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I don’t have a problem with music takedowns. During the four years that I’ve been releasing music, I’ve only gotten 3-4 takedown notices from all distributors, as opposed to the 81 songs I’ve released. Most of them have been from SoundCloud, and they have a lousy algoritm for detecting copyright violations. But one thing that saves them is they do have a resolution mechanism for disputing copyright claims. Apple, on the other hand, has no dispute mechanism. This meanswith Apple, there’s no way to dispute their findings, and if Apple’s algoritm is as bad as that that discovery tool they’ve got, then they get a lot of false positives.

Got a rig together last night that included the Roland S-1 and Roland SP404. Recorded some ideas with the Zoom H8 recorder. I still can’t figure out how to save the settings on the S-1 so if I get a musical idea, I have to record it otherwise it’s gone. The S-1 manual doesn’t seem to be of much help. Maybe I should check out Youtube to see if there are tutorials on the S-1.

Well, we had our first 100 degree day of 2024 here in Las Vegas. 101 to be exact. To me it didn’t feel that hot as the humidity was low. I guess summer is coming. Gonna try another season without air conditioning. Once I get used to the heat, going outside where the temperature is high is less oppressive than the temperature differential when using air. I’ll continue to run my humidifiers as the plants and stringd instruments dry out too much.

Found a new place to buy organic and other less processed foods, Misfits Market. They also have fruits and veggies that won’t be sold in grocery stores because they’re blemished or off sized. But the prices seem to reflect that and if you’re looking for a larger assortment of organic stuff than the usual big box store, check them out. Click on the link and get $10 off your order. https://www.misfitsmarket.com/?promo=COOKWME-TP4EHAGGAVC

Maybe Meta should get the TikTok treatment, given that Zuckberg conspired with the Russians in the Cambridge Analytics fiasco. Right wing traitors should be forced to divest, if American “security” is so important. Its well-known that Meta boosts right wing propaganda and suppresses news from other sources. They also allow hate speech from the right unimpeded.

Meta is a right leaning social platform, just like Twitttr and Fox faux “News” and Truth Social . In fact its hard to find a platform that’s not right wing. Oligarchs want it that way so that they can control the narrative. That’s why its important thet TikTok doesn’t get banned.

“Security” objections? Google, Microsoft, and Meta all perform all sorts of data mining on their users in order to sell that usage info to the highest bidder. Users have no choice in the matter. That’s why there’s so much identity theft.

Meta ad performance is going in the toilet. Now when you try to set up an ad campaign on Instagram, they don’t let you choose an audience, they choose your audience for you. I wanted to choose people in the US, Europe and South America that lusten to electronic music. It led me to believe that I could do that targeting, then at the end of the selection process, the ad status said that they would choose the audience from my followers only in the US. Despite trying to change these settings, the IG app refused to change the parameters. So basically I wasted $66 to get 84 clicks. Sorry Meta, screwing your advertisers is not a good idea.

And besides which, the traffice generated is less engaged than other sources. The direct traffic only comprised 8% of traffic, but the engagement rate was 42%. Meta traffic engagement was somewhat less than that.

Hostinger sucks as a website provider. I just wanted to add a post and waited over 90 seconds for the site to load. I’ve known for a while that their load times are poor, averaging over 5 seconds to load my blog, from the info I’ve gleaned from the Google Site Kit. But 90 seconds? Come on!

Here’s a link to my new album, Remixes Vol 4:

https://songwhip.com/jaypeach/remixes-vol-4

It was released about 2 weeks ago, and is getting some traction, especially on TikTok.

Spotify said it was going to clamp down on bots and botted streams, but it also going to clamp down on creators who created spam or other AI created content. I don’t know if they also decided to take long-term creators more seriously. I’ve been on Spotify as a creator for almost 4 years now and they’re finally boosting my content as never before.

Formerly, I got almost no streams from their playlists, all of my streams came from promoting my own stuff on various social media platforms. But lately I’ve been getting on algorithmic playlists and I’ve also gotten a decent amount from Radio and other autoplay features. It’s nice that Spotify is finally changing it’s ways, but the payout keeps dropping. Now it’s a mere $.0027 per stream, down from $.0043 when I first started. Which makes promoting my work on Spotify less desirable. The least generous platforms pay 25% more than Spotify, with the most generous 2000% more. Why wouldn’t I direct possible listeners to platforms that are willing to put more money in my pocket?

So, in addition to the work I’m planning, is there an interest in some funky tunes? The funk music I’ve done in the past seems to get a good reception, especially in Europe.