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Hey #Fediverse!
I'm building a Sound Library for Loops, my #ActivityPub video project, to let users add free audio to their videos.
I'm already looking into integrations with #FunkWhale and Bandwagon.
What other sources for free, libre, or public domain (CC-BY, CC0, etc.) music and sound effects should I check out?
If #Funkwhale is #federated and uses #ActivityPub then why do I need an account? Why can't I login with my Mastodon account? That's my identity, I don't want yet another account to keep track of.
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* #Tidal: Norwegian-US. Owned by the US based Block. A company owned by Jack FUCKING Dorsey 🤢. What is a shame, because Tidal looks good in all categories. Even the prices. And it has multiple (unofficial) #Linux apps and a sublime #Android app.
* #Deezer: French. But for 41% owned by the American Access Industries and a lot of smaller owners. With Deezer I get a discount with my Odido phone subscription. Also Deezer has a very decent actively maintained (unofficial) app (despite being Electron). The Android app is just as sublime as the one from Tidal. All apps are btw better than the #Spotify app.
So I created 3 trials. After an hour I ditched #Qobuz keeping Tidal and Deezer for more testing. For now it looks I go for Deezer. A few years ago I tested Deezer as well, but at that moment it was not good enough for me. They improved a lot. Deezer is mostly European, but it's still of course capitalist and vulnerable for #enshittification.
Tidal is not yet enshittifified as far as I can see, but with Dorsey and other tech-bros we all know it won't take that long. Plus it is American. The Norwegian part has nothing to see AFAIK.
On-topic comments welcome.
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Epilogue: After checking the by far largest owner of #Deezer, Access Industries, I decided to give it up. Access Industries is also the owner of Clal Industries, an Israeli industrial investment group. They are guilty for at least building on the Westbank and much more. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Industries) And this is just one aspect of their portfolio. #AccessIndustries is very big and therefore evil.
Besides owning things, they also invest in companies including Snapchat, Square, Yelp, Alibaba, Gett, Spotify (!), Zalando, DigitalOcean (!) and of course Deezer.
What I'm going to do is this: I keep Spotify only for my son's playlist (we have a family account, so only a few euro's per month) and I am going to start exploring real alternatives like #Funkwhale in parallel.
End of session.
If #Funkwhale is #federated and uses #ActivityPub then why do I need an account? Why can't I login with my Mastodon account? That's my identity, I don't want yet another account to keep track of.
The Loops Sound Library feature is really exciting, leveraging other fediverse platforms like FunkWhale to provide audio that you can add to your Loops videos, while also providing federated attribution.
Special thanks to @nlnet for funding this feature
The Loops Sound Library feature is really exciting, leveraging other fediverse platforms like FunkWhale to provide audio that you can add to your Loops videos, while also providing federated attribution.
Special thanks to @nlnet for funding this feature
The Loops Sound Library feature is really exciting, leveraging other fediverse platforms like FunkWhale to provide audio that you can add to your Loops videos, while also providing federated attribution.
Special thanks to @nlnet for funding this feature
Very glad to see @funkwhale funded today via this grant. Very deserved. Love the podcast and streaming audio/playlist support they offer to the fediverse. #funkwhale
https://nlnet.nl/project/Funkwhale-AP/
Do think there needs to be a fedivere-wide discovery system or federated #podcasts in particular combining them, @Castopod and #PodcastAP conetent.
We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond.
Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies.
This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @tchambers 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1.
Fortunately @benpate is starting to assemble people to solve this.
I'd love for this to happen but we're also stuck in the stage of replicating corporate platforms, instead of thinking about what we can do that they can't.
#ghost and #wordpress are doing this by making the article an AP item, instead of linking to it from a post. Maybe lemmy and mastodon should merge. most people don't post videos so maybe they don't need a #peertube account. maybe it should function more like podcasts. same with #funkwhale and #bandwagon.
"This isn’t so much of an issue for established artists producing studio releases, but it does undermine Funkwhale’s long-underserved secondary community: independent musicians on the Fediverse. While producing MusicBrainz data for a track isn’t necessarily hard, it can be extremely time-consuming, and brings friction to a simple process like uploading your own music."
@news, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/funkwhale-filter/
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I'm envisioning a AP-enabled digital music platform that allows me to display a collection of recordings I've paid for. Not only would the artists get my money, but their records would be endorsed to my social network as music worth paying for, so at least worth a listen.
What I get out of it, as well as the warm fuzzies of giving financial support to artists I like, is the satisfaction of building and sharing a record collection. Without having to own physical media.
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