We Need To Bring Musicians To Steemit - Help Me By Weighing In With Your Thoughts
This is in a pre-production, but I wanted to bring to attention the possibility of making a Pandora-like app/platform that is built into, or works with the steemit blockchain.
I'll be honest. I'm not a musician, but a consumer of music, so I'd especially like to hear musicians weigh in on this proposal so as to make a product that is as good as possible.
I have many talented musical friends who do great work, but the current ways of getting noticed result in very few making a career out of what they pour their heart into.
Most artists post to every social media platform and try to promote their work and possibly post to soundcloud and maybe get noticed. From there they may wish to transition to a radio app like Pandora or enter a business relationship with apple (who takes almost 50% of the artists pay the last I checked). That is not fair compensation, especially for those who then need to work another job to make up for the portion that apple or pandora takes away.
I was turned on to a newer website Peertracks.com. It does a far better job at rewarding artists (but still takes a 5% cut). Peertracks runs on a P2P network and has some key advantages over Pandora, but when it comes to interface, I believe Pandora is king.
Peertracks has the ability to have offline support for those who will be without access to the internet where they are going. I could see offline support being extremely beneficial for steemit radio. You could vote and comment and then when you are back into wireless or cell network range, everything could then sync up with the blockchain.
Peertracks also has smart contracts, so you can split up revenue as a percentage among band members or promoters etc easily without manually having to do so.
Similar to Pandora for both artists and listeners, you would need to make an account with steemit (increasing the user base). This would allow those who have no interest in blogging to still engage on the steemit blockchain.
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The interface would be quite similar to Pandora, but upvoting would be linked to upvoting on the blockchain and use voting power. You could also choose to downvote (and give a reason why). At the bottom you could write comments directly to the artist and vote on comments like you do on steemit already.
Musicians could offer albums and singles (and merchandise tickets etc.) directly and the app developers could make $.01 or a fairly decided upon amount to reward developers for their many man hours developing.
Unlike companies that are publicly traded and need to increase their bottom line to make shareholders happy, as more users come and use the app the $.01 could be further decreased because the sheer volume would net the same amount as they were already making. The musicians would also make a small amount more (which might not be a lot, but added up over a while it may make a significant difference).