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1st Track Minted on Blocktunes
"Syma Tree" by @buttcoins is on BlockTunes right now. Worth your ears: https://app.blocktunes.net/masters/buttcoins_well_syma-tree?ref=buttcoins
Pumped to have a mastered version of this studio track i did with my band KALDERA. This track is called SYMA TREE, it is from our first album called WELL. Syma Tree is one of our heavier tunes. This song went through several transitions before its final form. In fact we added the entire end section at the last second the day before the final record… we felt the song needed something else and this last minute transition cap came out in a moment of inspiration…now i cant imagine the song without it.
I had heard of blocktunes but wasn’t fully aware of what exactly it was or what you could do with it. It was one of the never ending things on the list of ‘need to check out’ Big mistake by me not finding it earlier but luckily i had listened into last weeks #hivethrive with guest @thelogicaldude and he was sharing about his app blocktunes. So i decided to test it out.
What a cool site. Kaldera had all these final studio edits but never did the final mastering. Really cool that blocktunes has a studio with a mastering section. I ran into a few small bugs when mastering, but @thelogicaldude was very receptive and made some code fixes immediately. He fixed the way recently mastered tracks would be saved so as not to get lost if you switched out of page. Gotta love a dev that is willing to care about user experience. Kudos to @thelogicaldude on caring and creating this great app. I mean, the music industry is fucked in terms of being a new musician and blocktunes is definitely putting some of the power back in the hands of the musician. Time to spread the word about this app. Music is a great niche for Hive to find more users.
Let me know what you think of the track as this post is rewarded by @commmentrewarder
Syma Tree
Here are the lyrics of SYMA TREE
Close to feeling
Close to healing
Close to reaching
Face your feeding
Maybe your done
Maybe your done
Maybe your fun was had
Ohh
Why So Lame to grandma
Ohhh
We’re tied together
Comfort of
Is this too easy?
Going somewhere
Almost getting there
Hope in love
And wanting wandering
ways and means
For all your discovering
Ride us
Want to ride us
Whats the price of…
What’s inside us
Ohhhhhaaaaahhahhahah
Close to feeling
Close to healing
Close to reaching
Face you are feeding
Whats your emotion
Where’s your devotion
Holding so close
Holding so close
Ohh
Why So Lame to grandma
Ohhh
We’re tied together
Ohhh
You can’t move faster
Ohhh
You know your pleasure
Leaves of time will disguise
Won’t you
Come through (X4)
Replies (26)
Good one! Is it possible to embed the code so it plays directly from the webpage?
Huge congratulations on minting your first track on Blocktunes! That is a major milestone. Kaldera sounds great, wishing you much success with your music on Web3!
Wow, that's awesome! Loving the song. I need to try some of the Blocktunes stuff. I delegated to them so that gives me more credits for the tools.
Glad you are enjoying the platform! Yeah, that was a feature that needed to be added anyway, lol. You just put me on it faster than I was getting to it, lol.
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It plays directly on the page on Blocktunes! Come listen to it on the platform that it was built to run on!
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nice! i like the guitars.
Yes, I know I listened there. But I'm asking for sharing on other platforms...
The defeats the purpose of brining people to the Blocktunes platform... What's the point of building all of this if it's just going to be an extension of Peakd or Ecency? Standard posts travel across front ends, but the minted music, streaming, tools, and the Bars microblogging is all on our platform only.
The best I would do is an embed preview or something. There are blockchain mechanics for the streaming service where the user needs to be logged in to the platform for the stream to work right.
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It's ok, but I see BlockTunes mostly as an audio mastering platform with all those tools. And with sharing, I don't mean just Hive front-ends.
There are share options that let you copy the text and post whereever you want. You can post to X as well directly from the share modal. I can look at doing a preview embed for outside sites, but as I added to my last comment that you might have missed, there are blockchain mechanics on why the full song has to be played on Blocktunes for the artists and master holders to get the streaming credit.
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So, just like on Spotify, if you have an embed code that only lets you play 30 seconds...
Well, I just wanted to say one thing—and don’t get me wrong—but to achieve a certain level of visibility on Web 2.0 social networks, you have to have absolutely everything set up correctly and share everything intensively (some might say you’re spamming), and only then will you get some visitors, even if you’re offering rewards for listening. But the worst part is that right now (lately), crypto has a very bad reputation.
That said, I support the platform and sincerely hope it succeeds. I’ll definitely try my hand at some mastering, especially to improve the video recordings of live performances that I regularly record.
yeah, that's why I am focused on the platform being right before I really start promoting it majorly beyond Hive. I've needed a few people to come in and play with it to find things that I may have missed or looked over, so just working on tightening things up.
And on Web2 platforms, I agree, it's like screaming into a void no matter what you do. Been trying for years. Honestly you aren't going to do anything without a big budget to pay for post promotion, and then that's even getting completely over saturated. I am actually looking at going old school grass roots with it. Getting out, listening to music, rubbing elbows with artists, etc. And I encourage others to do the same.
Marketing is the next hurtle, for now, just trying to get the platform right.
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embed kode from 3spk works on bars :)
https://app.blocktunes.net/@seckorama/bars
Oh I know, and it was a complete pain in the butt to get it done too. They have recently changed the entire backend of the platform so all the old embed stuff didn't work. I don't even like the way this works really. But is what it is.
I understand your point. All I am saying it's not as easy as you might think to get it done properly. I also have other things that need to be done first. But thank you for your feedback.
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Oh, I know very well that it's not easy, but it's also true that things are constantly changing as they evolve—not just with 3spk but on all Hive front ends; nothing works perfectly anywhere, especially with this short content apps.
Yeah, the condensors are a nightmare to work with. The biggest problem is the public RPC nodes for the most part. I wish I had the machine to be able to do it, but best I can do is a cache proxy, but that is still subject to the main nodes. But this is still the best chain for what I am building. Nothing else would work properly and have the social features built in. Gas fees alone would break me on the streaming payments, or they would have to be a monthly airdrop kind of thing using a smart contract, which is more of a pain than dealing with Hive. Trust me... I tried that path too, lol.
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Yeah, those guitars get sludgy!
Thanks Steve. I like all are tunes...im biased...but this is one of my favorites... it came in pieces over several years and the final product is so different from the start...and when we play live...this is a crowd favorite.
And for sure get on those blocktunes credits. Some cool things got built here.
Glad i helped motivate a tool feature! Really do appreciate what you built. Still looking to poke around with some of the other areas...but this mastering tool is really great! Your Harmony Ai is very helpful too...she helped this butt out a bunch. Hope you enjoyed the tune. Haven't found a lot of rock in the streams. Are there more areas I haven't discovered.
Nice...glad you liked!
We need MORE METAL! LOL
Hey man, thanks for the feedback. It's that kind of stuff that keeps me motivated.
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Hive rocks I would say!
Thanks to you I discovered this app. I'm new here and I didn't know musicians had this space. Good for them!