Well, I’m officially tired of Dropbox and their lack of transparency. I have been trying for months to upload some files to my Dropbox account and have been mostly unsuccessful. It seems, if you don’t keep your app open on iPhone, you can’t upload anything. The “app” terminates any uploads and when you “restart” the upload, the file upload restarts from the beginning (and if any error occurs). This, in conjuction with the piss poor upload speed means, effectively, you can’t upload anything. Isn’t that the whole purpose of Dropbox?
And If We’re Talking About Spotify Subterfuge…
Spotify reports bogus numbers to their patners. Here’s an example.
And as you can see, Spotify only reports 43% of the streams to SongStats.
And if you’re an artist looking to be paid more fairly, join http://Weareumaw.org to help a law they’re pushing to get paid 1 cent extra per stream, over and above what you’re already getting paid.
From Spotify
BandCamp Sad
The reason I say BandCamp is sad is the discovery just sucks. I have fewer plays on BandCamp in four years as I have in a week on Spotify, a platform I don’t push. Spotify just sucks, where I’m getting less than 10% of my streams. So if you don’t find my music on BandCamp, it’s an also also ran.
This is in response to BCs selling our music to AI companies to generate fake music and fake streams to enhance their bottom line, cutting out artists from their efforts. After all does BC pay you to sell yourself out?
Trolls on InstaGram
It’s easy to spot the trolls on InstaGram. They’re the shitposter whose account is private. Most likely less than 20 posts.
Journal
Well, I’ve decided to keep a journal of the musical ideas I’m working on. During August, I had 7 working sessions where I did recordings that I’m considering keeping. This apparently totalled over 20 songs. And the ideas that I had during those recording sessions have completely escaped me. So I’m planning to record my thoughts in a journal with notes on the details of the recording sessions.
More Music
Taking a break from making music tonight. Yeah, it’s 3:20 am, but I’ll get back at it until 5 am. I find my most productive time is after 11pm. And since there a few dogs barking, the vocals I rarely record are without extraneous noise. One mic I have, the RØDE NT-1, can pick up sounds as quiet as 5dB.
Music Links
For those that are new to my blog, here’s a link to my Linktree, where you can find links to my music. https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53
More About WordPress
WordPress continues to disappoint. The WordPress website continues to make almost impossible to construct a post. I wrote two 5 minute posts yesterday and it took me over an hour to do so because the site refuses to allow you to scroll down past the top 10 or so lines of a post. And me, as a lousy typist, have to resort to typing what I can on the website, then using the lame Jetpack app on my iPhone to edit the post. The reason I use the website to start with is that the Jetpack app is missing features the website has. If this major flaw is intentional, Automattic ought to be ashamed.
Instagram Ban
Well, I’m probably going to get a full ban on Instagram, due to a reply I made on IG. Once again, I was warned that a comment I made was like ones that have been reported.
The strange thing is the comment was made in reply to a comment by Rudi Meibergen that said by my comments about the Spotify’s reaming of artists were childish. Even those comnents were about Spotify’s unsavory attempt to steal streams from artists with less than 1,000 streams on a song. Nothing in my comments was inaccurate, but Rudi the troll could help but commit character assasination with his ad hominem attack.
And Rudi, the non-musician, claimed to be a musician on the platform, which he’s not. He’s a producer with less than a 100 credits on Muso.AI, and from what I can tell, no output at all on Spotify. So, he has been is a bootlicker hoping to procure some advantage by his kowtowing to the oligarchs.
As stated on another IG post, Daniel Ek, the chief fraudster of Spotify, scored $365 million in a stock sale. An artist would have to accumulate 115 billion streams in a year to get that kind of money. A neat deal considering that Drake has only accumulated 15 billion streams over his entire career.
As an aside, I really don’t care if IG bans me completely. As I keep getting threatening messages from Zuckerberg the Kike, my reach has declined 90% and as you can see from this graphic from Linktree shows that I get almost no traffic from IG.
More Music?
I’m feeling the urge to make music tonight. Maybe using the Moog Sub 37 again. I was playing with it 2 nights ago and made one recording. Tonight might be another time to delve deeper to do some sound design.
I also need to apply myself to reexamine the other work I’ve created over the past few months to release or to abandon.
