It’s been bugging me all day how I know that name and I just remembered. They were on this show and it’s fucking awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutesToLateNight

Weird. I was going to recommend trying !liveaudio@lemmy.world but that didn’t work for me. I finally got it with https://lemmy.world/c/liveaudio but liveaudio should work as well now that I’ve subscribed.

It’s all kind of confusing still but I’m trying to use it pretty much the same way you are. I want unfinished stuff in one space so that people I’m working with can go check it out and pick something they want to work on (or give feedback). I also want some other unfinished stuff to require an account on the instance so only people in the band can hear it. That’s what I’m struggling with right now so I haven’t really tried using it to explore yet.

For discovering music I thought I’d find a list of instances and dig around, maybe subscribe to a few I like and watch their rss feed or something. A search like intitle:“funkwhale” inurl:“/library/” should give a lot of good results to start with.

people can follow these channels on Mastodon

I figured there’s all kinds of cool stuff like that to do. Might be the best way to follow playlist curators or artists. I know you can do that from within funkwhale but I would prefer mine to only have the music I’ve made.

I’m a big fan of audio files stored on my device played through VLC. The sad thing is that I almost never listen to new music or music that I’m not working on so I just don’t really have a preference for audio streaming services.

Though I definitely would like to be exploring more now that I’ve got my funkwhale up and running. Seems like a good way to discover some new stuff.

Spinning on the sign-up.

Is there still that bug where validating email doesn’t work?

My instance is on 0.17.4 and I completely gave up on trying to get that to work.

Good to know and I was hoping that’s the case. As soon as my new domain resolves I’m going to install lemmy, matrix, and funkwhale.

Are you running all of yours in containers?

Hahahah…that is pretty rad. I looked through some of the guides and saw you’re limited to 100,000 a year. Hope that’s enough :D.

I suppose if someone was just cranking out generative tunes that wouldn’t be too hard.

That’s good to know. Seems required for Distrokid but not CDBaby. Have you used BeatStars at all?

Have you thought about how you’re going to release it?

I’ve done a little research but have been putting that off so I can focus on what we have left to finish. We still have a lot of artwork to do as well. Album cover, some videos, some historical fiction writing for our websites.

We’ll either use CDBaby or Distrokid but probably CDBaby. I like the idea of paying once instead of a yearly fee to keep stuff online. I don’t expect to make much (or any) money on this but I’m going to invest in it and do it right just in case. I’d hate to put it out there and miss out on those fractions of pennies trickling in.

Several articles I read about releasing music suggested setting up a publishing company to retain more control of the royalties. Is that something you did?

Tons of great samples in there. Nice score!

Looking forward to their tour.

https://qotsa.com/tour/

My money is on the cat.

I’m still learning the ropes of this thing but I’ve gotten really good at finding communities. What I haven’t done much is comment and browse. Now that I’m happy with the amount of subscriptions I’ve added it’s time to start commenting and upvoting everything I see. I didn’t notice this thread until now so I guess it’s the best place to start.

Like many people I’m a reddit refugee. My plans are to delete my 15yo account and not look back. I don’t care if they fix what’s wrong with the place. Honestly, I don’t think they can. A decentralized internet was what was great about the internet before and it makes no sense to embrace anything else.

So… about me… I’ve been an amateur musician most of my life and have never released an album. Two years ago I got laid off from my software job and decided to spend time getting more into what I’m passionate about before hopping back into a paying job. My band is working on a weird synth-pop/rap album so I’ve been researching mixing/mastering for a while. Hoping to release something before the end of the summer.

My main DAW for the past 15 years has been Ardour but I recently switched to Reaper because that’s what the rest of the band was familiar with. I started the Reaper community here so I’ll posting there when I see interesting and relevant information. I’ve always been more of a lurker/upvoter than a poster or moderator so it’s kind of cool to be on a smaller community where I think there’s even a chance someone will read something I’ve posted.

Thanks for hosting, Beto!

I started playing banjo about month ago! Want to co-moderate a banjo community here?

I think so. I’ve only been on this thing a few days and it seems to be growing fast. One thing that seems to help is to subscribe to interesting communities on other instances to help other new people find them easier.

You should also check out some of the communities on lemmy.studio. It’s an instance for musicians that I think will pair nicely with this one.

Slap a goatee on Mike and have him take the lead roll in All-Star.

The remove community action seems to work on local and remote (other instance) communities but I don’t know if it also bans them.

I couldn’t find it in the documentation and I don’t have an instance of my own set up yet so I can’t test it. Hope someone else is able to answer that last bit.

This isn’t exactly a community ban list but it is a list of communities that have been removed.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog

Change the drop-down that says “All” to “Removing Communities”.

That’s actually normal. User on my instance can only see posts and messages that happen after the first interaction between mine (lemmy.studio) and yours. From now on I’ll see it all.

I visited your instance directly to read the rest.

First from my instance on here :D

I don’t see any comments on this post and this is also the only post I can see but I’ll be around.