be interested.<p>Also let me know if you need&#x2F;want marketing help, I would love to help spread the message of Distrokid!
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rithi超过 11 年前
Exposure: <a href="http://distrokid.com/api/passwordResetEmail/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;distrokid.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;passwordResetEmail&#x2F;</a><p>Glad to try out CFML again - trying out Railo.
timsayshey超过 11 年前
Awesome stuff, Pud! As a cfml dev its awesome to see startups drooling over Railo (Which is open source coldfusion, shhhh don&#x27;t tell anyone ;). I give it 6-12 months before Railo is the &quot;new&quot; hotness.<p>Looking forward to reading more about the technology you used. Maybe a separate post? ;)
cocoflunchy超过 11 年前
I used it for one song some time ago, and I was impressed. Everything went super smooth.<p>The only reason I didn&#x27;t pay to upload my whole EP was that if I understand well, you have to keep paying every year if you want them to stay in the stores; it&#x27;s not really practical for me since I only have 4 songs that I want to put in the stores and I don&#x27;t even think I&#x27;m going to sell enough of them to cover the price, and I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;m ever going to record anything else that&#x27;s good enough for the stores.<p>But it probably just means that I&#x27;m not in the target market, so don&#x27;t take my story for what it&#x27;s not. I think this is an awesome service, and go try for yourself if you don&#x27;t believe me!
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saym超过 11 年前
Looks like you&#x27;ve found a cool sweet spot in the market place! I&#x27;ll definitely put in a good word with my musically inclined friends.
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jmspring超过 11 年前
Very nice on the market place approach. I wish discovery services were of sufficient quality to allow us to find new and unknown&#x2F;small musicians. Word of mouth and algorithms only go so far.
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tantalor超过 11 年前
Can you explain more about how the music store APIs work? Do their terms allow you to represent unlimited artists?<p>How do artists authenticate themselves? How do you know I&#x27;m not Kanye?<p>Are you or the stores handling payments?
idiomatic超过 11 年前
This is great. On one hand I&#x27;m happy that record labels and middle men are cut off from the process, on the other, being an old-fashioned music listener, I will never stop considering music as part of an album, and I will never buy a &quot;song&quot;. I will always buy full length albums. I like real bands, not Internet phenomena‎. Not saying that one excludes the other, though. But the concept is absolutely brilliant and the same is true for the execution.
programminggeek超过 11 年前
I love the fact that pud makes great stuff and just keeps building and shipping good ideas. It&#x27;s a simple thing, but he does it quite well.
skore超过 11 年前
Small quibble: Those press quotes pretty much each say the same thing - recounting the four point list that is directly above them.
skrebbel超过 11 年前
Bandcamp is going to <i>hate</i> this.
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damian2000超过 11 年前
This is an enormous achievement, as is the fact that an uploaded song is available in all countries worldwide, wherever each store is supported. The payout method being via PayPal email address is also a good move for users outside the US.
Killah911超过 11 年前
How do you keep out&#x2F;manage the musical equivalent of spam since this also lowers the barrier to entry? I could see some sub par artist use the right keywords and get their sons to come up on lots of search results.
ehutch79超过 11 年前
Serious question; What happens when you stop paying? That&#x27;s why I use CDBaby for my stuff. I don&#x27;t have to keep paying out for tracks that MIGHT sell 1 or 2 copies over the course of a year.
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orolo超过 11 年前
congrats. as a musician and a coder this is super intriguing. also, the technology you used (railo ?) is interesting and the cron stuff is just great.<p>well done.<p>i can&#x27;t wait to put my stuff up.<p>(i&#x27;ve shared this on my vast social networks.)
drum超过 11 年前
pud - been a fan since &quot;death metal office drumming&quot;.<p>i&#x27;ve been looking to putting some of my music on iTunes recently, so really excited about this service. any chance of supporting Pandora?
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karlgrz超过 11 年前
As a pretty well learned guitarist cutting his teeth in bedroom producing, this is fantastic. One of the things that stifles creativity sometimes is the fact that there are so many options out there that just don&#x27;t work well or don&#x27;t reach enough people or are out of reach for people like me who are doing this on the side. <p>I wish this was around when I was in college. Thanks for all the hard work! I will definitely be giving your service a workout this winter! Cheers!
AdamTReineke超过 11 年前
@pud - Do you do Xbox Music as well? My brother just published an album through some distribution service and I was very surprised to find it on Xbox Music.
lylemckeany超过 11 年前
I think it was a year well spent! Nicely done. This is an important step in the right direction for independent musicians that don&#x27;t have the benefit of large distribution.<p>Quick question: How do the various services handle categorizing the uploaded music? My concern as a musician is my music might not be as easily discovered via Spotify Radio or on related artists pages.
deepvibrations超过 11 年前
Brilliant! Independent musicians need as much help as possible, can be really tough making any sort of dough these days. Quick question- As a label releasing a compilation album, what would be the best way to use your service? The compilation is 15 tracks from 15 different artists, so would be quite expensive if I were to sign up via the label option!
IanCal超过 11 年前
Looks awesome! A minor typo on your main page:<p>&gt; Or you can pay $19.99&#x2F;yr and upload unlimited songs for a year!<p>s&#x2F;for a year&#x2F;&#x2F;
Joeboy超过 11 年前
Cool, I just uploaded a track to see what would happen. All seems very painless so far.<p>I&#x27;m interested in the question somebody else asked - doesn&#x27;t this mean there&#x27;s now basically no quality control on itunes etc? I feel like it shouldn&#x27;t be quite this easy to look like a proper musician...
bambax超过 11 年前
This is fantastic. Small gripe: if you pay via Paypal, why don&#x27;t you accept payments from Paypal?
Aqueous超过 11 年前
I just know this is going to be one of those famous archived Hacker News posts one day. This is the kind of thing that changes the game - amazing that you pursued separate deals with these four music services. Record industry - it was a good run, but your era is over.
k-mcgrady超过 11 年前
If artists get 100% of the royalties how do you make money? I want to be sure that a service I use for something as important is this will still be around in 12 months.<p>Also, do you collect and pay out money to artists like CDBaby does or do they have to collect it themselves?
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tunesmith超过 11 年前
Very cool!!<p>Is it possible to upload but say you don&#x27;t want your stuff to go to Spotify? I&#x27;m interested in doing digital downloads but not streaming, since I believe they rob sales to a greater degree than they create new sales through discovery.
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basicallydan超过 11 年前
Great job dude, this is awesome. I&#x27;m sharing this with everyone I know who makes music, and not just because I want the referral. I&#x27;ll probably upgrade as soon as I release another track, regardless.
bdcravens超过 11 年前
Still using Railo I see :-)
jbkkd超过 11 年前
What are the royalties each of those companies pay to the musician? Also, do they filter music our uploads? I can imagine users uploading popular music to earn on top of succeeding musicians.
andrelaszlo超过 11 年前
How is it different from <a href="https://www.recordunion.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.recordunion.com&#x2F;</a>? Because you get rid of the concept of &quot;albums&quot;?
itry超过 11 年前
Interesting. So every amateur can make an account and upload their stuff to Amazon? No filtering? Also, wont this attract people who upload Motorhead songs as their own?
evertonfuller超过 11 年前
How does a user know that you will continue to pay them royalties for their songs in 10 years time? Are you still going to be manually PayPal&#x27;ing payments...
granfalloon超过 11 年前
very cool! but do you worry that making it easier&#x2F;cheaper to submit to iTunes might cause iTunes to be flooded with &quot;bad&quot; music, thus prompting iTunes to crack down in some way? it seems like the current financial barriers in place might be JUST enough to prevent people from submitting who aren&#x27;t serious about it, and you could be opening the flood gates
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benhebert超过 11 年前
Looks awesome. I would make a big push into electronic. So many producers out there.<p>Send me a release and we&#x27;ll post ben@whiteraverrafting.com
hit8run超过 11 年前
thx so much for creating this! I just uploaded my new track &quot;Miles Away&quot;: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hit8run/miles-away" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundcloud.com&#x2F;hit8run&#x2F;miles-away</a><p>Some time ago I thought that a tool like this should have been created but I didn&#x27;t focus on this project. So glad to have this!
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exo_duz超过 11 年前
Congrats on the release.<p>I think the simplicity would be the biggest selling point to Distrokid.<p>I&#x27;ll pass this to some of my friends who are musicians :)<p>All the best!
awsm超过 11 年前
I love the idea behind this, hope it&#x27;s successful and will be making sure my musician friends are aware of it.
o0Oo0O超过 11 年前
Was there a reason for not doing MVP? You could have made it easy to publish and scrap everything else.
jrn超过 11 年前
Please consider supporting 7digital.com It powers the samsung, blackberry, hmv music stores.
sidcool超过 11 年前
What is your technology stack?
tsenkov超过 11 年前
Congrats, Pud! I hope you will share some growth stats in the months to come. :)
yarone超过 11 年前
Congrats Pud and good luck!
kinnth超过 11 年前
This is immensely useful and i&#x27;m going to sign up!
sschueller超过 11 年前
How is Apple not taking&#x2F;getting a cut?
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batgaijin超过 11 年前
If you are smart you will sell a $5 a month atccount for unlimited streaming&#x2F;downloading. And distribute the funds to the artists based on viewership.
Sarien超过 11 年前
&quot;What I&#x27;ve been up to for the past year&quot; another one of those hn typical &quot;I&#x27;m not telling you anything until you click me&quot;-links.