Mission statement:
Help enable artists to produce, and consumers to consume art.
Goals:
Recommend relevant music to people in a way that they appreciate. Allowing no recommendation playlist setup and general searching over a generated index of available music the user owns, as well as music shared via a variety of platforms, hopefully integrating youtube, soundcloud, myspace, and other, hopefully all integrated together such that a playlist can play seamlessly, but realistically this may prove difficult, using a select set of platforms and trying to create the same lists across them may be a goal, still investigating integration options,
Artists:
Really at the end of the day, not starving is the first priority. But secondarily, demonstrating value, enabling a method for advertising non infinite goods. Techdirt.com writes extensively about 'connecting with fans' and providing a 'reason to buy' and is fairly in line with what I am thinking of here.
Next thing related to creating art is tools and assistance. Hopefully with a social network related to music artists will reach out to other artists in their genre to help forward the progress of their art. Not to sound like too much of a hippie.
Thirdly, Id like to help enable artists to book venues. Hearing a story about my friend sending out thousands of messages to venues on the east coast trying to book a tour sounded terrible, and there is a better way. But, its obviously complicated and requires a lot of help. I mean ... as a geek, my understanding is that scheduling is an np complete problem, however you just need to prune down the search space, ... probably not best to send an indie band to a metal bar ... although who knows maybe you have a lot of fans there. Point being, actually connecting with your fans would enable you to locate them better and target the right venues to have shows which will generate attendance. </ramble>
after that little rant I guess its best that I just sit and think for a bit before going forward.
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