ahoy!
while replying, I'm cutting out parts of the quotes to not make it snake
on too long ;)

deepend wrote:
Hello!

I dont make music at all but cant go a day without some sort of music in it.

same for me, music is a lifestyle

Great post..  Feel like there should be more replies to your posts.

there doesn't seem to be much people checking in to here, sadly

Thanks and look forward to finding more interesting things to read on here.
I also plan on checking out your website and github stuff.  :D

yeah, cool stuffs on there

On 2020-04-14 7:52 p.m., Travis Briggs wrote:

Hi folks,

There's something about being published on Spotify and iTunes that
lends an air of legitimacy to music-making.

I think it might be kinda similar with
"oh they have a legit CD with cover art, they must be a legit band"

I'm not sure I would ever "publish" stuff that's just laying around >>on my Soundcloud, even though it's not substantially worse

well, I kinda like sometimes checking out some random tunes,
no matter if they're half-finished or whatever,
so could be cool if these "experiments" were still somewhere available

Also, I'll let you know the secret to getting published and it's two

fold: 1) distrokid.com

well, that seems kinda the move, yes,
you basically *have* to sign up with some kind of label/distributor,
otherwise you will stay very niche...
only slight problem is finding one with good policies/contracts

and 2) a twenty dollar bill.
They'll push all your music to all the services for 20 bucks a year,
flat rate, forever.

that DOES sound amazing

My personal songs website is https://songs.travisbriggs.com and
everything is coded from scratch. (The github repo is here:
https://github.com/audiodude/songs.travisbriggs.com).

Then I got the idea to write a static site generator generator. I have
a website where you can copy an empty template of my site, upload
songs and set the title and tags, then generate a static site out of
all of it and upload the result to Netlify to be hosted for free
(https://www.netlify.com/). It's not polished at the moment, and is
only in a prototype stage, but when I posted the original idea to
reddit it got a lot of positive feedback.

this seems pretty cool setup

several samples of music I tried on your site sound like...
really nice ringtones or such, hehe
poking around more, seems like a nice really diverse range of music! ear-piercing chiptunes and vocals of some kind all included...
slightly annoying not being able to seek in the little music boxes tho.

cool hearing your story!

~jan6
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Thanks for giving a listen and for the feedback, jan6 and deepend!

My wife has definitely said "ooh, save that as a ringtone for me" in the
past. It's hard not to be offended, but then, somebody's gotta write
ringtones right?

If I ever finish the generator generator, I'll post it here for feedback.

Cheers,
-Travis

On 4/26/20 6:18 AM, jan 6 wrote:

ahoy!
while replying, I'm cutting out parts of the quotes to not make it snake
on too long ;)

deepend wrote:
Hello!

I dont make music at all but cant go a day without some sort of music
in it.

same for me, music is a lifestyle

Great post..  Feel like there should be more replies to your posts.

there doesn't seem to be much people checking in to here, sadly

Thanks and look forward to finding more interesting things to read on
here.
I also plan on checking out your website and github stuff.  :D

yeah, cool stuffs on there

On 2020-04-14 7:52 p.m., Travis Briggs wrote:

Hi folks,

There's something about being published on Spotify and iTunes that
lends an air of legitimacy to music-making.

I think it might be kinda similar with
"oh they have a legit CD with cover art, they must be a legit band"

I'm not sure I would ever "publish" stuff that's just laying around

on my Soundcloud, even though it's not substantially worse

well, I kinda like sometimes checking out some random tunes,
no matter if they're half-finished or whatever,
so could be cool if these "experiments" were still somewhere available

Also, I'll let you know the secret to getting published and it's two

fold: 1) distrokid.com

well, that seems kinda the move, yes,
you basically *have* to sign up with some kind of label/distributor, otherwise you will stay very niche...
only slight problem is finding one with good policies/contracts

and 2) a twenty dollar bill.
They'll push all your music to all the services for 20 bucks a year,
flat rate, forever.

that DOES sound amazing

My personal songs website is https://songs.travisbriggs.com and
everything is coded from scratch. (The github repo is here:
https://github.com/audiodude/songs.travisbriggs.com).

Then I got the idea to write a static site generator generator. I
have a website where you can copy an empty template of my site,
upload songs and set the title and tags, then generate a static site
out of all of it and upload the result to Netlify to be hosted for
free (https://www.netlify.com/). It's not polished at the moment, and
is only in a prototype stage, but when I posted the original idea to
reddit it got a lot of positive feedback.

this seems pretty cool setup

several samples of music I tried on your site sound like...
really nice ringtones or such, hehe
poking around more, seems like a nice really diverse range of music! ear-piercing chiptunes and vocals of some kind all included...
slightly annoying not being able to seek in the little music boxes tho.

cool hearing your story!

~jan6

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slightly annoying not being able to seek in the little music boxes tho.

Okay I pushed an update that lets you click in the "progress bar" and
seek to that time. Enjoy!

-Travis
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